Andre Silva

After more than 20 years working in Procurement, I am excited to announce that I am starting a new position as LATAM Logistics Manager.I would like to thank everyone who has been part of my journey so far — colleagues, leaders, and teams who contributed to my development over the years. I’m looking forward to this new challenge and to continuing to learn, grow, and drive results across the our region. Excited for what’s ahead! 🚀

Responsible for Procurement Operations on a global level, with focus in raw, packaging and active ingredients to FMC’s and third-party production plants. Leader of a team of 2 coordinators who manage supply escalations and orchestrate the relationship between vendors, the supply chain, sourcing managers and shared service center on a daily basis.

Responsible for the implementation of new S4 Hana and ARIBA system in the procurement area for all countries in AMERICA region. Simultaneously coordination, mapping and transfer of all transactional activities to the Shared Service Center. Responsible for structuring and implement the regional HUB team that support users, suppliers and the Sourcing team. Accountable of preparing and perform users training of the new global purchasing structure to the main Stakeholders in Latin America, in addition to carrying out the entire communication process at all levels of the organization. Responsible for NPI process assuring product availability for the QARs. First contact for supply issues(Raw and Packaging material) escalation. Managing product deliveries and availability by creating visibility to the upper management thurth KPIs creation and monitoring.

Reporting to the Procurement Director, with, approximately R$ 3 bi/year in SPEND, responsible for purchasing and managing raw and packaging materials contracts to supply 14 Heineken breweries in Brazil, having Supply Chain, Quality, R&D and Production as main internal clients. Responsible for integrating Heineken’s global procurement system to the former Brasil Kirin for production materials, identifying savings synergies as well as implementing HR processes and the global budget schedule; Member of the consumer value engineering team, leading procurement activities and initiatives in multiple saving projects. Leader of a team of 1 coordinator and 8 buyers responsible for ensuring the supply of Heineken group breweries in Brazil

Responsible for purchasing, planning and managing purchase contracts for aerospace material intended for commercial and executive aviation, with a budget of USD 100 MM and a base of suppliers that was 95% international. In charge of scheduling and rescheduling deliveries, preparing forecasts based on reading and analyzing the MRP, as well as negotiating commercial clauses in contracts.