Experience

Highly Marelli USA, Inc.
• United States
• Automotive
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Project Leader

  • Apr 2023 - Present


Marelli Mexicana

• Mexico
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Climate Systems - Mexico Business Unit Head

  • Apr 2019 - Mar 2023

  •Financial: Overall responsibility for the financial performance (OP, EBITDA) of Climate Business Unit•Strategy: Develop performance measure structures (KPIs) to support Business Unit strategic direction, ensuring short and long term goals are both defined and measured•Customer: Develop and maintain strong customer relationships •Human Resources: Create a learning Business Unit that will continue to grow and flourish and enhance the skills and abilities of employees, while focusing on Talent Management, developing the high performers today as well as proactively identifying, nurturing and developing the future leaders of tomorrow Show less

• Purchasing Senior Director

  • Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

  •Financial: Responsible for all Mexico and Brazil procurement including Expenses and CAPEX, achieve budget and cost performance •Strategy: Create/enhance measures to achieve annual cost reduction objectives while ensuring long-range commodity plans and strategies taken into account. Includes Global Sourcing plan development, while implementing and leading sourcing activities for new programs both globally and regionally •Customer: Build new and maintain current supplier/internal client relationships. Support supplier global panels in cooperation with other global locations and entities •Human Resources: Manage employees through establishing annual performance goals, assessing annual performance, and determined incentives and/or promotion opportunities based on employee individual merit, provide leadership, coaching, guidance, training, career counseling Show less



Nissan Mexicana S.A. de C.V

• Overseas Program Director & Program Management Office Director

  • Sep 2013 - May 2017

  •Functions as the Nissan Program Director’s proxy to coordinate efforts toward obtaining a commitment for the development of a specific product; coordinates any changes in the initial concept stages and in estimates of profitability, costs, and capital expenditures •Supports the Nissan Program Director in all management aspects of a vehicle line from concept through design, manufacture, marketing and sales launch. Coordinates activities with the functional area to achieve adequate global profit and product presence and to balance customer value with cost •Contributes to building brand value and achieving enduring profitable growth •Reviews vehicle specifications, retail price, destinations, sales volume, performance and quality objectives to locate opportunities to improve profitability and obtain potential savings through reductions in cost •Reviews cost data submitted by functional areas for materials, direct labor, direct expense, design and development, manufacturing allocation, in-house investment, vendor tooling expense, purchasing cost, sales expense, advertising and other areas to locate potential savings and to improve profitability and product presence •Convenes and coordinates meetings between various functional areas to resolve any deviations from profitability commitments; arbitrates resolutions as necessary; escalates serious disagreements or the reappraisal of objectives to the Nissan Program Director •After sales launch of vehicle, analyzes program performance, coordinates development of a life cycle profit plan and prepares related reports •Manages employees by establishing annual performance goals, allocating resources, assessing annual performance, and determining individual merit, incentive and/or promotional increases. Supervises and provides leadership, coaching, guidance, training, career counseling and staff development, interviews and selects employees; recommends merit increases, transfers and promotions Show less



Nissan Mexicana S.A. de C.V.

• Purchasing, Sub Director

  • Apr 2011 - Aug 2013

  •Staff of forty-four (27 indirect reports) consisting of Managers, Senior Buyers, Buyers and other professional staff (located in Farmington Hills, MI, Nashville, TN and Toluca, Mexico)•Responsible for all North American production (USA, MEX and support Brazil)•Lead negotiator for major common suppliers•Developed strategies and plans to implement, measure and achieve annual cost reduction objectives•Provided overall management and control of programs related to purchasing of production parts•Responsible for achieving budget and cost performance on every part purchased for new vehicle programs•Global Sourcing plan development, implemented and lead sourcing activities for new models both globally and regionally•Built supplier global panels in cooperation with other global locations and entities•Developed long-range commodity plans and strategies within the Renault Nissan Purchasing Organization •Responsible for quality control delivery in assigned region•Coordinated with appropriate internal and external parties on all executive levels to facilitate proper strategy implementation•Built successful relationships with suppliers, internal clients, and a variety of other corporate entities•Managed employees through establishing annual performance goals, allocating resources, assessing annual performance, and determined incentives and/or promotional opportunities based on employee individual merit•Supervised, interviewed/hired, provided leadership, coaching, guidance, training, career counseling and staff development for my team Show less

• Regional Supplier Account Manager

  • Apr 2010 - Mar 2011

• Purchasing Projects Management, Senior Manager

  • Apr 2008 - Mar 2010

• Purchasing Program Management, Manager

  • Aug 2003 - Mar 2008

• Purchasing Specialist

  • Aug 2000 - Jul 2003

• Buyer: Chassis, stamping

  • Aug 1996 - Jul 2000


Mercedes Benz Mexico
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Trainee

  • Oct 1994 - Jul 1996