“ Lionel was employed by Coach and Tapestry in Nov 2016 as an APAC Procurement Senior Manager. He was the APAC regional category lead for the Packaging category. In 2017, he was promoted to Director and took expanded role to cover Logistics category for the APAC region in addition to Packaging. In 2019, Lionel got further expanded responsibility to take care of Japan and Korea indirect procurement all categories as BU lead, including Marketing, Corporate Services and Store Operation categories. During the organization restructure initiative in 2020, Lionel was again further stretched to take over Southeast Asia local lead for all indirect spend, as well as Supply Chain Corrugated sourcing. With the outstanding performance and scope materiality, he was promoted to Senior Director in Jun 2022. In his current role, he’s managing more than US$150M indirect/direct spend and have achieved $25M annual value (saving/reinvestment/avoidance) generation for the company during fiscal year 2018-2022. The BU he and his team supporting is a very important one out of APAC region, covering Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia & New Zealand, with over US$800M annual revenue. Lionel has outstanding capabilities in sourcing, data analytics, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement. Over his 6+ years with Coach/Tapestry, he’s built credibility as high integrity and respected leader, as well as trustworthy business partner. Being an experienced Procurement leader, he’s flexible, accountable, and result-driven with interpersonal maturity, in-depth business acumen and very strong execution. Highlighting one of his key deliverables: Performance: He has been the consistent top performer during fiscal year 2019-2021, rating “High” and “Exceptional”. Value Creation: He overcame the complexities of a highly dynamic, multi-function, multi-brands, multi-markets, and global trading tension, able to deliver total $25M annual value generation for the company during fiscal year 2018-2022. Transformation & Strategy: He successfully led the transformation of APAC Logistics and Global Packaging categories from “transactional” to “strategic”. And he also successfully co-led the Indirect Attack initiative strategically in fiscal year 2020 and optimized the Asia BU SG&A spend by 30% against the COVID impact to business. People Management: Lionel successfully promoted Doudou (his direct) from Manager to be Senior Manager within a year, and Doudou also won the Lew Award in 2021. He restructured his team from 6 to 3 HC with expanded scope still outstanding performance since FY20. I highly recommend Lionel and I am confident that he would be an asset to any organization that he joins. His contributions, passion and dedication will always be valued and remembered. Taking the opportunity, we wish him all the best in his future endeavors. Name: Delia Sun Title: VP, APAC Procurement ”
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