Anita Szmilkó

• Achieved reduced material costs through strategic global sourcing initiatives and competitive bidding processes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for successful new product introductions, ensuring smooth supply through program lifetime.
• Negotiated favorable contract terms to secure optimal pricing structures for company purchases.
• Implemented cost reduction projects, achieving significant savings on annual procurement expenses.
• Taking lead in emergency situations like stop shipments, material shortages, force majeure, insolvency.
• Collaborated with sales team and product development to identify and fulfill customer needs and with SQD to identify potential new suppliers.

• Collaboration with project managers to secure the safe launch of new product and meeting the project milestone requirements by securing all the necessary materials and tools
• Developing existing suppliers to meet the requirements and searching potential suppliers in order to gain new business opportunities
• Co-operation with the sales to provide data for pursuit programs
• Conducted thorough spend analysis to identify areas for potential savings and process improvements.
• Search for new suppliers, negotiation and contracting

• Set performance expectations for the team of three colleagues, monitoring progress towards goals and providing constructive feedback as needed.
• Led cross-functional teams to execute projects on time, within budget, and with high-quality outcomes.
• Ensure the smooth daily operation of the company, including preparing purchase orders, requesting supplier quotations, and ensuring timely invoice payments.
• Negotiate and manage contracts, including establishing binding framework agreements, and adjusting contract terms and content to comply with legal requirements.
• Maintain daily communication with various stakeholders, including strategic buyers, Finance, Service, Maintenance, Production, Quality, NPI, Sales, Logistics, SQA, the corporate purchasing team, and SAP Architects.
• Collaborate with the global procurement team to improve purchasing processes.
• Represent the purchasing department during audits (e.g., IATF 16949, corporate procurement audits, internal compliance audits, and customer audits).
• Ensure accuracy in all purchase orders and processes, meeting procedural and company requirements, while collaborating with Accounts Payable and/or requestors to resolve any issues.
• Perform supplier evaluations and manage supplier selection in compliance with IATF standards.
• Serve as the deputy purchasing manager.
• Function as an SAP and FIORI Key User, initiating and participating in SAP developments and changes.

• Lead a team of three colleagues
• Masterdata management/monitoring purchasing data availability and correct set-up in SAP
• Obsolescence management, coordination, re-plan proposal, arranging scrapping or rework
• Introduction engineering – BOM related - changes
• Providing analysis and reports to management about NPI material availability, obsolete status, masterdata accuracy
• Interface between Procurement, Planning, Initial Purchasing, Engineering, Finance, Project Managers, Warehouse
• Attending and reporting on SOX audits
• ISO representative of Procurement
• Securing and assessing material availability for New Product Introduction (PTR, TR, PS, VTM, CROV) in collaboration with Procurement Buyers, Project Leaders, Engineering, Purchasing Project Leader (PPL), Initial Purchasing.
• Material availability monitoring, member of NPI Project team, interface between Procurement, Initial Purchasing, and Project Managers