Hector Gonzalez

Lead the global category management team for Fleet and Travel, with a strong focus on value creation, innovation, and people development. Key responsibilities include: - Delivering measurable value to stakeholders and end users across regions - Partnering and contracting with best-in-class suppliers to ensure performance, competitiveness, and scalability - Proposing and leading innovation initiatives such as telematics, AI-based audit tools, and digital platforms for data and information consolidation - Driving continuous improvement in cost, compliance, sustainability, and user experience - Developing and coaching global category managers, fostering high performance, ownership, and long-term capability building within the team

- Lead global acquisitions for the Packaging & Office Supplies categories. - Develop global sourcing strategies with tailored regional and local execution. - Provide category management services to over 80+ manufacturing sites in 15 countries. - Negotiate global, regional, and local agreements with best-in-class companies. - Enhance the company's savings pipeline through RFQs, benchmarking, and Value Engineering projects. - Lead the Supplier Risk Management program for my categories. - Contribute to achieving global sustainability and diversity goals.

- Contribute to develop global strategy for packaging categories. - Develop and implement sourcing strategy for the Americas region. - Build and execute savings pipeline for mid and long term - Supplier relationship management - Lead together with our suppliers sustainability projects. - Ensure that our supply chain complies with sustainability and ethic programs (Ecovadis, CDP, WASH Pledge)

• Ensure supply of direct materials through procurement planning strategies. (sugar, oils, milk, eggs, packaging, etc) • Constant monitoring the performance of suppliers, measurement of service KPIs, follow up on quality issues and support for continuous improvement. • Implement sourcing strategies to ensure the best quality, service and price. • Responsible of managing daily relationships with packaging suppliers • Elaborate annual budget and share financial visibility. • Market monitoring in order to detect opportunities. (RFI / RFQ process) • Active contributor for cost innovation and savings projects. • Solve any day to day issues and escalate accordingly to the global team.

- Responsible for the management of all packaging materials in Latin America (Cartons, corrugated cases, extrusions (HDPE), all type of laminations (PET, BOPP, PE) - Development of global sourcing strategy for corrugated items. - Address the current business needs in strategic sourcing, cost savings projects, supplier strategy, etc. - In charge to develop, engage and manage relationships with strategic suppliers, in order to obtain the best balance in cost, quality and service. - Generate accurate financial visibility each month and build the annual budget. - Deep understating of bid processes and strategic sourcing methods. - With solid experience in LATAM region. (México, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) - Participate in cost innovation and design to value projects to reduce total spend of my categories. - Contribute to achieve regional savings targets by building a pipeline of opportunities and executing regional negotiations.

- Negotiate and administrate Flexible packaging purchasing. - Service to 10 manufacturing plants in 5 countries. - Manage relationships with core suppliers - Strategic sourcing and deep sourcing exercises to obtain cost reduction savings, maximizing quality and service from our suppliers. - Price forecasting, budgeting, financial understanding of the category. - Market research - Seek the market to find the best and more cost effective raw materials for converters. - Support R&T to develop packages with a higher yield.

Lead the acquisitions of capital investments in Latin America, focused in the Mercosur region. - Constant supplier qualification - Consolidate spend across projects with multi-year/multi-project contracts. - Strategic sourcing focused in reducing the TCO of assets. - Negotiate all type of machinery for food process and packaging. - Special projects of the region (+10MM USD)

- Negotiate food processing and packaging equipment - Fast bid for civil, mechanical and electrical services - Spot buys - Develop new suppliers