Sr. procurement manager

From January 2018 until July 2019, worked on Caribbean Central and South Region and HQ as the primary engagement contact and leading regional activities as below: 
- Supplier Rationalization - responsible for supplier rationalization stratey for all LATAM, responsible for consolidation of suppliers and Global
suppliers implementation in the region. More than 700 UVPs suppliers rationalized in the region in 1 year.
- Outsorucing: lead of the Outsourcing LATAM v-team, responsible for creating and present supplier strategy to stakeholders as a solution for
Outsourcing as the creation and implementation of buckets in LATAM bringing a new concept to enable External Staff policy in LATAM (multi
country subsidiaries) resulting in one LATAM strategy based on a shared services reginal concept.
- LATAM M&O Transformation - Procurement lead of the team that create the strategy to support M&O Regional transformation in line with
GDPR Requirements | SSPA, Supplier Rationalization and External Staff Policy; mapping M&O key deliverables and consolidate footprint and
identifying synergies for process efficiency and standardization in the region.
- Implementation and management of Corporate Procurement Card, for low amount purchases with a high volume of transactions.

Brazil
Deep and expanded engagement with subsidiary stakeholders changing how Procurement were viewed within the subsidiary and capturing new opportunities, changing the mindset, creating new strategies and presenting projects to improve the quality of current processes on the subsidiary, such as below:
- Consulting Services engagement to develop a strong strategic plan and a new concept in negotiation, based on local needs and attempting for labor risks mitigation - Savings USD 1.4M.
- Microsoft biggest events strategy and negotiation – Savings USD 680K.
- Telesales project fully engaged, being part of the discussions, summit, creating the new strategy and developing a new supplier for Brasil,
defining economic targets and SLA's based on local services need - Savings of USD 3.6M on a 3 years contract.

Responsible for all commodities negotiation in Latin America, working closely with stakeholders to identify business requirements, savings
opportunities and strategy for procurement, with a major focus in Marketing, as described on the project below: Marketing Agency Consolidation Background: The Marketing Supply Base, for Latin America region, on 2011 was around 60 Suppliers where the capabilities of the supply base are not well understood or leveraged and existing suppliers/pricing has gone unchallenged in many instances for years. No competitive bidding process are used to select suppliers and KPI’s, Strategic Vendor Management Practices are not utilized.
Deliverables:
- Cost Savings estimated in USD 1,4M in 2 years and unified approach.
- Eliminate 41 small vendors and consolidate all Marketing Services in 19 Vendors.
- Eliminate maverick spend / business negotiation w/out Procurement participation.
- Clear process based on Procurement Policies and Procedures, eliminating any compliance risk.
- Consolidate and support operations into an agile, versatile and high efficient model, addressing Latin America market needs and accelerating AMD’s profitability.
- Business Intelligence development.
- Leverage synergies by consolidating agencies function.
- Increase Market Share & Revenue to AMD.

Negotiating and contracting new wireless services, solutions and technology for Oracle Latin America. Manage preferred Telecom and IT supplier performance and relationships. Responsible for creating and implementing RFPs; inventory management, audit and invoice approvals. Identify and execute against cost savings/avoidance opportunities and/or process improvements of high complexity.

Proactively interfacing and communicating on a regular basis with relevant key requestors and lines of business to understand ongoing functional and 
contract requirements whilst uncovering and actioning upon further opportunities for value-added procurement involvement.

Creation, development and implementation of a Procurement System for Latin America, achieving U$ 1,500,000.00 in savings. Responsible for
Vendor Management process, including: actual vendors analysis and new vendors development, policies and contracts negotiations and
procurement strategies, achieving savings around U$ 3,300,000.00. Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxlay Law full  accomplishment in accordance with market best practices.

Responsible for implementation of Latin America Shared Service Organization in SAP Miami, at two levels:
-1st phase: creating the Purchase Process to be implemented in all Latin America, in accordance with the process used in all Countries,
using the best practices from each Subsidiary and the guidelines from SAP Global Purchasing Network.
- 2nd phase: leading on the Vendor Management work stream, creating and implementing negotiation strategies, in different levels by
commodity, coordinating the plan and negotiation in each case, getting best conditions and terms in case on 3rd Party Services and Travel.

Some Projects implementations at SAP International:
- Consolidation of a single Travel Agency for all Latin America and renegotiating all related services and products including: Travel Policy
implementation and compliance, hotel program, airline negotiation, GDS negotiation, Travel Planning on line booking, calling card and
corporate card.
- Coordinating Procurement Team in all Latin America, creating strategy by commodity and renegotiating contracts for 3rd Party Services, Travel, IT, Marketing and Facilities.
- Creation and coordination of strategies negotiation by commodity. Estimated savings in one year: U$ 3,000,000

- Implementation of global agreements, ensuring service quality and cost reduction.
- Implementation and management of Corporate Procurement Card, for low amount purchases with a high volume of transactions;
- Implementation of SAP’s EBP application to support the purchasing process.
- Management and administration of facilities and services in general, including layout, administrative services in general and office maintenance.

- IT negotiation and responsible for Windows test and implementation;
- Part of the team that creates Procurement & Logistic Directory based on a project conducted by Andersen Consulting, visiting all Procurement processes for Direct and Indirect purchases.
- Development and creation of an “in house” Online Booking Tool to make tickets and hotels reservation implemented in all Country.
- Responsible for all T&E negotiation inside Alcoa Brasil (around USD 6MM per year in costs).
- Facilities and indirect purchases manager on HQ in São Paulo.

As Co-Founder on Foster Win, responsible for all Operations area:
- Spearhead strategies to steer the company’s future in a positive direction.
- Drive company’s operating capabilities to deliver customer satisfaction and retention along with company goals.
- Prepare timely and accurate business performance reports. 
- Delegate responsibilities to ensure staff members grow as capable participants.
- Employ various initiatives to coach employees to optimize their capabilities.
- Assess and implement improved processes and new technologies.
- Actively fulfill strategic plan demand with business projections into the future.

Awarded on: Project Management, Negotiations Course - Part 1 to 9
Contracting for Supply - Part 1 to 8, Efficient Supply Systems:
Development of Effective RFXs, Cost/Price Minimization: Bid Analysis,
Effective Supply: Supplier Performance Measurement and Supplier Value-Add, Establishing Relationships with Suppliers.