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Cover Letter:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
International Supply Chain Management professional with +19 years’ experience in procurement & strategic sourcing, & technical sales and support in the oil & gas, cement, telecom, government and newsprint industries. Key strengths in strategic planning & sourcing and project management with multinational companies in USA & Latin America. Team player, flexible, superior problem solving skills with strong work ethic and facilitation skills. Extensive knowledge of MS Office applications. Experience with the use of computerized materials management (SAP & Oracle) and ability to learn new systems. Fully bilingual (English & Spanish) with some Portuguese knowledge, bicultural with strong inter-cultural understanding. Notary public. Willingness to travel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DIRECT ENERGY December, 2015 – March, 2016
Direct Energy is one of the largest retail providers of electricity, natural gas, and home services in all of North America. Employs approximately 5,500 employees, serves nearly 5 million customers, with annual revenues of $19.5 billion in 2014.
Category Manager (Contract position) – Houston, TX
• Manage the sourcing strategy development, requirements gathering, data mining, request for proposal, supplier selection, and contract negotiation components of the sourcing process for sourcing engagements for Back Office categories, covering meter to cash and debt. Specific areas included payments, third party collections, credit, third party verification, call quality programs, customer satisfaction programs, insight and data.
• Prepared commodity profile information (spend and opportunity assessment data, current ordering processes, product changes, value analysis, current supplier performance, etc.) for executive management consideration.
• Engaged and maintained excellent working relationships at the Manager/Director level within assigned client groups and management to ensure linkage wi

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