Carsten Hoppe

Fostering the transformation and transition of a 1,500+ professionals strong Procurement organization to a streamlined, while sophisticated set-up with five regional hubs (mainly providing category management & governance), seven in-house shared services centres (performing contract-to-pay activities), and service delivery teams operated by an external provider from multiple locations (mostly conducting source-to-contract activities).

Executing global governance regarding Compliance @ Procurement, which comprises three main activity clusters: • Supervising “Compliance enabled by Procurement” including risk areas Data Privacy, Deployment of Externals, Anti-Corruption, Anti-Trust, Conflict of Interest, Foreign Trade Law, Identity & Access Management and Fraud • Leveraging insights from audits for preventive risk mitigation • Directing a holistic regulations framework for 50+ countries

Creating value by leading broader/transformational sourcing initiatives across multiple categories in Technology & Services, Research & Development and Marketing & Sales Services areas.