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Andres Carlotta

Montevideo

Summary

Purchase manager with several years of experience handling supplier purchase accounts. Worked with team members and managers to identify vendors, negotiate contracts appropriate to budget and report on current and projected materials and services costs. Detail-oriented professional with well-honed negotiation skills, securing contracts exceeding cost reduction and product quality expectations.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience

Work History

Purchase Manager

Matriz SA (Ancap group)
Montevideo
07.2021 - Current
  • In 2021, Parent Company assumed the function of a Service hub for other companies in the Ancap group, so I continue to carry out the same tasks as in previous years at Alur.

Purchase Manager

ALUR (Ancap group)
Montevideo
07.2012 - 07.2021

• Responsible for purchasing of all business units of the company (agriculture, sugar industry, electric energy, animal feed, biofuels), and internal service units. It comprises four industrial complexes, in addition to the agricultural chain made up of more than 10 thousand hectares of different crops, between own fields and those of producers to whom

They are supplied with different inputs (seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals, etc.).

• Supervision and management of the Purchasing team, in different facilities along the country.

• Planning, negotiation and execution of strategic alliances with suppliers of

supply of inputs, materials and key services for the different production business.

• Management and development of new local and foreign suppliers.

• Foreign commercial management.

• Training of internal clients in purchase request procedures of the company.

• Coordination with the company's internal Logistics Department.

• Collaboration and planning with the Financial Management of financial resources

necessary, in accordance with the planning of purchases of inputs and materials.

Purchasing Supervisor

Conatel SA
Montevideo
10.1994 - 06.2012
  • In charge of foreign purchases and local purchases of the Division, of multinational companies like Siemens.
    •Supervision and coordination of tasks with personnel in charge.
    •Monitoring of the respective import and export processes, contact with customs brokers and forwarders.
    • Logistical coordination of delivery, pre-installation and installation of new medical systems like tomograph and magnetic resonance.
    • Purchases of spare parts, supplies, tools and locally supplied equipment.
    •Search and contact of new alternative suppliers abroad.
    •Negotiation of prices and new conditions of purchase, delivery and payment with international companies

    Accounting for invoices from foreign and local suppliers among other administrative accounting tasks.

    Layout of schedules and execution of all the logistics of large projects, such as the one recently executed for the Ministry of Public Health

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Universidad ORT
Montevideo
05-2001

High School Diploma -

Colegio La Mennais
Montevideo
12-1998

Skills

  • Supply Chain Optimization
  • Cost Analysis
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Procurement planning
  • Price Negotiation
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Supplier Relations
  • Efficiency Improvement
  • Logistics Coordination
  • Meticulous eye for detail

Languages

Spanish
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1

Other Studies

  • Business English update courses with a private teacher (10 years)
  • Lead Today (IEEM University, 2019)
  • Advanced Excel Cours (In company, 2018)
  • What´s a Leader? (Harvard Business School Publishing, online 2005)
  • Microsoft Proyect (In company 2004)

Timeline

Purchase Manager

Matriz SA (Ancap group)
07.2021 - Current

Purchase Manager

ALUR (Ancap group)
07.2012 - 07.2021

Purchasing Supervisor

Conatel SA
10.1994 - 06.2012

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Universidad ORT

High School Diploma -

Colegio La Mennais
Andres Carlotta