Marcelo Ribeiro

- Develop, negotiate, and implement sourcing strategies, enhancing, streamlining, and minimizing the supplier network to align with the overall purchasing strategy. - Negotiate price, terms, and other items to complete the entire contract package and develop benchmarking for each sourcing package. - Successfully negotiated shock components for both heavy-duty and light-duty trucks in North America, achieving a remarkable cost-savings in a single negotiation by optimizing Engineering Design and Development costs. - Develop global commodity strategies and work with cross-functional partners to meet sourcing and cost savings results.

- Lead cross-functional engineering teams and IT professionals to implement an innovative worldwide 3D glasses solution for manufacturing operations, projecting savings of USD 2.6M by eliminating travel expenses, improving productivity, and fostering collaborative partnerships. - Reduced the product launch timeline from over 2 years to just 6 months by developing a comprehensive plan, defining clear milestones, implementing accurate tracking mechanisms and KPIs, and efficiently collaborating with international team members from South Korea, Brazil, and China. - Manage engineering planning cycle and headcount allocation to all projects; prioritize projects based on impact, ROI, budget, and timeline. Usually analyze and negotiate around 60 new requests per year. - Implement the new cross-functional strategy for AI usage to reduce and simplify hundreds of key tests that GM needs to perform to guarantee the safety of all vehicles.

- Successfully resolved a safety issue in the brake system, preventing an estimated $500 million recall by identifying non-compliance to components requirements during design validation; convinced multiple engineering teams and quickly implemented a holistic worldwide solution. - Designed and implemented the new strategic certification plan for emissions in Europe (after GM sold Opel), avoiding fines and potential financial impact to GM. - Unified and standardized global vehicle weighting process across regions (China, South Korea, Brazil, US) by implementing unified templates, resulting in precise measurements, reduced recall risk, and streamlined development time. - Implemented monthly "culture and career discussions" in the whole organization, increasing employee satisfaction by 25%, with 80% session attendance. Enhanced leadership engagement for cross-departmental networking and knowledge sharing. - Led cross-functional meetings with marketing and legal teams from Europe and U.S. attorneys to secure approvals and alignment on the certification strategy.

- Led cross-functional teams and organized workshops to drive mass reduction strategies, resulting in a 150kg per vehicle weight reduction, saving 94 million liters of fuel annually in the South American market. - Implemented an efficient change management process, facilitating clear communication with senior leadership and a diverse team of directors, managers, and engineers. - Demonstrated strong project management skills, delivering results within a three-month deadline, and effectively communicating project urgency and significance to the team.

- Ensured projects and product changes meet objectives on time and on budget as per agreement between purchasing, manufacturing, validation, supply chain, engineering and planning.

- Assisted in preparing corporate income tax, VAT returns, and Intrastat returns and render advisory services for organizations in diverse and specialized industries. - Helped team to identify tax savings and risk-reducing opportunities for clients to consider - Analyzed tax returns and reporting impacts of corporate restructuring and planning strategies, as well as supply chain changes - Assisted in creating processes that minimize a client's tax compliance risk - Helped in preparations for estimated tax liabilities - Other assistance to senior team members on various tasks