Cynthia Martínez

- Develop supply chain strategies to reduce LTs, lower product costs, ensure supply and improve supplier quality. -Develop supplier localization strategies. Support NPIs: guarantee supply and develop preferred suppliers at the point of design. -Develops negotiation strategy with input from internal customers, acts as key commercial expert during negotiations, acts as primary contact for target suppliers. -Manages relationships with all departments. Communicate and interact professionally with all levels of management. - Create strategic alliances with suppliers. Develop and maintain long-term supply partnerships with the supplier base to work together and find different ways to reduce total cost. - Manage handovers (supplier to supplier, subcontracting) and various projects in collaboration with engineering and quality. - Monitor continuously improve supplier performance with respect to terms and conditions. Continually develop strategies to reduce costs. -Responsible for supplier development through supplier visits to better understand manufacturing processes and identify areas for efficiency improvement and cost reduction.

-Administration of RFQs to support strategies, benchmarking -Identify cost saving opportunities and drive to implementation in accordance with the global goals and objectives. -Develop and award business to suppliers meeting annual cost savings targets -Identify suppliers, capabilities, products pricing

-Leader in the creation of purchase orders, price changes, and all modifications related to contracts in SAP. -Recollect, interpret and evaluate suppliers quotations, generate different cost and logistics analysis like price to price and landed cost, in order to determine potential savings or possible impacts to the company. -Search and contact suppliers to quote part numbers and analyze if it is convenient to replace the current supplier, which always resulted in savings for the company. -Review of information and consolidation of data to evaluate alternative suppliers. -Analyze the status of invoices and verify if there are discrepancies in the company system and the suppliers invoices, looking for the reasons for those differences. -Responsible for coding part numbers for indirect purchases. SAP trainer for new buyers. Recollect and track budgetary quotes for new business projects