Alejandro Valdes Flores

CIO @ Nemak

About

Senior IT Executive with strong business acumen, with 25+ years of experience in the automotive, banking and consulting services industries. Acute international experience, having worked with teams and cultures from America, Europe, and Asia with excellent achievement record including global standardization on ERP, infrastructure and support tools solutions across the company yielding bottom line improvements. Strengths: • Information Technology management • Experience with aggressive growth, mergers and integrations • Conflict resolution, negotiation and communication skills • Leadership, team work and project management • Results oriented and ability to work under pressure • Process improvement and cost reduction orientation • Ability to work in complex multi-culture environments

Country

Mexico

City

Monterrey

Industry

Automotive

Skill

Information Technology, Mergers, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Delivering Results, Communication Skills, Multicultural, Teamwork, Leadership, Process Improvement, Business Process Improvement, Multilingual, Mergers & Acquisitions, IT Management, Integration, Purchasing, Outsourcing, SAP, Supply Chain Management, Consulting

Experience

CIO

Nemak

2007-7 - Present · 19 yrs 3 mos

Today, I manage a global of +130 professionals in +16 countries, and together we are responsible for the operation and support of all company processes in our plants and facilities. We provide the systems and processes to close to 8,000 users around the world. We have successfully incorporated acquired companies in record times to our business processes and infrastructure, while reducing our fixed IT cost considerably with the standardization and consolidation of our systems landscape as well as well executed negotiation processes with our key partners. As a team, we constantly work on improving our Agility Concepts, Industry 4.0 Maturity and Cyber and Information Security Posture considering all basic aspects for People, Process and Technology.

CIO + Internal Control Manager

Nemak

2014 - 2017 · 3 yrs

While maintaining the CIO responsibility... I was assigned the coordination of the Global Internal Control function. We launched many initiatives to elevate the relevance of the function while considerably improving the internal controls, overall internal and external audit results.

Global IT Manager + Canada Purchasing Manager

Nemak

2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

While being responsible for global IT for Nemak... I had the regional responsibility as Materials and Services Purchasing Manager. Worked with the production and maintenance areas to achieve savings and cost reductions in aluminum, materials and services. Negotiated creatively with vendors, while working with employees to eliminate or reduce usage.

Purchasing and IT Manager

Nemak

2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

Monterrey

Took on the challenge of several MUSD/yr. purchasing for Indirect Materials and Services. Improved purchasing and crib (warehouse) performance to internal customers, reduced working capital, stock outs and overall cost. Implemented automated processes, long-term contracts and negotiations to reduce turn-around time to better focus on savings.

IT Manager

Nemak

1997-1 - 2002-7 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Monterrey Area, Mexico

Lead the Business Processes Standardization, from Enterprise Resource Planning, office automation, telecommunications and videoconferencing. Rolled out SAP, Ariba, SRM, workflows, etc. in Mexico, Canada and Czech Republic using a strong support team. Negotiated Outsourcing multi-year contracts for Mexico