Suwadee Praneebootr
Wang Thonglang,10
Summary
Experienced Contract Manager with a strong foundation in supply chain and procurement within the energy sector. Known for driving strategic initiatives, navigating complex negotiations, and delivering measurable business outcomes. Agile in dynamic environments and passionate about leading change that fuels operational excellence and bottom-line growth.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Additive & 3P Finished Product Contract Manager
Shell
04.2022 - Current
- APAC 3P Strategy: Strategic development of 3P capabilities across Indonesia, India and Thailand to support region growth aspiration for additional 50 ML per year up to 2030, optimizing cost efficiency and expanding portfolio into new markets with fit-for-purpose technology.
- Contracts lead for India Grease Strategy to develop a multi-vendor strategy, introducing new products into the portfolio i.e. non-lithium and fighter greases.
- Increased 25% market share of India grease market through non-lithium grease and fighter greases, achieving cost savings of $2.0 M with cost avoidance of $3 M.
- 3P Indonesia Strategy: Develop qualified and competitive 3P(s) to support additional growth by 2030. Leveraged on local raw materials capabilities, new territories and lean on sales distributors supply footprint (3P hybrid model) to maximize supply footprint and achieve competitive cost.
- Leading a business transformation model for Processing Oil through localization to achieve +16% volume and $1.5 M C3 increase. Developed 3P with new capabilities for transformer oil improving supply security and meeting customers’ requirements while maintaining minimum OPEX in-house.
- Meet and exceed yearly cost saving targets: Additives ($10 M) and 3P ($2 M) through extracting additional initiatives from Contract Excellence Workshops, driving cadences with Global and Regional teams as well as, cross functions.
- Negotiation lead for a cross-region (APAC + CN/HK) additive distributor tender to achieve $2 M KUSD. Total of 6% cost improvement, multi-vendor supply source and supply chain simplification from > 100 SKUs to 85 SKUs.
- Project lead to localize biodegradable production in 3P Malaysia (first in the region) to supply APAC and CNHK more competitively with shorter lead-time.
Additive Contract Manager
Shell
03.2020 - 03.2022
- Ensure key contracts are meeting all the KPIs - 98% OTIF, zero quality defect, right at first time production) through regular business performance reviews, tracking monthly reports covering operational activities, new initiatives and upcoming milestones.
- APAC Crisis Management Lead to operate 7 additive suppliers under Force Majeure with components shortage, Suez Canal situation and freight cost spike during COVID-19. Enabled Shell Lubricants APAC to prevent value leakage of $11 M C3 margin with cost avoidance of $300,000.
- Identified opportunities to streamline crisis management processes between Global, Regional and Local to improve operations efficiency.
- Analyzed cross-business laws and regulations such as, freight costs, product claims and formulations to identify required supply changes and proactively review contracts to eliminate cost up.
- Analyzed and solved multi-faceted problems that affected executive leaders and business initiatives through stream-lining trade-off decision making with sales and marketing.
- APAC Additive Contract Manager to support Global and Regional Additive contracts to achieve $10 M annual savings.
- Co-designed and re-scoped the Additive Contract Manager role to be more focused on 12 months - 24 months strategy development.
- Lead Additives Tier 2 and Tail-End suppliers portfolio simplification to achieve additional $100 K, leaning on distributors to hub manufactured additives with smaller volumes.
Regional Additive Planner
Shell
07.2018 - 03.2020
- Managed successful day-to-day operations by maximizing productivity from available resources. Prioritized planning schedules to meet 99% OTIF and 100% customer satisfaction.
- Worked with Production Manager and Planning Manager to meet key GKA delivery lead-time.
- Recognized potential inventory management issues and maintained DIO under 60 days
- Prepared reports and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations to decision-makers such as, production trade-offs, air-freight.
- Implemented contingency plans to address last-minute changes or unforeseen events.
- Drive technical standardization such as, receiving isotanks weight threshold and consignment.
- Managed additives master data compliance for Thailand.
- Additive Planner region representative to train and implement Orchestr8 (O8) new planning system. Managed transition from GSAP to O8.
- Regional Additive core team to support change management and knowledge transfer, transitioning local planners to centralized planning team.
Regional Procurement Manager
Shell
03.2015 - 07.2018
- Managed regional and local competitive tenders under packaging category for Southeast Asia to get quality products and services and mitigate risk.
- Introducing dual supplier model to increase cost competition and avoid supplier's cost control as well as, building business contingency.
- Lead agile supplier development in Vietnam with tight time constrain to implement a new bottle project for key JOEM. Mitigated $100,000 mould development and 3 months lead-time for mould development through total cost of ownership negotiation.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Planning team and Material Technical to stream new packaging specification for green cartons.
- Developed penalty clauses to be incorporated of standardized contracts, enhancing supplier's delivery performance and reducing quality defects.
- Packaging Procurement workstream lead to minimize cost impact and legal implications from contracts termination during Philippines lubricants plant closure.
- Facilitated resolution of vendor disputes and discrepancies for key contracts termination in Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
- Procurement Manager back-up for China and Hong Kong to ensure competitive cost mechanisms. Good sharing practice from China to replicate in Southeast Asia.
- Negotiated for Chinese investors and suppliers to start-up plant in Thailand for more competitive bottle pricing.
Planning and Performance Analyst
Shell
04.2014 - 02.2015
- Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions such as, weekly inventory report and monthly OTIF report.
- Restructured S&OP through coordination with regional planning managers to discuss commercial outcomes.
- Facilitator for Southeast Asia's country Step 3 S&OP, compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
- Core team to develop Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment project with key distributor in Thailand.
- Developed strong communication and organizational skills through working on group projects.
- Cultivated interpersonal skills by building positive relationships with others.
Education
Master of Science - International Business Management
University of Exeter
United Kingdom09-2013
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of Exeter
United Kingdom09-2011
Skills
- Vendor management
- Procurement management
- Supply management
- Change management
- Negotiation skills
- Crisis management
- Project management
- Spend management
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Thai
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Additive & 3P Finished Product Contract Manager
Shell
04.2022 - Current
Additive Contract Manager
Shell
03.2020 - 03.2022
Regional Additive Planner
Shell
07.2018 - 03.2020
Regional Procurement Manager
Shell
03.2015 - 07.2018
Planning and Performance Analyst
Shell
04.2014 - 02.2015
Master of Science - International Business Management
University of Exeter
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of Exeter