Lilia Karla Prado

• Lead Procurement strategy for global leading suppliers in Storage Networking. Negotiation, and management of contracts for new and existing business.
• Successfully negotiated OEM agreement with major networking supplier achieving in average 4-12% cost reduction for SAN Storage.
• Developed and implemented sourcing and cost saving strategies for Networking product lines, resulting in annual savings of ~5% across suppliers.
• Led the NIC council team in 2019 Corporate audit with Satisfactory results.
• Successfully led manufacturing transition, NPI and Logistics improvement projects with both internal and suppliers' cross functional teams to ensure continuity of supply.
• Most recently transitioning manufacturing from Hungary to Mexico, within 3 months with no impact to operations.
• Supported implementation of Agile management methodologies, leading and providing training to the different teams to implement Agile values and practices as a working culture across Procurement organization.

• Coordination of Procurement strategy for OEM global suppliers in the commodity
• Lead the successful transition of OEM manufacturing location to GDL, with no impact to operations.
• +1.5 M USD in saving for Storage Brand through supplier negotiations.
• Reduced risk exposure by establishing robust contracts with suppliers, incorporating key terms and conditions.
• Collaborated with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for process improvements, supporting overall business objectives.

• Implementation of the regional Sourcing strategy, achieving regional cost saving, payment terms and metric targets.
• Supplier Management for Education, HR, Consulting and Market intelligence categories with 38M USD in annual spend and a team of 6 sourcing buyers.
• Achieved +25% procurement contribution in savings for Latina America
• Support IPS business in a 6 months project with direct customer facing role.
• Trained new team members by relaying information on procurement procedures and best practices.

BA Double Degree with Rennes School of Business, Rennes,France (2005)