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Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Managing and coaching the Chinese SCM department. Set-up performances targets for the Chinese SCM department (individual and team) and secure a structured follow-up.Overall responsible for maintaining stock levels at Hoyer Ningbo warehouse.Overall responsible for enquiry handling, planning and direct purchase process and executionManaging of external supply chain projects.Planning and management of supplier warehouses, capacity management at suppliers, handling NPI processes at existing suppliers and implementation plans for new suppliers.Responsible for continues improvement of supplier’s lead-times and delivery performances.Facilitate monthly performances review meetings with key suppliers incl. improvement plan follow-up.Participate in cross-functional projects at the suppliers together with Quality and Technical departments.

Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand

Invercargill

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for Managing Sourcing & Supplier Qualification teams: 13 people;Responsible for defining and implementing procurement, qualification and sourcing strategies Xmas trees, manifolds, connection systems, wellheads & services;Sourcing Council & Mission Based Team member for Brazil;Compliance Investigator for Sourcing;SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS- Best Cost Country strategy increased participation from 0.6% to 16% in 2017;- Development and qualification of Chinese & Mexican suppliers with +30% deflation potential and impact onseveral O&G biz;- Achieve 100+ days’ payment terms on average starting in 2017 through reverse factoring;- Consistently achieving 6-13% deflation YoY in the past 5 years;- Through Sourcing Council & MBT, leveraging full GE purchasing power to improve overall cost savinginitiatives in Cash, Forgings & Fabrication;- Succession plan with globally recognized talents;- HSE & Supplier compliance with zero issues in the last 2 years;- Contributing to 100% OTD & CMs of 35-50% in Subsea & Offshore;- Turnaround of Services business in 2014-15, CMs from -5% to +23% and OTDs from 5% to 60%;- 3 Successful compliance investigations;- Services team buyers’ rationalization (from 16 to 3 employees);- Provide complete sourcing and procurement proposal for a US$ 1.5 billion Petrobras contract in 2 months, 3times faster than previous contract.- Savings of more than 30% in negotiations of fabrication parts, machining and forgings for Xmas trees and toolsfor well heads, US$ 6 million savings (from Aug/2011 to Mar/2012).- Negotiate US$ 50 million Xmas Tree package for OGX with 30% decrease in total expenditure.

Jandira, Sp Brazil

Management of Sourcing and supplier qualification activities for GE O&G Business in Latin America (Offshore, Subsea Production Systems, Services and Manifolds & Connection Systems).

Macaé Area, Brazil

Managing 3 sourcing teams, 2 Sourcing Specialists + 6 buyers (Subsea Services, Drilling & Wellstream Construction). Empower team to only do the right thing, no excuses. Working on improving OTD & Savings/Deflation. Define trackable metrics with interfaces (Requisition compression, Quality documents evaluation etc)Make full use of ERP and drive/help other areas of the company to do the same (OSP, planning, Process Eng’g).Daily reports with full transparency to stake holders.

Macaé Area, Brazil

Management of Planning team composed of 2 Material Planners and 4 Repair Planners. Team building & empowerment, correction of positions, salary and terminations. Implementation of MRP in Oracle for Xmas Trees repairs, Critical and secondary tools in one week. Considerable savings achieved by volume purchasing and improvement of short cycle purchases.Definition, negotiation and implementation of segregated stocks for field services, according to contract definition. Definition and implementation of hard & soft pegging for all projects.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Responsible for defining and implementing strategies for commodities (raw material and machining) in Well heads and Xmas Trees.Green Belt Certification with 100% OTD project as team member (fully implemented and successful).Responsible for all sourcing in client proposals, including long term contracts for big clients to insure lead times and deflation targets.Full sourcing cycle for 10 Xmas trees (Sourcing ITO, Supplier definition & fulfilment) 100% OTDTeam member of bid for Petrobras’ $1.2 billion Wellhead FA: (Sourcing ITO phase)

Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for Purchasing, including machinery from (Brazil, China, Germany, France, Taiwan, India etc) doing the whole negotiation (lead time, prices, payment conditions and support to technical issues;Vendor development for the new factory of generators and high voltage motors for the Indian operation, giving guidance to the purchase team and gathering information from the Design Engineering Area and Sales team.Development and execution of the imports procedure, responsible for agent's negotiation, local laws documentation, international freight, customs duty and local transportation.Single handed done the full SVB registration with Indian Customs in order to allow imports from parent and related companies.Global Procurement – Responsible for India – search for alternative supply sources for Brazilian operation.Taking part of the team to set up the first green field project of WEG outside Brazil.Supporting financial activities, forecasting expenditures, as well as handling coordination of IT and Purchasing teams. Main Achievements:Reduction of import taxes for machinery imports of parent company by properly amking the correct documentation with Indian Customs - SVB (Extra Import Tax drop from 5% to 1%), savings of USD 600,000. Avoidance of harassment charges in imports procedures – savings of USD 50,000.Negociation of several machines and equipments totalling USD 10 million, saving of USD 1 million compared with the budget and USD 3.5 compared to the approved by the Director’s Board. Development of new PT-100 (thermal sensor) supplier with savings of around 50% (USD 200,000) and thermistors with savings around 30% (USD 100,000) to the Indian and Brazilian operations.IT infrastructure costs (cabling, CISCO, servers, workstations and desktops) were the lowest in company history (40% lower).

Jaraguá Do Sul Area, Brazil

Development of new suppliers, quality follow-up of current suppliers, improvement of suppliers’ processes and development of new components based on engineering needs, Global Sourcing and Milk-run.Working in the areas of copper and aluminum rods, enameled and mica taped copper wires, injected plastic parts in PP, PBT, PA and different blends, electrical terminals and lugs, switches, wire harnesses, power cords and others. Analyses of international commodities market, mainly for copper and aluminum to develop management report as a tool for decision making in hedge strategies.Support for engineering in selecting the right component for the client needs.Negotiation of procurement contracts and strategic partnerships, considering deadlines, quantities, imports and costs.Support to other units of the Group (Mexico, China etc) in the aforesaid areas.Classification development and material definition for SAP.Development of comparison routines for exported material to SAP from BaaN. Evaluation of supplier’s quality levels, responsible for the follow-up of internal and in clients non-conformities.Responsible for all types of connectors and terminals, as a components for clients and productive processes in the assembly line.Implementation and coordination of RoHS compliant components.Responsible for engineered injected plastics, including development of high and low temperature blends (-40oC up to 200oC), electricity conduction plastics etc.Main achievements:Lead-time improvement in copper rods from 7 to 1 day with USD 50 less per metric ton.Strategic partnership for wire harnesses, lowering costs in 30% (USD 1 million/year) and non-conformities lower than 100 PPM (from 800 PPM) in materials receiving. Complete substitution of terminals, presses and tooling resulting in USD 300,000/year savings and drastically lowering quality issues in crimping.Checking of more the 300,000 components from the old ERP (BaaN) to the new database of SAP.

Master'S Degree, Business Enterprise, 8

Mba, Logistics

Eng, Industrial Engineering (Electrical)

Activities and Societies: I participated in several labs during my years in the University: LabSAD - Lab. of Support Systems.