Laurent BEAU

Purchasing Director Projects & Operations - Driving Automation Product Group @ Valeo

About

19y experience “Management / Electronics / Purchasing" - Teamwork - Communication - Method - Autonomy

Country

France

City

Le Plessis-Robinson

Industry

Automotive

Skill

Management, Electronics, Purchasing, Supply Management, Financial Analysis, Engineering, Manufacturing, Gestion des achats, Stratégie de sourcing, Approvisionnement, Réduction des coûts, Développement des fournisseurs, Gestion de la chaîne logistique, Qualité fournisseur, Microsoft Office, Visual Basic, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Négociations, English, French

Experience

Purchasing Director Projects & Operations - Driving Automation Product Group

Valeo

2018-2 - Present · 8 yrs 8 mos

Région de Créteil, France

- Perimeter >2B€ purchasing - Secure supply and purchasing performance & Deploy and enforce Commodity strategies - Optimize projects material cost within their milestones & Manage risk - Fast developing technology & Partnership & Anticipate major economics, technical or industrial trends - Contribute to Products strategy - Direct manager of 4 Product Line Purchasing Directors, 6 Site Purchasing Managers with 90 Project/Site buyers and 3 Purchasing Controllers (Europe, US, Mex., Asia, India)

Purchasing Director Projects & Operations - Interior Switches & Smart Controls Product Line

Valeo

2016-9 - 2018-1 · 1 yr 5 mos

Région de Créteil, France

- Perimeter >400M€ purchasing - Secure purchasing performance & Deploy and enforce Commodity strategies - Optimize projects material cost within their milestones - Manage high diversity of products and sub-components spread over many small production units - Direct manager of 1 Project Purchasing Director, 1 Purchasing Controller, 9 Site Purchasing Managers with 60 Project/Site buyers (Europe, Asia & Mexico)

Electronic Commodity Leader - Comfort & Driving Assistance Systems Business Group

Valeo

2012-6 - 2016-8 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Région de Créteil, France

- Perimeter >900M€ purchasing - Manage the negotiations for this perimeter - Implement the Group Commodity strategy and contribute to build it - Lead the worldwide Business Group Electronic purchasing Team network - Direct manager of 3 senior segment leaders and co-management of 18 site buyers (Europe, Asia, US, Mex.)

Electronic Cost Expertise Manager - Group

Valeo

2010-9 - 2012-5 · 1 yr 9 mos

Région de Créteil, France

- In charge of creating the “Cost Expertise” activity for the Group Electronic Commodity - Generate negotiation levers thanks to linear part pricing and benchmark and cost model - Realize and deploy costing tools and cost analysis for the whole Group electronic buyers - Direct manager of 1 technical buyer

Family Buyer - Bodycontroller Division

Valeo

2005-3 - 2010-8 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Région de Créteil, France

- Perimeter >50M€ purchasing - In charge of serial electronic purchasing on this activity oriented “high volume - low mix - long lifetime” - Negotiation on dense and high value PCBA & EMS development to get stable and competitive production - Coordination of the technical productivity of the Division (mission added in 2007) - Responsible of the Customer “Request For Quotation” costing (mission added in 2008)