Experience

BEIERSDORF UK LTD.

• United Kingdom
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Procurement Manager Northern Europe/ European Procurement Shopper Team Leader

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  Responsible for developing and implementing European strategy within shopper marketing area. Alignment with business stakeholders across Europe and the Global organization. Coordinating and conducting regional (as European Team Lead) & local (as Local Procurement Manager for Northern Europe) Procurement activities continuously seeking for opportunities to maximize Procurement value contribution. Supporting negotiations and contracting of conditions with suppliers.

• Procurement Manager NOE (UK and Nordics)

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Spend coverage: EUR 90 mill across the following categories: Marketing, Shopper Customer, Professional Services, Value Added Services, Warehousing and Logistics. Managing Team of 6 (1 strategic buyer, 3 category buyers, 1 VAS purchaser and Procurement Assistant). Close cooperation with corporate and regional teams on compliance topics, category strategies and system roll-outs.



Beiersdorf

• Germany
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• VAS NOE & UK Master Data Manager

  • Jun 2015 - Jun 2020

  Care for Beiersdorf commercial success by leading VAS (value added services) processes and execution within Northern Europe (NOE) through:• Developing VAS processes for local adaptation and implementation and ensuring best practice sharing.• Consulting with Supply Chain, Sales, Shopper Marketing and Procurement on VAS topics to ensure local execution.• Managing UK VAS and Master Data Teams.

• Strategic Procurement Northern Europe

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

  Currently working for Beiersdorf - international branded consumer goods company with one of the world’s most successful global skin care brands (NIVEA, Eucerin and La Prairie) for the mass, pharmacy and selective market.• Successfully builds relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers by aligning procurement strategy. • Analyzes the market potentials and suppliers’ pool to meet business needs and achieve both procurement and company goals. • Strategic sourcing capabilities, analytical thinking and negotiation skills used on a daily basis to deliver KPIs and simplify the internal processes – assessing the number of suppliers’ to bring the simplification, rate cards implementation, synergies in the region and decrease operational work to focus more on the strategic side of procurement. • Increases and promotes uses of the internal tools such as eSourcing (eAuctions and eTendering), SRM (purchase orders creation) and SPIDER (contract management) to improve business continuity and procurement strategy implementation. • Share knowledge and best practices to strategically involve procurement with business partners across the Northern European Region.Projects: Travel management, Telecommunication, Market Research, VAS (value added services – co-packing) materials production, Distribution, POP materials and Displays production, Detailing.



Colgate-Palmolive

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Indirect Procurement Specialist

  • Jun 2010 - May 2013

  Successfully worked for Colgate-Palmolive - global company focused on oral, personal and home care with brands like: Colgate, Elmex, Palmolive, Sanex, Ajax for the mass and pharmacy markets.• Responsible for sourcing and negotiating a portfolio of indirect products and services, performing spend analysis and research to identify potential future buying and strategic sourcing opportunities.• Promoting business simplification by suppliers, POs and invoices' reduction to decrease the operational side of procurement. • Making proposals and policy guidelines in order to optimize areas and develop projects not yet included in Colgate-Palmolive framework.• Managing all purchases for Spanish and Portuguese region and searching for further procurement involvement in order to achieve goals in all possible areas of the business by decreasing the costs and improving the strategies. • Involved in global categories and looking for synergies in the region by implementing catalogues and strategies from Spain and Portugal where possible.• Power User for Procurement Spend Analyzer – training people across Europe on the tool usage and data analysis. Projects: Facility services, marketing, market research, telecommunication, POP materials production, couriers services, meeting and events, promotional goods, merchandisers and promo-ladies. 3 months Short Term Assignment in Madrid.



Marsh

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bilingual Assistant (English and Spanish)

  • May 2008 - Oct 2008

  Worked for Marsh S.A.: global leader in insurance broking and risk management. Performing operational and tactical tasks before moving to strategic roles.• Improving self-discipline, self-reliance and decision making by performing administrative task such as: managing calendars, time-sheets, documentation flow and arranging travels. Helping the business to be run smoothly and improve the departmental organization. • Translating technical documents (Spanish-English and English-Spanish) and elaborating presentations for meetings.



MicroStrategy

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate Associate

  • Mar 2007 - Jul 2007

  • Professional training on Microstrategy proprietary software products. • Developing online tools to analyze the companies’ performance and to improve their activity. • On-line courses development. • Professional training on Microstrategy proprietary software products. • Developing online tools to analyze the companies’ performance and to improve their activity. • On-line courses development.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trainee

  • Feb 2006 - Aug 2006

  • Helping in SAP-ISU development for Gas Natural in Italy by analyzing Gas market in Spain and trying to implement learnings from the Spanish gas market privatization into Italian case. • Helping in SAP-ISU development for Gas Natural in Italy by analyzing Gas market in Spain and trying to implement learnings from the Spanish gas market privatization into Italian case.