Florian Friedemann
Angestellt, Senior Project Manager, INVERTO, A BCG Company
Köln, Germany
About me
I am a passionate procurement expert and play a key role in shaping INVERTO's range of services in the Retail & Consumer Goods Practice Area. I help international clients from different industries - by optimising direct and indirect costs as well as their supply chains. I have also supported clients through category management, organisational model design and during PMI. I am also involved in the development of sustainability in procurement and have recently contributed to a publication on sustainable packaging for retail and consumer goods.
Timeline
Professional experience for Florian Friedemann
3 years and 3 months, Apr 2014 - Jun 2017
Category Manager Tobacco/ Luxury Goods / Sweets
METRO Deutschland GmbH• P&L responsibility in tobacco, luxury good and sweets categories • Category strategy creation and implementation; cross-functional alignment with customer target group management, sales, merchandising and CRM • Integration of brand strategies within framework of category management partnerships with A-brand suppliers • Negotiation lead and local support of an international sourcing alliance
• Definition and implementation of negotiation strategy for supplier negotiations • Process lead of product development for private label assortments
Educational background for Florian Friedemann
1 year and 1 month, Feb 2007 - Feb 2008
Food science
Università di scienze gastronomiche Slow Food, Parma
Food, Produktion, Sensorik
5 years and 6 months, Oct 2001 - Mar 2007
Business Administration
University of Passau
Languages
German
First language
English
Fluent
Italian
Fluent
French
Intermediate