Thierry VERLHIAC

Connect all services with the objectives to analyze the situations as: New competitive providers searches (purchases and sales), evaluation of the expertises with highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, improved customer relations, planning / Forecasting Workload analysis forecasts, allow to anticipate the resources, Support on projects, actor of the establishment of the new organization. -Continuous amelioration, improved maintenance tools

Direct leadership of major categories / sub-categories of indirect procurement (Capex and Opex) at a country and regional level in EAME: - Propose and manage cross-border strategic sourcing projects with the stakeholders, - Sourcing projects strategy by market analysis, - Support stakeholders for suppliers choice, - Contracts negotiation, - KPI’s implementation, - Improvement of the performance of the Key suppliers

Responsible for the complete strategy of the division: - Redistribution of my portfolio by implementing a complete benchmarking with an achievable target of 60% (sheet metals), - Reduction of the numbers of suppliers to 2 maximum per commodity in 2011, - Special project benchmarking (Make or Buy), Procurement Senior Leader for new or current customer project: - Built to spec project & Procurement representative for the end customers.

- Group contracts in developing synergies enabled a price reduction of 40%, - Complete benchmarking of the RUAG titanium market with a profit of 25% in 2008.

- Develop and Implement procurement processes, - Managed a team of 2 buyers and was a member of the Geneva committee , - Reduction of the numbers of suppliers by implementing a complete benchmarking and a unique source per family with an achievable target of 30% , - Transferred the process from PO to yearly contracts with local suppliers enabling a price reduction of 30% as from 09/08 and a 50% reduction in the numbers of PO, - Transferred the transport responsibility to suppliers with profit of 300k$

- Managed internal production reduction costs through an international benchmarking with outsourcing proposals to the production board committee, achieving a yearly profit of >45% (mainly in EAME, Asia & NAFTA); -Increase in « low cost » countries contracts, -Negotiated multi-year contracts with a productivity plan within a range of 2 to 6% per year, keeping the competitiveness of the suppliers, reaching the market price change, guaranteeing the direct offset obligation - Managed industrialization.

Responsible for the development, implementation and management of the different production (Castings & Forgings): - Internal price reduction through international benchmarking with a yearly profit from 2 to 5% for the yearly contract and from 5 to 10% for the 3-year contract in the EAME region.

Responsible for the development, implementation and management of the different production: • Abrasive, diamonds, graphite and copper electrodes and broaching tools - Divide by 2 the number of suppliers with a reduction of 35% from the second year, - Average of 35% of price reduction from the second year.

Responsible for the improvement by standardization and the reduction of the codification of 20’000 articles

Production and Development Turner on horizontal and vertical (CNC and traditional)