Associate Partner CEE · apsolut Group / All for One · SAP Procurement

Paweł
Mamcarz

Building the CEE region from the ground up — 20+ SAP Ariba deployments across Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. From PKN Orlen and KGHM to LOT, Żabka and Motor Oil Hellas.

100+
Organisations served
500M
EUR in project value
20+
Years of experience
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Paweł Mamcarz
25+
years in procurement

Procurement
with passion

For over 25 years I have been immersed in procurement — from financial analytics and heading purchasing departments at PKN Orlen and Bank Millennium to establishing the SAP Ariba market in Poland and the wider CEE region. Today, as Associate Partner at apsolut Group (SAP Gold Partner, multiple-time SAP Ariba MEE Partner of the Year, part of All for One Group since March 2026), I lead the CEE practice — 20+ implementations across Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

Total project value delivered: over EUR 500 million for 100+ organisations — KGHM, Żabka Polska, PLL LOT, Motor Oil Hellas, MOL and others. The largest engagement: CONNECT for ORLEN Group — 15 entities, 4 countries, a 60-strong team, and the biggest sourcing platform ever deployed in Poland. Earlier clients include PGE, PGNiG, Aeroflot, PKP PLK and PKP Intercity.

Between 2008 and 2012 I stepped away from the corporate world to build my own ventures: RMS sp. z o.o. (an EU-funded start-up under the POIG 8.1 programme), Przypominamy.com, and a dozen consulting projects. That experience gave me the founder's perspective — securing EU grants, developing a product from scratch, and selling it myself.

Outside work: I hold a helicopter pilot licence PPL(H) and an aeroplane licence PPL(A) with an aerobatics rating. Owner of WarsawFlightSafety, display pilot for the Diverse Extreme Team (2013). Press photographer with Forum Agency — air-to-air shoots, video and drone production for TVP and Greek island municipalities (Samos, Chios).

In tech since 1993 — first website hosted on a VAX at UMCS Lublin, network administrator at SGH. Back then SUN, SGI Indigo, IBM AIX; today Cloudflare, React and personal web projects.

SAP Ariba / Fieldglass / S/4HANA
Strategic procurement
Sales & business development (CEE)
Programme & change management
Public Procurement Law (PZP)
Energy, industrial & pharma sectors

Education
& credentials

1995 – 2000
SGH Warsaw — Finance & Banking
2001
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien — CEMS Master
2005
Warsaw Executive MBA — Univ. of Minnesota / SGH
2008
APMP Project Management, PMI
Polish — native
English — fluent
German — advanced
Russian — conversational

Professional
experience

07.2021 · present
apsolut Group / All for One Group since 03.2026
Associate Partner, CEE Region

Building the CEE region from scratch — 20+ deployments of SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass and SAP S/4HANA across Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Clients include KGHM, Żabka Polska, PLL LOT, Motor Oil Hellas, MOL and others. apsolut — multiple-time SAP Ariba MEE Partner of the Year, 450+ clients, part of All for One Group SE since March 2026.

04.2017 – 06.2021
SAP Polska Sp. z o.o.
SAP Ariba Senior Account Executive

Establishing the SAP Ariba market in Poland and CEE from day one. Selling procurement solutions directly to CFOs, CPOs and CIOs at the region's largest enterprises. Delivered the first SAP Ariba implementations in Poland.

11.2016 – 05.2017
PZU S.A.
Strategic Project Director

Procurement transformation for the largest insurer in CEE. Spend analysis, category strategies, implementation roadmap and IT platform selection. End-to-end blueprint from diagnosis through to target operating model.

07.2015 – 11.2016
PwC Polska Sp. z o.o.
Associate Director, Advisory / Procurement Expert

CAPP methodology (Complete & Agile Procurement). Projects for PGE SA, PGNIG SA, PKN Orlen SA, PZU SA, Elektrownia Puławy, Aeroflot, Russian Railways, Vnukovo Airport, BRW SA, Kopex SA.

06.2013 – 09.2015
PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A.
Board Advisor

Expert in public procurement (PZP) on tenders exceeding PLN 100 million. Negotiation of an SAP AG framework agreement for the PKP group (4 entities). Audit of the Marketplanet platform.

12.2014 – 05.2015
PKP Intercity S.A.
Programme Director — New Sales System

Roll-out of the Revenue Management System (JDA/RPO). 30+ team members. Integration with KURS 90, Oracle EBS, and sales channels (ticket offices, web, mobile).

03.2012 – 09.2014
PKN ORLEN S.A.
Project Manager — CONNECT Platform

Led the deployment of the CONNECT sourcing platform for 15 ORLEN Group entities across 4 countries (PL, CZ, DE, LT). The largest implementation of its kind in Poland — 60 people, SAP SRM/MM + Oracle EBS. Modules: RFx, e-auctions, contracts, central category tree, supplier database.

