Rui Mendes

Collated and assessed corporate IT project portfolio. Chaired Portfolio Board, ensuring key issues & risks detection, handling and mitigation. Drove change request governance process for strategic applications. Cooperated with key stakeholders contributing to process & solutions standardization. Managed the corporate BRM, coordinating demand collection.

IT Project Lead for corporate BI initiative. Supported business in translating management and operational needs into reporting requirements (dashboards, KPIs, reports). Responsible for articulation with sponsors. Stakeholder in solution and consulting partner selection. Ensured project in budget, despite technical and conceptual challenges, ensuring continued business engagement. Supported BI solution management, including business requirements assessment, translation and implementation.

Actively contributed to the definition and implementation of the Corporate IT Governance in coordination with the Regional PM and IT Manager heads. Supported definition of the governance model for IT Projects and Change Requests regarding approval flows, underlying templates and overall platform. This program identified and analysed a wide range of local-driven projects that were subsequently managed in a corporate perspective allowing substantial savings.

Lead a regional business team (Portugal, Spain & Italy) of key stakeholders from local business functions (sales, distribution, procurement, production & finance) delivering a Business Case Analysis for the SAP ERP regional deployment. Ensured cooperation with the group's SAP Competence Center, identified and described key business processes - as-is and to-be - and elaborated an analysis of key integration issues and opportunities, valuable for the subsequent roll-out and change management activities.

Lead deployment & management of ERP system, contributing decisively to the company's process streamlining and standardization. Designed & developed BI solution supporting budgeting and business decision making. Enhanced BI & ERP systems in compliance with corporate reporting requirements. Designed & developed a quality management solution (processes, document, incident and conformity management), key to ISO 9001 certification. Managed the IT infrastructure of headquarters and production plants.

Supported implementation of key strategic initiatives by top management: . Lead the companies' ISO 9003:9001 successful certification project in cooperation with the Quality Manager. . Supported the company's internationalization effort, performing market research and participating in marketing & sales initiatives in China, Mozambique and Israel. Handled export process to UK. . Performed economic studies for strategical decisions (e.g. production plant extension, production plan centralization).

International Trade