Liz Nallely Montoya Gutierrez

• Define the supply strategy for North America through the creation of savings projects on the assigned commodities aligned to the global approach to achieve annual objectives. (shafts, iron castings, metal fabrications, and bus bars).
• Conduct market research to stay informed about industry trends, raw materials index tracking, ensuring competitive advantage in sourcing decisions.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders like supply chain director and Sourcing manager to define business requirements and align sourcing initiatives with organizational goals.
• Reduce costs by streamlining contract bidding and procurement processes to assure best prices for materials and services.
• Perform benchmarks of materials and parts, create RFQs, analyze cost breakdowns of each supplier, and prepare cost-benefit analyses to support the decision-making process.
• Mitigate supply risks by monitoring supplier capacity confirmations, developing backup sources, and tracking the vendor's raw material coverage.
• Manage project timelines, including vendor set-up, sample approval, and material launch in production.
• Negotiate extension of payment terms and improvement of inco-terms from EXW to DPU/DDP.
• Organize initiatives with suppliers to improve lead times and create VMIs (vendor-managed inventories) and Kanban inventories.
• Conduct quarterly and annual business performance reviews with suppliers, scorecard qualifications reviews, and corrective action plan requests and tracking if needed.

Key Achievements:

-Accomplish the savings objective for FY2023 individually +$4M USD and as a team by division +$11M USD.

-Successful launch of more than 30 savings projects.

-Project management for commodities with a consolidated annual purchase value of + $52M USD.

• Manage the client-supplier relationship of the service portfolio, increase the value of the current portfolio of projects, and attract new business contracts by organizing the commercial agenda, meetings, and participation in events in the energy sector.
• Lead continuous improvement projects across various functional areas, including finance, purchasing, logistics, asset management, human resources, operations, quality, and safety. Involved in recruiting processes, technical projects and supported in developing process flow diagrams and the definition of KPIs according to project scopes.
• Develop and monitor investment project budgets, capital, and scenario simulations to assess feasibility.
• Prepare and verify Earned Value on the company's portfolio of contracts/backlog at a national level and develop annual operating plans, budgets, economic analyses, and market trends for strategic planning.
• Prepare monthly executive reports and report directly to the CEO and Mexico's operational manager on business development performance indicators (KPIs).
• Train employees on business development, preparation of public works tenders and private business cases.
• Collaborate in preparing legal compliance manuals and code of ethics for workers and satisfactorily complete the due diligence files for each new contract to be signed with clients.

Key Achievements:

-Successfully terminated contracts worth a total of $213M USD for government institutions and oil and gas private operators.

-Complete internal auditor certification ISO 9001, 14001,45001 and support the company as a consultant during external and client audits.

-Member of the qualified committee of a Socially Responsible Company (ESR)

-Key collaborator in Due Diligence external audit processes to ensure compliance with due checks by coordinating the organization.

• Prepared bid proposals for presentation to potential clients under supervision of senior engineer.
• Enhanced project efficiency by streamlining communication between cross-functional teams.
• Interpreted blueprints and technical drawings to analyze upcoming projects.
• Generated cost estimates for inclusion in proposed capital and expense budgets.