Speakers

Levent Uçar

NESTLE TURKEY Procurement Business Partner

Levent Uçar graduated from Ege University Food Engineering in 2008. He completed his undergraduate thesis with the support of Nestle, using his own laboratory-scale chocolate machine. In his final year of university, he started working at Nestle with an offer he received from the company in 2007.

Throughout his career, Levent has worked as a Shift Engineer and Production Supervisor in factory production, work as a Startup Leader in the project department for new factory installations, and after all he responsible new factory installation work as a Startup & Operation Manager. He is Nestle Turkey's first Green Belt employee in 6 Sigma and also holds Black Belt certifications accredited by Nestle. He has taken on roles in Sales, Marketing, and as Nestle Continuous Improvement Manager and assigned as Technical Nestle Continues Excellence Champion/Head in Technical devision.
 
Levent joined the Procurement department in 2018 as the Procurement Excellence Manager. He led the end-to-end processes of the Purchasing department as responsible for implementing a globally planned integration in Nestle Türkiye. He then continued his career as the Procurement Business Partner responsible and responsible for four major business units: Nestle Professional, Starbucks, Nestle Health Science, and Nestle Waters.