Владимир

Volodymyr Kovalov
02-May-1983
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Work Experience:

Position: Location / Company: Controllable spend Timeframe:
(annually)
Head of Category
Management Kyiv / LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine 320 M EUR September 2020 – till now

Main directions and Leadership:
responsibilities: - Managing Team with 3 departments (15 people).
- Procurement Projects management.
Competitive Advantage creation:
- Purchasing Strategies creation to find best and effective way of purchasing intervention.
- Deep market researching and sourcing in order to have a direct contract with manufacturers.
- Best procurement practices providing.
- P2P process optimization (automation, simplification).
- Project’s Road Map development.
Operations:
- Budgeting for the procurement requests (expected price creation).
- Technical requests (RFQs) optimization for the Competitive bidding process.
- Negotiations with the key suppliers.
- Supplier Qualification process.
Stewardship and compliance:
- cross function audit participation
- Procurement decision alignment
- buy vs market verification process
- regulations development (Category Management, Procurement & Expected price regulation).
Head of the Service
& Materials
Kyiv / Nestle Ukraine 110 M EUR June 2017 – February
Procurement
2020
Ukraine&Moldova.

Main directions and Leadership:
responsibilities: - Procurement Indirect Team managing in the GO (8 Strategic Buyers, 4 Operations Buyers , 4
Contract drafting Specialists).
- Leading Coordination process with Procurement team at the 3 factories (Mivina, Torchin and
Svitoch).
- Coaching sessions providing for the Purchasing Team to increase effectiveness.
Competitive Advantage creation:
- Purchasing strategies creating and deployment within the Indirect Categories (Technical, Capex,
Logistics, Marketing, Trade Marketing, HR&Admin).
- LEAN and Purchasing Projects leading / coordination /participation.
- Electronic Catalogues implementation
Operations:
- Negotiations with the strategic suppliers for the saving opportunities.
- Cooperation with the Global Procurement Team to implement common approaches and Sourcing
Strategies.
- Customer Satisfaction ensuring via effective purchasing support and Business Partnering approach
(applying for the 7 Business).
- effective cross-functional collaboration for the additional value generation.
- Payment On Time Discipline Control via Operations Buyers Team support providing.
- Business Condition Improvement (Payment terms improvement, Pricing optimization and Supply
Security providing).
- Stakeholders meetings arrangement for the business allocation.
Stewardship and compliance:
- Internal audit of the main purchasing process providing on a regular base.

Indirect Purchase
Group Manager. Kyiv / Danone Ukraine 60 M EUR April 2015 – June 2017

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Main directions and Leadership:
responsibilities: - Managing 4 employee team in Kyiv GO.
- Procurement work coordination for the 2 factories (Kremenchug and Kherson).
Competitive Advantage creation:
- Develop Deploy & Improve Sourcing and Procurement Capabilities in the Indirect Spend Pool -
CapEx, OpEx, Supply Chain, Co-Manufacturing, Marketing, Trade Marketing, HR & Admin.
- Redesign organizational structure of the Procurement Team in order efficiency improvement.
- Create value for the business via action plans providing for the Procurement capabilities and
- performance improvement.
- Build effective networking with the Global Purchases Offices to improve processes and understand
- the Global business strategy for execution and best practices reapplication.
- Business condition improvement (Payment delays, Special terms negotiation to increase business
effectiveness and competitive advantage getting).
- Purchasing Business Strategy developing for the Indirect categories.
Operations:
- Contracts approving process.
- Biddings arrangement process.
- Negotiation conducting with the key Suppliers.
Stewardship and compliance:
- Cross functional cooperation with Internal Control and Finance Department for the strong
purchasing discipline creation.

Purchases Capital
Manager Pokrov / “Procter & Gamble” 40 M EUR July 2005 – Apr 2015
Ukraine & Russia
Main directions and Operations:
responsibilities: - Leading of CapEx Purchasing for 3 Plants (2 in Ukraine and 1 in Russia).
- suppliers pre-qualification.
- Bidding process arrangement; Business Allocation Recommendation providing.
- Procurement plan preparation (Competitive Analysis; Benchmarking; Leveraging )
- PSL (preferred suppliers list) leading and maintaining. (Supplier evaluation, supplier pool analyzes.)
- Plants Budget estimate support. (Site Sourcing Plan and Site radar screen creation, Budgetary
requests, periodical market surveys)
- sourcing strategies development and deployment.
- commercial agreement creation (MoA, contract).
Competitive Advantage creation:
- Best purchasing practices reapplication.
Stewardship and compliance:
- CSA (Control Self-Assessment) and IC (internal control) compliance
- Customer and Supplier relationship management.

Additional information:

Education:
- September 2000 – July 2005. Odessa Law Academy, Lawyer.
- September 2012 – June 2016. Construction Academy, Civil Construction Engineer.
Hard skills and trainings:
Trainings: Negotiation1, Negotiation2, Negotiation Resilience. Capital Construction Management,Supplier Relationship management, Time
management, Personal Productivity College, Project Managment, Creative Thinking, Train the Trainers.
Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English.
PC knowledge: SAP; Electronic Document verification System, MS excel; MS PowerPoint;

Soft Skills: High level of the self-discipline, embrace the changes, able to set specific goals and achieve their implementation, initiative,
system thinking, good problem solving, communicable, able to learn quickly, I can work in a team, ready to make own decisions and take
responsibility for their execution. Ready for the business trip and relocation.

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