Carolina Craveiro

Lead a team of Regional Procurement Buyers to secure commercial excellence across the region, drive performance improvements within the supply chain, and ensure that all project procurement deliverables are provided on time at a high quality. Develop and drive the organization to identify improvement areas, explore cost reduction opportunities, and establish a total cost of ownership approach internally and with external suppliers. Actively work to improve commercial terms with suppliers, identify ways to minimize spending, and reduce cost to support the company’s financial objectives. Deploy the new category management organization with the relevant tools, metrics, and follow-up to establish an efficient supplier management process in collaboration with other procurement regions. Lead the regional team to develop the regional organization by setting challenging objectives, and providing opportunities for learning, development, and personal growth for the teams. Work actively with key stakeholders and within manufacturing, engineering, finance, and other functions to build alignment around targets and establish common execution plans to support business growth and profitability improvement. Manage the overall budget for the region and develop an annual plan with key milestones, activities, and target settings. Represent the Business both inside and outside Symrise; build and maintain a network of business contacts in support of organizational objectives; conduct business in a responsible and ethical manner. Develop and implement sourcing strategies for products and services to support the identified business needs and in line with the Global Procurement strategy.

Responsible for ensuring cost minimization in the Direct, Indirect and Capex categories, by monitoring and controlling policies and processes for developing and qualifying suppliers, negotiating and purchasing materials and services. Monitoring the workflow of all buyers, ensuring the analysis of issued processes, such as price, terms and conditions presented. Coordinatation and carrying out high spend purchasing processes, developing options of new suppliers. Ensuring the fulfillment of goals, developing KPI's that allows the monitoring of results established by the processes, considering financial, qualitative and quantitative aspects. Establishment, inline with the immediate manager, plans, goals and strategies of the area, contributing to the company's decision-making process, through reliable and timely analysis and management information on performance and taking preventive and corrective actions necessary for continuous improvement. Promote the qualification of team, as well as the growing and constant evolution of the required skills and competences, through selection processes and programs, training and motivation of team members. Ensure and control the effective adhesion and commitment of the team in relation to the ethical principles that should guide the professional relationships internal and external to the organization, ensuring the confidentiality of documents, policies and information on the company's products and production processes. Achievements and Contributions • Simplification of processes and procedures, contributing to the reduction of purchasing complexity; • Team's training and development with the Strategic Sourcing methodology; • Development of tools to control and manage data and results.

Elaboration and execution of strategic procurement activities across the regional functional procurement categories. In charge of South America perimeter - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia (total spend of 10 MEUR). Ensuring alignment to business necessities and stakeholders, so as to the Procurement guidelines and goals. Leading and executing the end-to-end sourcing process and facilitating analysis and collaboration of a cross-functional team, partner with regional and global organization, implementing effective sourcing processes. Experience working with different sub-categories, such as Legal, Information Technology, Human Resources, Treasury & Finance, Marketing and Travel & Expenses. Achievements and Contributions • Regional and Global Projects; routine of regional / abroad travels. • Strong performance in company transformation implementing processes and tools for cost control, contract management and supplier qualification. Implementation of spend control tool (Spend Control Tower). • 35% of vendor reduction (increasing bargaining power). • 80% spend covered by contract (risk mitigation). • 8% spend reduction per year.

Responsible for raw material purchasing for three industrial sites on Latam, generating and driving savings plans on product portfolio and managing the financial risks inherent in the process, with a focus on improving cash flow. Implementation of efficient sources of information and reporting processes, also responsible for updating and maintaining dashboard reports, tracking of appropriate metrics. Driving and organizing collaborative efforts across the business (sales and marketing, product management, production, supply chain, R&I). Elaboration of global and local market analysis, reviewing market intelligence, promoting new project ideas, recommending actions and set goals. Monitoring supplier performance and sustainability evaluation. Achievements and Contributions • Integration of purchasing and marketing strategies to support a better compilation of data/cost and inventory strategic level specially for seasonal items. • Developed new raw material cost report and implemented the pricing forecast datasheet shared also during the S&OP meeting. • Incorporation of two acquisitions with entire purchasing process being implemented. • Participation in a global project for development of purchasing strategies, portfolio categorization, and optimization of costs and processes. • Leadership in the project for the implementation of RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) in the Supply Chain modality. • Growth Way Award Solvay received for the implementation of a multipurpose project, which provided the improvement of the ergonomic conditions of the operation and reduction in the manufacturing cycle time, reduction of CO2 emission to the atmosphere, besides generating Saving of 30 KBRL in raw material acquisition. • Growth Way Award Solvay received for the homologation project of a diversified chain of raw materials, generating Saving of 1,5 MEUR in the perimeter of one year (2014 - 2015).

Negotiation and management of the international business, such as raw materials, engines and consumer goods. Responsible for strategy and development of new suppliers. Coordination of shipments, customs clearance, hiring and follow-up of service providers. Control of expenses and costs related to the acquisition processes. Responsible for the implementation of processes relevant to the area. Achievements and Contributions • Developed purchasing department from ground floor. Established departmental policies and procedures. • Improved relationships with current and new vendors by increasing face-to-face communication. • Achieved on-time delivery for all purchased materials at a 95% rate.

A Pós Graduação em Negócios Inteligentes e Indústria 4.0 forma o professional especialista em transformar tecnologias, tais como Inteligência artificial, automação, machine learning, internet of things, wearables, mobile devices, robótica em realidade para negócios de todas as áreas.

Development of the skills associated with import and export dispatch processes, exchange analysis, customs legislation, navigation laws, insurance in international trade and international marketing.