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Sarah MendesSM

Sarah Mendes

Interim Procurement & Transformation Consultant

€990/day
Berlin, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Sarah

💼 Skilled Procurement | Sourcing consultant with over 20-years of experience serving multinationals companies in complex, multi-business environment.
Strong experience in End-to-End Procuremet process, Indirect category management, Transformation roles including rewriting processes, implementing e-procurement and P2P systems, standardising data and metrics, continuous improvement and developing Category strategies, Vendor and Stakeholder management.
Relevant experience in coordinating and managing a remote multi-cultural team.
Results and business-oriented focus on team engagement and business transformation process & Consultancy.

🎯 My goal is to help your business to move Procurement to another service level by maximizing results / savings, implementing new procurement projects, building a procurement strategy and/or improve process eficiency, I'm here to guide and support you through every step of the process.

🌐 I am able to manage projects in different time zones and languages: Portuguse, English or Spanish.

💬 Feel free to get in touch with me to discuss on how I can contribute to your project or needs.

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • CotyInc
    Procurement Global Business Service (GBS) Director
    FASHION AND COSMETICS
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    _ Responsible for managing procurement processes within a P2P organization, including managing teams, coordinating processes, and overseeing the successful execution of procurement projects.
    - Leading an analytic business process operation team that are accountable to work with SIEVO, Power BI, Data monitoring and SAP master data, with a focus on end-to-end (E2E) Procurement process operation.
    - Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues and optimize processes.
    - PMO of SAP and all the P2P tools implementation on Monaco site.
    Procurement Transformation Procurement Business Process Business operation Procurement-to-Pay Strategic Sourcing
  • F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
    Interim Global Procurement Category Manager (Marketing & Sales)
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    July 2024 - November 2024 (4 months)
    Madrid, Spain
    Support the Procurement department with Indirect spend.
    🛠️Tasks & Responsibilities:
    ✔️ Provide support as a Category Management and stakeholder management for Marketing & Sales procurement.
    ✔️ Work as a Global Customer Care Business partner to provide best procurement support aligned with business and company strategy. Delivering important outsourcing services for that business unit.
    ✔️ Business partnering and stakeholder management in order to guarantee the business as usual.
    ✔️ Procurement execution, specifically sourcing and contracting.
  • Roche Diabetes Care
    Interim Marketing and Corporate Service Procurement Manager
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    January 2024 - June 2024 (6 months)
    Madrid, Spain
    Interim Global Procurement Category Manager responposible for:
    ✔️ Reviewing Category Strategies and Annual Pipeline for the Marketing & Corporate Services Categories, such as: Travel & Events, Fleet, HR Services, Consulting, Temp Labor, Marketing and Professional Service.
    ✔️ Identified and Executed Strategic Procurement Initiatives, such as Customer Care Outsourcing, Media & Creative Agency Consolidation, Process improvement for current operation of contracting process. Est. opportunities saving for FY24 - EUR2.4MM
    ✔️ Reported all savings captured within the category
    ✔️ Liaise with Procurement Business Support, Finance, and the Business to generate monthly metrics reports, including spend accuracy.

    Supplier Management and Continuous Improvement

    Business Partnering:
    ✔️ Continue developing solid relationships with Business stakeholders in Global functions and affiliates
    ✔️ Ensured involvement and engagement in functional decision-making by offering Procurement's point of view and alternative solutions.
    Contracting:
    ✔️ Draft, negotiate, close, and track local, regional, and some international supplier contracts.
    Project Management:
    ✔️Supported projects implementation and led projects to maximize value creation in the category
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Education

  • Master of Business
    Business School of São Paulo
    Business Executive MBA
  • FECAP
    Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado
    FECAP

Skill set (11)

Strategic Sourcing
Negotiation
Procurement Transformation
Indirect Procurement
Contract Management
Stakeholder Management
Vendor Management
Category Management
Procurement Business Process
Business operation
Procurement-to-Pay

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