Purchasing professional with 18 years of experience with solid foundation in driving purchasing strategies and operations.
International experience, fostering collaborative teamwork and consistently achieving impactful results.
Strong leadership skills, negotiation and vendor management expertise as well as extensive market knowledge.
Business Partner with a broad and strategic business acumen.
Head of Purchasing for Direct Materials (Raws, Packs and Contract Manufacturing) for Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Brazil.
1 - Align Business Unit ambitions and priorities with optimal sourcing strategies.
2 - Drive savings initiatives with cross functional teams.
3 - Gather and communicate effectively to Regional BU the market trends & cost development.
4 - Workshops to identify and enable disruptive innovations and sustainable solutions.
5 - Cultivate talent through balanced exposure, challenging opportunities, and mentorship.
6 - Develop and lead supply resilience strategies & workstreams to secure supply.
7 - Promote collaboration and knowledge exchange. across regions.
1 - Define and lead the implementation of Purchasing Processes to enable and keep all plants operating at optimized rate.
2 - Lead efforts to assess and improve Service Level from Suppliers (On Time deliveries, Quality, Inventory, etc) to bring competitive advantages.
3 - Foster relationship with cross-functional groups to mitigate the risk along the supply chain.
4 - Together with key stakeholders (Sourcing Team, Procurement, Supply Chain, Supplier Quality), gather best practices for continuous improvement.
1 - Strategic Sourcing for packaging categories with regional scope (Europe).
2 - Management of relationship with key stakeholders
3 - Cost saving projects (identification and implementation)
4 - Roll out of best practices
5 - Coordinate with the countries the projects to be implemented.
6 - Feedstock Management.
Different roles in Direct Materials (Raws, Packs, Contract Manufacturing) for different Business Units (Laundry, Beauty and Adhesives)