Carlos C.

SOLSTICE Advanced Materials a HONEYWELL Spin Off.

• Planned the annual sourcing calendar and bidding pipeline; aligned with the corporate goals. • Implemented cost control measures through effective contract management techniques such as price renegotiation and volume discounts.

• Monitored inflation, scanned the supplier market, highlighting cost drivers across the categories' spend. • Managed the supplier on-boarding, monitored top supplier KPIs, handled escalations & disputes. • Guided sourcing and purchasing teams, supported high value negotiations, handled urgent buys. • Ensured procurement savings targets were met, tracked procurement budgets, and drove operational efficiencies. Monitored tail spend, reaching significant cost savings. • Helped create procurement policies, SOPs and workflows. • Partnered with Finance on cost-tracking and tracked savings against targets. • Trained the Procurement Team in: Leadership, Single/Sole sourcing elimination, Root Cause Analysis, LEAN Office, Price Increase Rejection Process, Procurement Critical Thinking, Business Case creation, and Lessons Learnt. • Important role in the projects: Unit Business Transformation, Global Procurement Digital Transformation, and NA Procure to Pay software roll-out. • Influenced VPs and Sr. Directors using Change Management, Advanced Critical Thinking, and LEAN Tools, and analytics, increasing Efficiency 15% in the category organization.

• Created the Annual Procurement and Contracts Plan for the category, which covered $50+ M annual spend, and the Pareto list with the top spending vendors across the region. • Negotiated complex category contracts with global strategic sourcing negotiation, evaluating quotes, awarding bids, and processing contracts, with savings estimates by 15%. • Influenced senior stakeholders on category strategy, led cross-functional category teams, dealing with conflicting priorities. • Improved on Supplier Management KPIs by 10%, monitoring market, tracking industry innovation, using Scorecards and Bench-marking. • Run strategic sourcing events, e-RFX, identifying the real value, and using Total Value Procurement as framework. • Led successfully different cost control projects with high impact and results from 2019 - 2021; against price increase, inflation, and tail spend, reaching significant cost savings. • Accelerated 5% the processes related to e-RFX, identifying, driving value, standardizing 3 internal processes across North America.

• Provided market intelligence to internal teams, avoiding single/sole sourcing in 90% of the projects. • Delivered cost reduction initiatives with price renegotiation, volume discounts, rebates, and value beyond cost. • Pre-qualified suppliers and conducted supplier due diligence aligned with sustainability/ESG initiatives. • Built strong cross-functional relationships and facilitated stakeholder alignment on supplier selection. • Reduced category risks with contract compliance and standards, assured the supply continuity, year over year. • Improved contract compliance, eliminated process inefficiencies, standardized and improved the Standard Procedures, year over year.

• Employed TCO, TVP frameworks, and should cost, make vs buy, lease vs buy analysis, aligned with the budgets and capital optimization. • Coordinated multiple large-scale projects from conception to completion, aggressively meeting project milestones whilst managing tight budget and time constraints. • Achieved 99% approval of projects, submitted to the International Procurement Awarding Committee, working with international teams. • Optimized lifecycle costs, reduced inflation across the region, and delivered category cost savings. • Developed efficiency ideas that generated 5% savings for the company, and improved Business Processes and supply performance, solving organizational issues across the region.

• Led the RFx bid process; negotiated with suppliers, evaluated quotations using bench-marking, awarded contracts considering Total Value Procurement, Vendor Diversity and ESG criteria. • Reported savings that generated roughly 8% in savings for the firm year over year. • Processed the sourcing of up to 20 different purchase requisitions per day during a high season.