Roland Mauder

Major responsibilities and duties: As a Head of Procurement and Supply Management I spearhead procurement strategies of company and direct several operational functionalities to meet and exceed organization efficiency, including researching pricing trends, finding quality products, reducing costs, updating databases, performing financial analysis, managing inventories, and recruiting and training cross-functional staff. I utilize in-depth knowledge to manage 50 buyers with annual spending of €650M as well as develop company’s reputation for procurement excellence with suppliers, as well as identify bottlenecks or areas for improvement. Below were some of my key accomplishments in this role: - Developed an effective control functions and reported on defined KPIs to enhance more transparency. - Achieved reduction in cost for series components by -6%,, new components vs. target pricing of 12%. - Enhanced local content in two region such as in Asia 65 to 95% and in Americas 40 to 65%.

Major responsibilities and duties: In this role I have administered six commodity managers as well as oversaw several aspects of global series purchasing organization for continuous process and performance improvement. I have supervised and coached high-performing cross-functional staff to scale up productivity and managed 25 buyers and an annual direct spend of € 510 million in Europe, India, and New Zealand. Established relationship with key vendors for Romanian plant. Furthermore I have mentored and trained a cross-functional team for new role as commodity managers for the business division. Below were some of my key accomplishments in this role: - Transformed purchasing organization based on new production footprint with plant closure in Finland and transfer to extended plant in Romania. - Oversaw negotiation of new payment terms and extended average time for payment from 25 to 60 days to maintain cash flow situation. - Developed new local Romanian suppliers to support production transfer, accomplish localization

Major responsibilities and duties: In this role I have deployed process improvements and makes the project organization efficient and transparent, in line with departmental and project processes as well as I have devised and implemented robust project plan (specification, quality, time, money, information) and organization. I have directed project risk assessment (i.e. specs, costs, planning, etc.) and developed scenarios to overcome these risks. Below were some of my key accomplishments in this role: - Managed procurement area of Mexican plants with an amazing growth path during that period, starting with an annual turnover of €250 million in 2012, and reaching €1 billion end of 2017. - Delivered 45 projects in last 3 years due to project maturity and milestone tracking as well as surpassing localization rate with 95% in components. - Organized new program focused purchase area and starting relation with 3 program buyers and developed a team of 15 persons including 3 sub-team leaders. - Developed local technology suppliers, e.g. for metalized plastic components, high precision PCBAs

Major responsibilities and duties: I have developed project specifics, working out details and putting a plan of action together. I have placed strategic plan into action, guiding employees to ensure success. I have oversaw all areas of operation, making improvements or changes where necessary to maximize efficiency and increase the chance of success. I have executed cross-functionally root-cause analysis while delivering constraints occurred and defined the corresponding sub-project along the main business processes to tackle the problem on short and long-term. Key Accomplishments: - Provided guidance to leaders of over 10 subprojects related to procurement and logistic process improvement. - Defined efficient bottleneck management within the group, optimized the annual negotiation process for electronic components. - Enhanced service level towards internal and external customers as result of clearly defined processes and systems.