Javier Almeida

Experience

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  Wroclaw University of Economics

  May 2014 - Jul 2014

  Volunteer
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  OVB Allfinanz España

  Aug 2014 - Feb 2015

  Trainee
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  Grupo Sedicana

  Apr 2015 - Aug 2015

  Trainee
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  Southern Cross Café

  Jun 2016 - Sept 2016

  Supervisor
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  Quality Link Recruitment

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2017

  Supervisor
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  Accenture

  Jan 2018 - Nov 2020

  - Tower lead for HR, CPS, FLEET & TRAVEL categories within the team, coordinating projects pipe-line, defining project scope, developing project strategy along with Category Managers and Business Stakeholders, assessing market opportunities and potential risks.- Lead, design and coordinate end-to-end local to global Sourcing projects across different categories from medium to high complexity.- Understand the demand, objectives, plan capacity and allocate resources appropriately to ensure suitable delivery and best project team results.- Build supplier relationship and lead commercial negotiations to ensure the best out- comes and savings for the projects.- Provide recommendation and proactively eliminate critical path roadblocks to help to ensure successful delivery of good and services sourced. Show less - Supplier Enablement, Catalog Enablement, Requisition Processing, Invoice Processing, Contract Administration and Master Data Maintenance.- Develop and manage the procurement operations pipeline, ensuring that contract-to-pay procurement processes are delivered correctly to the client based on metrics and SLAs contracted for the designated services.- Liaise with the business requestors to understand the context related to the contracts and obtain any missing/incomplete information required to process the agreements. Show less

  • Senior Sourcing Analyst

    Mar 2020 - Nov 2020

  • Sourcing Analyst

    Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Procurement Operations

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
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  Novartis

  Nov 2020 - Nov 2024

  Develop and implement a robust Global Category Governance framework for Marketing Agencies Categories (Creative Agencies, PR, Medical Communications). Create strategies aligned with business goals and translate them to the Regional and Local teams.- Owner of the Prisma tool's global governance, a strategic Marketing tool that functions as a Scope of Work storage, approval platform, spend control tool, agency benchmarking resource, and staffing utilization tracker, among other functions.- Document category strategies in Category Workbench (Cirtuo) and define and maintain category playbooks, sourcing instructions, and buying channels by category/country.- Deliver on operational excellence KPIs as per defined targets and support the implementation of process simplification, AI, and automation initiatives.- Enable simplicity through supplier rationalization under a new Op Model roll-out, while effectively managing categories’ performance and negotiating contract terms with key suppliers.- Build positive and strong internal stakeholder engagement through cross-functional collaboration with Leadership, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and other teams. Show less - Mainly scope in med-high complexity projects, with special emphasis on high spend Global projects.- Define and implement the right strategy (RFX, types of e-Auctions etc.) with the objective to find the most cost-effective ways to deliver business objectives.- Setup and execute e-Auction and eSourcing events end-to-end, enabling optimal cost reduction and avoidance, using platforms like ARIBA and KEELVAR.- Lead Supplier commercial negotiations.- Manage eSourcing and event reporting activities.Train vendors and stakeholders of the usage of RFX tools (RFI, RFQ, RFP, e-auctions)- Share knowledge and coach associates about advanced eSourcing optimization technics, along with broadcast and explain impactful auctions to wider global audiences. Show less

  • Global Category Manager - M&S Agencies

    Apr 2023 - Nov 2024

  • Global Sourcing Manager - Business Travel

    May 2022 - Jul 2023

  • Senior Sourcing Specialist

    Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
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  Schneider Electric

  Sept 2024 - now

  BTEX Governance program leader for Europe & Africa

  Leading Business Travel & Expense program governance for Europe & Africa