Daniel Domínguez Rosado

Developing and implementing procurement strategies with suppliers both national and abroad in order to ensure operation continuity and profitability with an annual spend of $60 MM USD. • Generated savings of $19.8 MM USD on a 3-year span in categories such as packaging materials, transportation, fertilizers, and biologicals. • Restructured the planning department in 12 months with new procedures and following company´s policies, raising the OTIF from 80% to 97%. • Drove negotiations with 23 suppliers to get credit days of an amount of $6.5 MM USD during a 10 months’ period of low cash flow in the Company, ensuring continuity of supply and operations and ensuring the committed delivery to customers.

Managing procurement category strategies with packaging suppliers both national and abroad with an annual spend of $120 MM USD, ensuring continuity of supply, quality and business profit. • Negotiated a direct supply contract with carton board supplier, fixing 70% of total cost generating $1.5 MM USD of yearly savings. • Led 4 savings projects to reduce spend in $6 MM USD and contributed to the $20 million target of procurement department. • Drove negotiations with 7 suppliers of carton, film, and corrugated cases in LATAM avoiding any supply disruption during pandemic, all these materials suffered a high demand during this tenure.

Directed cross-functional teams to achieve seamless execution of product launch initiatives, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards and alignment with corporate objectives across Latin American markets. • Led during 24 months the installation of a totally new production plant for Pringles in Brazil securing the demand volume for South America with a $78 MM USD Budget. • Managed the project for continuity of supply in Venezuela, ensuring materials and ingredients availability for production. • Executed during 18 months the NOM 051 project, to comply with Mexican regulations on product front labeling.

Developing material specs, new products to contribute with commercial plans of company innovation. • Developed during 12 months a new co-packer following quality and food safety policies, schedule and Budget to supply the 30 tons’ demand of a new product launch. • Launched cereal bars in Brazil, developing new materials, new co-manufacturer and suppliers in an emerging market to meet sales objective of 300 tons’ demand and growth plan. • Re-designed in 6 months 12 cereal boxes presentation to ensure product profitability. K Values award winner.

Led the installation of an extruder for cereal production. Prepared the financial justification for purchasing a classifier and reducing waste by 3%. Doubled production capacity by leading the installation of a second extruder, increasing the throughput from 21 kg/min to 42 kg/min to meet demand.