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Capex and MRO Lead with an expenditure of EUR 1.2B including factories within the Benelux, Poland, France and Germany. Investment contemplates new production lines with a complete new set of packaging equipment’s, freezer, waste water treatment station, rejuvenation of main administration facilities and cold storage/docking stations.

Procurement Business Integration lead for McCain, Ad Van Geloven and Scelta Products.

Responsible for leading the integration of the procurement department within this companies which included cost synergies, savings and operational excellence for the fries, snacks and appetizers business unit in Europe.

Main focus areas included reducing energy profile risk on energy and gas, lead Capex of EUR 30MM for a new cheese line and introduce new methodology to reduce risk for main direct raw materials.

Head of the Procurement department in Brazil, including Direct (Raw Materials and Packaging), Indirect, Capex/MRO and Logistics departments.

Responsible for the Capex construction of the company’s new manufacturing unit in Araxá-MG (Greenfield Project), including the development/management of the entire sourcing supply chain network. Project of EUR 107MM investment with EUR 32MM cost avoidance obtained through the process and delivered within 05 months upfront the schedule. Project lead since procurement main strategy plan prior board approval till completion with close collaboration with key stakeholders (Engineering/Project Managers/Quality/Supply Chain/Finance/Safety).

Responsible for the creation and development of the Indirect and Logistics Procurement department in Brazil.

Responsible for the Foreign Trade, Warehousing and Distribution (Inbound and Outbound) departments in Brazil, including leading the operation of the entire international and national logistic network. SAP OTC and MTD Superuser.

Responsible for the Foreign Trade and Customer Service departments.

Responsible for the Foreign Trade and Customer Service departments. SAP OTC Tower implementation lead.

Responsible for the entire logistics operations related to clinical studies (Foreign Trade, Warehousing, Inbound and Outbound Distributions and Clinical Trials destruction after studies closure).

Execution of Foreign Trade and Customer Service activities, including client relationship for pre and post sales support.

Execution of logistics operations and finish goods importation from different sources.