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The company was established with the purpose of making sourcing from China simple. With offices set in Mainland China we provide a broad range of services that cover procurement (sourcing, negotiating, purchasing, purchase order management, etc.), quality control and logistics.

IT Service Management Analyst.Analysis and control of IT Delivery Partner’s quality of services and management of the commercialrelationship between them and Kimberly-Clark. This includes tasks such: as design and conciliationof service level agreements and key performance indicators, designing of calculation processes, andsubsequent calculation and control of indicators, budget estimation and control.Key Achievements: improved budget estimation by 30%, reduced invoice reconciliation processtime by 50%, developed various key performance indicators to measure service quality level.

Analyze company’s purchase processes to lower costs, improve profits, improve the supply chain efficiency, improve the supplier performance and minimize risk. Scope of responsibilities, amongstothers, included: understanding current and future requirements and developing a strategy to procure required goods and services applying analytical tools and a fact-based approach to negotiate contracts with suppliers, define key performance indicators, and put processes in place to monitor and measure suppliers’ performance; procurement management, global sourcing, procurement services, outsourcing procurement and spend management for direct and indirect materials and services.Key Achievements: Reduced by 13% the total spending on valves by unifying the company’s purchases.

Industrial cost management (labour, raw material, energy, indirect materials, etc.). Planning, forecasting and reporting of costs, variances between plan, forecast and actual costs, including analysis of root causes. Key Achievements: Improvement of raw material warehouse’s process efficiency leading to an area utilization reduction of 7%..

Generate production plans according to the estimated demand. Raw material supply planning to fulfil production estimations.Production control identifying variances between planned and actual results, analysis of causes and resolution of issues in order to be able to complete the production plans in a timely and quality manner.