Alessandro Spadini

Alessandro Spadini is responsible for the procurement of Indirect Spend (Energy, Investment, Corporate and Operational services, IT&TLC and Consultancy) within Barilla. He joined Barilla in 1993 as engineer and project manager for the Technical Department and R&D. Then he moved to the Operations, where he covered different roles (Technical Area Manager, Production Manager, Plant Director) in some plants in Italy and in the US. This expertise in Operations was empowered leading a central project for the plants’ organization development.

He joined Purchasing in 2009, driving the improvement of the procurement governance for indirect spend within the Barilla Group. In this role he mainly focuses on leveraging synergies among the different Barilla Legal Entities at international level, designing a network of “multifunction indirect buyers”. He is now leading the Barilla SRM Purchasing team, aimed at redesign the roles, tools and processes for a complete procurement transformation.