Fernanda Alcantara

Experience

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  Alcoa

  Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  Intern
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  DHL Supply Chain

  Feb 2012 - now

  Responsible for optimizing operational results through strategies and projects: ●Driving the search for quality improvements and efficiencies and identifying opportunities to reduce operational cost through process improvements; ●Setting and improving local and regional standards (best practices) that aligning to the global business improvement objectives;●Identifying and implementing enhancements into the network in Brazil and supporting migration of operations towards more standardized practices and platforms;●Leading and supporting customer and vendor workshops with regards to process improvement and innovation;●Designing and establishing new operations process; ●Intellectual leadership of initiatives, leading solution forums and strategy definition; ●Risk management of projects, creating mitigation plans; ●Acting as a change agent – building and delivering the change management strategy to ensure support and buy-in for improvement projects;●Map and design organization structure based on process review and implementation of new systems; ●Improve the decision-making model and problem solving capabilities within high performance teams to increase autonomy and the pace of change. Show less Responsible for creating projects of cost reduction and control tower, operations and LLP project: ●Leading cross-functional process design teams to develop and implement solutions to complex operational problems; ●Planning and execution of cost reduction projects and continuous improvement; ●Responsible to design technical proposal for Control Tower projects; ●Contract and price negotiations; ●Management of Due Diligence projects; ●Working closely with Business Development team to cultivate new business by visiting potential customers and advising of solutions to their packaging needs;●Maximizing profitability through process refinement; ●Ensuring effective stakeholder management to deliver and maintain effective improvement project sponsorship; ●Tracking and analyzing business trends and made appropriate improvement recommendations to ensure processes are optimized from an enterprise perspective. Show less Responsible for Planning, Track & Trace and Performance team at Transportation Operation for Technology Customers: ●Responsible for the Quality Department of Transports; ●Measuring and reporting on a monthly, weekly and daily basis dashboards of operational metrics; ●Process mapping; ●Designing and implementing new operational processes; ●Monitoring and reviewing changes and improvements to ensure effectiveness; ●Utilizing six sigma/lean methodologies into process improvement activities; ●Designing demand forecasting model to operational planning; ●Developing and implementing cost reduction projects; ●Designing new transportation solutions and their commercial proposals for transportation customersfrom different segments; Show less

  • Director - Global Sector Development

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Regional Senior Project Manager - Americas

    Jun 2022 - Sept 2023

  • Global Business Process Optimization Manager / Project Manager

    Aug 2020 - Jun 2022

  • Project and Continuous Improvement Manager

    Dec 2018 - Aug 2020

  • Continuous Improvement Manager Jr

    Nov 2016 - Dec 2018

  • Project and Continuous Improvement Supervisor

    Apr 2013 - Oct 2016

  • Trainee

    Feb 2012 - Mar 2013