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Santiago De Querétaro, Qro., Mx

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Hershey, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for the Sourcing of the Indirect Categories for the 2 manufacturing plants located in Mexico: Guadalajara and Monterrey, managing a $72MM USD annual spend. Leading a team of 5 highly-skilled procurement professionals that manage several categories such as: CAPEX, MRO & Facilities.

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for the development and execution of the Sourcing Strategy for Electricity and Natural Gas suppy for all the manufacturing sites and offices of Colgate-Palmolive and Hill's Pet within North America and LATAM.Implemented robust holistic solutions for NA plants such as: VPPA, Community Solar and Demand Response.Main responsibilities included secured supply, develop suppliers, have back-up plans, reduce carbon emmission with the implementation of the Corporate Sustaiability Strategy, deliver structural savings, manage cost risk by price locking and locking for new business models and tecnological solutions to improve efficiencies.Lead the Regional Energy initiatives and the Global Energy Procurement forecast task-force.Responsible for the monthly, quarterly and annual prices forecasting for Utilities and budgetting process.

New York, New York, Us

Leading the Supply Chain procurement team for the categories of MRO, Capex, Facilities and Utilities of the largest manufacturing plant of Colgate globally.

New York, New York, Us

Responsible for the Raw & Pack materials sourcing strategy and procurement of the Home Care category with a $340 MM of annual spend for the largest productive plant of Colgate worldwide.

New York, New York, Us

Leading the procurement strategy for Supply Services in Mexico, with a responsibility over $120MM annual spend. Leading a team of 5 highly-skilled proffesionals that manage several categories such as CAPEX, MRO, Waste Management, Facilities Services, Real Estate and Energy. With a keen focus on delivering sustained structural savings, processes simplification, operational excellence and policy compliance.Leading the LATAM Energy Sourcing Strategy. Signed a Renewable Energy PPA for the largest manufacturing plant of CP worlwide, delivering net structural savings and environmental footprint benefits by reducing CO2 emissions in a 50%.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Responsible for a $60 MM USD spend in Mexico. Leading the implementation of the global Integrated Facilities Management for 8 plants (soft and hard services). Responsible for the rent, sale and acquisition of new land, warehouses and plants for new projects or operations shutdown. Responsible for the top management governance for the service levels at each site according to the global contract of the Facilities Management.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Responsible for a $50 Million spend to source energy for sites in LA, including commodities (electricity, natural gas, etc.), O&M services for our CoGeneration plant, renewable energy solutions implementation and energy consumption reduction programs execution.Leading the sourcing strategy to supply green energy to P&G in LA. Implementing new commercial models to assure supply and save money in the regulated commodity market in Mexico, Guatemala and Venezuela.Analyzing the best business models to maximize value while saving energy and money to the company.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Responsible for a $90 Million spend leading a group of 3 persons in LA in charge of the integral waste management and solutions for Non Productive Inventories of Finished Product.Developed and implemented alternative uses (re-use, recycle) for specific waste streams bringing value (cash $30MM USD) to the company and cost savings ($5MM USD / yr.). Developed secondary markets for obsolete Finished Product inventories to gain share and recover value of formerly disposed goods generating a Total Value for the company of $35MM USD in 4 years).

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Responsible for a $45 Million spend leading a group of 2 persons in LA.Designed a new sourcing model for Fabricated Spare Parts through an in-house workshop managed by a 3rd party generating cost savings ($7MMUSD/yr.) and improving reliability for a continuos operation (+95%).

Responsible for the negotiation and purchase of raw food (seafood), packaging, transportation and customs services in a global scale. Responsible for the national and international logistics of raw material and finished product .Created solutions in the areas of inventory, purchases reporting, distribution and product upgrades that led to system improvements and streamlined processes, generating overall total savings of 25% vs. previous years. Developed 5 new suppliers in Asia and North America.

Miguel Hidalgo, Ciudad De México, Mx

Responsible for the negotiation and purchase of $350MM USD for the manufacturing plant of aluminum cans for soft drinks/beer based on quality specifications from FEMSA and Anheuser-Busch for Aluminum Rolls, Paint and coatings, Customs and Transportation Services. Responsible for the international logistics and inventory of raw materials. Reduced delivery times by the optimization of customs processes and implemented the “just in time” system to reduce inventories and associated costs.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for the negotiation and purchase of specialized Philips LED fixtures and transportation and customs services. Responsible for the inventory, achieving lowest historical rates avoiding over-costs and making more efficient delivery times to final clients.

Responsible of the definition, execution and analysis of international biddings for the award of infrastructure construction contracts. Responsible for making the specialized reports of the commercial balance, economy and politics of regional countries for the Annual Report of the Mexican president.