Christian Wendel

Teaches procurement logistics, supply chain management and digitalization, seeking to provide an inclusive, fun, and goal oriented learning environment, emphasising the creation of personal development opportunities

Holds Group-wide responsibility for indirect spend of CHF150m, including defining and monitoring global process regulations, providing spend analytics, implementing global category management and sourcing processes, and ensuring procurement supplier relationship and risk management - Advises senior executives at Board and C-suite level - Leads the corporate procurement team of nine direct reports - Directs key strategic and turnaround projects

Implemented and led project management office for RUAG MRO International, a business unit of RUAG International - Coordinated all divestment projects and reported status to C-suite level - Headed the unbundling workstream of the business unit - Led specific divest and separation projects - Introducted new source to pay IT solution

Founded and developed the company with three partners to advise clients with projects in supply chain management, procurement, digitalization of business processes, and divesting of business areas - Established project infrastructure, governance, and processes for two divestments - Led an unbundling workstream of a business unit that separated a company into two legal entities - Reorganized a procurement department within four months, and implemented new global processes and guidelines

Bought and grew the company - led a management team of three direct reports and developed the company’s mid - and long-term strategy - managed P&L and trained employees in new business processes and sales presentations - advised potential customers about products and benefits, and introduced a global supply chain Prepared the sales process of the company and sold it with profit after successful turnaround

Founded the consulting company and fulfilled specific management responsibilities - Interim Manager: Strategic Purchaser for several material groups - Stream Lead Procurement in a group-wide IT harmonization project - Project-stream Lead of a process harmonization project comprising ten team members across five countries - Acted as main contact for five indirect material groups (CHF50m spend)

Fulfilled a fixed-term employment contract - Established a holistic supplier management system encompassing KPIs, supplier evaluation and risk management - Optimised and introduced new material management processes and created a new archiving system for production orders

Led international and interdisciplinary teams as project manager for specific sourcing projects and acted as local process owner for the whole source to pay process - Created global supplier databases following analysis of supplier markets for direct materials such as chemical products and trading goods, and indirect spends on transportation, packaging and travel - Owned the “source to pay” processes in Europe and ensured implementation in different ERP systems - Implemented global procurement strategy

Led fourteen staff in the scheduling, strategic procurement, operational procurement and master data teams - Introduced a new procurement risk management and KPI system and trained internal stakeholders - Defined and implemented procurement and materials management processes in new ERP SAP R/3 system - Negotiated contracts with strategic suppliers and acted as key user for SAP procurement and materials management

Digitalization / Executive Management / International Management