Junia Pereira

- Manage strategic procurement for European data center construction projects, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality materials and services. - Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers, negotiating contracts and pricing to optimize costs and minimize risks. - Spearhead procurement of critical infrastructure components, including: • Electrical systems (UPS, PDUs, generators) • Cooling systems (chillers, CRAC units) • Mechanical and electrical infrastructure (pipes, fittings, electrical panels) • Building management systems (BMS, DCIM) • Networking and security equipment (switches, routers, firewalls) - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, project management, and logistics, to align procurement strategies with project goals.

- Coursed Bachelor Degree in Marketing and Related Support Services in CCT College Dublin. - Travel and cultural immersion, volunteer work, personal projects, reflection & career development.

- Supported the strategic purchasing of the largest producer of ethanol, VHP sugar, and electricity through sugarcane and biomass with 9 agro-industrial units and 11 thousand members. - Managed an asset portfolio, including acquisition and maintenance of large equipment leasing contracts in the sugar and alcohol market (+1400 assets, €48m/year). - Managed the consolidation of the supplier base to meet the category strategy and leverage buying power. - Negotiated and implemented strategic sourcing agreements for goods and services to meet stakeholder needs and minimise the “total cost of ownership”. - Extended the use of SAP Ariba S2C (source-to-contract) to source goods and services. - Identifying and implementing key strategic supplier interfaces – Ariba supplier enablement, system automation, and punch-out catalogues. - Owned PTP data, including supplier records, approved supplier lists, and sourcing rules in all systematics. - Measured performance and regularly reporting on key metrics to key stakeholders. Achievements: - Renegotiated equipment leasing contracts for the entire agricultural fleet for 09 agro-industrial sites used in the 2020/2021 harvest. Applied analysis of remaining useful life, depreciation, maintenance costs, and pre-established contractual fines in order to define a trading strategy. (+1,400 assets/€48m/saving 28%). - Negotiated the triangular purchase of 80 agricultural assets for transporting raw materials, including maintenance services, guarantees, and subleasing (€10m/saving 4%). - Carried out an electronic auction for fertilisers acquisition in SAP Ariba S2C (€10m/mos).

- Performed strategic sourcing for road transport services of solid and liquid products. Defined RFI according to fleet profile, financial health, legal, and labour requirements, following best environmental practices and compliance of OSH standards (+40 routes/ €132m/year). - Followed the daily variation of fossil fuel prices based on the global economic and political scenario. Carried out immediate negotiations to adjust prices, as well as operational updates. - Prepared annual budgets based on price history, market research, exchange rate projections, international, and national market KPIs. - Contracted and managed contracts for road, rail, pipeline, inbound/outbound products, and other services of the logistics chain in the liquid/solid bulk, sugar and alcohol markets (€200m/year). - Managed contracts and interface with technical, legal and tax, compliance, and auditing areas.

- Carried out strategic sourcing for maintenance of a mill structure in the off-season. Achieved a strategic suppliers' distribution in record time (9 sites/€60m/year). - Contracted agricultural fleet maintenance services in off-season periods with manufacturers John Deere and Case: labour, spare parts, and employee training (9 sites/€20m/year). Achievements: - Actively participated on a project to restructure/centralise the Procurement area, focusing on cost reduction, supplier qualification and loyalty, brand standardisation, volume consolidation, and inventory management. Project focused mainly on MRO items: database study, baseline, vendor list, sourcing strategy creation, tax analysis, logistics strategy development, standardisation, and approval of new brands (9 sites/50 new contracts negotiated /SAP Ariba S2C/30 thousand SKUs/€32m/year/saving 28%).

- Supported the purchasing of one of the largest Brazilian multinationals in the segment of paper and pulp manufacturing with 18 industrial units and 20,000 employees. - Contracted and managed contracts for Industrial Maintenance, Engineering, Facilities, IT, Consulting, Benefits, and MRO services. Managed the IT service contract portfolio: infrastructure, software, database, and network. - Negotiated strategic service contracts for operational routine and general plant shutdown including scaffolding, industrial painting, thermal insulation, assembly, and mechanical maintenance (15 industrial sites/€15m/year). - Acquired expertise in managing E-commerce projects: Electronic Catalogue, RFI, and RFQ. - Supported the team of local buyers replicating the best negotiation practices. Achievements: - Supported projects in cost reduction, new suppliers/tools development to improve the management, operation, and control process in contracting services. - Implemented spot purchase through e-commerce.

- Supported the purchase activities for the expansion of the production line for new dairy products (Activia dairy products, Actimel) and installation of a new manufacturing site for bottling mineral water (Bonafont water). - Managed the industrial utility portfolio, negotiated strategically all new acquisitions of chemical products and fuel. - Restructured the purchasing processes and contracted new MRO models, aimed at cost reduction and process optimization.

-Provided the acquisition of indirect materials and services for 7 industrial units in Brazil. Participated in programs aimed at the development and qualification of new suppliers.