Eduardo Pedreira

Senior Vice President, Chief Procurement Officer

Davies Walker 

Eduardo Pedreira is Senior Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer for The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway Company. In this role he is responsible for optimizing investments and procurement partnerships across the organization.

Eduardo brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in global organizations, including experiences in strategy, operations, supply chain, procurement, capital investment and technical development. He most recently served as Lubrizol’s VP, Supply Chain and brings a critical understanding of our supply partnerships.

Prior to Lubrizol, Eduardo served in a variety of roles over 17 years at PPG Industries. There, he was the Global Resin Business Director, where he led the PPG vertical integration on the resin portfolio, managing the overall strategy including operations, supply chain, procurement, capital investment and technical development. Prior to that, he held regional and global supply chain roles where he led several organizational improvements, developed talent training program and delivered constant financial performance across multiple business units leveraging the One PPG approach and culture.

At PPG, he created the Industrial Segment supply chain organization during COVID lockdown, having to hire, on board and restructure the team simultaneously. He also implemented a full sales, inventory and operations planning (SIOP) roadmap for all four business units and worked to enhance the planning system to deliver more accurate outputs with less resources, partnering with the continuous improvement organization to standardize across multiple plants.

Born and raised in Brazil, Eduardo received his Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and his Master of Business Administration in Industrial Management from Fundação Getulio Vargas

 

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