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Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Houston, Texas, US

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, BR

• Responsible for supporting Owners to implement a new Supply strategy for air and ocean products,reorganization of the international network and its policies as also sales and customer support fornew and remaining.
• Budget preparation and follow-up: Costs, efficiencies, facilities capacity, productivities.
• Work closely with the leadership team of assigned locations to implement new initiativesand develop, implement and monitor action plans to improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of current services.
• Support operations/engineering as it relates to products, processes and technology.
• Freight Forwarding
• Materials Handling

During the career transition, worked in Consulting business for SCM, Distribution and Port activities.One year leaded a cabotage project at the Brazilian coast, one year on an automotive port activities project and the remaining period on a SCM project for the automotive sector.

Kempten, DE

• Championed the transition from a joint venture with a local partner to a Brazilian Branch of Dachser Germany, with process flows and reporting lines to the Dachser corporate executive board headquartered in Germany..
• Implemented a robust and highly-effective ERP System for operations, sales, administration and billing resulting in improved operational efficiencies, compliance and cost control.
• Developed and employed a fully-systemized and functional human resources platform, creating a performance-based platform of empowerment and accountability.
• Successfully retained key client relationships while increasing customer portfolio during merger uncertainties.

Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region, CL

• Reporting to the Senior Vice President Europe, oversaw $354MM divisional procurement budget and functions related to vessel operations, logistics and intermodal transportation operations in Europe, the Black Sea and.
• Reduced operational overhead by $10.3MM through the implementation and execution of new business workflows and high-value solutions.
• Redefined terminal operations process to maximize efficiencies in human capital, facilities and equipment, resulting in a cost savings of $2.5MM.
• Successfully developed and grew sourcing opportunities for trade partnerships resulting in a $2.4MM+ annual benefit.

Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region, CL

• With direct accountabilities to the Vice President of Operations, provided leadership and critical cross-functional expertise in the overall operations and reorganization of the CSAV and Libra Group in the East Coast.
• Developed and commenced a highly-visible, Federal-level governmental approach to ensure safe and reliable coastal carriage of goods as a key initiative for the transport and development ministries.
• Facilitated and managed complete redesign of a large operations facility in Brazil to ensure uniformity and consistency in brand and cultural alignment.
• Developed and launched a nationalization process for scrap containers for CSAV in Brazil.
• Established and managed new terminals and operational best practice standards to maximize options, efficiencies and control costs.

Wolfsburg, Niedersachsen, DE

• Reporting to the Global Director of Volkswagen Transport in Germany and President of Volkswagen do Brazil, provided mission-critical strategic direction and facilitated complex negotiations between the Enterprise and.
• Implemented lean logistics milk run process for five local plant operations, achieving transport synergy and 25% cost savings on transportation budget and increased plant visibility.
• Reduced all transportation and co-related activity costs without obligatory contracts or additional increase over inflation/cost increase.
• Implemented the C&F transport model for the 0 Km car operation, resulting in a first year savings of 15%, leading to an industry-wide adoption.
• Recognized and twice honored as an executive exceeding performance objectives.
• Responsible for a yearly transport and correlated activities budget of over U$600MM.

• Reporting to the CEO, oversaw the company conversion of a 4-person organization, primarily focused on sales to a fully operational freight forwarding agent with 42 employees and 50 subcontracted partners at different.
• Increased the turnover by 250% during the first 18 months of the company conversion.
• Started the Project Business within REWICO Brazil, transferring 3 Aluminum Can Plants from USA to Brazil.

Independent forwarding agent practice with complete service range in customs brokerage. Established key relationships with local and foreign partners to remedy challenges individually and collaboratively in air and sea transportation. Transferred 3 complete aluminum can plants from USA to Brazil.

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