Marcin Pastuszak

• Managed sourcing activities for Brake, Steering, and Suspension Systems in EMEA, overseeing a team of category buyers. • Built a reliable supplier pool by evaluating new potential suppliers and negotiating long-term agreements to ensure quality, cost, and delivery. • Developed and executed a supplier sourcing strategy for EMEA, providing accurate cost estimates for new projects.

• Managing Sourcing related activities for Brake Systems in EMEA (Purchasing amount 120 Mil EUR/year). • Managing team of category buyers (Casting, forging, machining, stamping, rubber compression, plastic injection, assemblies and services). • Building and developing a reliable supplier pool by searching end evaluating new potential suppliers. • Preparing and issuing RFx to approved supplier pool. • Analysing and evaluating suppliers’ quotations based on quality cost and delivery. • Conducting suppliers technical feasibility review with stakeholders (R&D, Quality, logistics, etc.). • Negotiating contracts (long-term agreements) with suppliers regarding prices, logistics, payments and transport conditions. • Collecting and maintaining the capabilities and capacities of suppliers to avoid constraints. • Co-creation and execution of a supplier sourcing strategy for EMEA. • Overseeing and managing escalation issues with suppliers escalated to the stakeholders. • Performing and executing cost reduction and cost avoidance activities. • Monitoring and analysing raw material, energy markets and evolving technology to proactively identify supply base issues to minimize risk, protect the continuity of supply, and utilize emerging opportunities. • Providing accurate and timely cost estimates for new projects, tracking the cost changes from supplier selection through development to the start of the serial production. • Establishing target prices and reconciliation of actual and target prices.

• Managing Sourcing related activities for Steering (C-EPS, R-EPS) and Brakes (MoCi, ESC, IDB) Systems in EMEA. • Managing team of category buyers (Casting, forging, machining, stamping, rubber compression, plastic injection, assemblies and services).

• Managing Sourcing related activities for Brake, Steering and Suspension Systems in EMEA • Managing team of category buyers (Casting, forging, machining, pad kits, assemblies and services).

Temporary assignment for NPI, screening the supplier pool, searching potential suppliers, evaluating suppliers, processing RFx, and quotation analysis. Make or buy analysis.

• Providing accurate and timely cost estimates for new projects, tracking the cost changes through the design process and providing a reconciliation of actual and standard costs to original estimates. • Optimizing and Standardization of Purchasing Process in EMEA. • Establishing of Purchasing Strategy. • Establishing & Managing of Cost improvement process Long Term / Yearly Cost Reduction Plan. • Establishing and managing of Business Plan. • Controlling the Fluctuation of Raw Material Prices. • Establishing a Cost Education Plan for purchasing staff. • Supporting Price / Cost Negotiation with suppliers. • Building and developing a reliable supplier pool by searching end evaluating new potential suppliers. • Managing Indirect Purchasing (MRO).

• Providing accurate and timely cost estimates for new projects, tracking the cost changes through the design process and providing a reconciliation of actual and standard costs to original estimates. • Calculating, measuring and estimating the cost of projects using the standard methods and delivering them to the projects department, sales department and management team during the implementation of new projects. • Working with purchasing department to ensure that current and projected cost components and records the history of changes in component costs, • Working with the manufacturing engineering departments to ensure proper valuation of the investment costs and production costs, and verify the information contained in the manufacturing process flowcharts. • Working with logistics and planning to ensure current and estimated logistics costs. • Working with the project department and sales department taking into account the latest project’s assumptions – technical/specification changes, the conditions of sale, transports, etc. • Assuring cost control at every stage of the project using standard tools and methods to keep a record of changes in the project management system and provide cost information to the sales department, and all related departments. • Calculating the cost and margin of the prototype, service, samples and finished products • Participating in activities associated with the reduction of the product cost (VA / VE) by estimating the cost of the proposed modification. • Designating the target cost components (target price) the cost of manufacturing the product and determining the costs, prices and standard components introduces them to the system. • Analysing the financial performance and forecasts to ensure the correct cost ratios (overhead, labour costs, etc.) for calculation and cost estimation. • Contributing to the budgeting, providing the latest calculations and cost estimates for new projects.

• Creating and sending orders to suppliers • Monitoring the long-term production plan • Arranging deliveries for ordered items. • Controlling and managing the stock amount • Creating reports and statistics about logistic processes in the company • Cooperation with suppliers and service providers • Solving logistics problems