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Aboubackry Sow

Transition Manager/Purchasing/Contract/Supply Chain

€700/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Aboubackry

With 6 years of experience in customer relations at Booking.com, among others, and 7.5 years in the railway and aeronautics industries, I am now offering my services in purchasing, supply chain, and project management. My experience in purchasing, supply chain, and customer relations has provided me with solid skills, enabling me to offer my services today. For the past 7 years, I have worked at Alstom and Collins in purchasing (operational and strategic) and industrial development project management. The implementation of new purchasing tools was a very important part of my missions at Alstom, such as P2P, SAP, and supplier panel and risk management tools. Financial monitoring of projects, as well as adherence to deadlines and client requests, are the important missions I have covered in my project management roles. In the purchasing field, I have held several buyer positions, eventually becoming responsible for a global purchasing commodity, where I was in charge of managing the entire purchasing strategy for this commodity at the group level. I was responsible for functionally managing about fifteen buyers, supporting them in all phases of project development, and also by implementing a purchasing strategy to disseminate it across Alstom sites. I was the direct point of contact for several delivery crises on the execution of railway sub-system projects, in addition to preparing tenders, negotiating contracts, and managing projects.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Collins Aerospace
    Mechanical Parts Buyer
    AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
    December 2024 - Today (1 year and 6 months)
    Paris, France
    Responsible for reviewing the purchasing strategy of an entity with a turnover of €60 million, with the aim of securing critical supplies and increasing component competitiveness:

    - Implement the global supply strategy by developing new suppliers for certain categories and renegotiating existing contracts for other categories.
    - Negotiate framework agreements with new suppliers.
    - Implement cross-functional actions with quality and engineering departments to improve supplier competitiveness and reduce process times.
    - Manage the existing panel based on quality-cost-delivery performance.
    Negotiation Purchasing strategy supplier relations make or buy
  • ALSTOM
    Purchasing Manager for Entry System Commodity
    TRANSPORTATION
    October 2021 - November 2024 (3 years and 1 month)
    Paris, France
    Job Summary:

    - Responsible for a purchasing category for the supply of sub-systems related to entry systems for all projects (TGV, Regional Train, and Intercity Train).

    Main Responsibilities:

    - Implement the global supply strategy by developing new suppliers and consolidating purchases among fewer suppliers to create economies of scale.

    - Negotiate framework and project agreements with our strategic suppliers to secure contractual requirements in line with our client contracts. In parallel, I handled the negotiation of client and supplier claims in support of our legal teams.

    - Functional management of a team of about fifteen buyers (USA, Europe, and India) responsible for executing the purchasing strategy.

    - Management of railway sub-system development projects in Europe and the United States in collaboration with technical and industrial teams, from the tender phase with the client to the delivery of the first trains to our production sites.

    - Support the implementation of new tools for supply chain activity optimization - SAP Ariba, P2P, and Orchestra.
    Purchasing strategy Project management Procure-to-Pay SAP Ariba supplier relations
  • ALSTOM
    Buyer for Interior and Metallic Parts
    TRANSPORTATION
    October 2018 - September 2021 (3 years)
    Valenciennes, France
    Job Summary:

    - Central and site buyer for the supply of sub-systems related to interior metallic and fiberglass train parts for several Metro projects (e.g., Paris Metro, Montreal Metro, Lyon Metro).

    Main Responsibilities:

    - Develop railway sub-system development projects for metro and tramway projects in India and Europe.

    - Develop supplier localization strategies towards production countries to increase local content and reduce supply chain routes, aiming for cost optimization and mitigation of potential risks of disruption or supplier delays.

    - Negotiate framework and project agreements with our strategic suppliers to secure contractual requirements in line with our client contracts. In parallel, I handled the negotiation of client and supplier claims in support of our legal teams.

    - Management of railway sub-system development projects in collaboration with technical and industrial teams, from the tender phase with the client to the delivery of the first trains to our production sites.

    - Support the implementation of new tools for supply chain activity optimization - SAP, Ariba, P2P, and Orchestra.
    Purchasing strategy Supply chain SAP P2P SAP Ariba Supplier relations

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Education

  • Master 2
    Skema Business School
    2018
    Master spécialisé en Achat et Supply Chain
  • Master 1 Business Administration
    Skema Business School
    2017

Certifications

  • CPIM Part 1
    APIX
    2019
    Supply Chain Optimization Supply Chain Management purchasing strategy
  • Lean Six Sigma
    Skema
    2018
    Lean Manufacturing Lean Six Sigma

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