Alan Romero

Senior procurement leader overseeing national indirect spend for Canada, driving strategic value creation across multiple manufacturing sites. • Lead national indirect procurement for Canada across three production sites, overseeing a $50M CAD OPEX/CAPEX spend portfolio. • Manage and develop a team, strengthening capability, performance, and alignment with procurement best practices. • Drive regional sourcing strategy and S2P compliance, ensuring disciplined execution of all indirect purchasing activities. • Build high‑impact supplier and stakeholder relationships, negotiating TCO‑based agreements that deliver sustained value. • Champion cost‑reduction and operational‑efficiency initiatives, including waste, scrap, and recycling programs that generate annual financial benefits.

Lead direct and indirect reports in procurement department at St Cesaire plant. Collaborate within Capsules Group across Americas, including United States (US) and South America, with $60M USD under management. Oversee procurement optimization projects with 7% of total spend targeted to be decreased through procurement strategies. • Achieved $2M USD in savings on indirect and direct categories, including secondary packaging, logistics, raw materials, and energy. • Negotiated contract coverage with strategical suppliers under 80% of spend. • Interact with corporate procurement, adopting global contracts and getting global negotiations in place locally. • Run tenders fostering competitive markets across different categories and type of products. • Direct inbound and outbound logistics and warehouse negotiations with 3rd-party suppliers, running bids, defining service level agreements (SLA), and securing best rates for storage services by lane and slot. • Make connections between suppliers and operations, optimizing programs and proposing new technologies. • Procure cross-business combinations to consolidate supplier base and extend volume contracts. • Build SLA contracts for improved delivery times and service. • Facilitate new developments and innovations across group through screening of available and most convenient sources of supply.

Handled liquids and prepress categories at regional Latin American level, with 6 country business units, 18 manufacturing sites, and $120M USD spend under management. Created region-wide strategies for cost reduction initiatives that helped achieve targeted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT). • Functioned as inks specialist from commercial and technical standpoint, contributing to usage optimization projects, continuous improvement initiatives, and implementation of l strategies that have significantly reduced overall integrated cost. • Led and coordinated workstreams with core team members, collaborating with stakeholders and global leaders in driving projects through implementation. • Achieved $5.3M USD savings in fiscal year 2021 and $7.8M for fiscal 2022 and ongoing. • Developed capital investment business case justification, promoting savings in liquids utilization for solvent recovery units, engraving machines, and adhesive control devices. • Activated working capital improvements of $2.7M USD during fiscal 2021, applying new payment and inventory terms with suppliers. • Concluded contract negotiations yielding coverage of 80% of spend with rebate consolidation programs, key performance indicators (KPI), and SLA definitions. • Attained performance evaluation of suppliers at 70%+ conformance.

Headed procurement department and made direct and indirect purchases for all sourcing categories with multidisciplinary team of 5. Owned corporate spend of $100M USD annually for 3 plants. • Supervised all supply chain functions, including inventory management, delivery in full on time (DIFOT) programs with source of supply, consignment, and intercommunications from demand planning to materials inventory, preserving suitable working capital levels. • Implemented strategic sourcing in all aspects, including contracts management coverage of 80% of total spend, dual sourcing development with main and risk suppliers, vendor management initiatives in performance evaluations, and preferred supplier data base. • Exceeded target savings of $2.5M USD by 10%, implementing cost reduction in all levels, including applying expenses take outs, making raw materials reductions, and undertaking project optimizations. • Introduced strategies with stakeholders and proposed best vendor alternatives, acting as sourcing expert consultant for increasing profitability. • Conducted requests for quotation (RFQ) and requests for proposal (RFP) reverse auctions, maximizing benefits and attracting best available bids. • Negotiated with strategic vendors for local and regional purchases, mitigating increase impacts and engaging vendors in win-win agreements. • Devised new projects together with research and development (R&D), piloting vendor screening and development process with trials and scale-ups. • Influenced team members and peers in achieving corporate goals and engaged category leaders in reaching productivity levels, including on time in full (OTIF) fulfillment, cycle time purchases, project closures, and internal service delivery.

