Néstor Sosa, Ind. Eng.
Upstream Senior Advisor
Supply Chain Manag. expert. More than 20 years’ worldwide experience with success in inventory control, cost reduction, procurement, contracts and negotiations.
Supply Chain Management specialist, 20 years at Repsol oil company, as manager of contracts, procurement, stock management and logistics in many projects and different countries. He has lead successful programs of cost reduction, and lead complex negotiations.
He has been a speaker and panel member in SCM congresses in Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona and London.
Expertise
- Set up of Procurement, Contracts and Logistics Departments, with procedures that assure efficiency, transparency and traceability
- Audit and improvement of current procedures
- Cost reduction programs for procurement and contracts
- Stock reduction program
- Time reduction of contracting and procurement cycle
- Negotiation training
- Efficiency in the SCM function training
- Buyers training. Coaching of SCM Managers
Background & track records
- Industrial Engineering. Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Master in Business Administration. Universidad del Cema, Buenos Aires.
- Set up of grass root SCM offices in Bolivia and Mexico from Houston office and the global organization for drilling services and materials.
- For three years managed the SCM Organization of Repsol Upstream for the whole world, 27 countries and 140 buyers with functional report.
- Previous experiences in IT and Car industries provide him a wide focus on this area problems
- He has been successful in the drastic reduction of excess stocks, contracting services on time in every project including remote countries or ones with embargo as Cuba.
- Organize procedures and controls, recruit and coach new human resources, organize system for quality control, organizing logistic department.
