René Méndez Godoy
Logistics Manager
Summary
Experienced Traffic and Logistics Manager skilled in leading teams from project initiation through final delivery. Proficient in analyzing data, achieving deadlines and overseeing budgets. Dedicated to customer satisfaction and skilled at proactive team management.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Traffic Manager and Jr Trader
H&H Metals
07.2023 - Current
- Balanced workloads and assigned specific tasks to team members in order to accomplish objectives.
- Developed and managed document tracking procedures and data gathering processes.
- Performed continuous evaluations of labor hours and expenses to maintain budget controls.
- Directed 4 projects from initiation through closure.
- Built project timelines, team delegation plans and provided instructions for task completion.
- Led improvement initiatives to advance operational efficiencies and increase revenue.
Traffic Manager Mexico
IXM
07.2020 - 07.2023
- Effectively manage the traffic and logistics operations team in Mexico for the Concentrates and Refined operations
- Balanced workloads and assigned specific tasks to team members in order to accomplish objectives.
- Empower the team to fulfill the contract needs for the whole Mexican and US operation
- Growth of the traffic Mexico team from 3 people in 2021 to 9 by 2022
- Supervisor of 7 people plus 2 more that have been promoted
- Collaborate with different teams around the company to ensure effective customer-focused executions
- Support the Marketing and Commercial team for all the new operations and goals
- Logistics Coordinator between the Mexico office and the Manzanillo, Guaymas and Veracruz Warehouse
- 150,000MT of Concentrates and 60,000Mt of Refined Material
- Continuously monitor client needs to maintain a valuable relationship between the company and its suppliers and end buyers
- Supported traders in planned analysis of the current metals market in order to have better business for growth potential
- CIF, DAP, CPT, FCA and FOB contract terms
- Coordination of all the booking of vessels and logistics with different freight forwarders
- Increased the communication and logistics for all the 3 Warehouses in Mexico
- Single handled the first shipment of 35,000MT of Refined Aluminum of IXM into Mexico
- Contract reviewing confirmation for all new trading business that have been booked
- Price fixing with clients with the Hedge Desk
- Calculation and control of accurate payments to different suppliers
- Control of invoices
- PnL analysis
- Internal checkups for the stock
- Support in the different activities the traffic and operation area with financial analysis reports and control of the internal system.
US Zinc and Lead Senior Traffic Administrator
Ocean Partners USA
Wilton
11.2018 - 07.2020
- Handling around 20,000MT of Zinc and Lead concentrate contracts on a monthly basis divided into different qualities from diverse miners across USA and Latin America
- Chartering vessels with vessel owners for loading and discharging in different ports around the world
- WSMD for all the different qualities we receive in order to keep the standards required at the moment of purchasing the material
- Contact of third-party surveyors for the control of weighting and sampling
- Preparation of assay exchanges with suppliers and buyers
- Traffic for the agency contract with Bisha Mining Company.
Senior Traffic Metal Concentrates and Refined Metals
IXM Mexico
02.2018 - 10.2018
- Handling blend operations at our Manzanillo Warehouse of the material in stock
- Blending directions before a shipment in order to achieve the desired quality
- Coordination with our warehouses in Manzanillo and Guaymas to instruct them about the maneuvers to make in order to have the material ready to be shipped
- Contact with different surveyors, freight forwarding agents and custom agents for the reception and shipments
- Vessel booking, documentation, assay analysis for concentrates material
- Handling around 5,000MT of refined contracts on a monthly basis
- Mexico, Brazil and US market
- In charge of all the refined operations along with Brazil Trader of the Brazilian market
- Shipping coordination with other IXM offices for the shipments of material from and to Mexico and Brazil
- Vessel shipments and railcar shipments (USA bonded warehouses to US/Mexico border)
- CIF and DAP contract terms.
Refined Traffic
Louis Dreyfus Company Metals
Shanghai
08.2017 - 02.2018
- Handled 31 contracts and around 62,000MT of refined metal (Spot and LT) - FCA, EXW and CIF contracts
- Release from inbound warehouses, Repo buybacks and Material Allocation
- Commercial area demands in Southeast Asian Market
- Improved the communication channels between America, Europe, South Africa and Shanghai office.
Commercial Execution
Louis Dreyfus Company Metals Mexico
11.2014 - 08.2017
Internship logistics and sales area
MAPFRE Insurances
01.2014 - 09.2014
Education
Bachelor Degree - International Relations -
ITESM - Tec De Monterrey
08.2009 - 05.2014
Business Diploma -
Dublin Institute of Technology
Dublin 01.2013 - 2013.07
Skills
Aquarius for Concentrates and Refinedundefined
Interests
Swimming
Running
Golf
Reading historic novels
Travelling to understand all different cultures
Personal Information
Nationality: Mexican
Additional Information
LANGUAGES
- Spanish - Native
- English - Native or bilingual fluency
Timeline
Traffic Manager and Jr Trader
H&H Metals
07.2023 - Current
Traffic Manager Mexico
IXM
07.2020 - 07.2023
US Zinc and Lead Senior Traffic Administrator
Ocean Partners USA
11.2018 - 07.2020
Senior Traffic Metal Concentrates and Refined Metals
IXM Mexico
02.2018 - 10.2018
Refined Traffic
Louis Dreyfus Company Metals
08.2017 - 02.2018
Commercial Execution
Louis Dreyfus Company Metals Mexico
11.2014 - 08.2017
Internship logistics and sales area
MAPFRE Insurances
01.2014 - 09.2014
Business Diploma -
Dublin Institute of Technology
01.2013 - 2013.07
Bachelor Degree - International Relations -
ITESM - Tec De Monterrey
08.2009 - 05.2014
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