Description

I support organizations on procurement performance improvement, cost optimization, supplier risk management, and structured decision-making. My approach is structured (MECE), pragmatic, and impact-oriented, turning complex challenges into clear, decision-ready recommendations for senior management. I work closely with leadership, finance, engineering, and operations teams, both in diagnostic phases and hands-on implementation.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
German
Fluent
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Düsseldorf (up to 50km)

SEG ELECTRONICS GMBH,
HEAD OF PROCUREMENT
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
April 2023 - Today (3 years and 2 months)
Kempen, NW, Germany
Leading a procurement team of 4, managing a high-mix low-volume purchasing portfolio including PCBAs, PCBs, active and passive electronic components, connectors, metals, and plastic injection parts.

- Report in executive meetings with company leadership, department heads and investors.

- Support the build-up of a procurement hub in Poland, enhancing regional sourcing and department capabilities.

- Driving a multi-year procurement strategy focused on cost reduction, risk mitigation, and long-term value, aligning

operations with corporate objectives to support current and future growth.
- Achieved a 5% cost reduction the first year by implementing strategic sourcing initiatives and conducting effective supplier negotiations, improving the company COGS-to-Sales ratio.

- Implemented a supplier performance management framework, driving improvements in quality and delivery while implementing risk mitigation strategies, including second-source solutions to ensure supply chain continuity.

- Improved on-time delivery from 42% to 77% by conducting an ABC/XYZ analysis, developing a tool for early risk detection, sharing real-time data with suppliers, and implementing safeguards to prevent systemic risks.

- Led cross-functional meetings with engineering to share supplier technology roadmaps, aiming for 10% cost savings, and collaborated with finance to resolve claims and non-moving inventory by leveraging buy-back stocks, deferred
payments, and payment terms to improve internal ratings with suppliers and reduce friction in relationships.

- Aligned New Product Introduction (NPI) strategies with company goals, ensuring that raw material sourcing supports innovation and product development timelines.
Procurement Strategy Procurement Transformation
RHEINMETALL, Pierburg GmbH,
GLOBAL COMMODITY BUYER
AUTOMOBILE
April 2016 - April 2023 (7 years)
41 Neuss, Germany
Management of a 100 Mio€ purchasing portfolio of Printed Circuit Board Assemblies, active and passive electronic components, dealing with Electronic Manufacturing Services, Original Electronic Manufacturers, and Printed Circuit
Board suppliers.

Spend and panel management:

- Consolidate the global purchasing needs of the 5 automotive business units based on the sales plan
- Issue spend analysis at product, region, plants, OEM and EMS supplier level
- Categorization of the electronic components in segments and definition of the supplier panel
- Develop an implementation plan: Negotiations, panel rationalization activities, distributor dependency reduction
- Identification of high-risk components as well as price discrepancies between regions, suppliers, products

Procurement marketing and supply market analysis:

- Market research on new technologies like GaN and SiC MOSFET
- Identification and short listing of EMS, Flex- and PCB suppliers,
- Support the M&A department with the criteria’s definition and shortlisting of EMS for potential acquisition

Serial activities:

- Negotiations of Long-Term Agreements, supply contracts, as well as technical changes in serial production
- Achievement of 5 Mio€ saving per year through benchmarking, and technical specifications to engineering
- Issue of Request for Quotations, cost analysis, price comparisons
- Leverage RFQ and Benchmark supplier inputs to develop cost models for PCBs and PCBAs

Digital transformation:

- Building from scratch (unstructured data) a comprehensive and transparent summary of our electronic spend
- Requirement analysis, specification, planning, design, coding (VBA), testing and deployment of a tailored digital tool for electronics that automatize material costing on PCBAs, RFQs at OEMs, and provide technical knowledge sharing among all Business Units
- In charge of all e-BOMs evaluation for project purchasing using the tool from 2020 to 2023
Electronique
VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH,
PROJECT BUYER
AUTOMOBILE
January 2013 - October 2015 (2 years and 9 months)
Bietigheim-Bissingen, BW, Germany
Working for the Comfort and Assistance Driving division, on ultrasonic sensor projects, dealing with a variety of commodities like ASICs, PCBs, electronic components, plastic, rubber, aluminum and painting subcontracting.

Representing purchasing inside the ultrasonic sensor projects:

- RFQ, Feasibility and cost analysis as well as negotiation involving engineering and suppliers
- Liaising with suppliers on daily basis to clarify feasibility studies and raise questions to engineering
- Use of design to cost principles, i.e. define functions and assign related costs to reach the sensor price target
- Coordination of 3 ASICs suppliers during the design of a common functional ASIC specification
- In charge of clarify the IP topics during the specification and RFQ phase with the legal department
- Lead the organization of on-Site auctions for the final ASIC supplier nomination

Cross project and cost-down activities involving the production plant on painting, powder coating, carry over:

- ASIC activities on 4 other projects from specification and sourcing to the development phase
- Carry-over parts sourcing: capacity check for new project and presentation in sourcing committee
- charge of painting and powder coating sub-contracting sourcing for all new sensor’s projects
- Lead on cost reduction projects, involving suppliers, for the replacement of liquid painting
New Product Introduction