Helge Batz

About Helge Batz

Results-driven executive with more than 15 years of global experience in strategic sourcing, change management, procurement, and operations management. Strategic sourcing professional overseeing a multi-million dollar spend while negotiating pricing to maximize sales and profitability. Accomplished leader with the proven ability to manage transformation strategies to create a world-class sourcing organization. Innovative executive implementing end-to-end thinking throughout the entire supply chain while operating collaboratively with cross-functional teams. Business Transformation specialist centralizing sourcing activities by establishing a key supplier program for strategic suppliers, ensuring manufacturing sites work together and move in the same direction. Passionate change agent adept at collaborating across organizations to establish process improvements both internally and externally.Areas of Expertise:• Global & Strategic Sourcing• Procurement, P-to-P• Material Management• Mergers & Acquisitions• Contract Negotiations• End-to-End Supply Chain• Just in Time (JIT)• Supply Chain Risk Management• Change Agent• Forecasting• Inventory Management• Vendor Relations & Procurement• Low Cost Country Sourcing• Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP)• Total Cost of Ownership• Supply Management• Commodity Management

Experience

1. Sourcing Leader for Plastics and Resins Retiring 11 22 2024

   Medtronic

   Jul 2016 — Present

Education

• Wohnstift Rathsberg – Erlangen, Germany

  Accounting Degree

• Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm

  Master of Business Administration, Supply Chain (MBA), End-to-end Supply Chain

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Strategy Development
• Strategy
• Inventory & Operations Planning (Siop)
• Kaizen
• Procurement
• Just in Time (Jit)
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Strategic Partnerships
• Spend Analysis
• Contract Negotiations
• Change Agent
• Forecasting
• Continuous Improvement
• Supply Chain
• Category Management
• Outsourcing
• Sourcing
• Vendor Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Purchasing
• Process Improvement
• Product Development
• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Spend Management
• Medical Devices
• Low Cost Country Sourcing
• International Business
• Vendor Relations
• Procurement Contracts
• Leadership
• Transformational Leadership
• Sourcing Strategies
• Lean Transformation
• Crm
• Management
• End-to-End Supply Chain
• Global Sourcing