Julie LETHONGSAVARN
Industrial Buyer
40 years old
Brussels Area Belgium
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Specializations : Negotiation, purchasing, communication, project management, textile industry, packaging industry
Personal indicators
Personal indicators
- Results oriented according to the targets
- Details focused for the realization of projects
- Can deal with pressure and stress: reactive
- Good communicator
- Objective
- Initiative taker
- Fast and efficient; sprinter
- More a leader than a manager
GLOBAL SSD BUYER PACKAGING - Compact Board
Danone Place Schiphol
July 2012
to July 2013
- Develop Business: pro-actively support stakeholders and contribute in area’s like safety, growth, cost reduction, quality improvement, working capital reduction, etc.
- Cooperate in X-functional and X-divisional improvement projects
- Support Team: coordinate workload with other team members, behave like a team player, pro-actively support team members.
- Supplier Relationship Management: maintain and develop relationships with local suppliers and buyers to support global supply development. Performance evaluation and feedback
- Innovation: represent the category in appointed innovation projects
- Act as “rapid response” for key issues
- To manage low- to mid-risk board suppliers
- Main focus on: Security of Supply, Booster (2012: 7,5% purchasing gains done with Purchasing Methods and Reformulation), MRM (2012: 87,5% of visibility on 100% of Spend), Nature (2012: Stretched the target of 4,2k tons of CO2 reduction), Innovation (projects launch on the market in Q1 2013)
- Manage: Security issues, Productivity Projects, Contracting and Administration, Working Capital, Continuous Improvement and Co2 reduction.
- Context: c.a. >2500 specifications in the portfolio, over 35 suppliers worldwide with 10% of volume growth per year.
- Responsabilities:
- To master the analysis of portfolio and market to be the expert of knowledge for the category.
- To manage internal (global) stakeholder relationships
- To drive and lead projects
- Implement and roll out SSD procedures, processes and systems
- Support the preparation of the category budget and manage risks and opportunities (MRM)
- Contract administration: manage and negotiate the input data for supplier contracts in JDE system as appropriate
- Analyse market and cost data as input for Sourcing Strategies, tenders and benchmarking for the category
- Drive and accelerate implementation of productivity projects in the SP’s by challenging and influencing (local) stakeholders
- Mission:
