UlfNordmann
Procurement, Senior Partner, Global Practice Leader
Europe, Germany
A seasoned senior procurement executive with a proven ability to manage and transform complex, global procurement environments, particularly in automotive direct materials, indirect materials, and CAPEX. In addition, responsible for the successful operational restructuring of a special machinery company.
Project Experience
- Project Lead, Geico SPA, Special Machinery
- Development & implementation of cross-functional supplier & commodity management for global leader in automotive paintshop systems
- Director, Mercedes-Benz NAFTA, Automotive
- Transformation of 8 entity-oriented US procurement teams into & commodity-oriented (CAPEX, MRO, IT, Services etc.) shared services NAFTA-Hub
- Managing Director, GeicoTaikisha GmbH, Special Machinery
- Operative Restructuring of 100M EUR/ 85FTE German GmbH and transformation (operative restructuring) into integrated functional matrix organization with Italian HQ
- Director, Toll-Collect, Transportation
- Set-up of procurement organization incl. execution of procurement for entire German National Truck Toll System
- Managed audits ensuring full compliance with QMS and process standards.
Impact & Achievements
- Integrated procurement into core value chain and shaped enterprise (vision & strategy based) value add procurement function
- Reduced Headcount by 20% and increased savings (compared to existing price base & available budget) by 15%
- Reduced HC of local German entity by 60% and integrated into HQ operative system with change of overall governance model – while fulfilling/completing automotive OEM SOP critical customer projects
- Saved 25% of functional budget to set up & run toll system for 12yrs period of operations
Industries
- Automotive, Manufacturing, Industrial Products & Services
Qualifications and Skills
- Harvard Business School, Advanced Strategy Program
- Systemic Organizational Consultant, Hephaistos Institute, Munich, Germany
- MBA, University of Münster, Germany
- Global Procurement – Direct/ Indirect Materials, Governance, Process/ Methods/T ools
- Organizational Transformation & Restructuring
- Business Development Automotive
- Negotiation Professional
