Karen Tatiana Peña Ballén

• Presenting results to senior management, including the CFO, Country Manager, and global teams.

• Implementing procurement strategies that include process standards, from strategy design through to the execution and implementation of contracts with suppliers.

• Planning, designing, and executing regional procurement strategies for various business units in Latin American and Central American countries.

• Providing ongoing support to the organization’s stakeholders, delivering excellent service, and ensuring strict compliance with the organization’s procurement policies.

• Securing commercial agreements with suppliers that generate cost savings for the organization.

• Consolidation of strategic negotiations Globally (North America, Central America, South America, and Europe).
• Leadership and Development of work team of multiple categories of purchase.
• Generation of savings for a value of 8.5 M USD impacting financial indicators like cash flow.
• Leading Strategic negotiations (RFI, RFP, RFQ) of in-charge categories (IT, infrastructure, Security, among others) guarantying long-term supplies, reducing punctual purchases, and the optimization of spending.
• Relations development with the stakeholder of the organization.
• Guarantying the agreements with the commercial conditions that align with the policies of the company.
• Reports of development and management at a level CFO, Vice-presidents, and CEO.
• Evaluation under financial, logistic, and commercial indicators of suppliers.

• Elaboration of RFI, RFP, and RFQ.
• Market analysis, reviewing macro economical aspects of every country where negotiations are developed.
• Initial Evaluation of providers, and follow-up of the development during the contract execution.
• Development of negotiation strategies that contribute to the development of the purchasing categories.
• Follow-up of negotiation closed processes, with the purpose of securing the correct execution of the negotiated aspects.

• Registration of purchase requests.
• Elaboration and shipment of purchase orders at the different areas of the bank.
• Requests and analysis of market rates to suppliers to select the best offer.
• Incorporation of the data to the base at standard times.
• Registration and Actualization of suppliers.
• Income of purchase orders of the applicative SISA.

• Category management of purchases for the group Avianca Holdings, coordinating supply processes for the countries in which the company operates.
• Direct negotiation with suppliers.
• Follow-up of purchase orders and contracts made with the purpose of securing the satisfaction of the given services.

• Providers segmentation, with the purpose of developing long-term commercial strategies.
• Register, evaluate, and follow up with the bank providers.
• Follow up on order purchases and contracts to verify the satisfaction of the given services.
• Research of providers in the market according to the requested requirement by the user's parts.
• Follow-up of the Banks providers with the purpose of generating long-term relations and strategic alliances.