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Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Us

• Lead the overall global dental supply chain operations, including demand and supply planning, procurement, sourcing, logistics, and supply chain analytics.• Directed the foundational efforts to establish a new Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) process at ZimVie, encompassing team formation and process development.• Collaborate with global marketing and regional sales teams to establish demand plans aligned to financial plans. Responsible for driving global forecast accuracy.• Serve as business leader and facilitator of the end-to-end SIOP process for ZimVie Dental Operations, encompassing product management review through to financial reconciliation.• Lead supply chain digitalization and analytics efforts in Power Bi, improving decision-making, supporting inventory reduction initiatives, and optimizing demand and supply planning processes.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Responsible for demand forecasting, supply, and inventory balances for all LATAM countries for Medtronic Interventional Vascular and Cardiovascular operating units.• Facilitated and led IBP processes implementation and continuous improvement with global counterparts and Marketing and Sales leadership teams.• Ensured risks, opportunities, and changes in demand signals were appropriately communicated upstream to facilitate aligned and data-driven decision making.• Developed, implemented, and guaranteed a consistent collaborative IBP process in Latin America for the Cardiovascular Business Group.• Successfully implemented enterprise Supply Chain Transformation initiatives across the region, including IBP, Supply Chain Digitalization, and Supply Chain Analytics & Insights Automation. Trained countries in IBP processes, procedures, and templates to ensure consistency and alignment across the region.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Responsible for leading the deployment of a large-scale ERP implementation for LATAM region across 12 countries for Planning, Intercompany and Sourcing workstream functions.• Accountable for business readiness of functional areas for go-live and for ongoing sustainment.• Responsible for project milestones' adherence to ensure implementation success.Recognition:SAP Implementation Operational Excellence Enabler AwardLATAM Leadership team, September 2018.

Fridley, Minnesota, Us

• Responsible for deployment and stabilization of a redesigned Demand Planning process in Latin America for the newly formed Minimally Invasive Therapies Business Unit after Covidien acquisition.• Design and enforcement of common processes among clusters including inventory policies, calendars, tools, and system adoption to support a harmonization and consistency.• In charge of leveraging existing global tools and processes to achieve synergies in the newly formed business group.• Collaborative partnership with regional Marketing, Sales, Regulatory, Quality and Finance to ensure adequate product introduction execution and regional inventory balancing.• Coaching and training to foster country planning team's engagement, enabling business outcomes in an atmosphere of constant change.• Accountable for Product Availability, Order Fulfillment, Inventory, Scrap & Obsolescence values and Indirect Costs spends yearly targets.

Fridley, Minnesota, Us

• Responsible for design and oversee the Demand forecast process, Product Lifecycle Management, Supply, and overall Inventory strategy of over 3.000 products portfolio in the Southern Cone of Latam.• Directly responsible for achievement and improvement of back order, forecast accuracy and inventory key performance indicators.• Selected, developed, and motivated a team of Planners by providing training and establishing goals and objectives, monitoring and measuring results.• Chairs for monthly S&OP meetings with local and regional market and finance managers to define product and fulfillment strategies (including forecast for annual budgeting and strategic planning).• Managed several portfolio integrations by acquisition in an aggressively growing company.Recognitions:- Covidien LATAM Innovation Award : 2013 Best LATAM Innovation Project - Slow Moving Item Reduction using DMAIC methodology.-2015 Argentina S&OP launch cross functional project - Kaizen/Lean methodology to achieve process standardization and inventory and forecast variance reduction.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for deploying Argentina chapter of the global Oliver Wight model IBP program implementation.• In charge of conducting Integrated business planning technology education and training sessions to the different stakeholders at the functional level.• Ensure design and execution of the IBP Process reflects best practices while supporting organization structure and complexities.• Ensure local considerations are understood and incorporated in the process design.• Monthly organization and design of forecasting cycle following regional and global guidelines.• Accountable for embedding IBP routines to ensure a common set of financial & sales plans are used throughout the Company and are fully integrated with the process to deliver business strategy.• Directly responsible for the demand planning and forecasting of all launches and regular products for a rolling 24-month period.

Beaverton, Or, Us

• Argentina Demand Planning, Forecasting and Inventory management within the footwear organization.• S&OP and Inventory planning reviews leadership with Marketing Managers.• Leadership of a collaborative forecasting process based on innovation roadmap, merchandising assortment plans and statistical forecasting inputs with inventory and profitability goals in mind.• Product lifecycle management and marketing intelligence strategies implementation, with emphasis on brand transitions, new product introduction, and promotions.• Procured and managed inventories to support customer backlog and forecast.• Communicated demand plans to manufacturing sites to resolve gaps between demand and supply plans.

Generation of a rolling 12-month demand forecast and development of the annual Buying Plan,coordinating historical data and statistical models with the different forecast estimations from SalesForce and Marketing. Work with Sales and Marketing to collect, determine impact and incorporatemarket intelligence (i.e. competitive activity, retail trends and trade/consumer promotional activity) intothe forecast. Assistance in defining, standardizing, and implementing improvements in demand planningprocesses across the organization. Demand forecast analysis to ensure that the forecast meets theorganization footprint according to product mix, core sku’s mix to new product launch, phase outproducts, budget, and forecast level.

Research of microeconomic and macroeconomic conditions to make business, sector and industry recommendations. Design and development of Custom-tailored consulting projects, including specific industry analysis. Design, development and publishing of periodical research reports for Argentina and Latin America. Estimation, forecast and analysis of economic and financial variables for the Latin-American Region.

Mba, Master'S Degree In Business Administration

Ba, Economics