Aldona Opala

Key Responsibilities:

• Categories management of medical device components.
• Building the relationship with stakeholders to create and implement procurement category strategy which is aligned with the commercial strategy.
• Costs savings initiatives identification, management and implementation.
• source to contract process.
• Sustainability projects.
• suppliers management to ensure quality, delivery and costs meet GSK expectations.
• capacities allocation to meet business goals.

Key Achievements:

• Strategy refresh for Discovery Chemistry and Early Phase API's commodities.
• Implementing the new purchase model.
• Cost savings opportunities recognition and implementation thru Ariba sourcing process- 12% savings of total commodities annual spend.
• Ariba sourcing events implementation and piloting in R&D Procurement Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Global category strategies creation and implementation.
• Source to Contracts management within managed commodities thru Ariba tool.
• Negotiating contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.

Key Achievements:

• managing pilot project for global category strategy template creation.
• global category strategy creation and implementation for packaging materials. Strategy presentation before senior leadership.
• savings complexity - purchase price reduction, cost optimization initiatives, innovation implementation.
• Force major situation management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Global categories management for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging like: corrugates, folding cartons, glass bottles and ampoules, plastic bottles, labels, flexible films.
• Global categories strategy creation and implementation in all the regions (Europe, APAC, US, South America).
• Suppliers and stakeholders relationship building, development and management.
• Utilized market intelligence to identify opportunities for savings and cost reduction.
• Vendors management thru KPI's and regular business review meetings.
• New Products Implementation.

Key Achievements:

• Global sourcing process management for packaging materials.
• Bringing the global savings for packaging materials calculated for more than 10%.
• part of the team for Early Phase API's category strategy implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Category strategy building and implementation.
• Source to contract process management.
• Vendors management.

Key Achievements:

• Significant savings for packaging materials calculated for more than 10% of annual spend thru cost model building anda adapting the model to RFP process.

Key Responsibilities:

• Packaging commodities management for EMEA, South Africa and Russia.
• RFP process management for packaging material purchase for EMEA region.

Key Achievements:

• Cost optimization initiatives management and implementation.
• Bringing significant saving for direct and indirect commodities within EMEA region.

Key Responsibilities:

• managing local procurement Team.
• managing sourcing activities for the EMEA region for packaging materials like corrugates, flexible and rigid films).
• PET resin material purchase for all EMEA locations.