Maurice Venbruex

Purchasing volume €750Mio with 15 direct reports in multiple sites responsible for project management and global procurement of energy, packaging, ingredients, services, IT, MRO, CAPEX/Facilities and Logistics.

Responsible for managing the global RENA procurement activities (total spend €100M) with 23 employees in 4 different locations. Main activities: o Definition and implementation of procurement KPI’s o Restructuring NPR and PR activities o (Re)introduction of Supplier Score Card o Implementation of cross-functional teams to develop category strategies o China Sourcing o eProcurement for standard and catalogue parts

Responsible for managing the procurement organisation and global supply base development (spend €50M). Main activities: o Setup a procurement team in Thailand (IPO) o Introduction of a procurement training program (Competence Development Program) o Supply Chain Risk management program, based on supplier performance system

Responsible for managing the European Supply Base (total spend €25M) with 6 direct reports (Strategic, Tactical and Operational Purchasing) Main activities: o Global Category Manager Electronics (across manufacturing sites in Europe, US and Asia) o Introduction of a Supplier Performance Management tool o Lead negotiator “Cost Down Program 2013-2014” saving 6% annually o Relationship Management with strategic suppliers in Japan and USA

Responsible for managing the Asian Supply Base (Product Related, total spend US$50M) and coaching of new local Purchasing employees. o Up to 40% Cost Down for Electronic Manufacturing Services by transferring production from Europe to Asia o Introduction of 1 strategic supplier for industrial-PC’s (Taiwan) to increase the development cycle from 3 months to 1 year o Build-up strong supplier network in South-East-Asia o Setup of strong procurement team (from 3 employees in 2006 to 12 in 2011)

Liaison to HQ Venlo supporting the implementation of purchasing working methods in Singapore. Responsible for price development of modules assembled in the outsourced factory in Malaysia. o By initiating and following-up on factory improvement programs, the indirect product costs (Value Add of Contract Manufacturer) were reduced continuously o Continuous cost down (1% per quarter) by driving cost down activities (e.g. leveraging) on Bill of Materials for all modules in serial production

Responsible for the sourcing of IT-related products and services (PC hardware and servers with a total spend of €40M) and coaching of 3 Purchasing employees. o Managing hardware and software suppliers (Product Related) across development centres in USA, Germany, France and The Netherlands. Negotiate global contracts with better conditions, not limited to price. o I actively decreased the number of suppliers (by re-use of technologies at different sites)

Responsible for managing ~25 suppliers for electro and electro-mechanical products in Europe (total spend €15M) and coaching of 2 students writing their master’s thesis. Main activities: o Supplier reduction and cost down 10% for motors, fans and drives; o Students successfully finished their education at Eindhoven polytechnics; o Successfully transferred wire harnesses from suppliers in Germany and The Netherlands to Eastern-Europe (Slovenia and Hungary) resulting in savings up to 20%.

Responsible for managing ~50 electro-mechanical parts suppliers (total spend €5M) and member of the Philips Corporate Procurement team. o Negotiated global contracts for connectors (e.g. AMP) used in worldwide Philips factories, product cost savings up to 50% compared to local contracts; o Transfer of strategic harnesses for X-Ray systems from local supplier (spin-off from Philips) to new supplier in Ireland. Supported by engineering this resulted in shorter lead times and reduced costs.

Creation of a Product Introduction Plan for world-wide Convenience & Security products.