If you are here from an email I sent you, thank you for checking who I am. This page exists for that and nothing else.
Who is writing
I am a procurement director based in Zürich, with fourteen years in the field across Switzerland, Benelux and Spain. I lead a team of around thirty people in five regions. My work, in plain terms, is buying things well: choosing suppliers, negotiating, and making sure that what was paid for actually arrives and that every franc can be accounted for.
Here is my professional profile. I write in a personal capacity, not for my employer.
What I am exploring
I have supported children's centres personally in the past, and I would like to do more than one person can do alone. What I am exploring is whether the thing I do professionally — sourcing, buying and accounting for it — can be put to work for that.
The idea is simple. An organisation says what it needs. A donor chooses one of those needs and funds it: a set of school supplies, a laptop, winter clothing. I source it, buy it and have it delivered, and the donor sees the invoice and the proof that it arrived. Nothing pooled, nothing general, nothing left unexplained.
What this is not
- There is no organisation. No legal entity, no bank account, no fundraising, nothing to donate to for the time being.
- I am not asking you for money, and I am not offering you money today.
- I never ask for information about individual children, and I do not want to receive any.
- If this ever exists: no image that could identify a child will leave the centre that holds it — no channel, no exception, not to donors and not to me.
- It would never fund buildings, renovations or fixed equipment. Only things that belong to a child and stay with that child.
What I am asking for
Five minutes of your professional judgement. Do you have concrete material needs of roughly 100 to 1,000 CHF that you cannot cover today, and would an arrangement like this be useful in your context?
An honest no is as useful to me as a yes. I would rather hear now that this does not fit the way you work than build something that gets in your way.
On AI assistance
I use AI to help me draft and translate, because I may not speak your language and I would rather write to you in it than not. I read and approve every message personally before it is sent, and I read every reply myself.