Marion Gillich

Head of Supplier Risk Management
Daimler Truck AG

Since end of 2022, Marion is heading the newly founded department of Supplier Risk Management within Global Procurement of Daimler Truck, which includes direct and indirect material purchasing. Part of her role is managing all supplier insolvencies but also preventively mitigating supply risks and ensuring compliance and sustainability requirements in the supply chain. In addition, she heads the European contract management area for Daimler Truck Procurement and takes care of the supplier evaluation process globally. Her team is very strong in analytics, using internal and external data for more transparency, risk mitigation and decision steering and with that integrating a holistic supplier risk approach into the entire sourcing process. She is directly reporting to the Chief Procurement & Supplier Management officer of Daimler Truck. 
Marion started her career in the automotive space in 2004 with multiple assignments in the US, many years at Daimler India Commercial Vehicles in Chennai, Financial Services in Singapore and Germany, covering Procurement, Supplier Management and Sales. 
She graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Management in Karlsruhe, Germany and added her Master of Arts in Global Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London.