NATALIO ROMERO
Summary
A bilingual, results-oriented professional with excellent analytical/problem solving and negotiation skills that has supported building sound customer relationships. Served as Master Data Coordinator and analyst for a global consumer products firms and major distributors and has efficiently worked with individuals at all organizational levels. Experience includes pricing, sourcing, improving sales, providing support in credit, accounting, customer service, commercial and federal government bid reviews. Negotiating and entering new, existing, and extended purchasing contracts into SAP. Maintaining contract agreement price and source lists, setting up and maintaining new and existing MRO materials records.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Transportation Analyst
Anixter Wesco
01.2023 - 03.2024
- Responsible for providing analytical support for transportation programs including small package, LTL, private fleet, dedicated, international, courier, truckload, rail or expedited
- Responsible for supporting government regulatory agencies, auxiliary programs including car allowance reimbursement, freight audit and payment, and supply chain analytics
- Provide customer service to internal and external customer inquiries
- Analyze and improve mode-specific service and expense metrics
- Create and maintain appropriate daily, weekly, and monthly management reporting
- Provide specific analysis on transportation or supply chain initiatives
- Participate in LEAN initiatives
- Responsible for regulatory compliance at branches and distribution centers
- Ensure company dangerous goods policies meet all laws and regulations governing safe handling
- May manage self-clearance customs process through preparing entries and submissions to respective agencies
- May assist with the implementation of any new customs initiatives or projects
- May assist with yearly free trade agreement solicitations, qualifications and renewals.
Senior Master Data Analyst
Consolidated Hospitality Supplies
05.2022 - 11.2022
- Ensuring the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and management of Customer Master Data as it relates to SAP and other business systems
- Managed the end-to-end Customer Master Data set up requests and changes to existing data in SAP, Vistex and C4C
- Identifies and resolves request discrepancies ensuring timely completion
- Execute the required verification process checks to protect against potential fraudulent customer accounts
- Audit Business Partner and Vistex Memberships data for assigned Customer Programs
- Utilize Robotics Process for Business Partner Membership creation and maintenance
- Resolve data quality issues by ongoing maintenance projects related to Customer Master Data
- Monitor and enforce Master Data Management strategies, policies, procedures, and standards.
Buyer Accounts Payable
Saunders Midwest
07.2021 - 04.2022
- Support internal and external business partners through sourcing activities, manage supplier relationships, and measure supplier performance using Syspro and Artsyl systems
- Collaborate with sales, marketing and engineering department on new products sourcing opportunities
- Create and maintain new and current purchase orders and suppliers using Syspro
- Plan and track requests for quotes (RFQ)
- Manage all quoting activities with domestics and foreign suppliers
- Negotiate purchase cost, payment terms, lead-time, competitive bidding and negotiation terms with suppliers
- Through Artsyl and Syspro verify and process all invoices for payment, and discrepancies.
Master Data Analyst
Morton Salt
07.2018 - 01.2021
- In SAP, support business initiatives related to changing product information while maintaining the data integrity and hierarchy structure
- Perform data analysis, editing, applying updates to materials resulting in normalization, technical content support, and other functions related to content issues
- Audit product information for accuracy and consistency
- Address data content consistency and Taxonomy issues
- Analyze the best way to implement within the Taxonomy Structure
- Comply with data integrity rules
- Monitor, enter and maintain the master data in SAP
- Create and change new and current materials in SAP
- Support the master data for the procurement department
- Process and maintain materials pricing, outline agreements, info records and source lists
- Clean and maintain the data based on business priorities and using defined processes.
Procurement Coordinator
Reynolds Consumer Products
06.2017 - 04.2018
- Responsible for the procurements of packaging, capital equipment, materials, and services for the company's manufacturing sites
- Responsibilities included getting the best competitive prices on purchased items and making sure that the procurement process to pay is done correctly
- Also ensuring on-time delivery of materials/services
- Established and maintained new vendors for various departments.
Procurement Master Data Coordinator
KraftHienz Corporation
06.2014 - 08.2016
- Supported company's procurement organizations by negotiating pricing structure and specifications with vendors on new and existing material purchases
- Processed new material data into Struxure System (a web-based application designed to manage and maintain all materials shipped to each plant location), validated units of measure, terms and conditions for receipt by each plant location.
Procurement Quotes Specialist
Grainger Corporation
01.2003 - 10.2013
- Delivered consistent performance that resulted in promotions to eventually support account managers in all customer service needs, such as product pricing, market analysis, reporting, disputes, product inventory, and product cross referencing
- Analyzed and recommended bid solutions for government/commercial contracts that drove revenue growth
- Suggested pricing to account and district sales managers that realized $500k in sales to customers including, Honeywell, Budweiser, Robins Air Force Base, Lockheed Martin Budweiser, and NASA
- Delivered market presentations at District operations meetings
- Negotiated with pricing managers to obtain special cost support from suppliers
- Provided information to product merchandisers and vendors that increased profit 100k
- Interpreted and formulated responses to government bids that protected company against liability.
Education
B.A., Business Administration -
DeVry University
Chicago, IL06.1999
Skills
- SAP
- MS Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook
- Syspro
- Artsyl
- Access
- Business Warehouse
- PCard
- Cash Flow Tool
- I-Many
- Mainframes
- Commercial Invoice System
Certification
Certified Contract Management Practitioner, International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, 03/2013
Managementtraining
- Delegation and Motivation Tools
- Communication Skills
- Policies and Procedures
- Coaching for Result
- Managing Changes for Managers
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Transportation Analyst
Anixter Wesco
01.2023 - 03.2024
Senior Master Data Analyst
Consolidated Hospitality Supplies
05.2022 - 11.2022
Buyer Accounts Payable
Saunders Midwest
07.2021 - 04.2022
Master Data Analyst
Morton Salt
07.2018 - 01.2021
Procurement Coordinator
Reynolds Consumer Products
06.2017 - 04.2018
Procurement Master Data Coordinator
KraftHienz Corporation
06.2014 - 08.2016
Procurement Quotes Specialist
Grainger Corporation
01.2003 - 10.2013
B.A., Business Administration -
DeVry University
Certified Contract Management Practitioner, International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, 03/2013
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