Li helps clients deliver measurable value in procurement.
With 15+ years across consulting and industry, he leads global procurement transformations, drives material cost reductions and negotiations, and strengthens supply-chain risk management and resilience. He advises large multinationals and Germany’s Mittelstand hidden champions in manufacturing, automotive, and other capital-intensive sectors.
Clients draw on his expertise in procurement operating-model design, global and low-cost-country (LCC) sourcing, and sustainable, repeatable cost improvement.
Raised in Shanghai and educated in Europe, Li is passionate about building bridges across cultures. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting Research and an M.Sc. in Management from the University of Mannheim, Germany.
Key Engagements and Career Highlights:
- Managed a global procurement transformation at a major chemicals company, impacting ~⅔ of procurement employees and delivering ~€30M in cost improvements.
- Designed procurement strategy and operating model for a midstream oil & gas group (65 global sites), centralizing Procurement and reducing FTEs and functional costs by ~20%.
- Updated the CAPEX procurement operating model for a global pharma company to handle a double-digit-billion CAPEX program.
- Drove a material-cost program for a PE-owned European wind-energy OEM, achieving 18% savings on addressed spend.
- Delivered >€45M in savings through claim management and negotiation excellence for a major European automotive OEM.
- Achieved multimillion-euro savings via a material-cost program for a European rolling-stock company.
- Championed project-procurement cost management for an energy MNE, saving ~10% on addressed spend.
- Led a semiconductor task force, developed a supply-risk mitigation approach, and implemented an integrated semiconductor risk database with a tier-1 supplier.