Emilie CARIOU

Purchasing Manager - Packaging Materials, Henkel KGaA

Category Team Plastic (Europe + Mexico)
==> Plastic Injection / Plastic Bottles (Glue sticks, Correction Rollers, Bottles and Caps)/ Jerry Cans for the business unit Adhesive Technologies
- Low Cost Country Sourcing Analysis
- Responsible for Relaunch and New Product Introductions (Design to Cost)
- Benchmarking
- Packaging re-engineering / Quality Level
- Complexity reduction / Harmonization (Suppliers/Products)
- Strategic Négotiations


Local sourcing (Germany)
- Management of a team of 6 persons
- Local Negotiations
- Price transparency with split of costs and feedstocks
- SAP user
- Implementation of contracts: consignement, quality, supplier portal, etc.

Packaging and Cosmetics Department.

Maintenance Department for France based in Fleet, UK
- Pro/engineer & CADDS sofwares
- Devising commercial campaigns aimed at maintenance inactive French customers (hotline & updates)
- Setting up and monitoring of the campaigns in partnership with PTC French resellers
- Generation of $60k quaterly sales.

Marketing Department - based in Madrid (Spain) - Products Ka, Fiesta, Mondeo & Galaxy
- Monthly sales analyses (Ford & Competitors) and competitive intelligence
- Adaptation of European brochures to the Spanish market specifications
- Designing of marketing aids for dealers (posters, CDs, etc.)

European representative for technical textiles producers
- Development of the FRanch-speaking market for Barrday & Newport (composite materials made with technical textiles: carbon, aramid, etc.)
- Canvassing and following up
- Devising a database of 300 prospective clients

Seasonal Work

Part-time
- Madrid (Spain)