FACUNDO TELESCO

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of two Buyers where my role was coordinate and support them to ensure the successful completion of projects
• Negotiate with different Suppliers terms and conditions, which involves: payment days, down payment, adjustment rules & cost drivers, avoidance and savings, take or pay clauses and others
• Lead the main CAPEX's tenders with budget exceeding $50K USD, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and policies.
• Monitor work progress across multiple locations to guarantee that projects met internal client expectations
• Resolve delays in critical milestones by negotiating mutually beneficial schedules, balancing stakeholder goals and project timelines.

Main Achievements:

• Saving reported during last 6 months: +520K USD
• New sourcing strategy for Compressors [Local Vs Global] that lead us to a big saving with high reliability and efficiency [CO2 emissions]
• Supplier's Matrix – Benchmarking [Location, Annual spend, Cost reduction, others]
• Design and implement a new CAPEX's dashboard with main KPIs

Responsibilities:

• Negotiate prices and conditions in frame agreements for all Business Units in some categories such as Forklift, Compressors, Industry 4.0, Engineering, and others.
• Benchmarking among main services in LATAM
• In charge of CAPEX exceeding 500 K USD

Main Achievements:

• Forklift category: bidding for Brazil, Argentina, Chile & Perú – New catalog to select what users need when they need it
• Saving reported: 428K USD/year || CO2 emissions: -18%

Responsibilities:

• Analyze market trends and demand
• Direct contact with suppliers and forwarders
• Monitor and follow up on KPIs, preparing detailed sales reports by category and store
• Make strategic decisions regarding logistics costs and lead times to improve supply chain efficiency.

Main Achievements:

• Stock level reduction, improving inventory turnover
• Logistics costs improvement between main warehouse and Stores
• New Control Panel with visual aids to make quicker decisions

Responsibilities:

• Negotiate terms and conditions in frame agreements including 'Take or Pay' clauses
• Evaluate Supplier's performance and Customer's satisfaction
• In charge of the Bidding process to approve new contracts
• Monitor all contracts in order to avoid its overdue
• Techint Group Company dedicated to Supply Chain

Main Achievements:

• Troubleshooting through audits in process [payments delayed]
• Cost reduction by replacing suppliers
• Develop and propose checkpoints to assess performance and identify saving opportunities, ensuring continuous improvement

Responsibilities:

• Manage negotiation with suppliers in charge to achieve Targets
• Lead Projects and improvement activities to reduce costs [VA activities]
• 'Should be' cost modeling and Benchmarking with others subsidiaries
• Risk management activities such as safety stocks in external warehouse and interchangeability parts analysis with global suppliers
• Analyze and Propose localizations for global components in terms of increase local content of the vehicle

Main Achievements:

• Avoid line stop through safety stocks [Risk management plan]
• Make decisions of sourcing change based on cost competitiveness
• Report to the Top Management activities with a high cost impact
• Lead the entire process of Hutchinson Argentina business shutdown (bankrupt)