• Authentic and visionary business leader with breadth of experience across procurement, supply chain, and commercial roles. Well known for spotting and developing diverse talent, building high performing teams, and driving positive change.
• Passionate about diversity and inclusion, creating an environment where people can contribute fully and feel empowered to be their best selves.
• Self-confessed digital nomad.

Skills & Core Competencies

• Transformational leadership
• Sustainable productivity improvements
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations up to C-level
• Supplier relationship management
• Lean Six Sigma & Kaizen
• End-to-end procurement digitization (Source-to-Pay)

Strengths

My distinctive strengths are curiosity - staying connected to what is happening internally and externally, empathy - driving collaboration and the ability to see new perspectives, and last not least decisiveness - providing clarity and direction in service of speed and simplification

Mindset

• Create and deliver significant and sustainable value
• Quality, compliance, and ESG as vital imperatives
• State-of-the-art digitization and AI as the new normal
• Get things done. Now!

Industries Experience

10years

• Retail
• High Tech

8 years

Pharma & Healthcare

3 years

Consulting & Outsourcing

2 years

Aviation

Knowledge

Methodology

Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen

ERP

e.g. SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics

S2P eProcurement

e.g. Ariba, Synertrade, Coupa

Microsoft 365

Exceptional Teams, Excel, and Powerpoint expert

Work Experience

08/2008 - 05/2010

Role: Head of Procurement

Customer: CAPGEMINI

04/2003 - 08/2008

Role: Strategic Sourcing Leader

Customer: GE HEALTHCARE 

05/2000 - 10/2002

Role: Head of Product Management

Customer: 4MBO

10/1998 - 04/2000

Role: Vice President Procurement

Customer: on request

09/1995 - 10/1998

Role: Procurement Manager

Customer: PACOMP

Authentic and visionary business leader with breadth of experience across procurement, supply chain, and commercial roles. Well known for spotting and developing diverse talent, building high performing teams, and driving positive change. Passionate about diversity and inclusion, creating an environment where people can contribute fully and feel empowered to be their best selves.

My distinctive strengths are curiosity - staying connected to what is happening internally and externally, empathy - driving collaboration and the ability to see new perspectives, and last not least decisiveness - providing clarity and direction in service of speed and simplification.