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Mexico City, Mexico

México

Developing and executing procurement strategies that align closely with the company's strategic objectives. This involves a market analysis to identify opportunities and negotiating favorable terms with suppliers, implementing cost-saving initiatives that prioritize maintaining the high quality of products and services, thereby enhancing overall.

Ciudad De México, México

Ciudad De México, México

• Responsible to coordinate the delivery of operational processes (with the Global Service Centers) as primary point of contact for Mexico and Central America & Caribean Cluster and backup support throughout Latin and.
• Launched Procurement Policy within México and Central America & Caribean Cluster implementing trainings for all associates in all divisions, ensuring 98% alignment and compliance with Procurement procedures.
• Acted as Anti Bribery, Third Party Risk Management Champion and Country Compliance SPOC
• Managed Systems rollouts and manage testing environments
• Performed Data cleansing activities in collaboration with Master Data team
• Collaborated with Content team and buyers to improve the “handsfree” PO performance, increasing more than 20% in México for categories like Laboratory, Marketing and Fleet within one year.

Ciudad De México, México

• Responsible for the local / regional strategic implementation for Corporate Spend / Marketing category through annual negotiations consolidating purchases cross divisionally ensuring a cost reduction and improving.
• Implemented the Global Project for agency optimization (Public Relations and Corporate Communications) with vendors Tier 1, launched the project on time consolidating the spend improving the purchase experience of.
• Consistenly delivered productivity / cost efficiency targets (5-12% cost reduction), achieving the goals in categories like Consulting and Corporate spend.
• Performed the recruitment project with headhunters implementing a rate per successful hires decreasing the spend (10%) in these category.
• Through continuous monitoring and review of the contract with the facilities provider, the KPIs were met, including innovation and savings projects
• Served as key contact for stakeholders working with different areas for example: Marketing, Finance (CFO), Internal Communication and HR. Building effective relationships of mutual trust and understanding.

Ciudad De México, México

• Responsible to provide cross-divisional category expertise, to proactively carry out continuous analyses, frequently re-alignthe local activities with the global category strategy as well as support the strategy.
• Led purchase, contract and Risk evaluation of restaurant, meal and fuel cards for all Novartis divisions in Méxicoensuring standardization, working with one vendor, negotiated 12% cost reduction.
• Local negociation with the vendor Tier 2 for Contingent Labor, gaining a reduction of 8% annual spend.
• Actively contribute to the identification of business critical opportunities resulting in process improvement, savingsgeneration.
• Led purchase of Fleet for all Novartis divisions in México, consolidating vendors ensuring the delivery on time and7-10% cost reduction.
• Responsible for the generation and delivery to Compliance Team of the evidences for Financial Controls,participating in Self-assessment with risk mitigated and some low risk actions implementations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Administración

Certificado, Organizational Communication, General

Certificación en Herramientas de Coaching para líderes