Yaniv Oren

Jigsaw BG provides technical, quality, SCM, recruitment and training services. Sectors include Rail, Retail, Automotive, Energy. As a Director and principle consultant, I lead projects in procurement, commercial, PM, and NPD/NPI. Noted projects: Vantage Solutions (GB)Social Housing R&M Arkal (CZ) sourcing Trend Marine (GB)Outsourcing engineering Sass & Belle (GB) footprint consolidation JLR (GB) Diagnostics & Sequencing centre management ACT (GB) NPD/NPI project Pandora (DK, TH) QA process design

Key Objectives: Grow market share of Metals and Mechanism globally and profitably. Fix key non-profitable orders while insuring customers’ satisfaction. Played a major role in turning around a loss making business.

Drove profitability and growth for Opel Seating business. Drove execution for all Opel's New seating projects. Instrumental in securing replacement business to 3 JIT plants.

Key achievements: • Won New Clio, Duster, Logan, Captur and Twingo complete seat orders (3.5m vehicles Lifetime). • Led acquisition of partner’s shares resulting in majority stake in Slovenian JV

Created a customer focused full service organization for metals components in Europe - Sales and Programme management office. Turned around lagging performance (previously an Operations-led organization)

• Led all restructuring activities culminating in Spanish plant closure. • Won first Nissan business in Russia. • Secured future business for Sunderland JIT plant • Launched successfully 2 Seating New Product Introductions in South Korea.

Instrumental in steering the company to enter the mechanism market through the acquisitions of Lander and Westfalia. • Led entry into Active Headrestraint market with RiAct ™. • Core team member that launched Gemini track New Product Introduction to gain 7% global market share

• >3% annual saving on controlled spend. 20% reduction in vendor count. • Key member of small core team that centralised purchasing from plant to global commodity based. • Key Member of team that developed new centralised Purchasing IT system

Economics, European Studies