Julia joined Diversey as a Chief Procurement Officer in October 2019. In this role she leads global procurement team and is based in Charlotte, NC.

With over 20 years of experience in world leading international companies and management consulting, Julia is responsible for setting and executing a vision and strategic direction for procurement function, collaborating with R&D and the commercialization organizations to design and deploy a value analysis/value engineering (VAVE) process that enables long-term agility in the marketplace.

As a procurement functional lead, Julia is working closely with Finance teams to bridge Procurement savings to the P&L and deploy sophisticated cost-to-price methodology and tools to optimize pricing. As well as working with internal business partners to create and drive standardization and simplification initiatives that improve service, costs, and provides a competitive advantage.

Previously Julia served as a Senior Director of Global PET Resin Packaging at PepsiCo, Global HQ in New York. She led development of cost advantaged PET Resin packaging supply strategy to maximize the leverage of PepsiCo, being one of world’s largest buyers. She was responsible for design and execution of commodity price cover strategies for traded and non-traded commodities, minimizing oil and energy market volatility impact on PepsiCo’s P&L. On growing demand of recycled PET (rPET) content in plastic packaging, development of the sourcing strategy to support PepsiCo's Plastics agenda.  During her career at PepsiCo, Julia led Sweeteners and MRO COEs and implementation of several global initiatives in Agro Commodity space.

Julia also has a global management consulting experience with A.T.Kearney, where Julia led various sourcing initiatives across the CPG and Health Care industry.