Nicolas Garaude
Looking for a position in business management (start Jan. 2013)
Global Commodity Buyer, with technical (graduated from ICAM - Institut Catholique des Arts & Metiers) and business (graduated from Purchasing Management in Industry & Technology at Ecole Centrale Paris) background.
Skills :
- Global negotiation management
- RFP processes and analysis
- Risk management
- TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and Cost Model approach
- Contract management (Legal compliance)
- Development and application of purchasing strategies
- Marketing/Industrial watch
- Project management
- Supplier relationship and developement management
- Multi cultural management
Computer skills :
- Word, Powerpoint, SAP, Project, Catia/Solidworks, Ariba
- Advanced mastery of Excel (Functions+VBA)
- Business Intelligence tools (Qlikview)
120 contacts2011 - 2013VIE in Singapore
Management of the film capacitors portfolio (15M€) :
- Purchasing strategy
- Supplier development
- Global Sourcing
- Negotiations management
Due to Japan Crisis, special processes have been implemented in Schneider Electric, so has to avoid any disruption within the Supply Chain, and to deal with shortage. I also coordinate the following processes for EMEAS (Europe+South America), NAM (North America) and APAC (Asia Pacific and China).
- Backlogs PO (Purchase Orders) Analysis
- Supplies at risk management
2010 - 2011Portfolio segmentation (Film capacitors, 15M euros spend)
Leader of a team in charge of a 6 months in-depth analysis of the film capacitors portfolio (team composed by 3 people). During this project, we manage to propose a new segmentation, which lead Schneider Electric to achieve important savings during next negotiations.
- Value analysis
- Development of tool to help on decision making process
- Optimization of the portfolio :
- Reduced number of parts
- Decreased supplier base
2010 - 2010Interface between workers on an hospital construction site and architects.
Supplier management : tracking of non-conformities on the construction site.