Arturo Rodríguez

• Managing procurement activities for direct IT commodities in the railway industry, including: - Passenger Information Systems (PIS) - CCTVs (including Driver Operation Only – DOO – systems) - Infrastructure Monitoring Systems (IMS) - Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) systems • Within these commodities, buying hardware and software products for new rolling stock and services projects throughout the UK & Ireland cluster. Leading the supplier relationship for more than 15 vendors, including national and international companies. • Overseeing an annual procurement value of £43M, with a strong focus on software development, IT integration, supplier collaboration, and identifying cost-saving opportunities across the portfolio.

Participated in a comprehensive 12-month graduate program within the UK&I Services Procurement team, completing four rotations to gain a holistic understanding of procurement across tenders, analytics, sustainability, and project delivery. • Tender Procurement (6 months): Led the procurement workstream for bids and tenders exceeding £10M, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver competitive proposals and bring significant value to the business. • Procurement Analyst (6 months): Supported the UK&I Procurement Management team by conducting data analysis for a £100M savings program, developing automated planning tools using SAP, SQL, PowerBI, and Excel (PowerAutomate, PowerQuery, PowerPivot) to streamline procurement processes. • Sustainable Procurement (2 months): Organised the first Alstom UK&I Supplier CSR Awards, focusing on five key categories: EDI, Sustainability, Health & Wellbeing, Social Inequality, and Supplier Development, enhancing supplier engagement and CSR visibility. • Procurement Project Manager (10 months): Led the procurement activities for two major services projects: Aventra 730 (West Midlands Trains) and Aventra 701 (South Western Railways), managing annual material orders of £6.5M and £10.6M respectively, and ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery.

This was a joint project between The Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) and the Bocconi School of Management. • Analysing Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds information and literature to gain insights into decision-making processes and relationship dynamics through Network Analysis. • Summarizing and synthesizing complex research findings and industry articles, adeptly distilling key insights and trends as an integral member of a collaborative research team.

• Defined the year’s plan and sessions after gathering data from the best coaches in the world and using clustering analysis to improve the performance of our swimmers. The swimmers who participated in the national championships went from 3 in my first year to 14 in my last year, including two relays. • Implemented an Excel tool to measure the fatigue and load applied to each swimmer together with their results, which is being used by multiple coaches this season to improve overall performance.

Research Internship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education. • Developed simulation software to reproduce auction and bid markets based on game theory. The software was elaborated as an agile project with a team of researchers and academics. The project got a 9,5 out of 10 in the evaluation and it is being used by researchers of the department. • Created a teaching tool to explain auctions and bids to students. After gathering data from other departments, the App was presented to the academics, and it is being used.

• Organised several engineering-related events with different stakeholders such as business representatives, students and academics for the first time since quarantine. • Elected as School Representative for the biggest school of the University of Valladolid, representing over 2500 students in academic duties with the Dean of the Engineering School.

• Collaborated on a Smart City project (S2City) by helping the senior consultant collect data from over 800 European projects and presenting the business implications to the manager. That was the baseline of the financial and strategic plan for the next two years. • Generated an application for last-mile logistics and electric vehicles in the city to register the use of every parking lot. I worked as a front-end developer and used HTML and CSS to create the current webpage.

Achievements: • Merit-based course scholarship award recipient. • Valedictorian