Head Of Indirect Purchasing
Prilly
Summary
Recognized as a natural leader who drives performance with determination & enthusiasm while being listening & understanding the motivations of individuals and building relationships.
21 years of Purchasing experience across diverse industries with high adaptability skills: Automotive, Watch & Packaging industry.
Successfully managed all indirect categories within complex organization, cross-culturally across multiple geographical regions.
Highly collaborative with an ability to partnership with high level & political stakeholders effectively.
Results-oriented, with track record delivering exceptional performance.
Assertive nature, influential with strong communication skills.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Indirect Material Global Category Manager
BOBST Mex SA
04.2019 - Current
- Company Overview: Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
- Leading team of 15 reports, responsible for spend of 275mio CHF covering all indirect material categories at a group level
- Led the Global Category Leadership team hierarchically and the local Indirect Buyers across the world functionally (14 production sites), both strategically and operationally
- Developed and implemented global sourcing strategies fully aligned with internal stakeholders covering 70% of the indirect spend
- Delivered costs optimization & reduction of 4% year over year
- Constantly promoted the collaboration with indirect purchasing team among stakeholders by influencing, communicating successes and increasing the level of involvement
- Managed, Developed and Animated international team workshops animation, hiring, training, coaching
- Increased team sourcing policy & process compliance thru’ coaching, reaching the sustainability targets
- Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
Indirect Material Global Category Leader
BOBST Mex SA
01.2016 - 03.2019
- Company Overview: Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
- Responsible for spend 70mio CHF, covering Travel, Group Communication & Marketing categories at a group level
- Functional leadership and accountability for a multicultural purchasing worldwide team, in addition to leading business stakeholder management
- Leading strategic projects across 40 entities in a complex environment
- Defined and implemented strategy that increased spend under management from 10% to a more mature 80% level of spend under contract and fully leveraged / optimized
- Led global consolidation sourcing projects and change management by developing group partners: Translation Services 30% savings delivered, with standardization of translation memory
- Branding execution 25% savings delivered, delivering a validated higher level of service
- Project-managed critical outsourcing projects, supporting the company strategy for non-core activities
- Space optimization, reducing deployed resources by 100% on a printing outsourcing project
- Travel project across the group, implementing a global travel agency with online booking tools: Enabled costs control & transparency, full policy compliance achieving 10% savings
- Optimized & standardized processes across group Reducing associated resources by 15%
- Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
Indirect Material Strategic Buyer
BOBST Mex SA
10.2013 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
- Responsible for spend of 20mio CHF, covering MRO (Materials, Repairs & Operations), Human Resources & Consulting
- Accountable for optimizing the spend & internal processes for the managed categories
- In charge of introducing & promoting the P2P (Procure to pay) process within the company to raise up the purchasing function to a more mature level
- Accountable for Factory Supply Project deliverables: FS1, consolidating volumes from 166 suppliers to 1 supplier whilst rationalizing product variation and complexity, recognized as a mission critical result
- 25% costs savings over a 3 year period
- Supplier database rationalisation by 70%
- Process optimization: resulting in a reduction of 60% of invoices & PO line numbers
- Insourcing of Fluid Management to mitigate the supplier dependency & loss of critical knowhow
- Managed senior R&D stakeholders to define new specifications
- Implemented sourcing strategy for the painting product standardization Introduced multisource suppliers per region delivering 30% savings
- Responsible to build and lead training to the Bobst employees for an improved P2P process introduction
- Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
Project Buyer for Mechanical Movement
TAG Heuer
10.2011 - 10.2013
- Company Overview: Watch Company, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), 1000 employees
- In charge of the R&D sourcing project, accountable to challenge the project team to meet / exceed the management-defined target during the design to cost phase
- Required building collaboration and involvement of the right strategic partners to identify alt
- Technologies
- Responsible for project management from pilot to industrialization
- Led development and implementation for a new supplier collaboration strategy, integrating them into a new design to cost phase, considered a leading-edge initiative reduced initial production costs by >5%
- Leveraging market knowledge and benchmarking, developed alternative breakthrough technologies for mechanical components revealing potential savings of 90% on the original part costs
- Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
Buyer Industrial Mechanical Parts for Movement
TAG Heuer
09.2008 - 10.2011
- Company Overview: Watch Company, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), 1000 employees
- Developed the Purchasing function for a new manufacturing division dedicated to a mechanical watch movement to be industrialized
- Responsible for defining a new panel of suppliers to mitigate the risks within a monopolistic & saturated market and implementing strategies to prevent supply chain disruption during the ramp up phase
- Developed pool of expert suppliers & preferred partners introduced alt
- Source of supply to Swatch Group
- Negotiated Multi years Contracts for tooling and parts (90% of the panel) 15% of annual costs savings
- Assessed & monitored the supplier quality performance Improved the On Time In Full Delivery by >5%
- Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
Supplier Project Management Purchasing Assistant
Plastic Omnium Auto Exterior
09.2003 - 08.2008
- Company Overview: Automotive Manufacturer tier 1, Ste Julie (France), 9200 employees
- In charge of bringing support to the Suppliers Project Manager, organizing E-RFQ’s, E-BIDS, consolidating the proposals, analysing & reporting the KPI’s
- Led training to employees as Key User for IT purchasing tools: SAP, Sourcing Parts (E-Bid), SharePoint
- Managed 4 trainees, High level technician
- Equipment & Services for Packaging Manufacturers, Mex (Switzerland), 6000 employees
Education
Strategic Management of Purchasing, Logistics and Supply Chain Diploma -
MASPALA, University of Geneva HEC
09.2011
Advanced Technician Diploma (BTS) - Administrative Management Assistant
TEAM PME
09.2005
Skills
- High adaptability
- Global Strategy
- Results-oriented
- Strong communication
- Market intelligence
- Negotiation
- Team collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Analytical thinking
- Relationship building
Julie BELLOMO
- Age: 41
- Residency: Swiss C permit
- Nationality: French
Timeline
Indirect Material Global Category Manager
BOBST Mex SA
04.2019 - Current
Indirect Material Global Category Leader
BOBST Mex SA
01.2016 - 03.2019
Indirect Material Strategic Buyer
BOBST Mex SA
10.2013 - 12.2016
Project Buyer for Mechanical Movement
TAG Heuer
10.2011 - 10.2013
Buyer Industrial Mechanical Parts for Movement
TAG Heuer
09.2008 - 10.2011
Supplier Project Management Purchasing Assistant
Plastic Omnium Auto Exterior
09.2003 - 08.2008
Advanced Technician Diploma (BTS) - Administrative Management Assistant
TEAM PME
Strategic Management of Purchasing, Logistics and Supply Chain Diploma -
MASPALA, University of Geneva HEC
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