Estelle Bouttaz

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ABOUT ESTELLE BOUTTAZ

Recently nominated (Aug. 1st 2025) as Interim Line Manager of the PMS Buyer Team on top of my current Category Manager position so to grow into a Leadership position.Procurement Category Manager specialised in Packaging (recognised as Senior in my role in July 2023).Dedicated to Paper based Packaging since April 2022 (Corrugate & Cartonboard solutions).Geographical sourcing perimeter : Europe, in charge of more than 60 customer entities/delivery locations - either production plants, either logistic platforms, across a pan European supplier portfolio of 18M€ spend/Y and around 2500 live references.Targets : strategy oriented, following Raw Material Indexations and settling RMI contracts for fair market prices.Yearly and Quarterly key suppliers nego/agreements are part of my global way of working/dealing, including benchmarks, saving projects management, and of course insuring a secured supply chain by short term crise management plans during tense market periods (worldwide hardest Paper crisis handled during mid-year 2022).Main assets :I am either supplier, either customer oriented, managing transversal saving & supply chain projects.SAP & Excel Data Analysis are my favorite playgrounds = Prior this :I was dedicated to the Pallets & Wooden Packaging category from S2-2020, where I started to grow and develop my lead competences even quicker than a standard market, as I had as well to face on the hardest crisis the wood material never ever seen before (whole year 2021).This 1st experience enabled me being prepared to face every challenges in the future.Of course, I continue supporting and giving recommendations on this category nowadays.Origins :I started in this company in mid-2018 as a Junior buyer, touching multiple sourcing projects regarding global Packaging Solutions and ID/Traceability items including : plastic materials to be merged to more sustainable ones, composite (complex material combos/kits), technical & paper labels, printed materials as user manuals & leaflets.Total Marketing Support Global Ltd - segment « Packaging Management Services » (TMS PMS) belongs to a fully appart division than the DS Smith plants, but is powered by DS Smith Packaging PLC.This division is acting as a service provider/advisor/partner in the global management of packaging and traceability items for well known worldwide industrial companies, 100% EDI integrated.Main asset is to warranty the best market & supply conditions for all these materials to enable customers in focusing on their own core business.