Thomas

Six-month final-year internship in Group Procurement Excellence. Offered a permanent contract at the end of the internship.
• Surfaced EUR 60M of annual savings on a EUR 1B+ spend base through a data-driven application replacing a decentralised Excel process across 19 luxury Maisons, adopted by 150 buyers.
• Rebuilt supplier-identity matching across a 35,000-supplier master, cutting records needing manual DUNS assignment from 12,000 to 2,016 (-83%); methodology presented to Dun & Bradstreet.
• Established a Finance review workstream with Group CFO sign-off, routing 80% of Group spend and declared savings through Finance validation via a BigQuery and Looker pipeline.
• Led due diligence on eight e-sourcing vendors against a seven-criteria grid tested on a live packaging RFP, recommending three finalists to the Group Procurement Director.

Co-founded Vestr, an equity-research platform making fundamental analysis accessible to retail investors, built by a two-person team sharing all strategy and product decisions. Drove go-to-market for an equity screener covering 70,000+ securities, generating 1.5M+ views across social platforms.

Six-month engineering internship at Mercedes-Benz's SUV manufacturing plant in Alabama.
• Benchmarked 62,000 defect records, isolating the root cause of a 14.4% front-module failure rate against 3.0% on its successor; findings adopted by German design teams for future specifications.
• Validated 100 open quality issues from a 170-issue portfolio for the plant CEO, up from 30 inherited, triangulating defect volumes with engineer interviews and 600+ German-language records.
• Automated daily defect reporting in Power BI with alerts on any 30% two-week increase, replacing weekly manual extracts for two engineering teams and returning 2 hours per person each week.