Leading a multi-regional procurement team providing continuous coaching and guidance, and point of escalation for critical topics, with an overall yearly spend of $230M+ USD and 5%+ yearly savings goal through cost saving projects, workshop and negotiations. Monthly KPI reporting and budget review and action plans execution. Annual forecast and planning. Working together with Global Commodity team for strategies implementation and supplier evaluation and development.

Management of worldwide suppliers with over $70M+ USD yearly spending. Achievement of $4M+USD yearly. Monitoring and execution of capacity release projects. Supplier panel healthiness maintenance, supplier development and onsite audits. Providing regional support with commercial & operational inquiries from internal & external customers.

Responsible for collection of accounts receivable, achieving a reduction of 20%+ on Past Due AR starting Q2 2017, as well as accounts reconciliations reducing +30% of unapplied/ unidentified cash on the portfolio, and $0 USD of 181+ past due items in Q2 & Q3 2018. Implementation and continuous improvements of automatized dunning collections process.

Negotiation with suppliers increasing portfolio’s profit margin from 25.59% to 28.54% within one year, improved payment terms with suppliers to from Net 30 to Net 45 &180. Development of 3 new suppliers in Asia, introducing 55 new SKUs of private label, making additional sales for $776K MXN.