Marina Oliveira

Reporting to the General Director in Brasil and to the Purchasing Director in France. Responsible for the Purchasing and Foreign Trade dept. Project management for logistics solutions. Work closely with overseas agents to assure the highest level of service with the lowest price possible and fulfill the production requests ensuring the desired inventory levels. In charge of the management of the productive and non-productive acquisitions process. Responsible for all import and export processes of the company since the acquisition until the delivery – door-to-door coordination. Intense contact with freight forwarders, broker and regulatory agencies. Working with planning dept. and production schedulers to attend the production at the right time . Supervise all audit activities, management of supplier evaluation, evaluate all purchase orders, payments schedule/cash flow and elaboration of the annual budget for the purchase dept. Design and implement purchasing strategies and procurement policies.

Join the start-up process in Brazil. Provide the adequacy of the building for the installation of the company – hiring contractor for renovation of the building, purchase the furniture and equipments – create and implement standards, procedures and routines for the purchase and foreign trade department. Development and approval of suppliers for raw materials, products and services. Preparation of cost sheets for reporting to the headquarter. Key-user of the system Infor / Brain, purchase, sales and export modules, with training provided in Germany. Responsible for all foreign trade operations: enabling Radar with the IRS, operation and control of all the import and export processes, direct relationship with port authorities and customs terminals, intervention when needed in customs clearance and criticism projects. Responsible for the financial planning of the purchase department, providing transportation costs, general logistics costs, taxes and operations expenses.

Management of the panel suppliers and items by providing to the users (manufacturing, logistics, engineering) products and services guidelines respecting cost, quality and delivery criteria. Purchase productive items, price negotiations, analyzing cost spreadsheets and financial impacts on the project. Constant interface with other plants in order to locally apply corporate policies regarding the procurement process and supplier relationships. Reporting of financial gains obtained in negotiations. Responsible for all the foreign trade operations.

Responsible for purchasing all the imported material; contract management of local and international suppliers, development of new suppliers for productive and unproductive items and also for logistics services (freight forwarders, brokers and carriers), preparing and updating price lists, constant negotiation with the suppliers in order to save costs for the company. Foreign Trade: coordination of sea and air shipments, as well as their customs clearances; closing exchange; tax classification and nomenclature of the goods, calculation of the import and landed cost and analysis of international agreements. Management of monthly reports and KPI's of the department.

Responsible for the coordination and control of the raw material import processes – since the purchase order until the delivery in the factory; intense contact with planning and purchase department, freight forwarders, brokers and regulatory agencies at ports and airports.

Management and control of all import and export processes – since the purchase order until delivery in the factory – booking international and national freights, checking import and export costs. Negotiation with FedEx for more than 25% reduction on the export costs to the U.S. subsidiary. International Purchase - development of new suppliers, negotiating of prices and "transfer-price", quotations, planning, MRP analyses, issuing purchase orders and follow up the order acknowledgments (ACK). Intense contact with the headquarter in Switzerland and with the subsidiaries in USA, China, England, Germany, among others.