Position based in Costa Rica to provide sourcing services to the North American offices as part of the Procurement Center of Excellence (COE).As part of the CEO, my responsibilities during my first year in the company were to map most of the sourcing processes in the US to create all the playbooks and training materials which were used by the rest of the team members who were hired in the upcoming months. During the last two years, I have been working on projects related to Corporate Services and Site Services Categories. As part of my main responsibilities are:• Contract Management: I'm responsible for the end-to-end contract development and execution process, which includes working with Corporate Legal to get the first MSA/SOW/Sales Order/NDA draft, contract negotiation with the vendor, get internal approvals (from the business, Data Privacy, Finance, others), upload in our CLM. I am an Ariba super user. • Sourcing activities: I am responsible for running RFIs, RFPs and RFQs for different types of services, especially services related to Site Services (Facilities). These types of events include working with the business to develop the business requirements, getting the final list of participants (vendors), launching the events, following up with the vendors, data analysis, negotiation, and contract development. Also, most of the events are electronic RFXs.• Savings Delivery: I am responsible for achieving a saving target along the year. These savings come from negotiations of new services, renewals, contract termination, seeking for opportunities working in collaboration with different business units to get scale economies.IT Skills:SAP ProcurementAriba for Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)JDE/ AS400/ Quick BaseDocuSign / AdobeDign

Management of the vendor portfolio and spending of the categories under my scope, for nine countries. Selection and certification of preferred providers. Actively supporting the global, regional and local projects, helping the Company to achieve their annual objectives. Training suppliers and internal customers on procedures, best practices and use of the new system. 1 direct report.• I successfully represented Procurement in the implementation of SAP Purchasing. I reviewed, validated and registered the information into the new system, keeping the Procurement team and the rest of the Company informed and updated about the changes, risks and opportunities during this journey. The Procurement process was kept working as usual with no interruption nor downtimes and the new system helped the area to improve the buying experience and the reporting process.• I reduced the number of vendors in the Company, centralizing the spend with the main certified suppliers and reducing the risk associated with having many small vendors and increasing our negotiation power. I followed up the results for Central America, The Caribbean and Andean countries. After this process, the number of vendors were reduced by aprox. 30%, simplifying the entire P2P process and reducing the associated workload.• I supported a team which forced Headquarters to review Global Vendors contracts, by contacting regional providers, inspecting their sites, updating their offers and quality standards and preparing the final offers to comply with our global guidelines. As a result, the regional vendors were kept instead of replacing them with global contracts, achieving further savings within the established quality and quantity requirement.

Procurement of all categories of the Company. Member of the Local Executive board, supporting all the needs, projects and purchases that were raised by the business. 2 direct reports. For this assignment I was repatriated to Lima, Peru.• Arriving in Lima, I was requested to join a team which had to solve a long-lasting logistics problem. I assisted the team in finding potential options, asking them for quotes and compare all options. I also negotiated with the final vendors and support the contract process with selected vendor. With the new vendor, the quality risks were reduced and the KPIs improved.• I implemented the Anti-corruption and Anti-bribery Global program in Peru. Every vendor was reviewed and graded, and later received an improvement program with recommendation. Every year this assessment was repeated, helping to continuously reduce the corruption risks.

Support the regional procurement manager in the Commercial Procurement (print material, gimmicks, TV spots, Advertising Agencies) with negotiation, purchase order, follow up of deliveries, vendor performance review. • I negotiated the printing material package. I run an inverted auction with vendor from different countries. The saving achieved was for 18% and there was not delays in the delivery. • I implemented cost saving ideas to obtain maximum efficiencies. • I identified invoices discrepancies. • I investigated non-conforming materials. • I used to issue and followed up the Purchase Orders. • I developed new supply sources. • I assisted internal and external audits.