Gaëtan Ruelle
Acheteur pièces moulées, Alstom Power Hydro
I'm involved in the negotiation world since 4 years. At the beginning, I worked as sales rep. during 2 years.
After that, I decided to change and to go to the other part of this environment, purchasing side.
I started to work as European category buyer in 2005.
- Order: supplier consulting, negotiation
- Supplier follow-up: manufacturing management, cost and time management
- Project coordination: all internal services coordination (planning, costs, quality...)
- SAP utilisation
2006 - 2007Category buyer, maternity leave replacement in the EMEA Strategic Labour team (Outsourcing activities)
- Responsible for Data Centers tower (37M$)
- Responsible for Spanish RFI (24M$)
- Contracts drafting and renewal
- Responsible for the benchmark of the department (cost and spend analysis, action plan creation)
End of my mission : May 14th, 2007
2005 - 2006Category buyer, in parallel with the school, 6 Sigma Green Belt, Cab segment, EMEA Team,
- Sourcing Strategy project on steering columns (Savings: 100.000€ and development in Asia-Pacific countries)
- Suppliers' open books checking project(Savings: 350.000€)
- Responsible for the european spare parts purchasing (Cab segment)
- 21 suppliers
2004 - 2005Responsible for regions Rhône-Alpes, PACA, Languedoc-Roussillon and Auvergne, Out Of Home Eating segment
- Development and management of customers
- 426 colleges, 23 cook centrals, 14 wholesalers, more than 6000 restaurants
- Turnover: 3.000.000€
2003 - 2004Sales rep. in Rhône-Alpes, PACA, Languedoc-Rousillon and Auvergne, in parallel with the school
- Development of hardware retailers (1 new customer/month)
- Negotiations with companies Conforama, Surcouf, Fnac and Internity
- Development into Forum Espace Culture in Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Etienne
- Turnover : 7500€/month
2003 - 2003Training in VolksWagen, 4 months experinence
- Work in Skoda concesison during the month of August (3 sales including 1 financing)
- Firm prospection for company vehicleand utilities (208 contacts, 12 sales including 7 recoveries)
- Preparation with the ISO 9001 audit for the 4 concessions