Carmen Kamenik
Tallinn,Estonia
Summary
Strategic Procurement Specialist with expertise in supplier evaluation, procurement management, and global market insights. Developed category strategies and conducted spend analysis to optimise pricing and forecast demand. Enhanced supply chain operations through data-driven decision-making, ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance. Seeking to lead procurement initiatives that maximise efficiency and drive innovation.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Category Manager
AS ABB
2022.03 - 2026.06
- Manage the assigned suppliers; strive to improve the relationship on both sides, Manage the assigned contracts, Coordinate with interested business managers, SCM’s and Commodity Teams, Monitor supplier score cards (OTD, quality, innovation etc.), Conduct or participate in reviews with the supplier, handle ABB strategic sourcing process, commodity strategy, commodity plan, continuously reviewing and improving the performance of the spend management. Frame agreements and price lists management, cost models.
Supply chain management specialist-buyer/procurement and logistics senior specialist
AS ABB GBS
2022.02 - 2017.02
- Connecting supplier orders with customer needs - Dealing with orders - inserting and approving purchase orders, updating data in SAP system - Monitoring on time delivery of materials –Daily communication with our suppliers - Communicating with internal and external partners – daily cooperation with our internal partner and customer - managing a portfolio of tasks and suppliers on behalf of the customer- Participating in different improvement projects- work out common standards in work processes-update standard operating procedures- conduct workshops with our customers to share best practices- conduct meetings with our customer - reporting
Senior customer servant/ manager
AS Marat
2011.08 - 2009.10
- Organising store work. Work time accounting. Cash and sales reports. Ordering goods from storage. Operating with goods, inventories. Dealing with personnel and customer problems. Personnel motivation. Visual merchandising according to new campaigns or seasons.
Business centre receptionist
AS Pristis
2009.06 - 2009.01
- Correct and courteous service to tenants and visitors in business centre. Cooperation with the House Addressing the problems of tenants. Working with program Elkis. Ensure the exchange of information between tenants and House manager (Kaamos).
Senior customer servant
AS Sport Agent(AS Sportland Estonia)
2008.12 - 2005.09
- Assisting the manager organising store work. Operating with goods, inventories. Dealing with personnel and customer problems. Visual merchandising according to new campaigns or seasons. Personnel motivation.
Senior customer servant
AS BWT KING
2004.04 - 2000.10
- Ordering goods from the storage. Visual merchandising according to new campaigns or seasons. Inventories. Dealing with personnel and customer problems.
Education
Master’s - Social sciences: Management and Marketing- export management
Tallinn University of Technology
2016.01 - 2020.01
Bachelor’s - Social sciences: Politics and Government (Riigiteadused)
Tallinn University
2011.01 - 2015.01
Skills
- Procurement management
- Supplier selection
- Supplier negotiation skills
- Category strategy development
- Spend analysis skills
- Demand forecasting ability
- Pricing strategy expertise
- Global market insights
- Supply chain understanding
- Manufacturing process knowledge
- Procurement software proficiency
- Contract negotiation skills
- Compliance auditing expertise
- Regulatory compliance knowledge
- Lifecycle management
- Quality assurance expertise
- Predictive analytics usage
- Data-driven decisions
- Project management capability
- Stakeholder management
- Supplier relationship management
- Supplier collaboration
- Networking effectiveness
- Market research proficiency
- Strategic planning
- Communication proficiency
- Decision-making proficiency
- Supplier diversity
- Profit and loss understanding
Language skills
English C1
Russian A2/1
Swedish A2/1
Advanced training
- 2020 (3 days) ABB GBS internal training - Mentor training
- 2019 (16 hours) ABB GBS internal training- Project Management
- 2019 (3 months) ABB GBS internal training- Swedish language course- A2.1 level
- 2018 (3 months) ABB GBS internal training- Swedish language course- A1 level
- 2015 (2 days) University of Oxford - Training Session on Modern Information Society
Custom
- 10.2006 – 12.2007 Marketing Institute Estonia O
- – enterprise managing
- Company’s enterprising, modern marketing, communication of marketing, book-keeping, oral/written communication in office, internal- enterprise- accounting , personnel-leading, custom-service and team-work.
Certification
various trainings: leadership gym, feedback essential ,
Timeline
Category Manager
AS ABB
2022.03 - 2026.06
Supply chain management specialist-buyer/procurement and logistics senior specialist
AS ABB GBS
2022.02 - 2017.02
Master’s - Social sciences: Management and Marketing- export management
Tallinn University of Technology
2016.01 - 2020.01
Senior customer servant/ manager
AS Marat
2011.08 - 2009.10
Bachelor’s - Social sciences: Politics and Government (Riigiteadused)
Tallinn University
2011.01 - 2015.01
Business centre receptionist
AS Pristis
2009.06 - 2009.01
Senior customer servant
AS Sport Agent(AS Sportland Estonia)
2008.12 - 2005.09
Senior customer servant
AS BWT KING
2004.04 - 2000.10