Bernhard Baumgarten

• Global Senior Management Team member of the Customer Operations* Category • Full sub team leadership responsibilty • Selling and providing procurement support; to local markets and external partner markets • Set up and led semi annual global strategic partner reviews • Founded Global Telesales Innovation Forum; semi annual physical meeting of Vodafone's local market leaders, driving digital solutions by inviting external partners and start ups

Senior financial role as part of Regional Senior Management, Responsible for Revenue planning and forecasting, long term deal structuring and pricing, as well as OPEX budget savings

Global Category Management and Team Leadership for indirect services categories, e.g. Marketing Built business/TCO models for larger, long terms deals, including ROI analysis Integration of an acquired business in the global category strategies (Mar 2012-Dec 2013 The Hague) Developed key parts of the global procurement strategy and was instrumental in it’s implementation to form the global procurement function Alumni member of SES’s ‘Future Leaders’ high potential programme

Hired as Consultant level, receiving promotion after 14 months to Senior Consultant Delivering savings and other targets, in some cases this included developing/improving processes Managing supplier relationships to ensure optimum performance, including leading negotiations Spend data modelling and analysis; Structuring, interpreting and presenting analysis results and formulated strategies Stakeholder Engagement and Management to identify project requirements, in some cases leading to new business

Founding meisterworks ltd to provide high quality building and property development services by importing German tradesmenship to the UK

Transferring processes and products from other eCircle countries establishing Media Product Management in the UK market. Collaborated closely with Sales Managers to develop profitable market solutions Building up a team of 7 by the end of 2006 resulting in promotion to Senior Media Product Manager from Media Product Manager after 2 years. Responsibility in the last year was managing and further developing all Media Products for the UK market. Managing a team of 10.

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