ALEJANDRA GARCIA MEJIA
Houston,TX
Summary
Motivated woman that strongly believes and focus her passion in providing excellent customer service and process improvement for the achievement in the delivering of results. Characterized for being a creative, proactive and logical thinker person with great ability to negotiate, cooperate, and drive approach for different processes.
Industrial Engineer, with more than 8 years of experience in Procurement & Sourcing procedures in the Oil & Gas Industry.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Purchasing Leader
SLB
Houston, United States
07.2023 - Current
- Leading a group of 1-4 purchasing professionals and provided guidance and support
- Set action plans for improving lead time, cost reduction and on time delivery.
- Implement continuous improvement activities within the Supply Chain department.
- Participate in production plan reviews and demand formulation.
- Analyzed market trends and made recommendations for process improvements
- Managed daily operations of the purchasing team including scheduling resources and assigning tasks.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams throughout the organization on projects related to procurement activities.
Sourcing Leader
SLB
Houston, United States
08.2021 - 07.2023
- Leading a group of 1-4 people to deliver optimal sourcing requirements for the well construction division by approaching over 25K unique part numbers, and $300M of annual spend.
- Responsible for development, proposal, and execution of Sourcing Plans and contracts, addressing more than $100M in annual spend covering machine parts, electronics, MRO, sensors, raw material & bits technologies categories.
- Manage current and prospective suppliers through supplier reviews, site visits and audits, in coordination with Supplier Quality teams, to assure supply capabilities, on-time delivery, quality and service.
- In charge of Identifying opportunities and implementing actions to continually reduce wasted time, money, and resources from assigned tasks.
- Developing and collaborating on cross-functional projects in automating functional projects.
- Analyzed supplier performance data to identify areas of improvement in sourcing processes.
- Researched industry trends to identify emerging technologies or innovative products that could improve operational efficiency.
Supplier Manager
SLB
Remote, United Kingdom & Poland
09.2020 - 03.2021
- Set performance objectives for assigned suppliers (quality improvement, capacity, on-time delivery, lead-time reduction, cost reduction).
- Lead supplier plan, risk assessments and contractual situation.
- Prepare and manage negotiations in accordance with business needs.
- Stakeholders management & communications.
- Identified cost reduction opportunities through strategic partnerships with vendors.
- Developed plans for mitigating risks associated with supplier nonperformance or other disruptions in the supply chain.
- Ensured compliance with internal policies and procedures related to payment processing.
- Follow up and take actions for KPI & KPO compliance.
Sourcing Specialist
SLB
Bogotá, Colombia
11.2018 - 08.2021
- Conduct requests for information, quotation, proposals and bidding processes, minimizing risk and maximizing value in terms of quality, delivery and cost (RFI, RFP, scope of work, negotiation, contracting, etc)
- Track vendors performance through Master Data analysis for implement actions to continuously reduce wasted time, money, and resources.
- Update sourcing guide (use of commodities) for implement plans and tactics to effectively manage the assigned portfolio.
- Implement sourcing strategies with the goal of assuring catalog coverage for all business initiatives.
- Locate, launch, evaluate, negotiate and onboard suppliers with cross function team members.
- Execute contract negotiation with Sourcing Manager and Legal Team.
Procurement Specialist
SLB
Bogotá, Colombia
08.2016 - 11.2018
- Deliver high quality purchasing services on a day-to-day basis according to defined procedures.
- Ensure critical items or Services are purchased from specified suppliers and are deliver upon agreed terms & conditions seeking maximum value for the company including agreed time, delivery and cost
- Define the correct buying channel for each request and choose the best supplier in terms of price, quality and lead time
- Prioritize demand of purchase through different systems such as: SAP , Ariba, Oracle, among other ERP Systems.
- Track order acknowledgement to communicate compliance, shortage and backlog reports.
- Interfaces with product line planning manager to prioritize purchasing activities.
- Guarantee service quality of products/services are delivered on time.
Education
Industrial Engineering
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA
Bogotá, Colombia03.2016
Skills
- Procurement & Sourcing
- Supplier Management
- Negotiation
- Inventory Management
- Data Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Contract Management
- Automation ( Power Bi, Power Apps, Power Automate)
- ERP Business Systems ( SAP / Oracle )
- Customer Service
- Problem Solving
- Networking
- Coaching & Mentoring
Languages
English
Full Professional
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Portuguese
Full Professional
Italian
Limited
Accomplishments
- C1 projects:
1) SAP SOCO Automation, 2022
2) Sourcing Ad-hoc Tracker Automation, 2022
3) MRP HFE Purchasing Automation, 2023
- Short Time Assignments (STA):
1) Lima, Peru as Sourcing Specialist, 2019
2) Europe ( UK & Poland ) as Supplier Manager and P2P Specialist, 2020-2021
- Other Projects & Recognitions:
1) Advance Project: Proactive Sourcing Management, 2021
2) SAP Deployment- R 2.4 / R 2.5 / X2
3) PSC Cost Avoidance Tool
4) ARIBA Standardization, Catalog Promotion, Contract S2P Focal Point, Buying Guide Clean-up
Timeline
Purchasing Leader
SLB
07.2023 - Current
Sourcing Leader
SLB
08.2021 - 07.2023
Supplier Manager
SLB
09.2020 - 03.2021
Sourcing Specialist
SLB
11.2018 - 08.2021
Procurement Specialist
SLB
08.2016 - 11.2018
Industrial Engineering
UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA