ROCIO PEREA , BBA

• Lead complete lifecycle of Tender Management: Tender Analysis, Bid Preparation and Documentation. Coordinate Internal and External collaboration in Tender analysis and submission. Maintain all documentation records. • Lead all contract renewals including drafting, negotiating, review legal compliance, stakeholder consultation to obtaining final approvals. • Lead all Capital Quotes for Sales, Service, Evaluation and Placement; and manage the Capital Database. • Managing and administering rebate programs, ensuring accurate processing, and optimizing rebate strategies. • Relationship management: Maintain effective communication with all stakeholders, like finance, customer service, supply chain to investigate and resolve issues. • Maintain a comprehensive and organized repository of contract documents, including signed agreements, amendments, and correspondence.

• Managed end to end competitive bidding process; including negotiations, awarded and executed contracts in SAP. • Accurate maintenance of all contracts and associated pricing and generates reports as required for analysis. • Prepares and completes all RFQs, proposals and pricing agreements. • Resolves Customer Service queries by providing timely and accurate contract and pricing information, as requested. • Analyzes all contract awards and tenders in order to provide Supply Chain Management and the business analyst (for budget/forecast purposes) with a New Lost Business Report.

Part of the Social and Wellness Committee • Ensure effective,accurate and prompt handling of over 300 purchase orders a month from hospitals and medical centres in SAP and coordinate shipment of material goods. • Deal with hospitals all over Canada regarding status of their orders, prices of maternal infant care equipmet and vascular grafts (consignment and non consignment stock). • Expedite , communicate and escalate any customer code blue rush order. • Issue RMA´s in SAP regarding wrong shipment or defective manufacture and issue credit if applicable. • Work with accounts payable to reconcile receipts and supplier invoice discrepancies Sales Support Administrator • Authorize and issue quotes, tenders, RFP’s or other material after requesting documents have been processed and approved.  • Monitor and log the results of all tenders and quotes. • Keep and maintain the record of technical answers, technical data, and all relevant information that could be used in tenders. • Manage approximately 20 sales contracts and pricing agreement for maternal infant care in SAP.

•Analyzed MRP, generated PO’s and communicated requirements to suppliers and analyze feedback •Resolved and disposition Non Conforming Material in a timely manner •Communicated any delivery issues which would affect the Master Production Schedule. •Worked with accounts payable to reconcile receipts and supplier invoice discrepancies. •Sustained 35 suppliers with very strong communication skills along with weekly open order reports with a target of 98 % confirmed orders •Reviewed forecasted requirements and purchases materials in accordance with forecast •Managed purchasing of electronic components globally for production and new product launch. •Analyzed MRP, generate PO’s and communicate requirements to suppliers •Worked with Quality Engineering department in determining root cause of defective non conforming material for rework process and returned or credited issue resolution with supplier. •Communicated any delivery issues which would affect the Master Production Schedule. •Participated in weekly production meetings / conference calls with program management to review parts status and production targets.

• Participated in the annual physical inventory and in the monthly cycle count of the A class parts and periodic parts as required. • Performed root cause analysis on discrepancies between the physical count and the SAP information and made the adjustments as needed. • Reviewed and analyzed requirements generated by Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and place purchase orders in SAP according to the forecast. • Expedited and de-expedited vendor purchase orders in accordance to OAR to deliver in time to support the production schedule and customer required ship dates. • Acted as central point of contact with the supplier managing problem resolutions with engineering, manufacturing, scheduling to ensure timely manufacture and supply of products to meet customer deadlines • Elevated supplier delivery issues as necessary to maintain customer service objectives. • Interfaced with and provide feedback to commodity management, sourcing, logistics, production, engineering to support overall business goals.

Evaluate suppliers and award business based on RFQ process. •Issue delivery contracts/plans and place purchase orders using SAP. •Coordinate merchandise delivery dates with suppliers. •Monitor purchase orders for on time delivery of merchandise to the plant. •Implement necessary changes for process improvement initiatives to the purchasing department.