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Waikato, New Zealand

• Planning third party manufacturers (natural health products) and honey batch building (MPI and overseas government compliance)
• Saving NZD 2MM of "bad stock"
• Purchasing raw material and packaging and liaising among suppliers, 3PM and logistics team.

Waikato, New Zealand

• Establish relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally
• Collaborate with suppliers, 3PLs, freight forwarders and external manufacturers on raw materials and finished goods supply.
• Supervision of inventory transactions, stock levels and replenishment lead times.
• Continuously improve external supplier / manufacturer performance.
• Project to increase alcohol gel production capacity during COVID19
• Collaborate with Procurement and internal-company partners to ensure supplier demand forecasts are accurate

Hamilton, New Zealand

• Leaders in Weighing & EID, Milk Cooling & Tanks and Dairy Automation product and service solutions.
• Oversee the sales and operations process, managing interactions with forecast teams, local and international suppliers, and handling logistics and customs coordination.
• Define and implement go-to-market strategies and sourcing objectives to ensure high-quality supply, streamline the supplier base, and achieve consistent cost savings without compromising quality.
• Oversee inventory transactions, stock takes, cycle counts, assembly planning, and job processing to ensure KPI targets are met.
• Develop and execute new procurement strategies and supplier performance programs to enhance operational efficiency.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Responsible for controlling the planning process to ensure customer needs are met whilst optimizing operational efficiency (S&OP), global commodity sourcing strategy, contract and supplier management and forming a.
• Supporting and participating in company initiatives in the areas of Safety, Productivity, Quality and Human Resources programmers.
• Knowledge of HACCP and Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP) user.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Working within a tight-knit team and reporting to the Managing Director:
• Issuing all export shipping documentations required to meet NZ and destination Countries regulations (CEDO, Certification of Origen, Packing list, Insurance, SLI, B/L, Dangerous Goods and IMO declaration, and MPI.
• Researching and ensuring that regulatory and statutory compliance requirements are met locally and abroad
• Communicating with transport companies and international freight forwarders in overseas countries
• Record the movement and placement of goods while they are in transit
• Communicate with customers in relation to international forwarding process

Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand trader company Helping start-up their import/export business and set-up their operations.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Lead a procurement team with focus on category management and handling complex cases.
• Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders to foster strong business partnerships.
• Identify supplier markets, evaluate current and future market conditions, assess emerging capabilities, and determine suppliers' commercial requirements.
• Issue RFPs and RFQs; negotiate terms, evaluate and approve proposals, provide recommendations to managers and directors for final approval, develop contract agreements, and manage risk.
• Classify and manage suppliers with a focus on strategic relationships, continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Ensured compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Responsible for railway freight negotiation, contract development, railway projects. All freight and raw materials procurement, as well as in hiring logistics services for internal handling equipment and distribution..
• Managing Road-Railway Distribution Center and Railway Dispatch project, which diversified transport mode and distribution strategy (USD 13MM in investments and VPL of USD 4MM) involving the following: Studying.
• Leadership of the Logistics Network Redesign project supporting an increase in the number of DCs infrastructure from 7 to 14, enabling changes in commercial strategy with the subsequent market-share increase from 9% to.
• Planning and schedule to maximise utilisation of trucks over each route for Hydrochloric acid.

• Distribution Planning throughout Brazil for Chocolates, Biscuits and Concentrated Fruit-Juice.
• DC Demand Planning (São Paulo, Curitiba and Recife) versus programming production at each factory, stock level and S&OP.
• Interfacing with Customer Service, PCP, planning the distribution of new-product, kit and promotional-product launches, planning with Trade Marketing of products for exportation.
• Management of the Logistics Operator (Mclane) for compliance with programming and area KPIs.

• Leadership of the new Distribution Center project (US$ 15 million in investments) from conception to implantation: data collection, financial and operational feasibility, localisation research, area sizing, time and.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Career initiated as Logistics Trainee at SADIA S.A, from 1999 to 2000 participating in a structured Supply-Chain program and later as BI to the Supply Directorate.

helped to develop ISO-9001 program and fomenting international business for small- and medium-sized companies (NASA) in the region.

Diploma In Business - Major In Project Management (Level 7), Business

Mba, Executive Mba

Graduation, Production Engeering