Володимир

Work Experience:
Volodymyr Kovalov
02-May-1983
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Position:
Company / Location:
Controllable spend
(annually)
Timeframe:
Purchasing Deputy Director
KyivKhlib (Alviva Group) / Kyiv / Wroclaw
75 M EUR
Jan 2024 – present day
Main directions and responsibilities:

Sourcing:
• Sourcing, negotiating and engaging new suppliers for CAPEX Purchasing.
• Efficiency analyze of current supply base.
• Current supplies development.
• Supplier Relationship Management.
• Chinese Market researching. Involvement of specialized equipment suppliers for cooperation.
Category Management:
• Procurement Categories researching and implementation.
• Purchasing Strategies development.
Efficiency and compliance:
• Developing and implementation the Standard Operations Procedures (Procurement regulations).
• Trainings providing for the Procurement Team to improve the hard skills (7Steps of Sourcing, Negotiations, Supplier Assessment, Supplier Prequalification).
• Business Recommendation process implementation to ensure transparency and Total Best value obtaining.

Head of Purchasing & WH Logistic
Nikopol / Centravis
130 M EUR
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023
Main directions and responsibilities:

Leadership:
• Managing Team with 5 departments (Indirect materials, Services, Operation Procurement, Billet WH, Central Materials WH) 32 people in the subordinate.
• Coordination work of the Outsourcing Procurement Team in Germany.
• Procurement Projects management (Production relocation Project).
• Leading main Procurement activities for the 2 factories.
Competitive Advantage creation:
• Implementation new way of working within purchasing categories to ensure best price.
• Cooperation with the holding companies for the synergy.
• Best procurement practices providing.
• Primary docs process improvement.
• Lean improvement methodology applying for the safety supply process ensuring within the billet and materials procurement process.
• Procurement structure redesign for the procurement efficiency improvement.
Operations:
• Production meeting participation.
• Business Recommendation process implementation to ensure transparency and Total Best value obtaining.
• Negotiations with the key suppliers.
• Payment and Bidding Committees participation.
Stewardship and compliance:
• cross function audit participation
• Procurement decision alignment
• buy vs market verification process

Head of Category Management

LLC Gas TSO of Ukraine / Kyiv

320 M EUR

Sep 2020 – Sep 2022
Main directions and responsibilities:
Leadership:
• Managing Team (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
• Implementation of a process for coordinating procurement decisions.
• buy vs market verification process
• Regulations development (Category Management, Procurement & Expected price regulation).
Head of the Service & Materials Procurement Ukraine&Moldova.

Nestle Ukraine / Kyiv

110 M EUR

Jun 2017 – Feb2020
Main directions and responsibilities:
Leadership:
• 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.

Danone Ukraine / Kyiv

60 M EUR

Apr 2015 – Jun 2017
Main directions and responsibilities:
Leadership:
• 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
Ukraine & Russia

“Procter & Gamble” / Pokrov

40 M EUR

Jul 2005 – Apr 2015
Main directions and responsibilities:
Operations:
• 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 Management, 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, good communication, 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.