Procurement Leader with SAP & Coupa Expertise

GABRIEL DRAGOS STANCA

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PROFILE

As a professional SAP and Coupa & Procurement specialist with experience in business departments as Procurement, Supply Chain, Real Estate, Facility Management, I am committed to provide excellent implementation across all my projects. I am looking for a position in a challenging and exciting business area to further develop my career and skill set. My commitment to high standards and bias for action will add strategic value to my team through my thirst for innovation and hunger for improved business processes.

SKILLS:

WORK EXPERIENCE

AMAZON UK

Sites Procurement Operation, Manager Dec 2024- present

Key weekly meetings with UK and EU senior leadership teams, UK, EU and NA catalogue opportunities, change management, CAPEX budgets, continuous improvement ideas, looking for operational savings, UK, EMEA.

Sites Procurement Operation, Buyer Sep 2021 – Dec 2024

Building effective internal stakeholder relationships facilitating weekly meetings with key senior leadership team to understand their requirements, chasing savings, catalogue opportunities and long-term partnership.

Ensuring sourcing excellence whilst managing a high-level tendering process including scope and planning documentation, RFQ, RFI, RFP evaluations, negotiations and contract management.

Achievements: Two Sustainability improvement projects recognised by Amazon Finance Global Procurement Operation.

ICQA Auditor& Trainer for Amazon LCY3 - ICQA Aug 2021 - Sep 2021

(Core Away Team)

Amazon FC Experience: Robotics: LTN4, LCY3; Traditional sort: BHX1 Sep 2015 - Aug 2021

ENEL SHARED SERVICES SA, ROMANIA

SAP Specialist, Real Estate Nov 2013 - Sep 2015

●I supervised Real Estate SAP MM P2P flow, in alignment with the company’s international global standards on Legal & Procurement requirements.

Project Manager, Qualification and Vendor Rating Nov 2012 - Nov 2013

●Project Manager for external IT applications interfacing with SAP.

●Developed new qualification standards for the Qualification & Vendor Rating System.

SAP MM PUR Process Owner, Procurement Strategy Oct 2005 - Nov 2012

●SAP Distribution (ECC 6.0) including migration, this brought together three systems into one, while customizing for Italian and Romanian procedures/law.

ELECTRICA SA, ROMANIA

Acquisitions Manager Oct 2004 - Oct 2005

Economist - Buyer May 2000 - Oct 2004

●Planner, SAP materials & works catalogues, contract management including SAP Flow.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

●NACF Procurement: Project UAT Deadline: Amazon, 2020

●Amazon and DQS - Part of Proactive Risk Integrated Supplier Management (PRISM) Program Assessors (ISO 9001/2015 and ISO 45001/2018) 2025

●Level 2 Diploma in ICT Systems: City Guilds London, 2020

●Data: CIW Data Analyst, CMIT, College of Management & IT, Wicklow, Ireland (2018)

●ERP SAP: Qualified & Certified SAP MM Key User, Radix Iasi NESS (2003) with additional trainings in Customizing in SAP MM, SCM 550, Bucharest (2013)

●Procurement: Public Acquisition Expert, Formenerg & ANRMAP (2007), Procurement legislation for Public Sector Acquisitions, TAK Education & ANRMAP Bucharest (2011)

●Management: trainings in Effective Communication, Achieve Global (2012), Thinking for Solution, Centre for Development in Management Foundation (2014) and Stress Management, Ascendis 2015

●Languages: Romanian (Native), English (Advanced), Italian (Intermediate), German (Beginner)

EDUCATION

●Bachelor’s degree – BSc Insurance, Banking and Stock Exchange, Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

●Romanian Diploma of Baccalaureate Mechanical, Mathematics & Computer Science.

MOBILITY

Dual citizenship, British and European.

UK/ EU driver license.

Public Acquisition

SAP (MM, FI)

Negotiation

Audit, Change

Supplier Management

Planner

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