Senior Procurement Professional 

Manage purchasing volume in 2023 of ~12 million Euros

License purchases of 1-350,000 licenses

? Manage operational purchasing from E2E vendors, IT hardware/services, software/ licenses, professional services, (obtaining, evaluation and negotiation of offers, RfX), art buying (images, soundtracks, filters).

? SPOC of the product groups, cooperation with stakeholders (legal, compliance, corporate security, IT, requestors, accounting and interface with IBM procurement).

? Ensure all procurement complies with IBM rules, guidelines.

? Identify and assess suppliers, negotiate contracts.

? Request and negotiate offers (RfX), process and orders.

? Supplier management, market analysis.

? Use SSPA, TPSRM, SOW for optimization of supplier base and minimize risk.

? Advise stakeholders in the context of procurement projects / clarify purchasing strategies.

? Analysis/ optimization of procurement processes.

? Compliance support in testing purchasing processes, coordinating large orders).

? Align with new compliance for procurement process with IBM parent company.

? Ensure supplier onboarding process follows the required documentation and process.

? Ensure a Source Selection (SS) and Fair Value Determination (FVD) is carried out.

? Ensure privacy and security principles are followed by suppliers.

Achievements at IBM iX

? Optimized various procurement processes to reduce the throughput time process and lower process costs.

? Developed decision templates for supplier selection, qualification and development on the basis of technological, qualitative and commercial aspects.

? Supplier consolidation led to reduction of ~600 contracts, resulting in cost savings, increased efficiency, improved quality, and reduced risk.

? As part of the change of company name in 2022, effectively handled supplier communication and transfer of existing supplier contracts into the IBM iX DACH organization (~450 contracts).

? Reorganized product groups - "Freelancer/Services" and "Training" with the aim of having fewer suppliers with a broad range of services (bundling of volumes, reduction of purchase prices), led to ~90% of requirements being purchased directly on optimized supplier base.

? Part of the team for SAP implementation in procurement - assisted in the migration/ planning.

? Part of IBM ?Global SW Education Guild? to standardize the purchasing process of IBM for "product group software" worldwide.

? Drove Purchase of software licenses (internal, client projects, 1-350,000 licenses) from e.g. Atlassian, Salesforce, OwnData, Adobe got a reduction of price up to 18%.

? Standardized payment terms of 60 days for hardware (internal/ computers/ laptops, cell phones) for IBM iX Berlin and IBM iX Switzerland AG.

HR Dispatcher 10/17-12/20

Built and managed the ?Search & Recruit? team (resourcing center, distributed team), to deliver services and freelancers for various TÜV Rheinland client projects and internal vacancies.

Project Management 01/16-09/17

? Cost center responsibility including 3 senior consultants and 1 employee in control.

? Responsible for customer and project acquisition.

? Support Deutsche Bahn GSM-R test center, Wan Network Deutsche Bahn/ Client, technology-based processing procedures (TAV) Deutsche Bahn, AWS/ Azure projects.

? Search and acquisition of project partners and purchasing of consulting services and freelancers (consulting and service contracts ? focus on infrastructure and cloud) to realize client projects.

? Acquisition/ development of partner networks (service providers, freelancers, companies).

? Contract/ price negotiations and ?on boarding? of partners (contracts, documents, approvals).

? Active supplier management including regular reviews of the services provided and commercial processing.

? SPOC for escalations (proof of performance, invoices, contracts, services provided, budgets).

Achievements at TÜV Rheinland

Based on an SME survey by TÜV Rheinland regarding ?digitalization?, developed the concept of a target image workshop ?Next Generation Workplace - Transformation from the status quo to the target image? - this concept enabled TÜV Rheinland to acquire SMEs in the digital environment and retain them in the long term.

? Various customers requested consulting services in the cloud environment - built up a cloud team with the aim of creating architectural concepts and standardization options for migrating applications to the cloud.

? Provided support for tenders (including EU tenders) through market research, partner acquisition, management of project partners, price negotiations and interface coordination.

? 360° partner feedback DB Systel 1st place.

? Deutsche Bahn generated >50% of the total turnover TÜV Rheinland-Deutsche Bahn.