Responsible for developing suppliers, benchmarking and potential suppliers recommendation for the proposal team.Interaction with the sales, engineering and proposal teams for development and execution of new projects with third party vendors participation. Responsible for managing Strategic Sourcing in the southern cone of Latin America: Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia.Coordination of buyers located in Costa Rica: coordinating procurement execution for projects in each of the countries, following up deliveries and suppliers performance.KPIs development and implementation to control de activities of the area.

Direct contact with the Procurement and Supply Chain global team, managed directly by the Director located in Austin, TX, USA. Responsible for the Procurement support to the proposal and project execution teams.Responsible for the purchasing development and execution of the COMPERJ project in Brazil, additionally to other local projects.Suppliers development, negotiations, benchmarking: for intercompany and third party vendors material (national and imported items) - interaction with engineering for technical and commercial definition of the scope to be supplied.Suppliers capacity analysis, production capacity, costs structure and performance as per the internal targets of the company and attending the clients requirements.Project coordination: interaction with suppliers, engineering, business units (intercompany purchasing), sales and buyers (Brazil, India, Costa Rica and USA teams).Interaction with the project team to facilitate material replacement, standardization and rework on purchased material | equipment.Coordination of the procurement activities and coordination and development of a team with 4 buyers (3 located in Brazil, 1 located in Costa Rica): responsible for developing commercial strategies per products category, ensuring that the company politics is in place and attending the objectives of each project.Responsible for solution of delivery issues: development risk management and mitigation plans together with the buyers. Responsible for implementing supply chain continuous improvement actions for projects: KPIs and Scorecard development and implementation.Costs reduction initiatives implemented in the area, generating over 10% savings on the executed projects.International experience: Emerson USA and Emerson Costa Rica.

Responding directly to the Procurement Director located in Curitiba, SP, Brazil.Responsible for the Procurement area (material management) located in the Salto unit.Purchasing management of indirect materials and services suppliers, including purchasing of assembly lines, prices negotiation of new and current items, and purchasing strategy definition for indirect materials.Costs reduction projects development and processes mapping and optimization.Risks identification, management and mitigation: contracts management.Suppliers qualification and audits. SAP key-user (MM-Pur module): responsible for the development and implementation of the B2B system in Brose do Brasil.International experience: Brose Germany.

Responsible for coordinating and implementing improvements in the current procurement processes.Assistance on the components and raw material purchasing negotiation and benchmarking: elastomers, plastics, foundry, bars, wires and tapes.Suppliers performance system implementation (Quality and Logistics): evaluation, audits, certifications and performance follow up.Responsible for issuing and controlling the statistics data of the procurement area.Development and implementation of the IT system: procurement process optimization and continuous improvement (including training for internal users and suppliers).Coordination of the project to unify the Procurement processes of the Schaeffler Group (LuK, INA, FAG) - Business Process Optimisation | Change Management.Development and implementation of the project “Schaeffler On-Line” for Procurement (development and conception of the website: www.schaeffler.com.br for suppliers).Responsible for the “6 Sigma” project for the optimization of the Procurement process (annual saving of 1 MBRL).Coordination and implementation of the MM-Pur module of SAP at Schaeffler in Portugal with training in Schaeffler Germany (Jan/07 till Nov/07).

Language lab coordinator: supporting studing and teaching english with "hands on" practices.English teacher for children, teenagers and adults.