
Radek Bak
Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse
Werdegang
Berufserfahrung von Radek Bak
- Bis heute 5 Monate, seit Okt. 2025
Owner
AdvantEdge GmbH
Focus: Business Diagnostics and Negotiation Surgery • Diagnosing contractual risks and sourcing inefficiencies for manufacturing leaders. • Training corporate teams in Negotiation and Influencing skills, shifting their mindset from "concession-making" to "value-creation." • Protecting client margins through rigorous application of process discipline and psychological strategy in negotiations.
- 3 Jahre und 10 Monate, Dez. 2021 - Sep. 2025
Head of Sourcing Program & Senior Global Category Director
Huhtamaki
Focus: Global Sourcing Architecture and Program Management • Orchestrated a global sourcing transformation program to immunize the organisation against post-pandemic supply chain disruptions. • Designed standardisation protocols across multiple geographies, enforcing strict governance to eliminate rogue spend. • Executed high-stakes category strategies that balance cost reduction with security of supply (Risk Exposure Management).
Focus: Global Procurement Process Excellence and Capability Transformation • Led enterprise-wide alignment of global procurement processes, creating a common operating model across business groups and geographies. • Designed and deployed a cross-BG procurement capability agenda, strengthening skills, consistency, and decision quality at scale. • Re-engineered global material qualification frameworks to ensure robustness, speed, and governance across all business units.
- 2 Jahre und 6 Monate, Juli 2018 - Dez. 2020
Procurement Director ASC Americas
Amcor Specialty Cartons
Focus: Regional Procurement Build-Up, Value Delivery • Built, recruited and developed a Regional Procurement organisation across six manufacturing locations, embedding both functional excellence (Sourcing, Project Management) and critical soft skills (Influencing, Presentation, Coaching) across cross-functional teams. • Delivered sustained commercial impact, exceeding EBIT and Working Capital targets for three consecutive financial years on a total addressable spend of approximately USD 280 million.
- 2 Jahre und 6 Monate, Jan. 2016 - Juni 2018
Global Procurement Excellence Director and Global Category Director
Amcor Tobacco Packaging
• Drive “Procure Plus Horizon 2” (subsequent 3-year procurement excellence program); • Design (in liaison with HR) and execute upon the Capability Development Plan enhancing delivery of the targeted program year-on-year benefits; • Procurement Leaders 2017 Award; Category “Internal Transformation” (part of the P+ Team transforming Amcor into world-class procurement leader); • Voted the best P+ Trainer by all Amcor BG Procurement community;
- 3 Jahre und 4 Monate, Sep. 2012 - Dez. 2015
Procure Plus (P+) Excellence Program Manager
Amcor Tobacco Packaging
Key Achievements: Benefits (PBIT and Non PBIT) outperformance vs. Program budget, in excess of 40% over three Financial Years; Procurement Team skill upgrade (acc. the McKinsey Sustainability Model) in 7 out of 9 key competences within 6 months from the Program Kick-off; CEO Award for the Most Innovative Procurement Project, in a cross BG competition)
- 2 Monate, Juli 2012 - Aug. 2012
Senior Procurement Manager
Amcor Tobacco Packaging
Spend in Scope: - Direct; Liquids 85 mEUR, Stamping Foils 5 mEUR; - Indirect; Pre-press 50 mEUR Key Achievements: Business Group President Award for Safety (Procurement project contribution to the core Amcor's value); TCO introduction into category management practice (Solvents) resulting in 1.5 mEUR total saving across the Business Group; Procurement process set up and development in ATP Asia
- 2 Jahre, Juli 2010 - Juni 2012
Category Procurement Manager
Amcor Tobacco Packaging
Key Achievements: Acquisition synergy accomplishment (0.9 mEUR in Liquids category); European Ink tender execution (10% or 4 mEUR in fully validated benefits: 100% European sites under a 3 year contract); Standardized Pricing Model introduction (Inks and Varnish) preventing from cost leakage and improvement in predictability of commercial quotations; Introduction of simplified Pricing Model for Stamping Foils
- 4 Jahre, Juli 2006 - Juni 2010
Group Supply Chain Manager
Amcor Rentsch
Group Procurement for Key Categories (Liquids and Pre-Press) Management of Group S&OP process
- 3 Jahre, Juli 2003 - Juni 2006
Senior Account Manager
Amcor Rentsch
- 4 Monate, März 2003 - Juni 2003
Regional Sales & Supply Chain Manager
Amcor Rentsch Polska
- 7 Jahre und 6 Monate, Sep. 1995 - Feb. 2003
Sales Manager
Amcor Rentsch Polska
- 8 Monate, Jan. 1995 - Aug. 1995
Sales Executive
TNT EXpress Worldwide Poland
- 1 Jahr und 1 Monat, Juli 1993 - Juli 1994
Sales Representative
Unilever - Vand Den Bergh Foods Polska
Ausbildung von Radek Bak
- 1 Jahr und 9 Monate, Okt. 1999 - Juni 2001
Business Administration
University Of Maryland
International Business
- 1 Jahr und 9 Monate, Okt. 1997 - Juni 1999
Executive MBA
Lodz University / University of Maryland
Sprachen
Polnisch
Muttersprache
Englisch
Fließend
Deutsch
Fließend
Russisch
Gut
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