Dimitrios ZARAS

• Responsible for people management in 4 different countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece).
• Responsible for mitigating the risk of attrition in a business with >15M turnover.
• Support the implementation and standardization of complex projects across CIO organization.
• Responsible for providing quality assurance in all Contract and invoice Operations activities.
• Coordinating and facilitating the simplification.

Europe Senior Sourcing Specialist | Diageo

Budapest - June 2016 - April 2016

• Liaise as the key element between the Sourcing and the Marketing Procurement Teams, aligning and executing the category strategy by standardizing the Procurement approach in different countries of responsibility.
• Responsible for Mitigating the tail spend for non-preferred suppliers by 30%, for 5 different Marketing Buying Categories.
• Facilitated the successful implementation of Marketing Marketplace in the Coupa purchasing platform.

• Evaluated new supplier capabilities to significantly reduce risks, improve operational visibility and create greater value for products and services.
• Supported gross profit goals by negotiating and controlling costs, lead times, freight terms and purchase quantity requirements.
• Collaborated with finance, procurement and operations leaders on global sourcing projects.

• Keep track of all payments and expenditures, purchase orders, invoices, and statements.
• Successfully implementation of a new process that decreased the number of open invoices by 23% in the first month of operation.
• Reconciliation of processed work and maintenance of historical records.