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Porto, Portugal

Portugal

Responsibilities:Building a new team with talented, skilful and fully engaged peopleCreating partnerships with suppliers, working with suppliers in order to develop and improve performanceImproving overall efficiency, performance, accountability, compliance (including social responsibility) and value of the supply chain,Developing planning and inventory.

Porto, Portugal

Responsible for Sourcing, Purchasing, Subcontracting and Inbound operations.Leads and manages a team of buyers, warehouse clerks and in-stock managers.Ensure that purchasing strategies and processes are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs in terms of cost, quality and delivery targets.Procurement transformation by redesigning.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Act as point of contact for Procurement and Purchasing BPLOs, P2P Experts and other relevant business and IT stakeholdersDriving relationship management with key Procurement and GBS stakeholdersEnsure solution design integrates Enterprise Architecture guidelines and recommendations related to technology/tool choice, architecture patterns and other.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Act as the link between the needs and requirements of the Procurement function, and the IT and process communities.Support the standardization and optimization of the process landscape for the Procurement function globally.- S2C- P2PInteract with functional and IT community stakeholders to ensure that both processes and technical solutions are implemented.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Responsible for the strategy definition and development of efficient Procurement/Inventory Management Standards and Systems:- Defined and project managed the Procurement Global Business Intelligence tool (SAP BO) project, coordinating its implementation with 7 different IT service centers worldwide- Responsible for the non-SAP Procurement application for.

Porto Area, Portugal

Managed the Global Material Master Data project for all MRO materials worldwide (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, UK, South Africa and Canada) implementing UNSPSC.Acted as Global Purchasing Representative, supporting CPO and acting as a pro-active influence in all the Global Purchasing projects. Trained key users and purchasing managers in the.

Porto Area, Portugal

SAP-MM implementation in Global Procurement, supporting onsite the roll-outs of the Project in Portugal, Spain and France. Managed the same Project in Germany. Responsible for the characterization and codification of all products that were purchased globally at Sonae Indústria Group. Supported the Negotiation, Procurement and follow up of the contracts and.

Porto Area, Portugal

Responsible for the purchase and stock management of raw material

Porto Area, Portugal

Studied the costs of packaging vs. industrial cost, improvement opportunities in the warehouses and created a database for controlling transportation costs.

Faculty Of Engineering Of The University Of Porto

Research in Photochemical Methods for Textile Industries Wastewater Treatment

Management Seminar

Strategic Leadership, Customer Excellence, Operational Management, Financial Management, People Management

Course, Business Administration And Management, General

Management, Strategy, Finance, Accounting, Communication, Innovation

• Strategic Portfolio Management Course

Project And Team Management

Post-Degree, Industrial Management

Engineer, Chemistry