- Coordinates procurement travel and event team providing travel services to 4 industries (Duratex, Deca, Duraflora and ITAUTEC) owned by Itaúsa Financial Group . The area was optimized to apply procurement strategies to implement many new procedures in order to have all actions identified executed with productivity improvement.- Renegotiation of contracts in use and contracting others to fully benefit all companies allowed up to 200% increase in rates, prices discounts.-Implemented the travel agency OBT (Online Booking Tool) with 100% compliance. Once integrated to Duratex’ ERP (SAP), the time spent in the booking process and approval was reduced by 75%. $110K in monthly savings with new OBT Fees. Reduced errors in the invoices reconciliation and payment. The area ended up having only one buyer who was empowered to act strategically with airline companies, hotels, rental cars, fleet, travel agencies, credit card and ground transportation- I introduced corporate credit card for travel payments. Integrated into the industries ERP (SAP), all expenses and invoices were correctly paid through travel reimbursement reports in SAP eliminating this operational task from the area. Creation of monthly detailed travel reports with key indicators sent to all managers immediately caused significant improvements in travel management, especially with better adherence to policy, services spend reduction as well as with travel abuse.- Regionalization of travel processes between Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and USA.- Overall Savings increase from 4% to 12% in the first year reaching 30% in one of the companies.- After 13 months in the position, I assumed Events purchases. The first event held in the area obtained almost 40% savings.- Creation of hotel directory for around 2300 cities.- Instructed around 500 travel requesters with SAP, OBT and automated process.- Member of the CE30 ALAGEV Association (Travel Managers Group) in the last three years.

-Responsible for leading Latin America travel buyers with strategic actions (strategic sourcing) for improvements targets, cost reduction and savings increase with airlines. Hotels, Events, Car Rental, Fleet, Travel Agency, Credit Card and Ground Transport suppliers.-I joined IBM as a buyer and assumed the Lead position in just six months.-Supported the procurement outsourcing area BTO (Business Transformation Outsourcing) with procurement travel strategies.-Participation in global negotiations of major travel supplier contracts and its implementation in Latin America.-Applied improvements to have all Americas Spanish-speaking countries travel requests serviced by the travel agency call center in Argentina resulting in internal travel management process consistency, reduction with travel agency spend by 50%.-Performed travel agency and corporate credit card audit. Around USD150K was recovered due to error in the rebate paid in the first credit card audit.-Diplomatic with strategic internal customers, as HR, Payroll, Operations, to make necessary adjustments in travel policy, obtain cost reduction and savings increase using travel contracted preferred suppliers by travelers.-Acting as LA leader and Council, I increased savings from 7% to 15% in the first year (2007), reaching 21% in 2009 saving USD13 Millions from Latin America travel purchases.-Even with very challenging savings targets to achieve determined by the global procurement travel heads, I managed to overcome the results for all years.-As Leader, I improved savings from 7% to 15% in the first year (2007), reaching almost 21% in2009 which represented USD13 millions over Latin America travel spend.-Among other improvements, a process change in payroll eliminated around USD300K in losses deducted from the anual credit card rebate due to late credit card invoices payments,

• Responsável pela busca estratégica e negociar condições especiais com fornecedores de viagens à corporação, bem como para clientes globais. • Promoção de serviços de consultoria de compras e gestão de viagens aos clientes corporativos globais sugerindo novas negociações ou renegociações de contratos com fornecedores estratégicos, e prover redução nos gastos com viagens. • Otimização de resultados e melhor adesão ao programa de fornecedores preferenciais ao estabelecer melhor interação e comunicação entre operações, vendas, gerentes e administração.• Identificação de oportunidades para apoiar iniciativas e estratégias da equipe global com incremento de negócios em todas as regiões quando possível.• Criação de campanhas de endomarketing para maximizar a contratação de fornecedores preferenciais.