Consulting
Rather than trying to negotiate “harder”, I focus on finding the “smarter” potentials, often disguised as waste and inefficiency within the own organization, rather than with the vendor.
Interim Management
With extensive experience in executive procurement roles, I am best suited ensure continuity while you find a permanent solution, enabling your current procurement organizations for the next steps.
Business Development
With more than 15 years of Experiência Brasil, I can ensure a much higher success rate in helping you find the correct path in establishing yourself in Brazil.
I was globally raised and broadly educated, am an internationally experienced, multi-lingual executive, with a functional focus in procurement and supply-chain management with extensive experience in business strategy design and implementation, preferring a collaborarive working style.

“While I was Founding Partner at BrainNet, Neven‘s Brazilian market skills were essential to realizing our Joint Venture in Brazil.”
"The Neven I know is a man of reason, of dialogue, yet discrete, very professional and endowed with a strong sense of ethics.”
"Neven is a results-oriented strategic thinker with a very broad international perspective and an amazing cultural adaptability due to his excellent language and cooperation skills."
"Our project work for advancing a global procurement organization was shaped by a truly collaborative approach. Taking the organization along in that process, Neven activated the whole team to embrace new ideas and move towards new goals."
“Neven was a major driver and manager in our M+A activities during our business development and going to market in Brazil. With his cultural and working background from Europe as well as from South America he gave excellent guidance to our German-Brazilian team.”
“We were able to experience Mr. Bartel at a major sales meeting at the highest leadership level, which he moderated. Mr. Bartel lead through this very tense meeting with a high degree of assurance, ensuring a successful negotiation.”
"We were very happy with Neven’s performance in our worldwide Purchasing Project. His relevant experience combined with his social capabilities and his resultsorientation helped us significantly to achieve our project goals."
"If you are looking for an Interim Leader or Consultant to help you deliver results, please consider Neven. He's a pleasure to work with and is really top of his class."
Newest Projects
Chemical Speciality Interim-CPO
Germany (2019/2020) – Acted as Sr. Category Manager and later CPO of a family-owned speciality chemicals company and market leader, advancing the procurement excellence agenda and navigating procurement through the Covid-19 crisis.
Chemical Carve-Out Advisory
Germany (2019) – For a chemical carve-out of a global chemical company, acted as senior advisor in defining the new procurement organization.
Chemical Distribution in Brazil
São Paulo/Shanghai/New Delhi (2018/19) – For the setup of a chemical distribution company in Brazil, provide sourcing intelligence and contacts to China and India, support in supplier qualification and sourcing process.