Andrea Menezes Email & Phone Number

Brazil

Franca, São Paulo, Brasil

• Report to the Industrial Management.
• I was invited to return to the company to support the leveraging of results, mainly through people management, and alignment of activities and operations with the teams from the Commercial, Accounting, Finance, R&D.
• Management of the processes of prospecting new suppliers and operational partners, continuous work to approve new raw materials with lower costs and increased payment terms.
• Conducting import/export operations, with management of arrival and delivery lead times, assessment of shipping costs, customs clearance and unloading/stuffing of containers.
• Regular meetings with the PPC team, Industrial Management, R&D Management, and Production Supervisors, to monitor inventory levels, sales forecasts, production lead times and revenue projections.
• Active participation in meetings with the Commercial team, to align future demands for raw materials and packaging, and preview revenue (RealxForecast).

São Paulo, Brasil

• Report to the Supply-Chain Executive Manager. Team management with 5 Buyers, 1 facilities analyst and 1 assistant, responsible for supplying the 7 manufacturing units and the Distribution Center.
• Responsible for team development, seeking to strengthen negotiation strategies in accordance with the company's cost reduction goals and objectives.
• Conducting negotiations for strategic materials and inputs, commodities, industrial project items, equipment, contracting corporate services.
• Management and monitoring of KPI, building of reports and presentations, the main inputs and market monitoring, to report to the Board.
• Project manager for the implementation of the B2B plataform (Go Live April/22), for the optimization and automation of quotations and purchase orders.
• Support the R&D area in cost reduction projects, and innovation in packaging and formulas.

Franca, São Paulo, Brasil

• Report to CEO. Team management with 5 employees.
• Responsible for the creation and coordination of the foreign trade cell for the integration of import and export operations.
• Management of the process of register of Concession Acts for Drawback and control system.
• Definition of the export goals together with the Controllership and Sales Administration.
• Implementation of Export and Import KPIs.
• Improving operations in the factories for better export process suport.

• Report to the Corporative Supply Chain Manager. Team management with 2 employees.
• Responsible for the import operations of the factories of international suppliers of raw materials, products for resale and equipment.
• Negotiation and contract management with dispatchers, port terminals, EADIs, freight agents, shipping lines and transport services (road, sea and cabotage).
• Negotiation of chemical inputs, polymers, packaging and matrices for the factories of adhesives and rubber compounds.
• Definition of the strategy of the import sector and analysis of the "gaps" of the area.
• Mapping of operational procedures, automation of processes and changes in work routines.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Report to the Corporative Director of Supplies and EHS. Team management with 8 employees.
• Management of negotiations for the purchase of imported and domestic raw materials, packaging, CAPEX categories (purchase of industrial equipment), chemicals and pigments.
• Negotiation of transport services by road, rail, sea, inland waterway and cabotage, port services and dispatchers.
• Physical and financial control of stock levels of strategic raw materials in port warehouses.
• Leadership of the Capex Buyers Committee in the Company's factories.
• Definition of the strategy and structuring of the process of negotiation of packaging in a corporate standard.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Report to the Purchasing Category Corporative Manager.
• Management of raw material negotiations and transportation services.
• Logistics coordination of maritime shipments of imported raw materials.
• Management of global raw material contracts applicable to Brazil, Argentina and Chile, along with consumer factories and foreign suppliers.
• Monitoring of market inflation indexes and benchmarking with Purchasing Inflation Index.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Report to the Purchasing Category Corporative Manager.
• Negotiation of raw materials and transport services.
• Control of the adjustments of the inputs that make up the cost of road freight (tire, diesel, labor, maintenance and toll).
• Elaboration and maintenance of the Internal Purchasing Inflation Index.

São Bernardo Do Campo, SP, Brasil

• Responsible for the updating of technical standards and follow-up of quality tests of truck parts and components.

Bacharelado Em Engenharia, Metallurgical Engineering

Escola Politécnica, Graduation In Metallurgical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Management