Nikolay Anchev

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management •Develop and Execute Strategy: Formulate and implement comprehensive, multi-year global category strategies for all plastics suppliers on a group level, aligning supply objectives with overall business needs for cost, quality, and sustainability. •Market Analysis & Risk Mitigation: Maintain deep expertise in global plastics market dynamics, pricing trends, and supply constraints. Proactively identify and mitigate supply chain risks, including developing robust contingency and dual-sourcing plans. •Cost Optimization: Drive systematic cost reduction and value engineering initiatives across the category, targeting Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) improvements. Commercial & Supplier Relationship Management • Negotiation: Lead complex, high-stakes commercial negotiations with key global suppliers, focusing on achieving optimal pricing, long-term contractual terms, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and quality guarantees. • Supplier Portfolio Management: Manage the entire lifecycle of the supplier base, including selection, qualification, performance evaluation, and strategic relationship development to foster innovation and collaborative continuous improvement. • Contract Management: Oversee all commercial contracts, ensuring compliance, performance adherence, and effective contract renewal or termination processes. Cross-Functional Leadership & Innovation •Stakeholder Alignment: Serve as the key commercial interface between external suppliers and critical internal departments (e.g., R&D, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance) to ensure material specifications, quality standards, and supply needs are met for new product introductions and existing production. •Sustainability Integration: Drive the integration of sustainable and circular economy initiatives within the plastics category, implementing material substitution where feasible.

Manages the supply and development network within the R&M group for plastic injection moulding suppliers Establishment and expansion of new and existing international partnerships Supplier evaluation, initial assessment, development, support, and qualification Manages suppliers in terms of cost, capacity, delivery time and quality of delivery Builds relationships with new suppliers and develops new sources of supply Subproject management and project collaboration with R&D team Cost down project management and execution Execution of strategic cost and value analyses as well as procurement market analyses Contracts and prices list negotiations

Manages the local Procurement Department Manages the supply and development network within SE Europe Establishes and develops external partnerships Manages suppliers in terms of cost, capacity, delivery time and quality of delivery Builds relationships with new suppliers and develops new sources of supply Introduces and develops delivery policies and strategies Collaboration and management of procurement related projects Leading and collaboration in SAP related projects SAP MM local key user

Place and track purchase orders for materials, consumables, and services Control the status of the pending orders and ensure their complete, accurate and on-time execution Negotiating and managing long term supply agreements and contracts for goods and survives Local Key user in SAP MM

Supplier relationship management Manage suppliers with regards to cost, capacity, delivery, and quality performance Place and track purchase orders for materials, consumables, and services Control the status of the pending orders and ensure their complete, accurate and on-time execution Negotiating and managing long term supply agreements and contracts for goods and survives Working on breakthrough improvement projects of meeting goals Preparation of bill of materials (BOM) for the concrete products Key user in SAP – Module Material Management (MM) Managing the inventory process in the company

Place and track purchase orders for materials, consumables, and services Control the status of the pending orders and ensure their complete, accurate and on-time execution Negotiating and managing long term supply agreements for materials and spare parts