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Manages complex sourcing and supplier projects in a high-tech / semiconductor environment with a focus on delivery capability, critical assemblies, QLTCS, escalation management, and sustainable supply chain stabilization. Leads international stakeholders, internal departments, and suppliers through demanding decision-making, qualification, and implementation phases.

Mandate relevance: Stabilization of critical supply chains, securing technologically demanding assemblies, and structured management of supplier and escalation topics in a highly dynamic high-tech environment.

• Available for short-term assignments in the areas of assistance and purchasing
• Focus on executive support, project assistance, and operational relief
• Quick familiarization with new company structures

• Interim license management.
• Responsible for the service relationship with suppliers and for transactional and supplier-related support tasks.
• Strategic procurement activities for risk mitigation and for optimizing the value and resilience of license usage, including setting up supplier relationship management processes and continuous improvement targets/programs.
• Negotiation of contracts and coordination of supplier integration plans with internal clients.
• Monitoring of market dynamics affecting the availability and/or pricing of materials/services.
• Collaboration with internal clients to identify procurement needs, develop buyer/market profiles, identify market trends, and define acceptable service levels.
• Management and termination of an IT contract portfolio required for the IT infrastructure and application landscape.

• Systematic analysis of cost drivers and targeted implementation of savings potentials in electronics, electromechanics, and medium voltage. Achieved a cost reduction of 9% compared to the 12% target.

• Introduced a transparent reporting system by integrating various existing systems and interfaces to improve data quality and monitor product costs for an annual volume of approximately €230 million.

• Deployed design-to-cost initiatives and cost-out workshops in close collaboration with procurement, product management, and engineering to drive technical optimizations and sustainable savings.

• Applied strategic negotiations, second-source qualification, and price and value analyses. Complemented by cost assessments and benchmark analyses to ensure long-term cost efficiency and competitiveness.

• Leading the purchasing team
• Identifying cost saving opportunities and efficiency improvements in the procurement process and implementing process optimizations
• Developing and implementing procurement strategies in coordination with product management (CTO) and operations management (COO)
• Managing and selecting suppliers for high-quality and cost-effective products and services
• Negotiating purchasing contracts and framework agreements
• Monitoring material flow between suppliers, external manufacturing and assembly companies, and in-house production
• Ensuring compliance with quality and delivery standards in coordination with QA (production)

• Conception, development, and design of explosion generators: concept, draft, calculations, design of generators, procurement of parts, assembly of developed units, as well as tests and trials for functionality, safety, and optimization, further development up to series production
• Installation and commissioning of P-Wave PWG-S types 100 to 103 and subsequent types at customer sites
• Training of customer employees in handling the generators
• Maintenance of P-Wave PWG-S generators 100 to 103 and subsequent types
• Creation of PID and KKS numbering lists
• Project execution of orders in German-speaking regions
• Purchasing all parts and assemblies needed for project execution, and coordinating the assembly of the PWG-S system by partner companies
• Responsible for cost optimization of purchased parts
• Production planner
• Responsible for PDM data and optimization of data management, transition from manual to automatic data management

• Quickly took over responsibilities after predecessor's departure
• Quickly prepared alternative procurement scenarios with transparent commercial analysis
• Thematically and personally reconnected loose, interdisciplinary threads
• Identified win-win potentials in cooperation with customers

• Managed project budgets up to €150M and procurement budgets up to €100M

• Led and managed teams of 5 to 50 people

• Contract management: drafting and development across the lifecycle

• Managed turnkey projects and tenders

• Digitization of machine maintenance in production plants

• Reclassified 46 filling and packaging lines and migrated them into SAP

• Asset management and sensor solutions for predictive maintenance in corrugated board production

• Process optimization with automation and digitization in the oil & gas industry per ISO/API standards and in environmental technology with decarbonization and emission reduction goals

• Cleaning up the shop floor, consolidating production steps, boosting efficiency, translating solution approaches into the IT pyramid

• Ramp-up management of vehicle projects and electronic components

• Set up roll lines for battery electrode production from delivery to acceptance

• Set up and led the production start-up of the MAN NHMR (medium and heavy truck series) from prototype to pre-series

• Led PCB assembly projects from prototype to series: QMT for Tier-2 and Tier-3 suppliers in Europe

• Cylinder head casting projects in Italy: increased efficiency from under 100 to 330 good pairs per day, reduced scrap from over 80% to under 20%