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Title: CPO & Head of Supply Chain Company: Siemens Industry: Manufacturing

As Chief Procurement Officer and Head of Supply Chain Management at Siemens since 2014, Klaus has spent nearly three decades with the company. He began his Siemens career in 1996, moving through procurement, process consulting and strategic marketing roles, and held CEO and CFO positions within various Siemens business units before taking on the CPO mandate. Klaus now oversees the Siemens Supply

Chain Ecosystem, which manages more than US $ 43bn in annual spend across the global supplier network. He has been widely credited with transforming Siemens’ procurement function from a traditional cost-cutting operation into a value-add orchestrator, emphasising resilience, sustainability and digitalisation alongside productivity. A strong believer in bottom-up leadership and self-motivated teams, Klaus continues to champion partnerecosystem collaboration to strengthen supply chain sustainability, including through Siemens’ supplier sustainability programmes in China and beyond.

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