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.
• 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.