Offer ABUDI
Tel Aviv
Summary
Multiple years of strong experience in strategic production material purchasing particularly chips and memories, demand planning and supply-chain related work; team player, highly motivated and used to work in multicultural international environments.
Current commodity account 20 million EUR.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
3941
3941
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior Strategic Buyer
Telit GmbH
Berlin, Germany
01.2023 - 08.2025
- Global Management of target-oriented conditions for production material, including continuous price and contract negotiations.
- Monitoring and maintaining component supply, especially during allocation situations, to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction.
- Implementing comprehensive risk management measures internally and externally, such as multiple sourcing, design change requests, and purchasing agreements.
- Leading Bill of Material calculations and design-to-cost initiatives. active participation in product development projects.
- Identifying and proposing of new suppliers, managing their qualification process, and oversee KPI process t to achieve savings and ensure service and quality.
- Collaborating with suppliers on component co-development in order to meet company's requirements, and manage ODM product developments set-up from a purchasing perspective.
- Organising internal quarterly management meetings to align on market trends and new product development.
Senior Strategic Buyer
Thales
02.2019 - 01.2023
- Global Management of target-oriented conditions for production material, including continuous price and contract negotiations.
- Monitoring and maintaining component supply, especially during allocation situations, to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction.
- Implementing comprehensive risk management measures internally and externally, such as multiple sourcing, design change requests, and purchasing agreements.
- Leading Bill of Material calculations and design-to-cost initiatives. active participation in product development projects.
- Identifying and proposing of new suppliers, managing their qualification process, and oversee KPI process t to achieve savings and ensure service and quality.
- Collaborating with suppliers on component co-development in order to meet company's requirements, and manage ODM product developments set-up from a purchasing perspective.
- Organising internal quarterly management meetings to align on market trends and new product development.
Senior Strategic Buyer
Gemalto
Berlin, Germany
03.2012 - 03.2025
- Strategic procurement of IT components
- Price negotiations, frame and commercial contract agreements
- Bill of Material calculations, basis for strategic business decisions
- Global sourcing decisions and qualification planning
- Project work
- Design to Cost
- Global Shortage and allocation coordination
- Liaison between R&D centre in Berlin, operations in Munich and production sites (Brazil, China and Germany)
M2M Purchasing Manager
Gemalto M2M
Beijing, China
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Building up and managing Beijing purchasing department, including hiring, training, and implementing processes. Acting as a liaison/dispatch for internal and external procurement topics in China and Taiwan, such as product development, sourcing, supplier audits, and contract and condition negotiation.
- Single point of contact to R&D Beijing for all purchasing related issues
- Support EMS/ODM activities in Asia
- Participating in all Beijing R&D projects
BOM calculations for business cases - Organizing technology workshops with suppliers
Yearly
Strategic Buyer
Siemens Wireless Modules
Berlin, Germany
09.2008 - 02.2012
- Strategic procurement of IT components
- Price negotiations, frame and commerical contract agreements
- Bill of Material calculations, basis for strategic business decisions
- Global sourcing decisions and qualification planning
- Project work
- Design to Cost
- Global Shortage and allcoation coordination
- Liaison between R&D centre in Berlin, operations in Munich and production sites (Brazil, China and Germany)
Control Buyer
Amazon
Munich, Germany
12.2005 - 03.2007
- Procurement of IT Hardware, negotiating prices and special deals
- Demand management, planning and forecasting
- Vendor management, controlling and quality analysis
- Development of marketing strategies for overstocks
Buyer Planner
Hewlett Packard
Stuttgart, Germany
12.2003 - 12.2005
- Planned and forecasted the demand for server products
- Managed and optimizing key account supplier in Puerto Rico
- Optimized strategic customer orders, average order: 200-300k dollars
- Conducted project work specializing in inventory management
Education
Master of Industrial Business Administration - Finance
FU Esslingen Gradute School
Esslingen, Germany /2000 - /2002
Bachelor of Humanities - English literature
Florida International University
Miami, USA /1993 - /1997
Skills
- Cost savings optimization
- Strategic Sourcing
- International Negotiations
- Account management
- Negotiation
- KPUs management and audit
Languages
English
Proficient (C2)
Hebrew
Native
German
Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Italian
Intermediate
Timeline
Senior Strategic Buyer
Telit GmbH
01.2023 - 08.2025
Senior Strategic Buyer
Thales
02.2019 - 01.2023
M2M Purchasing Manager
Gemalto M2M
01.2015 - 01.2017
Senior Strategic Buyer
Gemalto
03.2012 - 03.2025
Strategic Buyer
Siemens Wireless Modules
09.2008 - 02.2012
Control Buyer
Amazon
12.2005 - 03.2007
Buyer Planner
Hewlett Packard
12.2003 - 12.2005
Master of Industrial Business Administration - Finance
FU Esslingen Gradute School
/2000 - /2002
Bachelor of Humanities - English literature
Florida International University
/1993 - /1997
Soft Skills
· Team player
· International Environment Experience
· Languages: Hebrew, English, Spanish, German work proficiency in all above languages.
Project management
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