Thierry VERLHIAC

Temporary job for 9 months

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,
 Process improvement
 Improvement of the performance of the Key suppliers

Mission : J’assure la responsabilité stratégique de différentes familles liées à l'assemblage de tronçon de cellule d'avions(matière première, forgés, fonderie, chaudronnerie & câblages électriques):

- Analyse du marché monde, Sourcing,
- Audit fournisseurs (Chine, USA, & Europe),
- Consultation / négociation,
- Contrat cadre,
- partenariat moyen/long terme,
- Préparation à la montée en cadence,
- Plan d'amélioration par gain de productivité,
- Management d'un approvisionneur,
- Sourcing stratégique ponctuel pour la division dans une perspective de "make or buy" d'assemblés
- Chef de projet achat sur

Réalisation

- Chaudronnerie: 54% de réduction de coût => 1 M$/an
- câblages électriques: 35% de réduction de coût => 0.4 MCHF/an

Raw material Senior Lead Buyer for the division - Budget of 25M$

 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.

Site Procurement Manager - Budget of 30M$

Responsible for the reorganization, the improvement and the management as:

 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 during the last 2 years,
 Transferred the transport responsibility to major suppliers with a profit of $ 300K$ in 2008.

Commodity Manager (Machining) - Budget from 25M$

Responsible for the development, implementation and management of different families:

 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, main future sales market customers,
 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 obligations of the sales contract signed or the pre-offset of the contract under negotiation,
 Managed industrialization until stabilization of production is maintained, with a steering of a multidisciplinary team of experts to guarantee the planning: hold in 80% without rescheduling.

Commodity Manager (Castings & forgings) - Budget from € 5 - 8 M

Responsible for the development, implementation and management of the different production:

 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

Commodity Manager - Budget from € 3 M

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)