Alexandra has 15+ years of experience as a procurement executive within corporate procurement organizations for diverse multinational companies as ABB, Electrolux, Nestlé, IWC… Among others Alexandra has been the driver for procurement transformations, capability building, strategic cost management & sourcing innovations with suppliers.
Selected career insights:
- Expert in Category Management, Commodities, Packaging and Contract Manufacturing
- Developed sourcing strategies, best practice toolkits for negotiation, tools and processes in procurement to optimize costs or reduce total cost of ownership
- Managed suppliers for bringing innovations, rethinking incentives and relationships and creating new business opportunities from products, supply chains or manufacturing operations (such as design optimization, sourcing footprints and manufacturing- task allocation to make the best use of their capabilities.)
- Monitored technologies to create value added services for customers e.g. by sharing data on the performance and operating conditions of products, building connected services through third party software companies…
- Create online platforms communicating innovation challenges for supplier networks
Alexandra has a Post Graduate Diploma (Bac +4) at the “Institut de Formation International” at Rouen Business School in France with a Cluster Program with OHIO University, USA in Supply Chain and Operations and received her Master of International Purchasing Management (MAI) at Bordeaux Business School in France.
Alexandra is fluent in French, English, Swedish and Italian and has intermediate skills in Spanish.