Gabriel Suarez

Gabriel suarez

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Humanitarian Procurement, Logistics and Preparedness

  • Education

    • Greengates school mexico

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    • Coventry university

      2002 - 2005
      Bachelor of applied science (b.a.sc.) disaster management and engineering
    • Coventry university

      2002 - 2005
      Bsc honors international disaster engineering and management

      Activities and Societies: Part of the Break Dancing group, Disaster Managers, Christian Union

  • Experience

    • Medair

      Oct 2008 - Apr 2009
      Field logistics

      Solely work along side the Water and Sanitation team who were implementing projects supported by the UN. -Responsible for all logistics at field level.-Coordination with local suppliers as well as the main Medair base.-Long periods of time spent in the field with minimal base support.

    • Mountain lodge ltd

      Nov 2010 - May 2011
      Transportation

      -Organise and schedule airport pick ups for high paying guests in Switzerland. -Hotel Maintenance and repairs- Assistance with running the hotel's ski hire shop

    • Majestic wine

      Oct 2011 - Feb 2012
      Assistant store manager

      • Managed and organised stock by demand and monthly forecasts • Created selections according to customer needs, preferences or taste• Supervised the store operations and security in the absence of the Store Manager • Coordinated daily deliveries alongside the store driver, including support of six stores in West London• Monitored and reported financial margins to head quarters. • Led daily register close and monthly stock take• Organised marketing events and wine courses

    • Medair

      Feb 2012 - Feb 2014
      Supply chain management officer

      Responsible for the headquarters procurement team. Ensured delivery of items orded by projects functioning across East DR Congo via land or air. Lead and trained the procurement team with our custom made tracking system for each order. When it was required I would base manage, which required me to supervise finance and administrative tasks.

    • Medair

      May 2015 - Jun 2015
      Emergency response logistics officer

      Rapid deployment to take over from the initial assessment team with responsibilities of putting into actions the plans that resulted. I lead a road assessment in partnership with a local NGO in the remote are of Sindhukot. Then assisted in organizing a plan for delivery of distribution items to four villages in the north east of Nepal. Finally negotiated and liaised with clearing agents to free 8 truck loads of nfi's coming from India. The objective of the team was to provide initial emergency shelter material to 11000 house holds that were affected by the earthquake. Show less

    • Crown agents

      Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

      I provide professional procurement support and service to certain Projects funded by various donors. The role is varied with financial, procurement, admin, monitoring budgets, reporting and so on. The main goal is to ensure policies and operating procedures are met while purchasing quality commodities that meet the target timescale at a competitive price. Part of the Procurement team that aims to provide “health supply chain programs,” which means directing and coordinating “the delivery and distribution of a range of global health communities used to prevent and treat illnesses, including HIV and AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.”

      • Procurement Project Management Specialist

        Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
      • Procurement, Supply and Delivery Specialist

        Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
    • The partnership for supply chain management

      Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
      Procurement, supply and delivery specialist

      Directed and coordinated the delivery and distribution of a range laboratory equipment, medical commodities used in the prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS around the world. On a daily bases I use Orion, CRM, Knowledge Tree Explorer, Ariba, XroadZ and Google Apps.

    • Páramo ridge

      Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
      Co-founder

      Currently direct and operate all aspects of networking and establishing strong business links.

    • Medair

      Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
      Logistics manager

      Co lead the emergency response team that identified the needs of the victims from hurricane Iota and Eta. Our main operation was to deliver 2800 Hygiene kits to each household in the municipality of Villa Morales where the indigenous Miskitia people live on shallow mangrove grounds.

    • Logistics cluster

      May 2021 - Dec 2021
      Regional information management officer

      The Logistics Cluster provides coordination and information management to support the Preparedness Project in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean

    • Medical teams international

      Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
      Logistics consultant

      1. Lead the establishment of the voucher distribution system with the Health Program Team and establishing training/instruction and monitoring materials,2. Support inventory/stock and equipment management, and warehouse management, systems and reporting rhythms, especially for medical and hygiene products and kits.3. Provide coaching and capacity building to logistic and program staff in MTI procurement and inventory protocols.

    • Medical teams international

      Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
      Red rose e-voucher consultant

      Data collecting to analyze and identify the impact the program is having. Bring together and hosting a two day workshop where employees of Medical Teams discuss and agree on key topics from establishing the voucher distribution programResulting from the workshop to update e distribution policy, document lessons learnt and create a draft work plan for 2023 distribution. Support the Information Management team with troubleshooting tasks related to the Red Rose platform.

    • Mercy corps

      Sept 2022 - Nov 2024
      Global procurement manager

      Responsible for the development and maintenance of strategic initiatives within all indirect sourcing categories at HQ level. Development of category strategies, supplier negotiations, identification of cost saving opportunities and overall management of supplier relationships.Provide procurement support for The Americas

    • Portsmouth hospitals university nhs trust

      Apr 2025 - now
      Non clinical procurement specialist
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Information management training (e - imt)

      Logistics cluster
      Nov 2021
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Carer

      Issued by Maryland SPCA on May 2014
      Maryland SPCAAssociated with Gabriel Suarez
    • Donor Support and marketing

      Issued by World Relief on Oct 2014
      World ReliefAssociated with Gabriel Suarez
    • Small Group Facilitator

      Issued by Medair on Nov 2014
      MedairAssociated with Gabriel Suarez