Julieta Martinez de Leon

Experienced Global Commodity Manager with an engineering background and a strong record in Indirect Procurement, cost reduction, and strategic sourcing. Over the past decade at Flex, I’ve led high-impact global initiatives across diverse categories, managing over $1.2B in spend and consistently surpassing savings targets. I began in regional services, driving cost reduction projects for Mexico sites in transportation and cafeteria services. My results led to a global role where I managed Packaging (2015–2018), achieving $2M/year in savings on $110M spend by localizing solutions and enhancing supply chain agility. In IT (2018 - 2024) I aligned sourcing with global IT strategies, negotiated with OEMs, and drove standardization, delivering $3.5M/year in savings on $120M spend. From 2020, I led Facilities procurement, crafting region-specific strategies for utilities, construction, and equipment, saving $9M/year on $400M spend while ensuring legal and operational alignment. From 2022 to 2024, I also managed Services, covering marketing, legal, janitorial, and security, achieving $4M/year in savings on $180M spend through strong contract and stakeholder management. In 2024, I was promoted to Global Commodity Manager – Indirect Procurement, now overseeing seven categories including Facilities, MRO, IT, HR, Professional Services, and Waste Management. I lead corporate strategy, supplier governance, and contracting, with $37M/year in savings targets and support from a global team. My career reflects a blend of technical expertise and business acumen, enabling value-driven procurement strategies that deliver measurable impact.

I was in charge of planning the core chocolate and seasonal items. In this role, besides managing the master plan, I was also in charge of controlling high inventories for raw material and finished goods, placing purchase orders to vendors, coordinating on time deliveries of raw material to production and to verify the production of items according to forecast but also preserving the company’s fill rate. My work in the company had require to deal with several areas in the company such as production planning, purchasing, warehouse, transportation, quality, etc. I’m focus on working under goals and KPI’s and to work well in a team.

In the Order Management position I was able to transition to several accounts, which gave me a wide knowledge of the business company. Starting out on the small accounts, where thanks to my performance I was able to take on bigger accounts moving on to National accounts and Clubs. Later on, I was in charge of, besides national accounts, all of the shipments to Central America, this implied on planning the logistics of the shipments, handling the inventories, meeting shipping and invoicing deadlines, commercial and legal requirements, among other activities. Since the beginning of 2014, I was in charge of the top wholesale accounts, managing to have an impeccable performance. By September 2014, I was managing the C&D cot including the transition between our partnership with allegro to Sigma.

Working as Commodity Prime position on the Supply Chain Department I offered support for all the sites of the Region by dealing with vendors and suppliers regarding prices, expediting critical part numbers, creating cost reduction projects for the plants, quoting raw material and searching new key suppliers in order to apply for new customers projects

On the Order Management position, I was responsible for managing and shipping all the customers PO’s, and fulfilling commitments based on a weekly forecast,I was the primary contact with the customer, I was in charge on the OTD indicator. Also I worked directly with suppliers in order to buy raw material for a production line, and maintain commitments with our customers.