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Armada, Michigan, United States

Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Welland, Ontario, Canada

Bahia - Brazil

Lead a team that pursue opportunities to localize parts once bought overseas to be purchased in the region (taking advantage of local taxes benefits and optimized costs).Coordinate the entire South America Purchasing team on identifying and implement cost reduction opportunities,

Bahia - Brazil

Manage all South America Powertrain programs to ensure it follows the requirements and milestones on planned timing.Responsible for keeping the teams involved (Commodity Purchasing, Engineering, Finance, Logistics, Manufacturing, etc.) committed to achieve the financial, quality and timing expected results. Lead the team on monitoring and reporting all the Programs status for local and global director’s board.

Bahia

Coordinated the process of supplier’s capacity investments (tooling, packaging and facilities) due to Ford South America plants production volume changes.Led a team responsible for monitoring suppliers with financial problems (SRM - Supplier Risk Management), seeking to ensure partners financial health and minimize possible impacts to the company.Worked on crisis management in the supply base that may impacts the vehicle, engines or transmissions production in the region.Actively supported the Internal Control team, seeking continuously that Purchasing Department complies with all Company procedures in any activity performed.

Bahia - Brazil

Developed a global purchasing strategy, creating a synergy opportunity with negotiations from several regions. The results were a rework decrease and higher "leverage" to negotiate with suppliers. (Strategic Sourcing).Elaborated analytical and management reports for business units - Business Cases.Supported the team on the usage of several purchasing tools such as market test, single sourcing and dual sourcing strategiesLed the team in benchmarking studies and on implementation of cost reduction actions, using tools such as TVM (Team Value Management), reaching reductions up to 10% of the commodity turnover.

Bahia - Brazil

Elaborated cost structure analysis for parts, equipment and services (cost breakdown) to support negotiations with suppliers.Experience in consolidating and negotiating various contracts, including price adjustments.Worked focus on identifying and negotiating cost reductions.Developed, approved and evaluated suppliers, seeking to improve the supply base.

Certificate, Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, General

College, Business School