LenovoManager, Procurement - Global Commodity Management
Nov. 2012 - Dec. 2013São Paulo, BrazilHeld several positions in Global Procurement / Global Commodity Management
• Manager Global Commodity Management - Oct/2012 - Dec/2013
• Manager of Argentina Procurement - May/2011 - Oct/2012 (Accumulative function) • Idea Global Commodity Manager - Ago/2010 - Oct/2012
• Project leader for the Lenovo own Manufacturing plant.
Main achievements:
• Manager for the group of Procurement professionals, Global Commodity Managers and Category Managers. Responsible for sourcing decisions, local supplier relationship, supplier selection, contract management, competitive Bids, quotations and RFX process, material cost system management for all Lenovo Group Brazil supplier base - Direct and Indirect (General) suppliers.
• Managed a US$0.5B /year spend budget
• Brought US$10M cost reductions in FY2013. Fact recognized by a SVP award.
• Led negotiations for General Procurement that brought over 13% savings in the year spent.
• Led the procurement team that quoted, selected, developed, and launched the Contract Manufacturing operation for Lenovo Argentina. Manager of local procurement team, implementing BMS and performance reviews with team and extended team.
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• Delivered best cost targets and milestones under the required time for Argentina project.
• Review of the challenges and long lead times to this operation in Tierra del Fuego for Argentina project.
• Support to the technical teams to clear up all manufacturing requirements by the local productive processes for Argentina project.
• Implanted BMS and performance reviews for Argentina project.
• Negotiation of better Ts & Cs and costing structure with local CM / ODMs that resulted in IDEA Notebooks hyper growth jumping 10x monthly volumes in 2011 and 2012