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PURC HASI NG/PROCURE ME N T

SU M MARY

H ighly motivated and performance-driven professional with solid experience in Purchasing and

Supply chain in domestic and mult inational companies of Automotive and Coatings segments.

Focus on the sourcing of raw materials, parts, MRO, machines, equipment and services.

Effectiveness at designing process and metrics to support the achievement of Purchasing

objectives and strategic plan accomplishment.

Ability to work in a fast paced environment, successfully drive simultaneous activities, meet

deadlines and achieve results.

S trong leadership skills, with ability to build and develop motivated and high potential teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPER I ENCE

MW M I N T ER NAT IONAL MO TORES – Canoas and São Paulo, Brazil

( December 2000 to November 2008 ): W holly owned subsidiary of the American Navistar

I nternational, a major worldwide diesel engine manufacturer.

General Purchasing Manager (2005-2008)

Responsible for South America General Purchasing, leading acquisition of local and imported

equipment, tooling, machinery, MRO, packaging, chemicals, services (banks, catering, logistics,

cleaning, Engineering development projects) and specific raw-materials to supply the

operations of Brazil and Argentina.

Management of annual purchasing of US$ 115 million from 1,700 suppliers for the plants of São

Paulo, Canoas (Brazil) and Jesus Maria (Argentina), coordinating a team of 15 employees

(supervisors, buyers and purchasing analysts).

P roject management with cross-functional teams for business cases, saving projects and process

i mprovement.

Main achievements:

• Structuring General Purchasing area in the company resulted from MWM (acquired

f rom Knorr-Bremse) and In ternational Engines merge: team building, process redesign,

ERP consolidation and culture unification.

• Average cost reduction of 5,4% over periodic purchasing through implementation of

commodity strategy and cost reduction methodology, concentrating business, reviewing

contracts, specifications and optimizing supplying base. We surpassed the cost

reduction objective which was part of the bonus distribution metrics.

• Contribution to CGI machining line investment approval through commercial

negotiation with German, American, Japanese and Brazilian suppliers and project

reduction of US$ 4,6 million.

• Banking services bidding process with financial advantages of US$ 2,5 million and

services improvements.

• Purchasing process centralization in order to leverage purchasing power, adequate to

Sarbanes Oxley Law and reduce purchasing lead-t ime: 98% of total company’s

p urchasing was negotiated and formalized by Purchasing Department.

• Reduction of purchasing internal lead-t ime through process redesign and

i mplementation of e-sourcing and e-procurement tools connected to ERP (SAP) system.

• Implementation of supplier’s purchasing contracts management including documents

control and commercial, technical and jur idical analysis of about 450 contracts.

• Implementation of purchasing partnerships with outsourcing companies in order to

leverage volumes and to promote process and supplier base benchmarking.

• SAP process review and improvement implementation.

• Development and implementation of purchasing management metrics (Purchasing

Cockpit) for performance and attendance.

General Purchasing Supervisor (2002-2005)

Responsible for indirect purchasing (investments, MRO, services and spot purchasing) and

M RO material planning for the plants of Canoas and Sao Paulo. Supervision of MRO inventory

and warehouse operation.

Coordination of a team of 18 employees including buyers, purchasing analysts and inventory

control associates.

Main achievements:

• Implementation of Average Price’s Increase metric for periodic purchasing. We surpass

t he goals for this metric achieving the increase avoidance of 41% for MRO and 70% for

services.

• Implementation of electronic purchasing requisition, improving the reliability,

t ransparency and purchasing lead-time.

• Improvement of warehouse inventory control through new process and cultural changing

and achieving better inventory accuracy results.

• Implementation of material’s receiving area in Sao Bernardo do Campo plant,

centralizing operation and improving the receiving process.

F rom 2004 on in addition to the General Purchasing Supervision I was assigned to build a team

and work methodology to support the Purchasing and Logistics department on the following

issues: Strategic Planning, Sarbanes Oxley compliance and Process Improvement. I recruited

t wo business analysts and we created the P urchasing and Logistics Support a rea.

M ain achievements:

• Organization, control and follow up of all action plans regarding to strategic planning of

Purchasing and Logistics area in order to ensure i ts accomplishments.

• Coordination of Sarbanes Oxley compliance in Purchasing being the interface with

auditors, organizing and ensuring the accomplishments of action plans to processes and

metrics adequacy.

• Creation, coordination and follow-up of Direct Suppliers In ternal Commit tee that had

t he objective of discuss and address actions to improve the supply chain under

p urchasing, quality, logistics and technologic aspects. This commit tee was integrated by

Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Production, Finance and Spare Parts areas.

• Working with multifunctional teams, redesign and new process implementation of critical

process of the area: Purchasing of Prototype Components, Engineering Alteration Order’s

Control, and Third Party’s Inventory Control. The methodology was based on mapping,

diagnosing, benchmarking and design of it, in order to assure the best performance and

maximization of resources.

Materials Planning Specialist (2000-2002)

• Participate of business teams in order to address Material Planning concerns regarding

to V8 engines.

• Management of V8 engines Vendor Management Inventory (VM I).

• Determination of production inputs for Master Schedule.

• Imported components supplying planning.

• During 6 months I was the substitute of the Material Planning and Logistics Supervisor,

d ue to his temporary t ransfer to develop a distribution center in Tulsa, USA. The main

activities were company’s inventory control (policies definit ions, inventory tu rnover

control, action plans), negotiation with suppliers to ensure components supplying for a

very dynamic production plan volume and mix, warehouse activities supervision and

management reports.

T intas Renner T intas e Vernizes - Gravataí, Brazil (1995-2000) : B razilian producer

of architectural, automotive, packaging and marine coatings. During this period the company

had joint ventures with Dupont and Valspar.

Senior Buyer

• Responsible for local and international sourcing of raw material (pigments, t itanium

d ioxide, solvents, additives) and paint mixing equipments for architectural, packaging

and marine coating divisions, located in Gravataí, São Paulo, Curitiba (Brazil) and

Chile.

• Identification and development of capable suppliers, management of supplier

relationship, prices, volumes and performance negotiation.

ATH Alba rus T ransmissões Homocinéticas – Porto Alegre, Brazil (1991-1995) :

m ultinational automotive company, CV joints manufacture.

P rice’s Analyst

• Receipt, control and analysis of supplier’s prices increase requests.

• Analysis, break-down and comparative of components costs and prices.

• Price’s increase negotiation with “B” and “C” suppliers based on management’s strategy.

• Monitoring of economic metrics: exchange rates, inflation, L ME, commodities in order to

support negotiations.

• Preparation and control of purchasing metric performances.

ED UCAT IO N

Master of Business Administration (MBA ) – Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil. 2005-2006.

Bachelor of Economics – U niversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Concluded in

2003.

TRA I N I NG

Business Negotiating - UC Berkeley (Berkeley, California)

Project Procurement Management - UC Berkeley (Redwood City, California)

Executive Coaching - Steer Recursos Humanos (São Paulo, Brazil)

Foreign Trade and I nternational Law - Maurênio Stortti Consultores (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Negotiation - Training Program for Negotiators – UN ISINOS (São Leopoldo, Brazil)

PPAP – BVQI (Canoas, Brazil)

LANGUAGES

Portuguese: Native language

English: Fluent

Spanish: Advanced

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