Fulvio Simoni

Current

• Buyer - Import/Export at TECO S.r.l. - Refrigeration Technologies

Past

• Category Manager - IT & Multimedia at Freeshop S.A.
• Brand Manager at Itway S.p.A.
• Technical Manager at Orione S.r.l.

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Education

• Università di Bologna

Recommended

6 people have recommended Fulvio

Connections

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Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Websites

• My Company

Fulvio Simoni’s Summary

* As Buyer, my Primary responsibility is to obtain the highest quality goods at the lowest cost. This requires research, writing requests for bids, proposals or quotes, and evaluation information received. Actually most of my negotiations are with Asian Suppliers, but of course I also treat with European/Italian Suppliers.
I also follow Import/Export of goods to and from Asian suppliers.
* During my last experience as Buyer in Consumer Electronics, IT and Multimedia I worked mainly with Italian Suppliers to buy laptops, computers, PDAs, printers and all accessories that turn around this world;
* Brand Manager in Enterprise Wireless Communications;
* System Engineer in IT Security and Wireless;
* Technical Manager in Satellite Communications

Fulvio Simoni’s Specialties:

Purchasing (especially Chinese Market), Import/Export & Brand Managing

Fulvio Simoni’s Experience

• Buyer - Import/Export

  TECO S.r.l. - Refrigeration Technologies

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  HVAC&R Market (Heat, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration):
  
  Reporting directly to the CEO of the Company, my responsibilities are to:
  * control prices for all the production lines (Italian and Foreign);
  * Purchase/Export goods for Asian Production;
  * Import finished products for European Market;
  * manage the communications between HQ and Asian Production Site;
  * grow suppliers portfolio by a worldwide Area research.

• Category Manager - IT & Multimedia

  Freeshop S.A.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

  October 2006 — April 2007 (7 months)

  * Purch. Dept. Manager in IT and Multimedia products;
  * Sales Manager - "Out of Shop" Top Customers;
  * Sales Manager - IT and Multimedia products

• Brand Manager

  Itway S.p.A.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2002 — September 2006 (4 years 1 month)

  Main mission is to support the sales team to reach the goals in terms of sales. The Brand Manager (BM) creates and deploys the S&M Plan, and provides all the relevant information about the products: prices, special offers, demos, new products...
  The BM is responsible for the relations with the Vendor, providing information periodically: forecast, sales-out reports, events and seminars, training schedule and whatever proactive action may be jointly or unilaterally organized.
  
  The BM is also responsible for the definition of the press activities, web news, mailing and newsletters contents focused or related to vendor's technology. Additionally the BM is taking care of direct sales activities on strategic accounts and projects – in conjunction with the involved Account Manager.
  
  Actual managed brands: Colubris Networks, Trapeze Networks, SpectraLink, Zultys Technologies, SMC Networks
  
  Past managed brands: Funk Software, Wavelink, LightPointe, Ekahau, AireSpace

• Technical Manager

  Orione S.r.l.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1998 — August 2002 (4 years 3 months)

  Technical Manager of a Satellite Services company, which provided Installation, Configuration and Maintenance services of 2-way satellite communication systems and Stock Exchange Data Distribution's satellite systems. Company vaunted an installers group of about 80 partners all around Italy to provide this services. My role was to:
  * manage tech department on following partners interventions in customers premises;
  * mantain technical relationship with satellite technologies vendors;
  * Mange all partners' teams Training in new satellite technologies, products and work procedures;
  * take care of projects' development and requirements;
  * following technical part of negotiations with customers.

Fulvio Simoni’s Education

• Università di Bologna

  64/70 , Telecommunications Engineering , 1993 — 1996

Additional Information

Fulvio Simoni’s Websites:

• My Company

Fulvio Simoni’s Groups:

•    CareerLink Network
•    Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
•    GLOBAL CONTRACTORS / RECRUITERS / PROCUREMENT
•    UniBO Alumni
•    Wireless Jobs
•    China Business
•    Skype for Business
•    BUSINESS IN CHINA
•    Global Sourcing
•    The Recruitment Network
•    YQ Purchasing
•    Fior di Risorse - Persone al Centro
•    Buyers-Worldexcellence in procurement connect, share, trends, best practices 4000+
•    Worldwide Purchasing Group (WWPG)
•    linkedHRit | connecting HR & Change professionals in Italy
•    Romagna Business Club
•    China Import & Export
•    Lavoro e Carriera IN Emilia Romagna
•    Il Mercato Italiano del Lavoro - The Italian Job Market