Leonardo Mata Email & Phone Number

San José, Costa Rica

San José, Cr

Costa Rica

Costa Rica

•Leading 5 Procurement Sub-Divisions (IT Asset Management, IT Purchasing, Travel and Card Program Administrators, CSR and Supplier Diversity and Procurement Project Management Office)• Review and manage the work balance between the analysts.• Improve the effectiveness of the Procurement Department core processes to drive costsavings, standardization and improved productivity.• Meet monthly targets established for Procurement. Analyze monthly KPIs and develop actionsplans to correct gaps if needed. When potential risks are identified, communicate them to theHR & General Manager• Drive change management/implementation, and process changes related to improvingbusiness performance and project management.• Document process flow/updates and deliver effective presentations while ensuring alldocumentation is updated, accurate, organized and archived.• Perform Procurement training to the new hires and/or Procurement processes refreshers andupdates.• In charge of reviewing the performance with the team members and provide feedback andplans of action based on their results.

San Jose ,Costa Rica

Responsible for the day-to-day administration of the global and local travel and card programs in the Americas countries on behalf of the Publicis Groupe:• Respond to issues which may arise with travel suppliers• Providing assistance to the Global Travel and Related Services Manager with global RFPs• Overseeing and project managing implementation of the global travel program in new agencies / markets to agreed timescales• Day-to-day tasks of the corporate card program for all markets: - Ensuring internal controls / processes are respected - Processing card applications (including internal application forms) - Debt / delinquency management of all card products - Aligning the BTA payment process with accounts payable teams - Annual audit of cardholder employee status• Ensuring hierarchy for all markets is correct for global suppliers, including checks on raw data• Completing required reporting: - Working in collaboration with AMEX Travel and AMEX Card to create monthly data blocks - Contracted carriers marketshare reporting : identifying and reducing leakage - Prepare and analyse monthly and quarterly travel reports for the Groupe and the Solutions HUBs from global AMEX Travel interactive dashboard - Annual CSR reports in collaboration with AMEX Travel - General reporting / spend analytics• Co-write Quarterly Business Review presentations with global suppliers• Arranging signature of Local Country Agreements for global suppliers• Managing and maintaining the list of out of policy approved travellers with the HUB CTOs• Acting as 2nd level approver for out of policy travel bookings: - Bookings made locally which breach the Groupe’s travel policy - Reviewing situations where more than the required number of travelers are on the same flight• Managing local travel contracts• Running local travel contract RFPs

Costa Rica

Performing tactical and strategic administrative support tasks for upper executive level employeesAbility to correspond and connect with senior leadership internal and external to the companyCalendar maintenance, scheduling executive appointments and meetings, answering/screening/routing telephone calls for upper level executives, preparing expense reportsMaking travel arrangements and preparing expense reportsWork with internal employee tools, and Microsoft suiteMentoring/leading the general administrative staff of the department and other established general administrative requirements of the organizationWorking with peers in other departments/divisions and companiesUsually works with multiple issues/projectsTo complete assignments/tasks in innovative and effective ways.Expert knowledge on the general/technical aspects of the job.Works on assignments that is extremely complex in nature need the ability to handle most unique situations.

Costa Rica

Supporting several Managers and Executives with following tasks:Time ManagementSet up meetings across multiple country- and time zonesReservation of meeting rooms, technical equipment and catering serviceArrangement of national and international conference callsDetailed travel arrangement and organizationPreparation and creation of meeting, event, workshop agendasTravel accountingE-Mailbox handling for supported managementSummarization of reportsCollect input and summaries from team membersRequest and tracking of data sheetsEditing and preparation of presentationsStand in for colleagues in case of vacation and sickness

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Business/Trade/Commerce

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