Laura Dedino
Purchasing Manager @ Ford Motor Company
About
Professional graduated in Business Administration, with an MBA in Business and an Extension course in Financial Management. I have full availability to move and work abroad and have over 16 years of experience in the Purchasing area, with an emphasis on multinationals and the automotive purchasing industry. Extensive experience in Business Strategy with a focus on global segmentation (South America, Europe and Asia), ability to plan, implement and execute innovative strategies, resulting in greater stakeholder confidence and strengthening of business results. In addition, I have professional and international experience in China, Germany with strong national and international negotiation skills, as well as fluency in English and intermediate knowledge in Spanish and Italian. I am highly motivated, persistent, creative, innovative and results-oriented (cost reduction and continuous improvement, among others), with excellent communication and persuasion.
Brazil
Salvador
Automotive
Avaliação de fornecedores, Processos de compras, Desenvolvimento de produtos, Qualidade do fornecedor, Negociação de contratos de fornecedores, Gestão de compras, Trabalho em equipe, Liderança, Inglês, Fornecimento estratégico, Compras, Negociação de compras, Suprimentos, Estratégia empresarial, Compra de suprimentos, Desenvolvimento de fornecedores, Negociação, Gestão de suprimentos, Espanhol, Fornecimento global
Experience
Purchasing Manager
Ford Motor Company
-Responsible for the closure process and management of the Camaçari and Taubaté plants -Project collaboration with the following areas: legal, MP&L (logistics), Finance, Taxes -Collaboration with the internal Audit area
Purchasing Manager (Tools/Prototypes/Trollers)
Ford Motor Company
-Leadership and implementation in South Region the Direct Tooling Sourcing for Plastics parts with 31% reduction generating USD 12M of saving in the Vendor Tooling and USD 5M reduction in Variable Cost -Leadership of the Purchasing Prototype team responsible to buy for all South America Projects -Coordination of Purchasing activities (i.e. sourcing definition, cost alignment, etc) for Troller
Program Purchasing Manager
Ford Motor Company
-Coordinate Body Interior parts in order to support the new Ecosport launch in South America -SPOC from Purchasing to support Russia and Europe Ecosport launch
Program Purchasing Manager
Ford Motor Company
Nanjing , Jiangsu, China
-Expat in China (Nanjing): FSA B-Cars Program Purchasing Manager -Responsible to get global alignment about B-Cars vehicle to Ford South America and guarantee all local South America Sourcing Strategy will be followed to achieve positive profitability
Program Purchasing Manager
Ford Motor Company
Cologne, Germany
-Expat in Germany (Cologne): FSA B-Cars Program Purchasing Manager -Responsible to get global alignment about B-Cars vehicle to Ford South America and guarantee all local South America Sourcing Strategy will be followed to achieve positive profitability
Program Purchasing Manager
Ford Motor Company
-Global B-Cars Program Purchasing Manager -Responsible for leading and coordinating the global Purchase strategy on Body Exterior / Body Interior to achieve affordable Program (best cost and timing)
Senior Commodity Buyer
Ford Motor Company
-Responsible for global alignment of all EDS strategy and actions to Ford South America
Senior B-Cars Program Buyer
Ford Motor Company
-Global B-Cars Purchase Buyer -Responsible to coordinate and combine the global Purchasing strategy for Body Interior to achieve affordable Program on time
Purchasing Coordinator
Ford Motor Company
-TVM Purchasing Coordinator -Responsible to coordinate and implement cost reduction actions to achieve FSA Cost targets -Global CBP leadership and coordination (Commodity Business Plan)
Buyer
MSX International Brasil
-Responsible for aligning all Hardware actions and actions to be implemented at Ford South America, defining a local Sourcing strategy for current production and new programs -Coordination of local programs
Education
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Extension Course in Financial Management
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