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United Kingdom

Ensure the organization's procurement activities align with its overall strategic goals and objectives. Develop and implement procurement strategies to optimize costs + cost-saving opportunities, Identify opportunities to reduce costs through strategic sourcing, volume discounts, synergies between Regions.Process Improvement, Continuously improving procurement processes to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance. Supplier Management, Manage and enhance relationships with key suppliers, negotiate contracts, resolve any issues that may arise.Cross-Functional Collaboration, Collaboration with other departments, such as finance, IT and legal, to ensure alignment between procurement activities and overall business objectives. This includes communicating procurement requirements, addressing stakeholder concerns, and facilitating cross-functional projects. Manage tenders, RFX, until close the contract with selected supplier.

London, United Kingdom

Working on weekends as a Business and Life Coach, mentoring and coaching people to change their lifestyle, careers or build their own business. Working on a project to help women with endometriosis to change their situation, feel better and being conscious about their life.

Madrid Area, Spain

AMADEUS PROJECT: lead the strategic sourcing (bidding, selection, negotiation and contracting) and vendor management of service providers. Ensuring the efficient running of the various purchasing-to-pay processes, identifying and realizing improvements and saving opportunities in Amadeus’ value chain. Optimize the policies, practices including the procurement processes.

Madrid Area, Spain

Lead the Procurement, Demand Planning and Logistics of materials for the production of perfumes and cosmetics. Responsible for monitoring and managing global inventories, and forecasting sales and production levels to plan for materials needed. Define the sourcing strategy and managed logistics. Identify and develop a network of alternative suppliers to expand the supplier base. Check and analyse the obsolete raw materials to keep clean and optimised the inventory stock. Introduce new policies and practices including the optimization of the procurement processes as well as support the implementation of the Microsoft Dynamics AX/ ERP system.

London, United Kingdom

Company created and developed to produce healthy snacks protein-based. Manage the production required for the launch of any project. Responsible for the sourcing, procurement, planning demand and logistic processes.

Caracas,Venezuela

Won the Performance Excellence Award in 2011, 2012 and 2013.Venezuela’s largest private company. A conglomerate covering consumer goods, food, beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages.Lead a team of four, sourcing capital equipment, MRO, Raw materials, engineering and maintenance services.Develop relationships with suppliers, manage requisitions, purchase orders, planning demand and logistics. Generate and monitor the Master Production Plan to achieve optimum materials inventory. Negotiate, draft and manage contracts (cost and delivery schedules control).Projects:o Corn Flour Factory Set-up. Texas, USA (2013-14). Lead the sourcing of all the capital equipment, MRO and services to build a pre-cooked corn flour factory with a project value of over US$ 24mo Yogurt Plant Installation. Valencia, Venezuela/Spain (2010-13). For a Joint-Venture project valued in over US$120M in partnership with the Spanish company Leche Grupo Pascual. Set up a greenfield-site. Suppliers from Europe, USA and Asia.o Corn Flour Factory Expansion. Bogotá, Colombia (2010-11). Planning, sourcing and procurement the capital equipment and raw materials to expand the production of corn products. Estimated budget of US$ 6M.o Beverage Production Expansion Projects. Venezuela (2008-09). Planning, sourcing and procurement the capital equipment and raw materials to expand the production of beer and soft drinks (Pepsi Cola). Estimated budget of US$ 15M.o Authored updates of the company’s sourcing and procurement best practices (2009–2014).

Caracas Area, Venezuela

Teaching Operations and Mathematics level 1 in the Engineer field.

Caracas, Venezuela

Company dedicated to the production, distribution and marketing of valuable documents and credit cards; it offers additional services such as outsourcing of high quality office supplies, logistics and pre-printed paper. Provide consulting advice and services to potential and existing customers. Ensure the adequate supply and planning of all required materials. Develop budgets, proposals and negotiate the terms of the contractual sales. Manage indicators and customer service levels.

Caracas, Venezuela

Grupo Carvajal is a Colombian conglomerate with a presence in 15 countries in education, packaging, pulp & paper, offices and furniture, communication advice and services and information technology.Responsible for the purchase and planning of raw materials. Maintain optimum materials inventory. Establish terms, pricing, quality requirements and delivery. Prepare and process requisitions, purchase orders and invoices. Maintain records of supplier contracts, agreements, and goods received in the system. Create and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Obtain savings of over 5%, through the implementation of more structured procurement.

Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela

Market leader in the production and commercialization of steel products in the Caribbean and the Andean Community (then Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).Sourcing and contract management for logistic and industrial services. Support the achievement of savings in excess of 10% on a spend of c. US$ 165m in a high inflation environment. Increase service capacity and improve suppliers’ performance.

Valencia, Venezuela

Facilities management and outsourced services company.Manage a 15+ person team. Responsible for staff scheduling and overtime assignment. Managing team and individual performance. Development of a quality management system optimizing business processes in staff costs and processes. -Drove operational efficiencies, raised customer service levels and cut costs, achieving savings of over 15%.

Beng Industrial Engineering, Degree Thesis With Honours.

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General, Degree Thesis With Honours.

Specialization: Advanced Studies In International Management.

International Coaching Certification, Coaching

Diploma In Personal Nutrition And Sports And Exercise Nutrition, Foods, Nutrition, And Wellness Studies, General