Soumia LYAZID CHARA
Commodity Purchasing Manager
Paris
Summary
With a total experience of 12 years in purchasing Energy, metals & strategic portfolio combined with tenacious negotiation and project management skills, drove successful carbon neutrality initiatives and optimized commodity procurement, demonstrating a profound impact on operational efficiency and the ability to manage central programs with achievement of results.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Energy Purchaser & Carbon Neutrality Manager
STMicroelectronics Private
10.2024 - 02.2025
- Monitoring the electricity and natural gas markets in Italy to formulate strategic purchasing recommendations.
- Launching tenders for electricity and natural gas at the end of the year for the periods 2026-2027.
- Leading the internal committee: Presenting and defending purchasing recommendations for annual, quarterly, and monthly market products to minimize exposure to spot price fluctuations. Validating decisions and executing purchases through suppliers.
- Purchasing green energy certificates to ensure the renewable origin of the consumed energy.
- Participating in carbon neutrality projects: Engaging in long-term renewable energy purchase agreements and carbon offset mechanisms.
- Managing two Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) of 10 and 15 years starting from 2024 and 2025.
Metal Purchasing Manager
Le Bronze Alloys
05.2023 - 10.2023
- Responsible for the purchase of nickel, copper, tin, aluminum, zinc, and copper alloys for the group Le Bronze Alloys, a French metallurgist.
- Objectives: Reduction of carbon footprint and increase in the share of recycled metals in the supplier panel.
- Management of a purchasing portfolio of €100M, with international suppliers.
- Strategic development of purchases in compliance with CSR constraints, site needs, working capital policy, credit coverage, billing management, and the volatility of the metals market.
- Complete management of the purchasing process: sourcing, supplier evaluation, selection, contract negotiation.
- Management of cost optimization projects.
- Sourcing of competitive supplies while respecting cost, quality, payment terms, and availability criteria
Operational Project Manager
AXA IM
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Ensuring the smooth execution of operation linked to the management of funds, in the MiddleOffice
- Supporting the Operation & Change team in broader company initiatives for operational process efficiency improvement, supporting best practices.
- The onboarding of all the functions of a new entity (Indonesia) to the parent investment fund
- Performing all services related to close funds or to launch a new funds.
- Opening of (a) fund account(s) for the company and coordinating related KYC process
- Coordinating, preparing all documents related to the organization of operational fund management meetings (from convening to execution of the minutes)
- Working closely with all stakeholders to design, standardize appropriate processes & systems.
Metals & Raw Material Purchasing Manager
Saint-Gobain
05.2018 - 03.2021
- In charge of purchasing of precious (Gold, Silver, Palladium, Rhodium and Platine) and basic metals (Tin), portfolio of 50M€ worldwide.
- Leasing and purchasing gold, palladium platinum and rhodium
- Negotiation of master agreements with banks and traders
- Market analysis and monitoring.
- Coordination of Tin purchasing and negotiation for big volume purchasing.
- Simulation and optimization of financial hedging with the front office of Saint-Gobain In charge of purchasing Feldspar (2M€), Slag (1 M€) and Nepheline (2.5 M€) for international market
- Development of alternative local sources for imported raw materials.
- Planning and budgeting raw materials sourcing, involving cost estimation.
- Liaison with finance department for timely payment of bills
- Co-ordination with transportation
Energy Purchasing Manager
Saint-Gobain
01.2011 - 04.2018
- I managed the purchasing /sales of natural gas, heavy fuel oil, tax recovery and monthly reporting.
- Identify indices, perform necessary correlation testing with Treasury Middle/Back Office
- Establish forecasted volumes for each hedge portfolio.
- Ensure Low-level documentation in place for each entity and index to be hedged.
- Simulation and optimization of the financial hedging.
- Optimize energy costs by optimizing plants production.
- Optimize commodity, transport, and tax costs.
- Ensure physical delivery of energy to the plants.
- Contracts legal review & Risk management.
- Market following (Oil, gas and HFO)
Education
MBA - Trading & Financial Markets
ESLSCA Business School, Paris
Paris 04.2001 -
Master of Science - Fluid Mechanics And Energetics
Université De Pierre Et Marie Curie
Paris 04.2001 -
Master of Science - Hydraulic
Ecole Nationale Polytechnique
Alger 04.2001 -
Skills
- London Metal Exchange (LME): Introduction to the LME Business Development engineer (Beijing 2010)
- IFP School: Oil Market, Trading in Gas Market
- Platinum Week (2018, 2019, 2022)
- AMF Certification
- Expert in financial markets and instruments (Certification 2022)
- Asset management Essentials
- Hobbies : Skiing, Hiking, Sewing, travelling
- Network : Women in Platinum Group Metals (WiPGM)
Timeline
Energy Purchaser & Carbon Neutrality Manager
STMicroelectronics Private
10.2024 - 02.2025
Metal Purchasing Manager
Le Bronze Alloys
05.2023 - 10.2023
Operational Project Manager
AXA IM
09.2022 - 03.2023
Metals & Raw Material Purchasing Manager
Saint-Gobain
05.2018 - 03.2021
Energy Purchasing Manager
Saint-Gobain
01.2011 - 04.2018
MBA - Trading & Financial Markets
ESLSCA Business School, Paris
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Fluid Mechanics And Energetics
Université De Pierre Et Marie Curie
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Hydraulic
Ecole Nationale Polytechnique
04.2001 -
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