Bernardo das Dores

Accountable for the vision and execution of the European sourcing strategy for plastic parts and sub-assemblies with a strong focus on: Supplier development; Contract negotiations; Operational efficiencies; Organizational leadership

Responsible for tooling investments at European level. Managing Supplier assessments and classification. Member of the Whirlpool Global Acquisition Team.

Launching new programs on time in within budget; determining and controlling program schedule; representing the program to the customer

Single point accountability for precalculations to define the key financials on specific projects and upcoming design change evaluations from the technical and economical standpoint

Generating precalculations to define the key financials; single point accountability for upcoming design change evaluations from the technical and economical standpoint

Direct contact for the customer on working level; Design change implementations on preseries and series products

Process monitoring of series production; planning and following up tool changes; trying out new components till series production readiness on operation level