Mario Ortiz

An accomplished and results-driven Operations Procurement Manager with a proven track record in optimizing procurement processes, managing supplier relationships, and driving cost efficiencies within complex operational environments. Adept at developing and implementing strategic sourcing initiatives, negotiating contracts, and leading cross-functional teams to achieve organizational objectives. Demonstrates strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to leverage data-driven insights to inform decision-making and continuous process improvement. Core Competencies • Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management • Contract Negotiation and Compliance • Cost Reduction and Efficiency Initiatives • Cross-Functional Team Leadership • Risk Management and Mitigation • Inventory and Supply Chain Optimization • Data Analysis and Reporting • Process Improvement and Change Management • Stakeholder Engagement • ERP and Procurement Systems Expertise Professional Experience Overview With extensive experience in procurement operations across diverse industries, this professional has successfully overseen the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, from needs assessment and supplier selection to contract execution and performance evaluation. Skilled in building robust supplier networks, ensuring compliance with regulatory and company standards, and implementing best practices that align with business goals. A collaborative leader, the Operations Procurement Manager excels in fostering productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including finance, logistics, and legal teams. Known for driving operational excellence, managing budgets effectively, and ensuring the timely delivery of goods and services critical to organizational success.

Lead regional strategic sourcing, supplier relationships and risk management for PRD Plants. Establish key operating metrics and develop appropriate objectives / performance expectations of direct reports to ensure achievement of business goals and objectives.

Maintain long-term partnerships with suppliers while adhering to Eaton’s rigorous ethics and compliance standards to enable cost-out and product/supplier improvement while ensuring production, delivery, and capacity requirements for all commodities. Lead the development, communication and implementation of commodity strategies . This includes commodity segmentation and enabling sourcing, developing and executing supply base right-sizing, three-year roadmaps to improve supplier performance (cost, quality, delivery), and ensuring appropriate levels of capacity to support business unit demand. Develop and implement multiyear cost-out pipeline of projects to provide sustainable competitive advantage to the business. Lead strategic sourcing decisions through consensus building in operations, quality and engineering to create and manage supply contracts that leverage Eaton’s purchasing power for the benefit of the company and ensure flawless launches. Increase the functional knowledge of the commodity managers to enable cost model development, gap creation process, benchmarking, cost driver analysis, market testing and negotiation training for win-win results with the supply base. Apply skillful negotiations with internal and external suppliers; resolve issues and settle disputes; develop win/win solutions and create positive relations utilizing tact and expert judgment. Monitor supplier performance and monitor and manage supply risk to protect Eaton manufacturing locations from supply chain disruptions. Develop productive relationships with others in Supply Chain Management, mentoring, teaching and training.

Lead and direct the materials function in a high volume, team oriented, automotive environment. Accountable of providing long-term planning to support plant objectives for on-time delivery, inventory dollars, DOH, supplier delivery, equipment utilization and use of lean principles and tools. Direct the activities of shipping, receiving, warehousing and support value stream material analysts to ensure appropriate training and development of personnel to meet operational needs.Provide overall management strategy and develop robust systems for plant inventory levels including raw, WIP and finished goods to meet inventory goals and support demand requirements. Responsible to monitor and manage delivery schedules to minimize freight costs including expedited costs.Responsible to oversee production and scheduling practices to ensure alignment with plant and corporate goals. Directly support lean manufacturing principles and processes, as well as NPIS new product introductions. Contribute to overall corporate and plant strategies by participating in interplant activities and acting as a liaison with corporate materials. Direct materials function BOS measures to assess trends, take corrective action and meet departmental, plant and corporate goals and objectives.Responsible to train and develop the organization to understand critical concepts and principles of lean and world class materials management. Participate in daily strategic meetings to ensure continuity and opportunities for improvement are captured and addressed systematically.Reduce operational costs through TVM and brainstorming activity. Perform brainstorming on a weekly basis to drive continuous improvement.

Develop and implement Material Production Scheduling/Planning System to meet customer demand while managing operational and capacity constraint. Drives sales goals of the manufacturing plant-manages product additions and deletions, including coordination of all expediting activities. Lead and direct the material planning & purchasing team to balance the demand as driven by Material Requirements Planning (MRP), shop floor capacity and customer sales orders. Plans, directs and coordinates a staff of Master Production Schedulers and Material Planners to ensure goals are met or exceeded. Responsible for the following key measures: Work-in-process, order date accuracy, on-time work release, customer on-time-delivery, material velocity through the plant, and employee engagement Ensures required documentation and/or system transactions are executed to allocate purchase, internally manufacture or reschedule material as required. Assists in expediting material, where required, to meet shortfall between current plan and customer order requirements. Analyzes data, including enterprise requirements planning information and prepares consolidated managerial reports as needed to facilitate and recommend actions to ensure plant/product line optimal supply chain execution.

Responsible for Managing key Supply Chain related functions such as products planning, scheduling and ordering activities associated with the delivery of customer products, direct and indirect material purchasing, logistics for import, export, inventory control and warehousing; manages and directs supply chain personnel in the procurement, receipt, disbursement, and inventory control of products to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders while maintaining assigned inventory levels. Manage current and future demand requirements with sales and supplier capabilities/capacities to ensure completion of customer requirements. Implement methods, practices and techniques to ensure the most economical movement of materials through the supply chain to achieve cost-effective logistics practices and inventory levels while meeting customer delivery requirements. Manage Mexico PQ subsidiary purchasing activities for items procured on local basis in order to compliment centrally purchased items.

Act as the primary conduit between the business unit it supports and the SCM organization. Manage new programs from the design phase to production to meet all program timing, cost, and quality requirements. Drive early supplier involvement in new product introduction to meet key SCM initiatives and alignment with commodity plans of the Vehicle Group. Manage SCM tactical implementation of strategic initiatives. Coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, operations, purchasing and SQA to develop, manufacture, and successfully launch new projects.

Manage the strategic coordination of worldwide sourcing and supplier quality activities, including developing commodity sourcing strategies, leading supplier selection and development activities, and establishing purchase contracts governing assigned commodities. Emphasis is on selection and management of vendors so as to provide with the highest levels of quality at the lowest landed cost while insuring adequate capacity, on-time delivery, and commitment to continuous improvement, supporting current products as well as new product development.

Evaluate potential new suppliers and support commodity managers in selection of new suppliers. Support new programs up to source selection. Drive process and systemic quality improvements, at assigned suppliers, to reduce quality non-conformances (DMR) and cost of poor quality.

Development and implementation of the quality management system for the Texas Instruments Plug In Power Business Unit. Responsible that policies and procedures regarding all aspects of quality assurance and improvement were rigidly adhered to during all manufacturing processes. Develop and implement plans to achieve operation and group quality goals. Ensure compliance to customer quality requirements and acts as principle contact for customer on quality issues. Manage inspection, corrective action, SPC, returned materials, internal audit activity, and other documentation issues as needed for the operations.

Quality System Certification - ISO9000 Implementation of the CRM system for inbound & outbound lines Customer Service deployment

Development of Local Suppliers to support Automotive Pressure Transducer Line for TI. Staffing a 4 SQAs & 2 supplier development Engineers.

Development of the Supplier Quality Manual for Suppliers. Mexico Supply Base audit Program responsible.

Quality of 3 different Mfg lines - Relays, Hermetic & Aircraft Controls.

Plastics products Quality Engineering - Quality Staff. Resident Engineer for the following Customer Locations: NISSAN - Aguascalientes & CIVAC Flextronics (Former Xerox facility) - Aguascalientes VW - Puebla Facility