Matthias has 31 years of experience working for major global companies such as Procter & Gamble, Bacardi-Martini and Liberty Global across Engineering, R&D, Program Management and Procurement. He led major multifunctional project teams from Ideation to Market Launch. This was driven by collaborating across cultures, functions and levels to make a Global matrix work.
Matthias has successfully categorised indirect and direct spend areas and built highly capable procurement teams. His teams have developed category sourcing strategies, which delivered significant incremental value to the businesses, such as cost savings, faster and better innovation, excellence in quality, sustainable sourcing, working capital improvements and Supplier Relationship‘s which delivered long term value to the businesses.
The company integrations he led for Procter & Gamble and Liberty Global have consistently delivered beyond synergy booklet targets.