Diogo Luz Meirelles

Lead purchasing and operations teams in 5 distribution centers with national coverage • In charge of all sorts of purchasing direct, indirect, local and international • Develop new distribution agreements with local and international players • Responsible for S&OP of 700 SKU’s • Enable all exportations to clients

In charge of Supplies and IT purchasing teams Managing 3 Managers direct reports and 25 indirect ones with a annual spend of US$ 120 MM. Achieved USD 14 MM saving in 2015 (exceeding target pre-stetted) and USD 7,9 MM in 2014 Implemented a purchasing desk operation with a annual spend of US$ 210 MM and achieved USD 9,2 MM saving in 2016

Prospection and development of new supplier and partnership with companies all over the globe Coached the development team (three FTE’s - two living abroad in India and China) Forecast of strategic products based on data collected from reports i.e. Platts, ICIS and CMAI • Monitoring price drivers of several strategic products

Developed market research and analysis for projects and proposals, delivering structured packs with story lines Worked closely to several projects in order to better understand the whole problem solving process and guarantee the efficiency of analyses conducted; Developed relationship with other international units to facilitate and improve research packs.

Assisted clients with the hedging strategies. Generated new business identifying opportunities for value added trading strategies. Build up customized strategies, and individualized trading programs.

Prospected new clients Assisted clients with the hedging strategies .

Developed Sourcing and Strategic sourcing projects. Structured and executed reverse auctions. Determined necessary data to devise solutions to problem being studied. Prepared project reports and updates for management, project client or other relevant parties, arranged best ways for communicating project concepts to ensure acceptance by client and confirm that project’s scope meets client needs. Kept project within scope and on timeline. Provided new project sales at the customer.

Trader January 2002 – March 2004 Managed $66mm in Cocoa futures and options (NYBOT) across Nestlé’s Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Jamaica. Analyzed S&D – supply and demand- for the Cocoa and Sugar crops. Collaborated with international risk management team that analyses Nestlé’s sugar hedging policy. Interacted with European, Australian and American Nestlé’s colleagues on a monthly basis. Trained new employees. Senior Buyer May 1999 – December 2001 Raw Materials Purchasing Senior Buyer, responsible for national and international purchasing negotiations. GLOBE-BE Spend Categories Project Member, representing South America, has once traveled to Chile, to analyze and define purchasing categories, for the purchasing systems global integration. Junior Buyer October 1998 – February 1999 Raw Material Purchasing Junior Buyer, responsible for national purchasing negotiations. Intern May 1998 – September 1998