OTTAVIO MANNARINOP.Eng., MBA

Provide executive leadership for a global procurement organization of more than 80 professionals across North America and Asia. Oversee more than $700M USD in annual spend across direct and indirect materials, advanced manufacturing components, logistics, and corporate services.

• Lead enterprise procurement strategy and strategic sourcing initiatives across complex global and industrial spend categories.
• Orchestrated enterprise-wide strategic sourcing transformation, achieving $60M in net annualized savings over 36 months and enhancing gross margins by 220 basis points.
• Led procurement transformation and systems modernization through the migration to a unified Oracle platform across five business units.
• Established standardized and automated Procure-to-Pay (P2P) workflows, reducing purchase order processing cycle times by 42%.
• Increased procurement spend compliance from 62% to 94% through stronger governance, standardized processes, and procurement technology improvements.
• Redesigned single-source supplier dependencies into diversified supplier strategy, strengthening supply chain resilience and mitigating global supply risk.
• Supported a 98.2% on-time delivery rate through improved supplier strategy, supplier performance management, and supply risk mitigation.
• Established executive-level supplier governance, including supplier performance scorecards and strategic commercial reviews.
• Led supplier relationship management initiatives to enhance supplier quality, delivery performance, and commercial alignment, fostering long-term partnerships.

Directed strategic procurement, sourcing operations, demand planning, and inventory optimization for high-volume industrial and commercial hardware operations across North America. Managed approximately $300M CAD in procurement spend.

Selected Achievements

• Led commercial negotiations with top 100 strategic suppliers, extending payment terms from Net-60 to Net-90/120, enhancing cash flow management.
• Delivered $25M in free cash flow through working capital optimization and improved supplier payment terms.
• Led end-to-end procurement and supply chain integration following the $60M acquisition of a primary competitor.
• Consolidated the supplier base by 40% as part of the post-merger procurement and supply chain integration strategy.
• Captured $3M in synergy savings within the first year following the acquisition.
• Designed and implemented structured category management framework for direct raw materials and indirect operational spend, optimizing procurement processes.
• Delivered $25M in hard cost reductions over 24 months while maintaining product quality and operational continuity.
• Built centralized procurement center of excellence (CoE) for market intelligence, spend analytics, sourcing excellence, and procurement capability development, driving operational efficiencies.