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Valeo
- Product Line Purchasing Director
Paris
2013 - maintenant
Managing Projects & Serial Purchasing for Valeo Lighting SP Product Line which operates worldwide on 5 sites and 3 R&D centers (Belgium, France, Romania, Mexico, China). Main missions:
- Defining & driving purchasing performance for 250M€ yearly purchase turnover in serie,
- Managing project purchasing from competitive quotations to support new projects acquisition until SOP (100 projects),
- Anticipating future needs, creating competition to bring cost breakthrough,
- Recruting, developing & coaching purchasing resources (team: 40 buyers).
► Main achievements:
- Best ever purchasing index achieved (<91%) thanks to major electronic productivities, constant improvement since last 4 years,
- Best ever Long Term agreement on new components sourced (>12%), smooth Sop of numerous projects.
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Valeo
- Site Purchasing Manager
Paris
2009 - 2012
Managing purchasing operations for project & production for Valeo site in Belgium with a team of 16 buyers.
► Main achievements:
- Implemented new purchasing organization, managed bankruptcy of suppliers without line interruption, managed electronic technology breakthrough.
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Valeo
- Supplier Quality Manager & Project Purchasing Manager
Paris
2008 - 2009
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Valeo
- Supplier Quality Manager
Paris
2006 - 2007
- Driving a team of 16 people (8 engineers, 3 technicians, 5 workers),
- Managing supplier quality incidents (16 millions of parts per month – 1600 part numbers),
- Driving supplier new components validation on time versus project milestones (PQA process).
► Main achievements:
- Decreased number of incidents with QRQC - PDCA- FTA (-50%),
- upgraded team & implemented reorganization,
- SAP Key user.
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Valeo
- Purchasing Project Manager
Paris
2004 - 2006
- Managing 4 project buyers, quoting & supporting acquisition of new projects, sourcing, driving QCD performance.
► Main achievements:
- New position created on this site: set up the organization & tools (Auctions, KPI, member of Project Management Committee),
- Changed our supplier base with 47% sourcing in emerging countries & decreased investments by 50%,
- Member of Valeo tooling purchasing coordination & Internal Trainer for purchasing.
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Valeo
- Project Buyer
Paris
2001 - 2003
Quoting, sourcing, supplier integration, tools & investment management, timing follow up, prices management.
► Main achievements:
- 1st Project Buyer in position on this site,
- having gathered & organized purchasing activities from quotes until SOP,
- In 2003: 2,8 M€ of new components purchased with an index of 78% for BMW, Chrysler, Mitsubishi, PSA, Volvo, Nissan.
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Valeo
- Supplier Quality Engineer
Paris
1997 - 2000
- Managing system & process audit, managing new components validation.
► Main achievements:
- 1st SQ Engineer into project platform of site Le Hainaut,
- having set up and deployed activities & tools on the site.
