“I am a proven specialist for global Operations / Procurement / SCM in the consumer goods and technical supply industry with many years of international experience. I have successfully performed key relevant activities along the value creation chain of goods and services in wholesale and retail trading companies as well as producing entities.
These work experiences paired with various trainings and further education allow a holistic attitude and pragmatic approach in everyday business life. The combination of my background, gathered experience and developed core competencies is for hire: Tailored Support & Services are available for your SME or organisation unit.
As revenue is generated by sales but profit is made in procurement, hire me to transform your procurement staff in your enterprise into entrepreneurs in your procurement team. Contact me to learn more and about my Availability. I would be happy to specifically tackle value-adding challenges together with you. Here’s my Name Card.”
Profile
- Proven specialist for global Operations / Procurement / SCM with many years of international experience (>10 years stationed in Asia).
- Key relevant activities in global direct and indirect procurement as well as lean management (Kaizen) along the value creation chain of goods and services for wholesale and retail trading companies along with technical component suppliers in addition to logistics service providers.
- Core activities in various industries such as general cargo logistics, energy (natural gas pipeline), cosmetics (skin care), fastening technology, metal construction, non-food consumer goods, power transmission engineering, printing industry and advertising technology.
- These work experiences paired with various trainings and further education allow a holistic attitude and pragmatic approach in everyday business life.
Int’l Experience
ASIA
Setup and run a procurement organization consisting of international sourcing & purchasing offices in various countries all over Asia. Conduct procurement market studies in Singapore, India and Bangladesh. Incorporate and manage expedient business units in strategic locations such as RHQs in Hong Kong and in The Philippines. Feasibility study of production sites in Vietnam and Cambodia. Evaluate the acquisition of an existing factory in China.
USA / CANADA
English and French language studies. Final exams, various seminars and workshops.
EUROPE
Business activities throughout Europe, mainly in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
SCANDINAVIA
Several work stays in Scandinavia, mainly in Sweden.
Industries Served
Education & Trainings
A backpack full of learned and absorbed theory:
2018: Lean Manager (Certificate SGO) • 2011: CIP Kaizen (Workshops Lean Management) • 1999-2001: Business Administration (MBA Diploma in General Management) • 1997: LAN Administration (Certificates Computer Networking) • 1989-1991: Marketing Professional (Swiss Federal Diploma of Higher Education) • 1988-1989: Commercial Diploma (Diploma VSH) • 1982-1985: Designer Advertising Industry (Swiss Federal Diploma of VET).
Core Competencies
During the course of my professional career on the global stage, I have developed the following core skills & competencies:
Strategic Procurement (direct / indirect) • SCM • Lean Management (Kaizen) • Global Sourcing • Brand & Private-Label Management • Wholesale & Retail • Marketing • Contract Management • Intercultural Leadership • Operations
Personality Traits
My Assessment
My Competencies
My DISC DNA
My Holland Code
My IQ
My Personality
My STAB Type
My Talents
My Work Values
Personality Tests
Even though I have taken a number of personality tests myself in order to evaluate my very own personality traits, I do have my doubts in its results accuracies and would never judge or even hire / fire people solely based on such tests outcomes only.
In her award-winning book “Weapons of Math Destruction”, Dr. Cathy O’Neil shares several examples of how predictive tests and scoring mechanisms can seriously damage someone’s life.
The example the mathematician offers here shows how the scoring from personality tests, often used in the hiring process, can exclude entire groups of people regardless of their talents, knowledge, experience and competencies.
It’s unfair to use personality tests in hiring
The era of blind faith in big data must end
Stay tuned for exploring and venting about quantitative issues on her blog mathbabe.org or get real and hire the ORCAA team.
Traits Conclusion
“Eric is a pragmatic, objective, fact-oriented and thinking organized creator who through inner motivation influences people and circumstances, helps persuade doers, thrives on competitive situations and challenging assignments, whose effectiveness and enthusiasm are unlikely to be reduced and a commercial entrepreneurial communicator open to experience, conscientious, not so extroverted but yet agreeable, hardly to upset and relaxed reacting individual who achieves targets through determination and perseverance by applying an analytical attitude focusing on results and who is an autonomous, influential, advanced working conditions enjoying, variable, creative, work-life balance favoring, prestigious, financial reward seeking, security preferring, performance delivering, sufficiently structured, frequently self-developing, at times unselfish and a bit work relationship underestimating kind of guy.”