Bartosz Nowak

Position
Head of Purchasing and Logistics in the Plastic Packaging Division for Europe

Duties
• Creation of purchasing policy in the Plastic Packaging Division including 5 manufacturing plants in Europe. Coordination of global cooperation with the suppliers in Europe, North and South Americas and Asia.
• Optimize sourcing conditions considering time, quality and costs aspects
• Negotiate and finalize contractual agreements that reflect companies’ requirements in the fields Research, Legal, Finance and Procurement
• Comprehensive management of purchasing processes -selection, evaluation and qualification of suppliers combined with supervision of production planning and logistics departments
• Active co-management of development strategy of the local plants in Europe
• Managing of team 21 employees in Poland Spain and Denmark
• Supporting of R&D departments by new projects
• Sourcing management, SIM (Supplier Information Management)

Key achievements
• During last 4 years generate over 1000k EUR real savings for the company thanks active supplier management policy concluding renegotiation of supplier agreements with key suppliers for raw materials, moreover improvement in payment terms, introduction of bonus agreements
• Project management – last project: comprehensive management of project of building new finish goods warehouse from investment planning through creation of work concept, selection of suppliers and solutions to supervision of construction work.
• Supervision of transfers the production between different production plants located in different countries - last project: transfer the production form Spain to Poland
• New R&D projects: sourcing management, combined with supplier’s approval and supplier evaluation
• Optimization and simplification of procurement process for divisional plants, launching of consignment stocks, introduction of supplier evaluation tools and continues improvement programs
• Creation of consistent company image as reliable and trustworthy partner among suppliers of raw materials, machines and tools, renegotiation of price/payment terms, closing of quality assurance agreements

Noelken Spółka z o.o. Nowogrodziec, 2006-2007
Subsidiary company of German company Noelken GmbH - producer of hygiene and cosmetics products


Position
Manager of Purchasing and production planning department

Duties
• Operational control over the processes for purchasing and production planning, coordination of work
• Ensuring the continuity of manufacturing processes and availability of raw materials for planned production
• Production planning including the comprehensive multistage manufacturing process of cosmetics
• Daily contact with the company headquarters, monitoring of manufacturing processes; reporting about production and raw material consumption, detection of areas for improvement in raw materials savings
• Optimization of production planning processes in terms of waste reduction and rational use of resources

Viessmann, Poland 2005-2006
Subsidiary of the German Viessmann Company - market leader of tailored central heating solutions for homes and heat engineering

Position
Logistics specialist

Duties
• Optimization of production process in terms of reduction in consumption of raw materials and utilization of production capacity
• Project management: implementation of action within the project to launch a new production line at the local plant in Legnica