Carmen Erhardt

 Heading the Global Process Ownership team in Purchasing across all 3 Business Units  Responsible for Digitalization, being one key enabler of the Purchasing Strategy  Budget responsibility for the global Procurement IT budget and Shared Service Center budget  Development of the digital strategy with a strong focus on Data Analytics and AI & Automation  Leading digital transformation to an automated Procurement Organization (Indirects/ Directs), started with the successful launch of automated sourcing  As member of the Purchasing Executive Committee shaping and steering the Purchasing Strategy as an active contributor (e.g. Supply Resilience, Risk Mgmt, Sustainability, Org. Effectiveness)

 Heading the Shared Service Center teams from Sourcing to Accounts/Payable with 500+ FTE located in Bangalore, Manila, Bratislava, Cairo, Mexico and China  Accountable for E2E purchasing operational processes (e.g. order and invoicing process)  Developing and implementing a sourcing hub in Bratislava – shifting tactical sourcing activities from local / regional Purchasing to the Shared Service Center  Substantial improvement of business critical KPIs such as Payment on Time  Leading the successful launch of ~20 Robotics and chatbot solutions in the Source-to-Pay Process  Delivering each year efficiency gains with continuous improvements such as automation and location shifts to leverage labor arbitrage

 Category Team Lead Marketing, since 2015 Category Team Lead Human Resources in addition  Worldwide sourcing responsibility for 820 M€ spend  Main Purchasing Categories: BTL Marketing, Digital Marketing, Temp. Labor, Trainings  Functional & direct leadership responsibility for a team, located in sourcing hubs (20 employees)  Strategic Purchasing advisor for Marketing, HR stakeholders and Top Management  Successful launch and roll-out of new sourcing strategy and concept, delivering on the critical financial KPIs such as savings and CNWC

 Development of new sourcing concepts and successfully rolled out delivering on saving target

 Commercial lead for global Outsourcing Contracts, contract volume > 200 M€  Global Category Lead for Hardware, Datacenter, WAN and Endusercomputing

 Project Lead for the global Roll-Out of standard processes (ITIL)  Teamlead (3 direct reports)

Development and roll-out of Standard Lotus Notes Databases Close collaboration with IT factory in Barcelona

Sales Manager for Telecommuncation and Network Technology

Composition, planning, coordination and Monitoring of the store assortment