Yi Zhuo
Procurement Director - Engineering To Order business @ Schneider Electric
About
Dynamic, results-oriented Procurement Director with 15 years of global experience driving strategic sourcing and sustainability transformations. Expert in category management, C-level collaboration, and leading sustainable plastics initiatives that accelerate innovation and value creation. Known for agile leadership, pragmatic decision-making, and building high-performance teams that deliver business growth, cost savings and productivity gains. Passionate about leveraging data and collaboration to create future-ready procurement solutions.
France
Grenoble
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing
Management, Supply Management, Purchasing, SAP, Global Sourcing, Negotiation, Leadership, Business Strategy, English, Project Management, Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Management
Experience

Procurement Director - Engineering To Order business
France
- Leading procurement business with 10+ plants across EU. - Managing >600M€ annual spend and a team of 45. - Supporting future ready supplier & business strategy for >20% YoY business growth. - Increasing profit margin by 6% per year for both project and recurrent supply models.

Global Category Director - Plastic Raw Material
Key Achivements: - Global Procurement Leadership: Led a global procurement team, overseeing a €400M category spend with a €25B business portfolio. Ensured supply chain resilience and sustainable competitive advantages, driving long-term value creation. - Sustainability Transformation: Spearheaded the transition to green plastics, supporting the company's program to achieve 50% green materials by 2025. - Strategic Procurement Execution: Designed and implemented a resilient procurement strategy, leveraging industry insights, predictive analytics, and geopolitical risk assessments to anticipate supply disruptions and secure competitive advantages. - C-Level Relationship Management: Strengthened relationships with strategic partners at the C-level, fostering joint innovation and profitable growth. - Productivity and Cost Optimization: Delivered a 6% year-over-year productivity gain, driving margin improvements through proactive cost optimization, supplier innovation programs, and dynamic contract negotiations. - Digital Transformation in Procurement: Enhanced digital transformation by integrating AI-driven market intelligence, predictive analytics, and real-time risk monitoring to optimize category strategy and decision-making.

Global Suppliers Manager
Responsibilities: Lead 150M€ strategic suppliers accounts. Foster strategic relationship, develop supplier’s value stream and drive business growth for end to end supply chain Key Achievements: - Drive +40% business growth with strategic supplier by enhancing end-to-end collaboration (acceleration business concentration and strategic partnership for new projects). - Create 3 new footprints in NAM & EAJP by leading C-level strategic discussion & alignment. - Boost productivity with multi-year negotiation result in Master Supply Agreement, additional technical productivity roadmap and DPO optimization to support SE Top line’s growth & margin. (-4,2% productivity, +5 days DPO achieved in 2019). - Drive supplier's performance excellence on quality & delivery to customer. (> 96% Supply On Time Delivery, < 50 D-PME). - Setup supplier’s tailored business model through multi-technologies & co-innovations to bring SE offer differentiation on the market. (4 innovations adopted in 2019). - Foster B2B collaboration for sustainable business development (EcoStruxure solution implementation at strategic supplier's plants).

Project Purchasing Leader
Global Supply Chain - EMEA
Responsibilities: Procurement team leader for offer renewal and offer creation. Manage directly 40 projects including top 3 company products and lead transversely PCB&PCBA categories strategy. Projects developed in 4 regions with procurement spend from 2M€ to 150M€. Key Achievement: - Lead procurement fonction and collaborate, coordinate with multi-cultural project team (quality, industrialization, HW & FW design) to ensure clear communication with suppliers - High contribution to achieve project targets: CoGs (-20%) quality (50ppm), TTM (-50% LT) - Boost co-development & co-innovation with strategic suppliers - Secure global supply chain by supplier & supply risk management, through multisourcing/standardization and contract - Improve business profitability by ensuring sustainable competitive material cost in using design to cost, should cost negotiation, technical productivity optimization. ( 3M€ cost optimization adopted in projects) - Facilitate procurement category & new project communications by leading quarterly PCB/PCBA interlocking meeting with 12 Procurement project leaders, 15 projects with 150M€ turnover

Productivity Plant Manager / Industrial Purchaser
Global Supply Chain - EMEA
Responsibilities: Plant Productivity Manager for 22M€ turnover and Direct procurement for Electric/Electronic Categories of 9M€ turnover Key achievement: - Drive EE market procurement performance with up to -12% annual productivity - Lead rebalancing program and concentrate business from 350 suppliers to 150 suppliers - Ensure excellence of plant performance: on time delivery and quality target - Monitor & Control procurement productivity with plant financial controller and follow up action plans
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