Marina Lindic
President, IFPSM
Marina Lindič is a co-founder and president of the Slovenian Purchasing Association (ZNS). Since 1st of January 2020, she is President of International Federation for Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM). Before she was the Treasurer and IFPSM Board member.
From the year 2005 till mid of 2022 Marina was employed in insulation group Ursa. She was Purchasing Manager, for Business Unit (BU) Adria & BU Italy, covering strategic purchasing for glass wool plant in Slovenia and XPS plant in Italy. She was responsible for strategic purchasing for direct and indirect purchasing for both BUs. Additionally, she was Capex Lead buyer on Ursa Group level for 10 plants in EU -European union.
From 2005 until 2016 she was Supply Chain Director of Operating Unit (OU) Mediterranean and Southeast Europe. She was covering the following areas: logistics, procurement and customer service. In the first years of working at Ursa, she was responsible for the OU Adria region (i.e. Italy, Slovenia, along with other former Yugoslavian countries, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania). After, she was responsible for OU Mediterranean and Southeast Europe, adding Austria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey to the before listed countries.
From Finished studies at Faculty of economics in Ljubljana until the year 2005, she was working in the company Trimo Trebnje, where she was responsible for strategic, operational purchasing, and logistics.
In her spare time, she among others, lectures on the Procurement Academy (Topics: 1: Lean in procurement and 2: Supply chain management and its optimization 3. Managing and ensuring smooth procurement in times of uncertainty). She is lecturing and moderating event like: yearly Procurement conference in Slovenia and many conferences in Slovenia and abroad. Marina is a co-author of the book Strategic purchasing, and an expert editor& co-author of the Guide for the Head of Purchasing.
She is a Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Handball Club Trimo. In the free time she likes to read books, hikes, plays tennis and badminton and enjoying her free time with grandchildren.