Larissa S.

IT Director - South America @ CHS América do Sul

About

Senior IT executive. Executive in information technology area, with more than 17 years of experience in IT working with Product Supply area. Working for many multinational companies in different segments such as: Electronic, foods, agro, health care, chemist, consumer and pharmaceutics. Strong Leadership skills managing more than 40 people, with extensive experience managing international projects leading people from different cultures, strong multidisciplinary project management skills leading complex project implementation such as SAP and Non-SAP technology for LatAM and global. Experience managing external providers/contracts. International experience in Argentina, Mexico and Germany. English, Spanish fluent and Portuguese native. Strong experience managing a higher annual budget. Bachelor degree in Computer Information Systems and a master in Digital Business at USP.

Country

Brazil

City

São Paulo

Industry

Farming

Skill

Sistemas operacionais, Segurança da informação, Insights de negócios, Insights criativos, Estratégia de produtos, Apresentações, Analítica, Análise de dados, Resolução de problemas, Negociação, Microsoft Project, Satisfação do cliente, Iniciativas estratégicas, Habilidades analíticas, Equipes de projeto, Alocação de recursos, Aconselhamento, SAP, SAP Implementation, Business Process

Experience

IT Director - South America

CHS América do Sul

2024-4 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

São Paulo, Brasil

Global Information Technology Director

Bayer

2020-5 - 2024-3 · 3 yrs 11 mos

São Paulo, Brasil

Managing over 40 people across the world such as LATAM, EMEA, APAC and NAFTA dealing with different cultures and mindsets. Conducting projects following different technologies and methodologies such as agile and waterfall. Dealing with complex challenges involving many people and different levels. Strong collaboration with regional and global business areas to enable and drive IT strategy. Ensure business operation on a daily basis, avoiding business impacts and driving transformation projects to leverage the global IT roadmap. Responsible for managing a larger annual budget involving several contracts in several countries.

Head of IT LATAM

Bayer

2018-9 - 2020-5 · 1 yr 9 mos

São Paulo, Brasil

Managing over 30 people. Working closely to leverage Crop Science, Pharmaceutical, Consumer, Radiology and Animal Health driving transformational projects for LATAM. Responsible for a higher annual budget. Focusing on Digital Transformation, change management to transform people's mindset; Training them in new technologies, methodology and mindset transformation. Transforming the real model to accelerate strategies together with the business. New initiatives involving key divisions to shape new-concept to drive digital strategy.

IT Digital Transformation global Manager

Bayer

2017-4 - 2018-8 · 1 yr 5 mos

São Paulo, Brasil

Implementation of the most important global project called iPSE O2C for Bayer where the main target was transforming the customer experience for Brazil Crop Science business. Develop the transition strategies based on global guidance considering market specifics in collaboration with country management. Management more than 30 people indirect by influence in different base-home (Barcelona, Germany, Manila and Mexico) with strong cross collaboration between teams such as Marketing, Product Supply, IT, finance, risk and other teams. Management of a high budget. Implementation of a new area called “customer service” to attend the customer. Optimization of process, increasing transparency and increasing performance bringing an “amazon experience” through new technologies and a best practice.

LATAM IT - Regional Service Manager

Bayer

2014-8 - 2017-3 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Coordinating technical team of SAP Otc responsible for Latin America. Measure & monitor to ensure deliverables are met on time, Identify opportunities, Develop business cases, Design and implement appropriate SAP solutions, Provide improve operational excellence and lower cost of operations. Ensure reliable systems operations and integrity complying with Service Level Agreements . Coordinate activity for 3rd party solutions provider.

SAP SD Consult (Implementing SAP projects)

Capgemini

2013-2 - 2014-7 · 1 yr 6 mos

São Paulo

SAP SD Consult (Implementing SAP projects)

Infosys

2012-10 - 2012-12 · 3 mos

São Paulo

Advise customer on industry best practices in the area of expertise. Configure the requirements in respective solutions. Prepare functional specifications and support development teams. Conduct testing, training and support for master data migration. Responsible for leading SAP projects from start to finish, including requirements gathering, business process analysis, system configuration, testing, and training. Providing ongoing support to SAP users.

SAP SD Analyst

Sony

2006-1 - 2012-9 · 6 yrs 9 mos

São Paulo

Responsible for leading SAP projects from start to finish, including requirements gathering, business process analysis, system configuration, testing, and training. Providing ongoing support to SAP users. Translate business requirements into functional (SD resource) & technical (technical resource) specification documents. Evaluate demands and implement changes. Handle and resolve incidents. Delivery of quality solutions and documentation in line with company policies and standards.