Experience

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  Oltcit romania s.a

  Nov 1989 - Nov 2002

  Electro mechanical technician
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  Daewoo automobile romania s.a

  Dec 2002 - Jan 2009

  Lawyer - law/finance/sales

  Promoted effective communication with stakeholders and customers, legal requirements interpretation and timely resolution of identified concerns.• Represented the Company in more than 100 Court Cases related to the Lease and Rate Selling Contracts owned by plant, with above 85% success rate.• Advised the plant management on more than 550 different claims related to warranty clauses, financial data, payment terms and employee related matters.

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  Ford motor company (ford romania)

  Jan 2009 - Dec 2018

  Oversaw the purchasing activity for six major plants in Europe, leading a cross-cultural team of Romanian, UK, German, Spanish, and Indian buyers, exceeding yearly objectives. Led a local indirect Purchasing team through the integration into the EU Ford purchasing organisation, arranging regular meetings with all managers and ensuring full integration.• Oversaw a team of eight buyers located in Cologne, Germany and two buyers located in Craiova, Romania, successfully managing the cultural difference impact and raising the team satisfaction on the company activity survey with 8% in just 12 months. • Directed the planning and execution of the re-location of 45 indirect purchasing jobs across Europe by maintaining team and individual engagement along the process.• Identified and removed no value-add buyer actions to streamline the process, increasing the inventory buying efficiency by 50%.• Organised a well-structured training program, successfully minimising the new buyer onboarding time by 35%.• Headed the EU supply base strategy development process for industrial material, heading the supply base rationalisation by 10%.• Enhanced industrial material overall cost efficiency by reducing 4,3 % annually through negotiating pricing, fee, and mark-ups, ensuring continuation and enhancement of services.• Spearheaded the IM purchasing team to implement the new SAP ARIBA purchasing system in FoE, finalising all the testing before the agreed due date through properly allocating tasks to all team members.• Extensively travelled across the EU and US to ensure purchasing strategies’ efficient applications, meeting suppliers and conducting BURs (Business Unite Reviews) in order to maximise the benefits for the Company. Show less

  • Purchasing Manager - Industrial Materials FoE

    Sept 2013 - Dec 2018

  • Senior Buyer - Constraints - Powertrain

    Apr 2013 - Sept 2013

  • Senior Internal Control Coordinator - Finance

    Jan 2009 - Apr 2013
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  Formel d romania

  Dec 2018 - Nov 2019

  Area sales manager

  Promoted effective communication with customers and timely resolution of identified concerns, enhancing customer satisfaction, securing five major projects from the current customers to achieve annual target.

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  Sc malina lux srl

  Sept 2019 - Jan 2020

  Purchasing manager

  Responsible for the development of an excellent organisational structure for maximum revenue growth, assessing the profitability of the existing company process.• Generated purchasing strategy as well as departmental and individual KPIs, defining R&R and savings structure.

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  Sc europrotect safety srl

  Feb 2021 - Nov 2021

  Purchasing manager

  Target 40% company growth during first 2 years, through process risk assessment, process improvement, formulating entire company’s processes and procedures.Responsible for the development of the company, implementing new processes to support further sustainable growth, maximizing revenue, improving the profitability of the existing company process, develop and standardize new activities.• Improved communication through implementing company’s local server and shared drives. • Developed Marketing, Sales, Purchasing and Logistics policies.• Implemented new system (CIEL) to the company, to support further development and data collection starting from offer requests, throughout production stages untill delivery with strong accent on cash management and cash flow.• Re-engineering the entire process flow to streamline the activity and eliminate waste (time, material, work force). Show less

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  Tenneco

  Nov 2021 - now

  Global commodity manager
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  Siemens energy products

  Jun 2024 - now

  Commodity manager for mechanical power transmission