Director of Purchasing @ From April 2015 to Present (9 months) Buying Manager @ - Responsible for multi-million Euro turnover across my categories. - Developing and maintaining long term win-win relationships with a vast amount of suppliers. - Negotiating the current assortment anew, developing new products and renewing the assortment. - Pricing the products within my categories. - Proactively beating the competition to keep my assortment interesting to the customer and when need arises reacting to the competition. - Taking part in marketing activities for products in my categories. - Responsible for coordinating and running the Purchasing Department's seasonal planning for the two main seasons: summer&bbq (Grillimaisteri) and Christmas. - As a senior buyer responsible for training, guiding and mentoring new buyers as well as further colleagues within the Purchasing Department. I was responsible for following house brand product categories: Fair trade products Jul07- Sweets Sep07-Oct11, Sep12- Cheese Sep12- Fats and oils Sep12- Hot drinks Sep12- Conserved foods Sep12- Tobacco Dec06-Jun14 Pet nutrition Dec06-Jun14 Cosmetics Dec06-Jun14 Household chemicals Dec06-Jun14 Paper and personal hygiene products Dec06-Jun14 Household products (bags, candles etc.) Dec06-Jun14 OTC products Sep07-Jun14 Christmas and Easter chocolates Sep07-May14 Sauces and sweet spreads Sep07-Oct11 Snacks and cookies Sep07-May10 Non-edible categories for industry brands Oct11-Jul12 From July 2007 to March 2015 (7 years 9 months) Buying Manager Trainee @ I was responsible for managing of and buying of industry brand assortment Jul06-Jun07 and Non-edible categories of house brand products Dec06- From June 2006 to June 2007 (1 year 1 month) Sales Clerk @ Helping customers in decision making and selling them boardgames, packing games for postal orders, translating game manuals from German and English to Finnish. Since summer 2006 I have kept on translating for the company occasionally in combinations English-Finnish, English-German, Finnish-German, English-German. From September 2005 to May 2006 (9 months) Production Intern @ Managing the production of canola/turnip rapeseed oil all the way from accept the seeds to the cold pressing process to maintaining the pressers and filtering the oil for bottling. Also managing the warehouses of oil and pressing waste which was sold to farmers as fodder, and selling the seeds for contracted farmers. From May 2003 to September 2003 (5 months)

M.Sc. (Food Science), ETM, Primarily Food Marketing, secondarily Consumer Economics, Magna cum Laude @ Helsingin yliopisto From 2000 to 2006 JET, Management @ Amiedu From 2011 to 2012 Staff Sergeant, Logistics @ Finnish Army From 2001 to 2002 High School @ Turengin lukio From 1997 to 2000 Juuso Mattila is skilled in: Retail, Management, Pricing, Product Development, FMCG, Leadership, Negotiation, Purchasing, Private Label, Brand Management, Supply Chain Management, Marketing Management, Category Management, Procurement, House Brands