Luis R.

My experience and education have always been related to procurement and supply chain, more specifically procurement and all their steps, sourcing, supply relationship management, supply chain fields, but as well as facility management and financial and operations acumen. I started in one of the biggest companies in transportation and logistics, field that I loved due to its strategical importance for the economy. After that, searching for knowledge and as a way of learning and gaining experience with different points of view of the supply chain industry, I changed to another important company, one of the biggest retailers in Spain, where I started as controller for the purchasing department. Here is where I definitely become a specialist in the procurement function. I kept trying to improve and develop my career in the procurement and supply chain fields, so I jumped to one of the most important Spanish engineering, where I grew in responsibility and started working as manager for the purchase department. Where I added the facility management under the scope, besides other corporate services, as fleet, MRO, utilities, communications, travels, logistics, office supplies, IT hardware, software. Then we all started with the different economic crises, and I had to adapt to the new situation and is when I found an opportunity to have an international experience. I spent some years in Germany working in the export area, focus on southern European and southern American markets, where I was in contact with sales function. Then after the expatriate experience I came back to work for an international insurance company within procurement and facilities department. Eventually, I had the huge opportunity to develop the procurement and real estate functions within a great company in a field I am familiar with. Logistics and transportation. Key features: Procurement, facility management, sourcing, supply chain, supplier relationship management