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Sarah Mendes

Supermalter

Interim Procurement & Purchasing expert

€1,180/day
3 projects
Amsterdam, NL
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

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Amsterdam (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Coty
    Interim Procurement Global Business Service (GBS) Director
    FASHION AND COSMETICS
    January 2025 - August 2025 (7 months)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
    ➢ 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 process issues, drive optimization, and support transformation initiatives, including data migration, legacy system decommissioning, and procurement digitalization.
    ➢ Acted as P2P PMO for the SAP S/4HANA and P2P tools implementation at the Monaco site, ensuring seamless system deployment and alignment with global standards.
    stakeholder management SAP P2P PMO Procurement Business Process Data analysis E-Procuremnet
  • F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
    Interim Global Procurement Category Manager (Marketing & Sales)
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    July 2024 - November 2024 (4 months)
    Basel, Switzerland
    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.
    category management marketing procurement contract management spend analyses stakeholder management
  • Roche Diabetes Care Spain SLU
    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
    Project Management indirect procurement strategic sourcing category management Negotiation

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Education

  • Master Bussiness Executive
    Business School of Sao Paulo
    2015

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