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Aurel Bîzoi

Aurel Bîzoi

Summary

Experienced purchasing professional with top-notch leadership, program management and planning abilities. Excellent verbal and written communication skills paired with organized nature and advanced problem-solving strengths. Improves policies, reduces waste and supports business needs with efficient, high-quality materials.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Purchasing Manager

Ultimate Transportation Equipment SRL
Craiova
01.2023 - Current
  • Purchased new products and oversaw inventory stocking and availability
  • Wrote standard operating procedures for department
  • Sourced vendors, built relationships, and negotiated prices
  • Implemented policies to reduce cost and eliminate waste
  • Developing, leading, and executing purchasing strategies
  • Tracking and reporting key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
  • Crafting negotiation strategies and closing deals with optimal terms
  • Assess, manage, and mitigate risks
  • Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers
  • Determine quantity and timing of deliveries
  • Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand

Buyer

Prysmian Cabluri si Sisteme S.A
Slatina
10.2019 - 12.2022
  • Performs procurement tasks for non-production goods
  • Capital investments, equipment, services, other overheads)
  • Evaluates, selects, and establishes suppliers for services and investments
  • Manage the negotiations and implements local agreements / contracts
  • Following of Non-Raw Materials Purchasing KPI's
  • Implements punctual or project - based cost reductions
  • Develop and implement site-specific sourcing strategies
  • Managing of services and investment projects for all 3 Prysmian plants
  • Customs clearance responsible

Plant Buyer

International Automotive Components Bals
Bals
07.2013 - 01.2020
  • Main activities and responsibilities
  • Manage the purchasing and acquisition activities from the plant, contract negotiation, benchmarking, insourcing & transfer
  • Responsible with direct and indirect material acquisition
  • Manage, develop and coordinate activity during prototype and launch projects
  • Coordinates short and long-term production planning
  • Initiate changes and improvements, analyze the financial impact of proposed chain logistics changes and optimize the logistic flow
  • Conduct or review internal and external audits for acquisition and purchasing activities
  • Create, manage and achieve the plant acquisition budget
  • Provide technical support to commodity managers, implement group strategies and LTA
  • Customs clearance responsible
  • Develop, maintain and monitor the relationship with more than 200 suppliers;
  • Follow up and implement cost saving strategies for annual spent of more than 20 millions Euro

Launch buyer

Ford Romania S.A.
Craiova
05.2008 - 07.2013
  • Work together with Ford European buyers for implement and follow up of purchasing activities and solving the purchasing issues
  • Support the launch of Ford B-Max for 5 in-site Ford suppliers (Johnson Control - Craiova, BBB - Craiova, Alegre - Pitesti, Pelzer - Pitesti, Cie Matricon – Tirgu Mures)
  • Develop the database (drawing, cost, weight) for better view of supplier cost evaluation
  • Part of Lean Manufacturing team (3 workshops at 3 Ford suppliers)

Buyer

Daewoo Automobile S.A.
Craiova
09.2000 - 05.2008
  • Purchasing of steel, chemicals materials and spare parts for Body Shop, Press Shop, Paint Shop, Engines and Transaxles Shop
  • Negotiating of offers and selecting the suppliers depending on: quality, prices, delivery terms, payment terms and delivery conditions
  • Follow up of activities regarding the acquisition, supply and transportation of parts to Daewoo plant

Education

engineer -

University of Craiova
1997

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Traian Vuia
1991

Skills

  • Negotiation Skills, Ford Production Systems, EFMA, Communication Skills, WIPS, WERS, CORA – Ford Romania
  • Personal skills and competences
  • Mother tongue(s) Romanian
  • Other language(s) English: Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written
  • Ability to establish and maintain very good working relations with people of different cultural backgrounds
  • Ensure all customer issues are resolved and responded to in a proactive manner
  • Very good knowledge of procurement & logistics procedures, legislation;
  • Strong personality, planning and organizational skills,
  • Self confidence, self learner, motivated to gain experience from each situation encountered;
  • Creative thinking, problem solving and reconciliation, ability to work under pressure and within deadlines, teamwork, business maturity and awareness
  • Good knowledge of engineering, production, process and lean methods techniques
  • Proficient in Microsoft software technologies (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,)
  • For Enterprise Resource Planning software – SAP, WERS, AS400, WIPS
  • For i-net: Lotus, Outlook
  • I am able to work across multiple job functions with regional and global teams to ensure strategic direction, goals, objectives and key measurement systems are implemented
  • Hobbies: Computers / Internet, Music, Sports, Business / Commerce
  • Driving license Groups B

Timeline

Purchasing Manager

Ultimate Transportation Equipment SRL
01.2023 - Current

Buyer

Prysmian Cabluri si Sisteme S.A
10.2019 - 12.2022

Plant Buyer

International Automotive Components Bals
07.2013 - 01.2020

Launch buyer

Ford Romania S.A.
05.2008 - 07.2013

Buyer

Daewoo Automobile S.A.
09.2000 - 05.2008

engineer -

University of Craiova

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Traian Vuia
Aurel Bîzoi