Felipe Santos

Category manager with growth mindset, situation awareness, ownership behavior and commitment with stakeholders and team leadership through collaboration. 8 years of experience to lead projects from local to global levels in chemicals and coatings segments. Strategic sourcing specialist and lean six sigma green belt continuous improvement manager. 

Excellent verbal and written communication paired with organized nature and advanced problem-solving strengths. Consistently rewarded for success stories, saving millions of dollars tor Akzo Nobel and Nouryon year over year, but always looking beyond, seeking a new challenge to stay level-headed and hungry. Challenge is opportunity to growth. Learn through the process of innovation and continuous self assessment.

Nouryon - Procurement Category Manager Indirect Americas

2018 - 08 – Current

• Responsible to lead MRO, Gases, Lab supply and Equipment categories and drive the strategy across the region and/or globe. Also, report, present, discuss and propose business strategies with global integrated supply chain leadership team.
• Provide category insights proposals by analyzing and monitory market factors, trends across the globe and its impacts in the company.
• Develop and implement the overall global and regional strategies for MRO, Gases, Lab supply and Equipment.
• Lead global procurement networks to evaluate synergy opportunities between regions, business units. Promote communication and best practices sharing to make regional and local initiatives become global.
• Develop savings projects, supplier management and partnership. Lead cross functional projects to achieve cost reduction through price-price savings and beyond (Total cost of Ownership) at global and regional levels.
• Lead continuous improvement projects based on lean six sigma methodology Integrated supply chain organization in South America. Additionally, manage green belt trainings sessions and coach green belt trainees, supporting CI projects linked to procurement organization.
• Manage procurement buyers and projects to support buyer’s development, providing feedback and guiding them throughout Procurement projects. 
• Participate of Capex budgeting and sourcing strategies in South America
• Lead stakeholder management to enhance procurement influence and accelerate projects implementations
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• Key initiatives:

Lead Material master data cleaning project to Maintenance repair and operations items South America. 

Lead Tax recovery project to reduce maintenance repair and operations  total costs in Brazil.

Lead Personal protective equipment total cost reduction south America through supplier and material consolidation.

Leader of Regional spend down workshops to South and North America  

Lead South America industrial gases supplier consolidation project. 

Lead Global nitrogen and hydrogen material clustering and price arbitrage projects (Belgium, Holland, United states, China, Singapore, Brazil). 

Develop global Hydrogen footprint, future view, procurement, and energy strategies through strategic point of view methodology.

Member of War room project (COVID19 supply strategies), representing south America.

Lead Natural gas savings project Brazil to change boilers fuel resource and increase efficiency.

Leader of laboratory supply and services projects to North and south America.

Lead Scrap management innovation project for South America. 

Lead MRO total costs projects (Cross functional initiative - Procurement , Logistics, Controlling and operations)

Akzo Nobel - Spend Area Main Buyer

2018 - 01 – 2018 – 08

• Responsible to manage the spin-off process between Specialty chemicals and coatings business at AkzoNobel, regarding regional procurement contracts in south America while minimizing costs and risk to the new organization.
• Develop procurement cross business projects to facilities, technical services, process automation, quality, health, security, and environment.
• Responsible to manage all the key regional contracts to south America, drive compliance and procurement policies in the region, reporting directly to global procurement organization.

• Key Initiatives:

Civil services savings project by changing the model of contracting, execution and controlling, reducing costs and improving the service level for operations.

Process & automation global contract , representing South America.

Maintenance of all contract clausules and commercial conditions to Specialty chemicals business after spin-off process (A Curve regional suppliers)

Restructure Industrial gases category for south America region. 

Akzo Nobel – Procurement Indirect Analyst

2016-12 – 2017- 12

• Responsible to develop cross site projects to reduce costs and complexity of tail spend complexity, focusing on materials, suppliers, and process standardization.
• Support regional strategy by collecting and structuring business warehouse data to all indirect procurement categories. Also, developing economic and commercial studies to chemicals and coatings segments through strategic sourcing methodology.
• Identify regional initiatives through spend down workshops sessions with operations and procurement teams to support the overall procurement strategy and its targets.
• Develop stakeholder relationship to support procurement projects, facilitate projects approval and receive stakeholder resources to support the full implementation process.

• Key initiatives:

Cleaning and gardening innovation project.

Power & transmission regional project.

Electric supply coatings business project

MRO Warehouse catalogues consolidation project Procurement interns coaching program.

Akzo Nobel – Procurement Indirect Trainee

2014-11 – 2016-12

• Develop business intelligence and market analysis to support procurement and logistics projects 
• Business intelligence key user and south America focal point. Responsible to report to the business intelligence           

global team the region issues and needs regarding business warehouse and propose improvements initiatives to be included in the global scope.

• Responsible to report spend data details to south America, support procurement projects and spend down opportunities
• Responsible to develop all procurement templates and high-level presentations in south America.
• Manage tail spend projects at local and regional levels
• Promote synergy among sites through supplier and materials/services standardization.
• Support category managers on high spend projects, developing the baseline, collecting scope with sites, and reporting the latest market trends that might impact their category
• Responsible to lead Ecovadis assessment in South America with key procurement suppliers and global Akzo Nobel sustainability team

• Key Initiatives:

Business warehouse standardization.

Industrial gasses SSM, mobile lines SSM

Personal protective equipment regional savings project Ecovadis awards to procurement suppliers.

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