01.2006 – 09.2008
PKN ORLEN S.A.
Head of General Procurement

30-person department. Categories: IT/Telco, Consulting, Admin, Maintenance, fuel stations, fleet. Portfolio exceeding PLN 500 million per year. SAP SRM deployment. Procurement strategies for IT/Telco and retail (1,800 fuel stations, SAP RETAIL).

2004 – 2006
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.
Critical Changes Manager — TP Convergence Programme

Oracle EBS implementation for the Lublin shared-services centre. Coordination of 215 team members and 29 sub-project managers.

2002 – 2004
Bank Millennium S.A.
Buyer / IT & Telco Stream Lead

IT procurement centralisation: software, hardware, maintenance services, SLAs. Contract renegotiations, administrative cost-reduction programme.

1999 – 2002
Elektrim S.A. / Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Vienna
Financial Controller & Risk Management Specialist

Financial controller of Poland's second-largest telecoms-and-energy conglomerate. Bond issuance of PLN 200 million (Elektrim/PZU), commercial paper programme of PLN 460 million (Elektrim/PEKAO). CEE capital markets analyst in Vienna — debt and derivative instruments.

Areas of
expertise

🔷
SAP Ariba · Fieldglass · S/4HANA

End-to-end SAP Ariba deployments (Sourcing, Contracts, SLP, Buying), SAP Fieldglass and S/4HANA Procurement. 20+ projects across CEE. Additional hands-on experience with Oracle EBS, SAP SRM, Marketplanet, Ivalua and Basware.

⚙️
Strategic procurement

25 years of experience. Managed a PLN 500 million annual spend portfolio at PKN Orlen. Total project value exceeding EUR 500 million for 100+ organisations across energy, industrial, aviation, pharma and financial services.

🌍
Sales & business development (CEE)

Built market presence from zero in Poland and Central Europe. C-level relationships: CFO, CPO, CIO. Clients include KGHM, Żabka, PLL LOT, Motor Oil Hellas, MOL, Orange, Polpharma, Adamed, CIECH, Lotte Wedel.

📐
Programme & change management

APMP certified (PMI, 2008). Multi-entity programme management (15 entities, 4 countries, 60 people — ORLEN CONNECT). Coordination of 215 team members (TP SA). Revenue Management for PKP Intercity.

⚖️
Public Procurement Law

Expert in Polish public procurement (PZP) — PKP PLK, tenders exceeding PLN 100 million. Procurement strategies for PGNIG SA under PZP regulations. SAP AG framework agreement negotiations for the PKP group.

✈️
Beyond procurement

Aerobatic pilot PPL(A)/PPL(H), owner of WarsawFlightSafety. Display pilot for the Diverse Extreme Team (2013). Press photographer with Forum Agency since 2003 — akrobacja.com

Case
studies

Energy · Multi-country
CONNECT sourcing platform — ORLEN Group
Deployment of a centralised procurement platform for 15 ORLEN Group entities across 4 countries (PL, CZ, DE, LT). The largest project of its kind in Poland — standardising RFx, e-auction, contract and supplier-database processes within a single SAP SRM/MM environment.
15
entities
4
countries
60
team members
Retail · FMCG · CEE
SAP Ariba — Żabka Polska
SAP Ariba Buying, Ariba Supplier Risk and sourcing module deployment for the largest convenience-store chain in Europe. Digitising indirect procurement processes and supplier risk management across a 12,000+ store network.
12 000+
stores
SAP
Ariba Buying & Supplier Risk
Mining & resources
SAP Ariba & Fieldglass — KGHM
SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass deployment for one of the world's largest copper and silver producers. Managing external suppliers and contract services in a model fully integrated with SAP S/4HANA.
Top 3
global copper producer
SAP
Ariba + Fieldglass + S/4HANA

Own
projects

Selected
clients

PKN Orlen
KGHM
PGE SA
PGNIG SA
PZU SA
PLL LOT
Żabka Polska
Motor Oil Hellas
MOL
Orange / TP SA
PKP PLK
PKP Intercity
Polpharma
Adamed
CIECH
Lotte Wedel
Bank Millennium
Pfleiderer
Aeroflot
Hitachi Energy
PKP Energetyka
Elektrownia Puławy
Kopex SA
BRW SA

My
approach

01
Diagnosis
Assessment of current procurement processes, organisational maturity and transformation readiness. Spend mapping, identification of quick wins.
02
Strategy
Design of target operating model, platform selection (SAP Ariba, Fieldglass, S/4HANA), implementation roadmap and business case.
03
Implementation
Steering the project from configuration through go-live. Managing the team, integrator and stakeholders. Training and change management.
04
Value
Measuring outcomes: savings, compliance, user adoption. Post-go-live optimisation and roll-out of additional modules.

Let's discuss
your project

Looking for support with procurement transformation, an SAP Ariba implementation or building a procurement strategy? Drop me a line — I am happy to talk about your project.

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