Built monthly projections with strategic vendors for 250 items and approved spend of $100M USD. • Supported organization through implementation of SAP in procurement, planning, and warehouse areas, bringing leaner operations and automating steps / labour that cut requirements from 160 persons to 95. • Increased fulfillment in stores from76% to 93%, safeguarding sales by anticipating peaks and seasonality using autonomous SAP forecasting and replenishment (F&R) tools. • Realized $20M USD working capital improvement through reduction of over-stock and waste, applying new predictive tool to better replenish channels, optimize inventories, and monitor expiration dates. • Attained significant savings of $2.5M USD with auctions functionalities, historical pricing information, and volumes / alternative supply base views. • Introduced SAP transport and warehousing functionalities for $4M USD in routes and shipping optimizations.

Duties or Achievements: • Supervision and handling of working groups into the commodity management for the regular transactions. 4 persons at my charge. Annual Spend ;100 Million usd, 700 Vendors &180 POs/Month. • Savings obtaining of 7 Million usd on annual basis by implementing projects with suppliers: Fleet Leasing, Open T.V advertising media purchases, Facility management, Individual travel system, Promoting work force third party service, etc.. • Strategic Sourcing implementation; Vendor Rationalization - 200 vendors, Vendor Consolidation, Effective contract negotiation from the sourcing drivers view, Process purchasing improvements and automation into the requisitions system. • Contract Coverage & SLAs at 100% with vendors. • Multisourcing development for strategic purchases 8MM USD ; Trade shows and exhibits, Capital building Constructions and civil constructions modifications, outsource personnel service providers. • Reporting and management of the local spend (quarterly basis) related to the third party supplies. • Research and development of new source of supply also service providers ad-hoc to the business needs. • RFP and RFQ making for reverse auctions with relevant big spend projects. 15 bids per Month in average. • Policies and procedures update, monitoring and redesign according to the company adjustments and needs. Specifically related to the indirect sourcing field. • Sourcing score card reporting and presenting to the top management committee.

Duties or Achievements: • Supplier development for outsourced manufacturing focused on new product introductions and new launches for 3M brands. • Spend; 8MMusd, 1MM usd Savings; annual basis, 50 Vendors, 200 SKUs. • Regional contract negotiations for LatAm countries scope getting global vendors. 100% spend Coverage. • Logistics new scheme implantation via sea freight getting cost reduction for electric items; Chile-Mexico. • Outstanding collaboration developing the components involved into of the most innovation electrical product launch; “Low voltage antifraud energy rubbery box (Fenix)”. • Source of supply development for specific electronic circuit applied to telcom markets; Telephony connector filter. • Maquila vendor development for electric parts and assembly to build a high tech busways applied on automotive plants. • Finished Good supplier localization for data connectivity cables (from China to Mexico) getting cost and lead time benefits. • Source of supply development applied on electrical connector to derive low voltage branching.

Duties or Achievements: • Supplier development related to raw materials for the manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosí. • Spend; 25MM usd, 1.5MM usd savings, 75 Vendors, 100 SKUs. • Substitution and material specification improvement for the polypropylene fiber used in the diaper tapes. • Substitution and material specification improvement for the Nylon fiber used in the Scoth Brite scrubbing pad. • Vendor consolidation for solvents purchases as raw materials. • Dual Source implementation for critical materials; 90% of attainment. • Fiber blend development getting a cost reduction output in the manufacturing process.

Timeline 3M Mexico: 2003 Internship employee – Sourcing Operations 2004-2005 Buyer Trainee for Raw Materials. 2005-2007 Buyer Junior for Chemicals Commodity. 2007-2008 Buyer Senior for Chemicals and Papers Commodity. 2008-2010 Buyer Senior for Outsourced Manufacturing. Converting Commodity. Latin America Commodity Leader.

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