Manuel Rodriguez

• Global procurement lead of a business unit • Lead an international team of Category Managers • Create and manage contracts with suppliers • Support M&A's • Continuously improve the supply base in terms of quality, cost, service

• Execute fiscal year’s commodity strategy • Lead strategic purchasing team • Create and manage contracts with strategic suppliers • Asses / challenge / enhance specific process • Continuously improve the supply base in terms of quality, cost, service • Monitoring DBV and achieving KPI’s

• Support of all plants and business units across EMEA region • Responsible for procurement procedure of capital assets • Market research and supplier selection • Price and condition negotiations • Management of projects • Mitigate risk of projects and maximize cost avoidance • Contract agreements and penalty executions

• Responsibility for facility management / capital expenditures / new direct material • Management of projects • Market research and supplier selection • Price and condition negotiations • Frame contracts • Processing and planning of large orders • Standardization of processes • Audit of contractual content • Identification and implementation of savings opportunities • Coordination of (service) contractors

• Cooperation with international suppliers • Management / organization and optimization of the direct material purchasing activity • Material disposition and tracking • Ensuring the availability of materials • Monitoring of inventory • Invoice clarifications • Complaint processing • Collaboration and control at the annual inventory • Collaboration in various lean projects

•Beschaffung, Finanzierung / Investitionen, Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung und Controlling •Unternehmensstrategien und Marketing, Projektarbeiten, Absatzwirtschaft, Produktionswirtschaft, Wirtschaftsinformatik •Personalverwaltung und - management