Niall Curran

Responsible for coordinating activities of Fegime Ireland, the purchasing network for electrical wholesalers with an annual turnover in excess of €100m. Fegime Ireland is a shareholder of FEGIME GmbH, which had an annual turnover in the region of €7.9bn across Europe in 2023. Areas of Responsibility • Liaising with large multinational suppliers such as Signify, Legrand, ABB & Schneider, and local indigenous suppliers. • Negotiating pricing and rebate structures with suppliers on behalf of member companies. • Responsible for all group bulk purchasing locally, within Europe and direct importation from Asia. • Liaising with stock managers within the group in order to optimise purchasing power and ensure good product availability throughout the year. • Ensuring group purchasing is optimised so that the maximum return is achieved. • Advising directors on purchasing strategy to maximise profit margin, ensure constant supply with the least impact on working capital. • Coordinating focused initiatives to increase market share for group member companies, in highly competitive market conditions, with a primary focus on increasing brand profile. • Currently representing Ireland at the quarterly Fegime Europe shareholder meetings. • Established and implemented a weighted vendor rating system for grading suppliers across a number of strategic areas. • Implementing improved price agreements and rebate conditions thereby increasing profit margins for member companies. • Renegotiating payment terms with top suppliers to achieve more flexible payments terms with higher settlement discounts and longer credit periods. • Detailed multi-supplier pricing and sensitivity analysis with a primary focus on retaining and growing business with our contracted suppliers in their vertical markets.

IT recruiter specialising in the Support and Testing vertical markets. This was an extremely challenging and exciting role in a highly pressurised and competitive environment often likened to a stock market trading floor Areas of Responsibility • My role as a consultant was to build the company’s contract desk in Dublin. This included sourcing and placing the correct candidates with my clients through a process of job qualification, candidate searching, advertising, screening and interviewing candidates constantly. • Business development; building up my client base from scratch through meetings, canvassing and networking. • Ensuring clients were constantly happy with the placed staff and that all contractual agreements were fulfilled with Service Level Agreements maintained. • I received training in sales techniques, negotiating and experience in closing deals which were used daily. • Building client relationships in a short time frame with a focus on client retention. • Creating successful email marketing material with the goal of attracting clients and candidates. • Successfully learning about and comprehending the requirements for my vertical market.

Front End P1262/1263 Layer Owner working in the Yield Department responsible for ensuring the inline health of front end process to maximize yield. Areas of Responsibility • Oversee a team of 12 technicians; coordinate and manage the team to maximise productivity. • Sole responsibility for monitoring and ensuring the quality four process layers with primary focus on yield maximising. • Extensive statistical and data analysis using SPC++, JMP, Crystal Ball and other such statistical analysis tools to root-cause any issues within the process, isolate and contain any issues and implement a plan to rectify same. • Analysis of trends within large volumes of data and extract and evaluate any correlations between toolsets and excursions. • Responsible for coordinating with the manufacturing engineers; ensuring that their tools comply with specification and chair our weekly quality review meetings. • Responsible for PCSA (Process Control Statistical Analysis) for the entire defect reduction group across three processes. This involved a monthly review of all monitors and evaluate if upper or lower control limits should be modified. • Writing of Whitepapers, presenting to review boards and implementation of such changes were also a key part of my role. • Working on two separate intensive new product start-ups – P1263 and P1264 chipsets and dual core processors. • Training of new staff on protocols, engineering requirements, software packages and data analysis techniques.