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Do you want to optimize your purchases, reduce your costs, and secure your suppliers?
I will support you with your purchasing challenges, from strategy to operations, with a clear objective: to generate quick and measurable gains.
✅ What I bring to you
- Negotiation and cost reduction
- Structuring and improvement of purchasing performance
- Supplier panel security and management
- Improvement of supplier relationships
- Implementation of KPIs and monitoring tools
- Immediate operational reinforcement
💡 My added value
A **pragmatic, results-oriented approach, close to the field**, fueled by **experience in the automotive industry and the banking environment**, which allows me to adapt easily to demanding and regulated contexts.
📌 My typical missions
- Purchasing strategies and consultations (RFI/RFQ)
- Negotiations and contracting
- Spend analysis and optimization plans
- Implementation of processes and dashboards
👉 Need effective purchasing support? Let's talk.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Volvo GroupPROJECT & CONNECTIVITY COMMODITY PURCHASERAUTOMOBILEMay 2024 - Today (2 years and 3 months)France
- Definition and deployment of purchasing strategy for electronic components
- Key interface between Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, and project teams: contribution to sourcing decisions and technical arbitration from the early stages of projects to industrialization
- Management of supplier selection, negotiations, and strategic partnerships with international tier 1 suppliers
- Cost optimization initiatives through TCO analysis, benchmark studies, and identified negotiation levers
- Monitoring of supplier relationships (costs, quality, delivery times) and contribution to risk reduction and supply chain continuity plans
- Contractualization and negotiation of clauses
- Faurecia Interior SystemPROGRAM PURCHASERAUTOMOBILEApril 2022 - April 2024 (2 years)Mladá Boleslav, Czechia
- Faurecia is a leading tier 1 automotive supplier
- Scope in charge: dashboards and door panels for the VW Group
- Missions:
- End-to-end sourcing activities management for high-volume VW Group programs
- Management of an international supplier panel; monitoring performance during development and industrialization phases (costs, quality, delivery times), securing program milestones until production launch
- Achievement of savings (LTA,
- Management of technical changes
- BANQUE POPULAIRE DU NORDPURCHASING MANAGERBANKING AND INSURANCEJune 2021 - March 2022 (9 months)Marcq-en-Barœul, France
- Management of a spending scope of approximately €20 million across several categories: branch renovation, office supplies, general services (HVAC, maintenance, etc.)
- Implementation of the outsourcing policy in accordance with EBA regulations: strengthening compliance and reducing regulatory risk at the group level
- Supplier governance: performance monitoring and contractual negotiation in collaboration with the legal team
- Conducting tenders and contributing to regional purchasing synergies and cost efficiency actions
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Education
- LEADERSHIP PROGRAM "ELEVATE"Elevate Talent Ltd2025PROGRAMME DE LEADERSHIP "ELEVATE"
- Master in EntrepreneurshipNEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL2020Master Business School, spécialisé en Supply Chain Management & Purchasing
Certifications
- Google AI Professional CertificateCoursera2026
- Elevate LeadershipElevate Talent2025