Jenniffer Delgado

Jenniffer Lucía Delgado de López -- | “Leader focused on achieving goals, thru team play, collaboration, creativity, and confidence” linkedin.com/in/jennifer-delgado-de-lópez EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sr. Operations Manager with 18 years of experience, collaborating in the design, development, planning, negotiation with local and international vendors and fabrics and trims suppliers, for Apparel sector, managing to increase production volumes in the region, improving manufacturing efficiency and costs optimization, which has contributed to the increase company's profit and availability. My ability to manage and develop human talent has positively impacted the team performance and has allowed to accelerate the change strategies process of the company. CORE STRENTHGS • Global Sourcing • Trims Development • Negotiation • Product Development • Customer Service • Coaching • Fabric development • Partnership Mindset • Strategic Planning • Cost Negotiation HARD SKILLS SOFT SKILLS • Problem Solving • Effective communication Spanish • Team work • Critical thinking English • Decision Making Software: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Smartsheet, Outlook. EDUCATION 08/2022 - 09/2022 Customer Experience 03/2021 03/2021 Yellow Belt Certification adidas employee training campus adidas employee training campus 01/1999 - 06/2005 Business Administration Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, UCA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE adidas Sr. Operations Manager, Jun-2018- Nov 2022 Responsible for the operation end to end, Product development, Production Management, Quality and Costing. Business growth and Customer Service, through the development of business relationships with different markets of the region. Achievements: • Increased of the regional production of football Jerseys by 61% from 2021. • Allocation to the region of adidas premium product from Golf Business Unit, representing a production of 1.8 million pieces. Production Management/Costing, Capacity increase and price optimization through analysis and improvement of the cost structure: SMV’s, fabric selection and design. • Successful onboarding of a new vendor in the region, Valley Manufacturing. • Successful Implementation of project “Design complexity reduction” for cost saving and sewing capacity efficiency, total of reduction from original design 2.05 minutes/garment, $0.47 FOB reduction, total savings of $600,000 and 5% of capacity increase, for one season (5 month) • Fabrics and trims development in local source, which allow to reduce 7% of cost and lead time reduction from 75 days to 45 days. Development/Quality, optimization through the identification of root causes in the process. • Process improvement for inline and end of line audits, to control and reduce quality defects. • Project development and implementation of critical product identification • Right the first-time project development, to reduce samples quantity, with the objective to improve samples room efficiency and development time. Team Leader, Responsible for a team of 4 managers. 2 Developers and 2 Production/Quality Managers. • • • Performance evaluations for each team member 2 times per year, based on company objectives and values. Talent development thru continuous coaching. Smooth and successful transition for a Product Developer Specialist to a Manager position. Puma Sr. Development Manager, 01/2014 – 12/2017 Develop and approve seasonal collections, new fabrics, and trims for each season, with cooperation with design and product line Manager to create more efficient products, in price and sewing minutes. • Implementation of a strategy for fabric allocation to align garment vendor and fabric factory that allowed an accomplishment of 92% for on time fabric delivery KPI. • Implementation of the re-sourcing strategy, enabling the company to increase its profit margin by 3% per season, Focusing on reallocating high-volume styles to the Americas emphasizing on CAFTA benefits to reach lower landed prices. • Effective FOB’s negotiation, for a Graphic Tee program, representing 2.5 million garments/year. • Teaming with the Product Line Manager, achieving designers to understanding how to create according to target price objective. • Increase 20% target price achievement per season. • Strengthened relationship between design and development through effective and transparent communication. Bodet & Horts El Salvador Development Manager, 02/2011 – 12/2013 Brands Managed: Lacoste, Wilson, Majestic, Lacrosse, Outerstuff (NFL,MLS,adidas), Tempur Pedic, Blue Ocean Sleep, Mobilia, Olympia • Improvement of prices (FOB), by 3%, through negotiation with trims and fabric suppliers, to have more competitive prices. • Successful development of Olympia Account, which end with a production of 50K covers per season. Youngone Corporation Merchandiser assistant, 06/2005 – 02/2011 Brands Managed: The North Face. Managed purchasing and negotiations with fabrics and trims suppliers in Asia and the USA. • Contribute to the negotiation for the change of an international supplier to a local supplier of polar fleece, allowing the factory a 15 days lead time improvement, 2% of price reduction and 30 days of credit extension. TRAININGS 11/2022 - 11/2022 Coaching adidas employee training campus 06/2022 - 06/2022 Delegation and Expectation Management adidas employee training campus 04/2022 - 04/2022 Inclusive Leadership adidas employee training campus REFERENCES • Jochen Lindhaus, Vice President Sourcing Apparel Americas, adidas-• Roberto Hernández, Senior Sourcing Director El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, adidas --• Salvador Llort, Executive Vice-President, Valley Manufacturing --• Rolando Vásquez, Business Unit Director,Valley Manufacturing --• Emilio Herrera, General Manager, Swisstex El Salvador --• Maby Millan, adidas Business Development Manager, Supertex Group --