Pamela Villarreal
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Chief Executive Officer at OTIF
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Chief Executive OfficerOTIFSep 2021 - Current (5 years 2 months)OTIF is an online international freight and logistics services market place, newly defined and known as supergrid logistics.- Director of Business DevelopmentKW MéxicoJul 2021 - May 2023 (1 year 11 months)
- Procurement and LogisticsKW MéxicoDec 2020 - Jul 2021 (8 months)
- ProcurementKW MéxicoFeb 2020 - Dec 2020 (11 months)• Financial and strategic analysis of the categories to identify the productivity, operational and growth opportunities by getting cost and cash flow benefits, FX mitigation, logistic optimizations and development of sourcing localization.
• Build long term relationship with strategic suppliers. In accordance through a robust supplier management plan.
• Coordinate a strong cost management plan, to bring productivity savings and support affordable innovation.
• Developing and implementing strategies for procuring, storing, and distributing goods or services and maintaining stock levels
• Project management synergies with multifunctional teams across the supply chain to implement the category strategies and projects - TransportBritish American TobaccoJan 2018 - Feb 2020 (2 years 2 months)• Directing all import transportation activities to Mexico (sea, air and road freight) from America, Asia and Europe.
• Developing international transportation relationships.
• Monitoring international freights
• Negotiating and bargaining transportation prices (air, sea, and road freights).
• Dealing with the effects of congestion and variation in transportation modes
• Confronting climate change issues by implementing transport strategies and monitoring the organisation’s carbon footprint. - ProcurementBritish American TobaccoJan 2017 - Jan 2018 (1 year 1 month)BAT #1 Best Place to Work in Mexico as per the 2016 survey from CNN Expansion
• Analysis of price reports of direct materials
•Follow up with international suppliers for requirements related to new products, innovation projects or optimization.
• Monitoring compliance with timelines agreed with international suppliers
•Cost analysis for tooling and/or raw materials for new projects
•Creating, monitoring and evaluating purchase orders
•Approval of invoices
• Coordination of material and/or supplier migration process with related supply chain areas - FInternational Business ConsultantFLiiPJan 2016 - Jul 2016 (7 months)Consulting boutique founded and directed by consultants ex McKinsey
Industrial experience: International Logistics, International Procurement, Manufacturing, Mezcal, Audits
Achievements:
• Member of the central team in the delivery of the operational and organizational excellence of a project of a mezcalera company in China
• Creation and development of business plans
• Negotiations with successful Chinese and Parastatal Mexican government agencies to import Mezcal
• Saving of 14% in the estimated budget of international purchases
• Develop industry reports analyzing the competitive landscape, trends and future opportunities to identify inefficiencies and design initiatives for continuous cross
Education
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- Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Information TechnologyUniversidad Autónoma de Nuevo LeónJan 2021 - May 2024 (3 years 5 months)
- MUN Summit on TechnologyHarvard UniversityFeb 2016
- Specialization in Asian Markets, International BusinessShanghai UniversityJan 2015 - Dec 2016 (2 years)Doing business in China, understanding the changing and complex market environment, the country’s policy making as well as Chinese language and culture. I participated in a multi-disciplinary program that focuses on all specific areas relevant to doing business in China, while also worked and traveled around the whole country. making audits I acquired valuable insights of the region’s business environment and practices through work and visiting companies such as Fortune Global 500 and China's most competitive iron and steel enterprise, Baosteel Group Corporation; Coca Cola; Volkswagen Group China, the largest, earliest, and the most successful joint venture in China's automotive industry.
- B.A International Business, Asian MarketsUniversidad de MonterreyJan 2013 - Dec 2017 (5 years)I am passionate on intercultural negotiation techniques and international logistics that allows to design strategies to increase competitiveness in the field of international trade, from the private and public sector perspective.
- Highschool, International Baccalaureate in businessTecnologico de MonterreyJan 2010 - Dec 2013 (4 years)
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Awards
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- AAPEC FinalistAPEC MéxicoFeb 2013APEC encourages market discipline, works to help eliminate distortions, as well as promote economic efficiency through the Competition Policy and Law Group (CPLG) The competition was working to promote understanding of regional competition laws and policies, examine their impacts on trade and investment flows, and identify areas for technical cooperation and capacity building among member economies. I was a finalist 3 years from 2010 to 2013.
Publications
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- The supply chain integrated in SMEs manufacturing of Nuevo León as promoter for internationalization.Universidad de MonterreyDec 2017Abstract The purpose of the following study is to identify the existence of a relationship between supply chain integration and the internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises of the manufacturing sector, subsector 323: Impressions and related industries in the state of Nuevo León, México. This was carried out by means of a mixed approach methodology through literature review, surveys of small and medium enterprises within the state with export activity and in-depth, semistructured interviews with experts. Keywords: Integrated Supply Chain, Internationalization, Exports, Small and Medium Enterprise