Wolfgang Kreutzer

Retired Senior Director-Associate General Counsel - Global Transaction (Purchases/Outsourcing) - Global Legal Operations – Technology

The Procter & Gamble Company – USA – Ohio

Wolfgang (Wolf) P. Kreutzer is the recently retired Senior Director Legal with the Global Transactions Group of The Procter & Gamble Company.

Wolf founded the Practice Group "Purchases and Outsourcing" in 2004 and since then lead a team of 12 in-house attorneys and contract specialists located in the US, Canada, South Africa, France, China, Japan, Germany, and the UK supporting the global procurement organization of The Procter & Gamble Company. He is adept at negotiation, strategy, and coordination of complex transactions, with a focus on stewardship, compliance, and policy setting and has a proven track record in driving productivity improvement. Wolf successfully led over 30 outsourcing transactions, encompassing local, regional, and global scopes, with a cumulative value exceeding 20 billion USD as well as any other perceivable procurement contract. In addition, he and his Team implemented standardized global contract templates, handbooks, commercial agreements training and policies to mitigate risk and establish consistent practices throughout Purchases and Legal, delivering significant productivity improvements (> 2000% in the first decade) and overall superior compliance and risk management globally. Wolf acted as the legal advisor to the Chief Procurement Officer and his/her Lead team for almost 20 years.

In addition, he assumed in 2018 the newly created role of Leader - Legal Operations-Technology. Wolf had been responsible for setting the Legal Department’s IT vision and strategy, the provision of all necessary systems, solutions and tools for the organization to deliver Legal service to enable the Company’s strategic goal and lead a team of 4 IT-Professionals and 7 in-house attorneys in Indonesia, Panama, China, Switzerland and the US.

Wolf started his career at P&G’s German Headquarter in Frankfurt am Main in 1994 and spent several years between P&G’s European Headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland and Cincinnati, Ohio.  He has surrendered his admission to the bar, acts no longer as attorney, but focuses on developing the most efficient and effective ways in which complex negotiations can be orchestrated.