Dr. Luca Bianchi

Advises Senior Leadership in terms of Global Supply Chain and Business Development. Acts as a business partner to key stakeholders in Operations and provides necessary strategic contents. Conceptualize, grows and further develops a qualified and performing EMEA Supply Base and manages operational efficiency having minimal risks, with optimized Sourcing & effective Logistic to achieve sustainable solutions. @ Hyperloop TT, next mobility innovator bringing flight transportation technology to the ground...

I direct an international team and manage an enormous budget. My focus is on leading the supply chain, concentrating on category management, supplier development, quality, building international strategic sourcing teams, and implementing the global sourcing strategy and roadmap. Despite not having much time to impact the organization, to date my team and I have delivered millions in savings by mitigating supply chain shortages through best-cost countries activities and renegotiating existing agreements.

In Kopter Group AG - a Leonardo Helicopter Division Company - I directed aerospace suppliers and I controlled a multi-million budget. Seeing a good team with room for improvement, I revamped and led the procurement and supply chain teams and creating a procurement center of excellence. During my engagement with the company, I successfully managed a complex multi-billion merger and integration, realized substantial cost savings, improved OTDc, OTDr, and OTQ and increased customer service profitability.

My team consisted of internal members and hundreds of suppliers. I managed a multi-billion budget and was accountable for deliveries of defined finished products across Europe. While managing multi-billions in product deliveries, I was able to maintain price efficiencies on a procurement budget by developing synergies with global suppliers. We also captured yearly price efficiencies for raw materials and components while maintaining premium quality. By creating an outsourcing logistic hub and ...

I led a strong in-house team and manage hundreds of suppliers and a triple-digit million budget. I shouldered responsibility for global category strategy implementation, market forward-looking analysis value levers identification, and price models. Through analysis of the supply base and backup planning for suppliers in top categories, I maintained a profile with the lowest possible risk.

I directed our suppliers and controlled a triple-digit million budget. Mainly accountable for supplier management and make or buy decisions, I realized a measurable value in recurring and P&L effective cost reductions per year across the global third party spend. I also implemented a leveraged supply base consolidation to reduce complexity and increase supply chain agility.

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Management - MBA equivalent -

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