Ana Maria Ruiz Naranjo

- Plan and execute the procurement of raw materials — primarily oils for food production — and packaging materials (ENEM) for U.S. manufacturing plants, maintaining a 95% on-time delivery rate and ensuring operational continuity. - Lead strategic negotiations with a portfolio of ~40 local and international suppliers — with a focus on the U.S. and Asia — including oil and raw material distributors, achieving optimized commercial terms, pricing, and payment conditions. - Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities across the oils and raw materials portfolio, sustaining cost reduction targets even in high price volatility and global inflation environments. - Monitor the end-to-end supply chain with suppliers across the U.S. and Asia, anticipating supply risks and ensuring material availability on time and to the specifications required for production. - Implement Power BI dashboards to visualize key procurement indicators — including spend, on-time delivery, and fill rate — supporting data-driven decision making. - Manage cross-functional relationships with quality, international logistics, inventory, and R&D teams, ensuring the availability and compliance of raw materials for production processes.

- Design and execute sourcing strategies for domestic and imported inputs, managing a corporate budget of USD $6MM and ensuring full compliance with the annual procurement plan. - Lead negotiations with local and international suppliers, achieving optimized pricing, commercial terms, and payment conditions across a high-complexity portfolio with limited supplier substitution alternatives. - Develop cost structure analyses and raw material price forecasts at the corporate level, anticipating market trends and supporting strategic procurement decision-making. - Design and implement savings proposals aligned with corporate strategy, sustaining supply continuity and quality standards within a category with no direct supplier substitutes. - Support new product development initiatives by managing the sourcing and qualification of required materials and inputs, in coordination with R&D and quality teams. - Lead cross-functional coordination with quality, R&D, production, demand planning, and supply chain teams, ensuring timely material availability and uninterrupted production operations.

- Lead the transformation of the vendor creation process for LATAM, automating the end-to-end workflow — from onboarding request to ERP code assignment (iScala) — reducing processing times and eliminating manual steps across the region. - Manage the full purchase order cycle for indirect spend across LATAM in iScala, including invoice tracking and payment control for both direct and indirect suppliers at the regional level. - Manage purchase orders and supplier relationships for the refrigeration business unit, ensuring compliance with critical project deadlines and technical specifications. - Develop Power BI dashboards to monitor and control the active supplier portfolio in Colombia, improving area visibility and supporting operational decision-making. - Execute the vendor qualification and onboarding process for Colombia, ensuring compliance with corporate requirements and accurate integration into the ERP system.

- Lead a digitalization and automation project for tracking open purchase orders in Alteryx, enabling suppliers to report progress in real time and ensuring timely payment within the operational cycle. - Design and implement a process improvement project for vendor creation and onboarding, streamlining the flow of contact between the company and its suppliers in the pharmaceutical industry. - Manage purchase orders and service contracts in SAP MM, coordinating supplier relationships to ensure compliance with the contracting process in the pharmaceutical sector. - Develop Power BI control dashboards to monitor key operational processes, including the mapping of activities and milestones within the sales process, supporting overall operational visibility. - Lead and coordinate the apprentice team within the Operational Excellence area, assigning tasks and ensuring timely execution within established deadlines.

- Develop Tableau dashboards to monitor key sales, collections, and accounts receivable indicators across the Pharma, Diagnostics, and Diabetes Care divisions, improving financial visibility for the area. - Monitor daily client payments across three business divisions — Pharma, Diagnostics, and Diabetes Care — ensuring accurate reconciliation and timely accounts receivable control. - Prepare and analyze the monthly collections budget, supporting financial planning within the treasury area and ensuring compliance with collection targets. - Process vendor payments through the PSE platform, ensuring adherence to payment schedules and proper management of the operational cash flow.

- Lead a digitalization and automation project for tracking open purchase orders using Alteryx, reducing rework by 80% and ensuring payment deadlines were consistently met. - Develop and implement control dashboards focused on operational monitoring across multiple processes, establishing key business-aligned metrics to support decision-making. - Map activities and milestones of the sales process, translating each stage and the teams involved into a clear, accessible format for commercial teams. - Lead a team of approximately four apprentices, ensuring full compliance with the proposed service level agreement. - Manage the end-to-end purchase order cycle in SAP MM — from quotation to supplier invoicing — ensuring process compliance within established timelines. - Draft service contracts within the pharmaceutical industry, building operational knowledge of the business and its procurement framework.

Vendedora de temporada en la tienda Crocs Colombia.