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1. Vendor Negotiations: Negotiate contracts, scope of work, purchase orders and change orders, and pricing with vendors to ensure the best possible terms. 2. Procurement Strategy Development: Create and implement strategies for hardware (laptops, servers, data centers, switches, routers; products that align with the organization's goals and budget.3. Supplier Relationship Management: Maintain and manage relationships with suppliers to ensure timely delivery and quality of IT products and services.4. Market Research: Conducting market research to stay abreast of the latest IT products, trends and pricing.5. Compliance and risk management: Ensure that all procurement activities comply with legal, security, and corporate policies, and manage risks associated with the supply chain.6. Renewal Monitoring: Manage and monitor US-Latam-Canada vendors for all contracts requiring renewal to ensure compliance with contract terms and evaluate effectiveness of sourcing strategies. Be the single point of contact for the business.7. Work with EDT department: Work closely with the EDT department to understand their needs and requirements to ensure procurement activities support the organization's IT objectives.8. Reporting: Provide regular reports to senior management on procurement activities, including cost savings, vendor performance and market trends.

• Responsible for US$100M in Net Customer Sales.• Achieved more than $12M in cost savings projects during 14 years with the company.o Strategic Planning: Developing and implementing procurement strategies for external manufacturing to ensure alignment with the company's overall goals and objectives.o Sourcing and Negotiation: Identifying potential external manufacturing partners, negotiating contracts, and securing favorable terms and pricing.o Supplier Relationship Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with external manufacturers to ensure quality, timely delivery, and cost-effectiveness.o Performance Monitoring: Evaluating and monitoring the performance of external manufacturers to ensure compliance with contractual terms and quality standards.o Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating risks associated with external manufacturing, including supply chain disruptions and quality issues.o Collaboration: Working closely with internal departments such as production, quality assurance, and logistics to ensure seamless integration of external manufacturing processes.o Market Research: Conducting market research to stay updated on industry trends, new technologies, and potential new manufacturing partnerso Cost Management: Managing the procurement budget for external manufacturing and identifying opportunities for cost savings.

• Led the negotiations for raw, pack, freight forwarders, customs agencies, inland transports, marketing agencies, trade marketing agencies, capital, travel, legal services, and construction-facilities for Central America operations. Also in charge of negotiations for Indirect expenses such as logistics, custom agencies and secondary packing.• In charge of the Logistics department during 2012 plus current responsibilities.

• The annual budget under my responsibility was $45M. I negotiated with executives in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Panama, US and Mexico. • My projects achieved more than $2M in cost savings.• In charge of entire the supply chain, from the purchasing, freight, customs, warehousing, delivery and post sales operations for consumer goods such as Samsung Electronics, Frigidaire, Whirpool, Revlon, Haier.