Achieved significant cost reduction through strategic negotiations and establishment of supplier agreements with Contract Manufacturers, resulting in substantial savings, increased profitability, capital improvements and improved supply continuity.Creation and implementation of Global Category Strategies for Contract Manufacturing, leading to significant improvement in overall supply chain efficiency and cost, fostering innovation, and contributing to a more streamlined and cost-effective contract manufacturing processes.Strategic negotiations to execute and implement nine world-class Master Supply Agreements to drive cost efficiency, improved supply continuity, inventory reduction.Obtain enterprise alignment to consolidate spend/business under preferred suppliers and ContractManufacturers and to achieve supplier consolidation and optimization.Successful Supplier Selection decisions for NPD/NPI Projects by selecting Contract Manufacturers with the appropriate technology and design capabilities that will enable the enterprise to attain strategic goals.

Successful implementation of significant cost reduction on Finished Goods through strategic negotiations with the largest Packaging Suppliers and Contract Manufacturers.Establishment of supplier agreements with Contract Manufacturers of Surgical and Robotics products,resulting in substantial savings, increased profitability, capital improvements and improved supply continuity.Creation, development, and implementation of Global Category Strategies for Packaging and ContractManufacturing, leading to very significant improvement in overall supply chain efficiency and cost, fostering innovation, and contributing to a more streamlined and cost-effective packaging and contract manufacturing costs.Negotiation and implementation of five Master Supply Agreements and more than 30 Supply Agreements.

Successful implementation of significant cost reduction on Finished Goods through strategic negotiations with the largest Packaging Suppliers and Contract ManufacturersEstablishment of supplier agreements with Contract Manufacturers of Surgical and Robotics products,resulting in substantial savings, increased profitability, capital improvements and improved supply continuity.Creation, development, and implementation of Global Category Strategies for Packaging and ContractManufacturing, leading to very significant improvement in overall supply chain efficiency and cost, fostering innovation, and contributing to a more streamlined and cost-effective packaging and contract manufacturing costs.Negotiation and implementation of five Master Supply Agreements and more than 30 Supply Agreements.

$171M USD under my responsibility and more than 500 suppliers delivering components to the TijuanaNellcor site.Achievement of +95% On Time Delivery across all spend: Direct and IndirectLed a group of 20 direct reports as part of the Direct and Indirect Purchasing Teams.Conducted cost savings negotiations with localized suppliers which resulted in $11.5M USD annualized cost savings.Successful partnership with the Global Sourcing Team to implement Category Strategies that translated in overall cost savings and supplier consolidation.

Achieved 9% cost reduction for electronics category through partnership with the local site and GlobalSourcing Team which resulted in significant cost savings, increased profitability, capital improvements.Create, develop, and implement local category strategies for the Tijuana Nellcor site and plugging into the Global Category. 22% improvement in overall supply chain efficiency and cost which contributed to a more streamlined and cost-effective.Negotiation and implementation of Local Supply Agreements which resulted in a 33% cost reduction.