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Zoe Ren

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Chief Procurement Officer at Ferring Pharmaceuticals
📍 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Zoe Ren is a results-focused procurement leader with 20 years of experience in strategic procurement, global spend optimization, and transformation. As Chief Procurement Officer at Ferring Pharmaceuticals, she leads global procurement activities. Colleagues have described her as a dedicated, focused, and skilled negotiator who builds strong supplier relationships.

Under her leadership, the Ferring procurement team was shortlisted for the 2022 World Procurement Awards for developing an innovative supplier management framework.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Chief Procurement Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Procurement Transformation
She leads procurement transformation at Ferring, focusing on aligning with business stakeholders to develop new frameworks for functions like supplier management.
Supplier Management
Her team's work in creating a new supplier management framework earned a nomination for the 2022 World Procurement Awards, showing it's a key focus.
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Career

Work history

2-2023
Chief Procurement Officer
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
8-2022 - 1-2023
Senior Director, global category
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
1-2021 - 7-2022
Director , Global Head of Direct Procurement
Ferring Pharmaceuticals
1-2012 - 9-2016
Global procurement Category lead --Telecom
Nestlé
8-2009 - 12-2011
Global Procurement Category manager--IT software and Services
Nestlé
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Education
MSc.
Hochschule Mainz - University of Applied Sciences
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