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Wilmington, De, Us

As a Senior Buyer for NA Trucking at DuPont, I play a pivotal role in supporting various business units across North America by securing high-quality, timely, safe, and cost-effective truck transportation services. My responsibilities encompass developing and implementing procurement strategies, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards, and driving process improvements to enhance service delivery.Key Responsibilities:• Industry Expertise: Develop a deep understanding of the NA Trucking industry, ensuring alignment with logistics goals and service objectives. Leverage this knowledge to enhance supply chain efficiency and safety.• Strategic Procurement: Negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions for truck transportation services. Craft competitive contracts that safeguarded DuPont’s interests while fostering strong relationships with carriers.• Collaboration: Work closely with Business Unit Logistics teams and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to define current and future trucking needs. Resolve operational challenges and maintained seamless communication.• Cost Optimization: Determinedly evaluate carriers to reduce costs and streamline the supply chain. Achieve an optimal balance of suppliers, ensuring equipment availability and geographic coverage.

Irving, Texas, Us

Managing a 4PL and support associates. Oversaw sourcing of Road services (FTL/LTL/Intermodal) for USA, Canada, and cross-border to Mexico.• Exceeded synergy goal for 1st year, during Mobility & Materials (M&M) integration with Celanese, bringing 17% of TL yearly savings and strengthened relationship with strategic carriers through RFQ process.• Secured 2% of LTL yearly savings with strategic partners, maintaining delivery metrics on a year with significant LTL headwinds (bankruptcy/strikes/cyber-attack), transferring volume to more reliable carriers and reviewing supplier’s base and routing guide.

Irving, Texas, Us

As CM, ensuring NA Road transportation solutions are procured in a high quality, safe, timely and cost effective manner for our internal customers in a very challenging market situation.Within Road transportation category, responsible for TL, LTL, drayage, liquid bulk and dry bulk.As SRM, supporting both each CM and Business on escalations and developing supplier on continuous improvement projects.

Wilmington, De, Us

Managed support associates. Responsible for all road (TL, LTL, drayage, liquid bulk and dry bulk) purchasing for Mobility & Materials (M&M) and Water & Protection (W&P) business units.• Secured capacity in 2021 with individual negotiation and captured 15% of yearly savings in 2022 with a RFQ, while preparing for M&M’s divestiture (pitcher and catcher activities).

Wilmington, De, Us

- Review pipeline initiatives, prioritize and plan based on logistics strategies and businesses requirements/needs.- Conduct spend analysis and market analysis for each category identifying and developing suppliers to meet businesses and DuPont Distribution Safety requirements.- Develop sourcing and negotiation strategies in order to maximize DuPont competitive position in the market place.- Execute strategy using RFx and sourcing tools such as GEP Smart.- Implement negotiation and develop contracts to control process and extract the best benefit to our businesses and operations, so that we can have best service level, avoiding any supply disruptions.- Manage supplier relationship using continuous improvement and SRM techniques.

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mx

Providing sourcing and procurement services for specific projects at GE Grid Solutions and GE Renewable Energy - Wind Onshore Services.

Boulogne-Billancourt, Ile-De-France, Fr

Responsible for supplier's development and qualification request, bids and RFQs, selection, negotiation and hiring of transportation, warehousing, freight forwarders and logistics operators services, for both project and general cargo related to Wind market.• Reduced 33% of inbound warehousing cost after combining Alstom and GE Wind volumes, decreasing total cost of a wind turbine in 19%, combined with increase on payment terms.

Fr

Responsible for supplier's development and qualification, bids and RFQs, selection, negotiation and hiring of transportation, warehousing, freight forwarders and logistics operators services, for both project and general cargo related to Wind market. Also responsible for Wind Farm's crane and installation services sourcing process.And always keeping an eye on cost reduction based on different logistics strategies and innovation.• Developed new supplier for break-bulk cabotage of wind blades while previous supplier also improved cost, which enabled shipping with 2 suppliers, bringing 33% of yearly savings.

Responsible for all logistics operations for the Gas & Condensed Processing Expansion Project of Cabiunas Terminal (PLANGAS/TECAB), including international and domestic transportation, project and general cargo.- Bid development, coordination, negotiation and contract review and implementation related to logistics providers;- Logistic supervision of more than 10.000 FRT of imported equipment and material (including 4 hot oil heaters under a single Customs Entry), domestic transport of more than 70 oversized/over weighted equipments and more than 700 packaged transport.

Oo

Responsible for planning, organizing, budgeting and implementing new project procedures to day-to-day activities.Ensure that export/import process is in compliance with company and industry quality assurance standards.Ensure customer is provided excellent service throughout shipping process, including quick response to inquires and problem resolution.Implementation of a team to manage worldwide transport for key customer building a LNG plant in Australia

Oo

Coordination of project's shipments to South America region;Single point of contact for 3 major accounts;Development of new routes for projects;Administrative assistance to Management.

Houston, Texas, Us

Brazil specialist assisting sales department and coordinating air and ocean freights to/from Brazil.• Key contact for Brazilian accounts, providing document advisory to facilitate Brazilian customs clearance and making contact with customer and steamship lines in the USA and Brazil.• Improving communication and customer service with customers from South America, mainly Brazil.• Responsible for all operations of a strategic account.• Receiving, booking, routing, rate negotiation, timely invoicing and tracking cargo and processing entries as per the established process and procedure of the company.• Cost tracking, reporting, distribution, shipping and expediting.

Planned, implemented, coordinated and supervised diverse logistic projects.• Managed Service Parts Logistics Department, covering inventories in North, North-East and South-East regions of Brazil, offering 24/7 service in 17 sites. As a result of the success of this operation, the client was recognized by its customer (phone carrier) as the best spare parts provider in Brazil.• Supervised the inventory movement of all promotional materials for promotional summer campaign covering Brazilian beaches. Utilized a simple control form allowing vendors to understand and effectively input data in the WMS (Warehouse Management System). It was recognized by the client as the best managed in 5 years, for its flexibility, inventory accuracy, and low occurrence of problems. • Supervised two POS installation projects for client, coordinating the next day route of each technician, the picking and packing of POS, and the treatment of returned POS.

• Represented Chilean companies in Brazil, managing the transport of fruit, building machinery, raw material, and consumers’ products. Also promoting international and national road transportation services, searching for new markets and clients for its represented companies.• Participated in bilateral meetings and MERCOSUL meetings, lobbying to minimize the asymmetries on legislation between the participating countries.• Supervised all operational processes of international highway transportation between Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing

High School, Exatas