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Andrey  Vega

Andrey Vega

Industrial Engineer
Fraijanes

Summary

Over Sixteen years of experience in Logistics I have built a tremendous passion for this industry field. As a key point in the Supply Chain a well controlled and flexible process in Logistics based on continuous improvement and planning, is success story in a Logistics management.


With more than 9 years of Management experience, an exhaust knowledge in Costa Rican and US Customs including Government entities (Procomer & FDA) and working for customers in the medical device industry it has taught me the importance to execute the work flawlessly thru and integrated and well trained team.


Finally, the team work, continuous learning, analytical and problem solving skills have help me to break thru in my professional career as well as my behaviors based honesty, integrity, hard work and respectfulness have help me to growth personally.




Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
66
66
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Operations SJO and Solutioning Manager LATAM Region

Pegasus Logistics Group
12.2016 - Current

People:

  • Manage and motivate employees to be productive and engaged in work.
  • Mentoring and develop leaders within the organization, supervisor, team leads and other peers as well as Interviewing, hiring and training new employees.
  • Ensure and promote culture within the department through staff motivation and integration.
  • Communicated clearly with employees, suppliers and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.

Administrative:

  • Responsible to create, plan and develop Operations department annual strategy budget (Growth, goals, expansion projects etc.)
  • Department successful re-structure by separating billing process from the operations department to improve cash flow, customer service, billing accuracy and reduce operations workload and overtime pay.
  • Develop, maintain, document and train procedures for Operations, Solutions and Costing/Billing departments based on ISO Standards.
  • ISO certification 9001-2015 which involves supplier's management, Risk Management, Non-conformities, SCAR's, etc
  • High level knowledge in Costa Rican and US Customs, FTZ regimens and Procomer Audits.

Presentation & Negotiation:

  • Manage the company strategy, negotiation with SSL/Airlines, agents worldwide and suppliers for the Latam Region.
  • Ensure market competitiveness through market knowledge, network, negotiation, and periodic benchmarking with agents on strategic countries.
  • Develop routing and effective solutions to customer needs.
  • Report Monthly reports to Corporate (actual vs budget)
  • Oversee the execution and presentation of QBRs to the customer locally and at corporate level depending on the customer's business negotiation.

Safety:

  • Improved safety procedures to create safe working conditions for workers.
  • Ensure and promote 6S methodology within the company.

Achievements:

  • System Automatization process by designing workflows tasks per user to control data quality, improve reports accuracy and control department’s workload and performance.
  • Saving Project on new routes and new suppliers negotiation for 32,000USD per semester.
  • Develop a formulated calculation tool to run cost analysis.


Country Ocean Operations Manager

CEVA Logistics México
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Expatriated by Ceva as Ocean Manager for Mexico & Central America, in charge for all administrative & Operational business, direct report to Ocean Director and Indirect report to VP Global Ocean Business.
  • Reporting and leading analysis presentations for the Ocean Product: Budget, Volumes, Profit/Revenue and productivity reports.
  • Manage Warehouse Storage inventories for Ocean product cargo.
  • Develop and present MBRs for Executive board
  • Received dotted report from Mexico and Central America Ocean Operations departments which included 9 branches and 40 head counts, I was responsible to provide guideline, strategy, training and procedures
  • Operational process standardization: In charge to align & define correct processes to make operation more fluent and efficient to increase productivity per FTE
  • New businesses award implementations, responsible to define and structure the operation for the new businesses awards as per the standardized and documented procedures, develop SOP´s, among other commercial activities
  • Carrier´s procurement negotiations, NAC´s, FAK´s, CADA, 807
  • Support to all cluster stations, provide quick & urgent solutions to daily operational issues, intercompany issues etc

Achievement:

Ops Migration project consisting on migrating the Ocean Operation from all the branches in Mexico into the MEX branch reducing FTE's operational costs and centralizing the operation in a single point for better management, communication and alignment.

Key Accounts CS Central America

Kuehne+Nagel Costa Rica & Panama
01.2014 - 01.2012
  • Handle all logistics processes for most profitable accounts at Kuehne+Nagel Central America
  • Coordinate Imports and Exports from/to different origins and destinations around the world
  • (Overland, Air & Ocean)
  • Control data quality, transit times, and logistics processes, always focused on improvement
  • Quoting, pricing, and researching transport
  • Provide an excellent Customer Service, always looking for the best and quickest solution for customers
  • Commercial Meetings with the Key accounts (QBR, MBR), monthly or quarterly business reviews in order to keep improving customer satisfaction and enlarge the commercial relation with the customer
  • Achievements: I was chosen to handle the most important account at Panama City for one quarter
  • On my travel to Panama I learned about Panamanian customs & FF processes.

Air Pricing Analyst

Expeditors Intl. Costa Rica
01.2009 - 01.2011
  • Procurement, Quoting and Pricing
  • Negotiation with different airlines & core carriers, attend all the inquiries received from customers, and looking for the quickest and cheapest options in order to be inside the business and make sure company´s competitiveness
  • I was also in charge for quoting annual BID´s and RFQ´s for Global customer's accounts.

Air Import & Export Coordinator

Expeditors Intl. Costa Rica
01.2009 - 01.2011
  • Cargo entry control
  • Customer Service
  • Booking and coordination with Airlines
  • Import & Export Coordination, consolidation, de-consolidation.

Education

Industrial Engineering Bachelor - Industrial Engineering

Universidad Fidelitas
Heredia, Costa Rica
05.2001 - 05.2020

No Degree - Costa Rican Labor's Law

BDS Asesores
San Jose
05.2001 - 05.2018

Lean Six Sigma Belt - Yellow Belt

RH Consultores
San Jose
05.2001 - 05.2017

English - English Language And Literature

UTN
Alajuela
05.2001 - 05.2008

High School Diploma -

CTP Invu Las Cañas
Alajuela
05.2001 - 05.2008

Skills

Strategic Planning

Performance Management

Time Management

Workforce Management

Verbal and written communication

Business Planning

Problem-solving abilities

Analytical Thinking

Decision-Making

Personalitydescription

https://www.16personalities.com/profiles/ecb8bfec1ff3f

Software

MS Office

Power BI

Cargowise

Tica

SAP

Languages

English
Full Professional

Tennis and BBQ

I love to practice Tennis, it is a sport thay you challenge yourself physically and mentally I play tennis at least twice a week.

About BBQ well that's for the weekend or whenever it is a time for a good BBQ time, I love to cook and I prepare any kind of protein, Fish, Pork, beef. My specialty is Ribs and Pulled pork.

Timeline

Operations SJO and Solutioning Manager LATAM Region

Pegasus Logistics Group
12.2016 - Current

Country Ocean Operations Manager

CEVA Logistics México
01.2014 - 01.2016

Key Accounts CS Central America

Kuehne+Nagel Costa Rica & Panama
01.2014 - 01.2012

Air Pricing Analyst

Expeditors Intl. Costa Rica
01.2009 - 01.2011

Air Import & Export Coordinator

Expeditors Intl. Costa Rica
01.2009 - 01.2011

Industrial Engineering Bachelor - Industrial Engineering

Universidad Fidelitas
05.2001 - 05.2020

No Degree - Costa Rican Labor's Law

BDS Asesores
05.2001 - 05.2018

Lean Six Sigma Belt - Yellow Belt

RH Consultores
05.2001 - 05.2017

English - English Language And Literature

UTN
05.2001 - 05.2008

High School Diploma -

CTP Invu Las Cañas
05.2001 - 05.2008
Andrey VegaIndustrial Engineer