Felix Brengel

• Managing a global team of 7 employees with responsibility of procurement spend >€100mio • Delivered significant reductions in costs through strategic pricing and rebate negotiations, exceeding annual savings targets • Introduced transparency in cost structures and embedded SLAs, driving improvement in supplier performance

• Directed a company-wide cost-cutting initiative, driving >€50mio in savings within 18 months, surpassing original targets • Orchestrated key strategic initiatives, ensuring seamless alignment of cross-functional teams with company-wide transformation goals • Onboarded new Global Head of Procurement, leading pivotal negotiations that ultimately resulted in promotion to Head of External Manufacturing & Strategic Initiatives

• Managed Swarovski's >€100mio global strategic project portfolio, directly reporting to CFO • Delivered actionable insights to the Management Board on investment proposals and profit optimization opportunities, unlocking significant optimization opportunities • Led project governance, ensuring compliance, benchmarking, and alignment with priorities

• Oversaw financial planning and cost controlling for six key international production facilities, leading to substantial cost optimizations of 5% p.a. • Developed business cases for investments >€100mio, including the establishment of highly successful production facilities in Egypt and Thailand • Promoted to provisional management position, leading a team of six employees

• Financial planning & Analysis for foreign production facilities incl. management of related tasks (e.g. budgeting, forecasting, financial models, variance analysis, business casing, M&A) • Finance lead for new investment opportunities to the amount of >$100mio. for setting up new production facilities, presentation to top management (C-Level)

International 18-month trainee program including the following four project assignments: • 1st project: International Production Controlling | Sindelfingen, Germany • 2nd project: Sales Controlling | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia • 3rd project: Research and Development North America, Lab1886 | Silicon Valley, USA • 4th project: Product Controlling and Strategy | Sindelfingen, Germany

• Development of a financial KPI dashboard (MS Excel & VBA) incl. implementation in monthly top management reports

Bachelor thesis: "Early recognition of crises in retail enterprises - Modification and implementation of a crisis diagnosis tool". • Evaluation of key performance indicators & conduction of market analysis. • Establishment of automization in Microsoft Excel and VBA.

• Designed and presented a dealer performance scorecard, approved by the CEO of Mercedes Benz Japan, resulting in continuous warranty cost decrease of >$430.000 • Analyst full time position offered

• Securing of parts along the supply chain from supplier up to the customer. • Coordinated and monitored delivery dates and shipments with suppliers in 24 markets. • Supported the establishment of a web-platform supplier database enabling advanced communication and coordination processes.

Successful completion of two courses in postgraduate program “Continuing Studies” Financial Planning II & Facilitating a Product Development Team with Scrum

One year exchange program at Waseda Business School, the leading business school in Japan. • Scholarship (DAAD Graduierten-Stipendium) to the amount of $15.000 • Offered scholarship (Baden-Württemberg Stipendium) to the amount of $7.000 Major focus on Corporate Valuation, Entrepreneurial Management (HBS Case Discussion), Technology Management, Management Control Systems, Emerging Markets Strategy, Management Dilemma (HBS Case Discussions), and improvements of Japanese language abilities (JLPT N3).

Within the Master program in International Business (M.Sc.), I studied my first year at the University of Tübingen and the second year at Waseda Business School (MBA program).

• Certificate “Outstanding academic achievements” Umeå University is among the best young universities in the world according to recent, highly-respected rankings tables (Ranked worldwide #24 at "QS Top 50 Under 50" and #51 at "Times Higher Education 100 Under 50").

• Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) to the amount of $3.000 • Certificate “Best 5% of graduates” Courses in Economy & Statistics, Controlling, Cost Accounting, Marketing Intelligence, Organization & Leadership, Business Communication, Marketing Techniques/Planning, International Law, Business Information Technology, Modern Management Techniques, B2B & High-Tech Marketing