Luis Carrasco

Solar Category Manager - Group Procurement at Statkraft

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

Enthusiastic Bachelor and Master of Science in Energy Engineer with an entrepreneur mind set and a robust technical and commercial background, based on 17 years of experience with leading actors of the global renewable energy industry. A strong networker with the ability to build relationships with clients and suppliers. High linguistic skills in Spanish, English, Italian and German. Dedicated to maintain high quality standards. Looking for new professional challenges within the renewable energy sector and career progression as an opportunity to develop new professional skills and to deploy already acquired capabilities as: - Supply chain management and technical validation, including negotiation and management of contracts and supply agreements. - Projects delivery, including coordination of engineering, construction and planning tasks, at utility-scale renewable energy plants . - Management of technical tasks and coordination of key specialists on energy projects. - Identification of new and disruptive technologies, business plan development and set-up of collaborative contractual arrangements with strategic partners. - Development and maintainance of large customer and supply-chain base.

Experience

  • Solar Category Manager - Group Procurement at Statkraft at Statkraft
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Most relevant accountabilities stand as: ● Development and implementation of category strategies for solar-related primary equipment, including responsibility for PV module, inverter and mounting solutions procurement. ● Prequalification of new suppliers and assessment of sustainability risks and implementation of mitigation strategies for key technologies and markets. ● Development and sharing of expert knowledge of respective product innovations. ● Management of strategic supplier relations, key performance indicators, as well as commercial leveraging across regional procurement teams. ● Monitor, analyse and forecast the various supply markets in order to anticipate changes and prepare implementation in medium-term timescales. ● Secure consistency of costing information across projects, technologies and regions. ● Assume responsibility for Sustainability Goals relating to the supply chain and strategic suppliers. ● Contribute to establishing best practices category management methodology.

  • Renewable Technology - Photovoltaic Technology & Contracts for Supply at Iberdrola
    Dec 2016 - Oct 2022 · 5 yrs 11 mos

    Team coordinator and management of photovoltaic technology supply chain engagement, monitoring, technical specification & assessment & validation, and supply agreement negotiation for their procurement and installation on utility-scale PV plants.

  • Strategic Renewable Technology Supply Chain at Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción, S.A.U. Madrid, Spain.
    Aug 2012 - Oct 2022 · 10 yrs 3 mos

    Management of wind turbine generators, solar PV modules, solar PV inverters and other critical components supply chain, in an international context: China, India, Europe, USA, Latin America, South Africa, and others. The role requires deep multidisciplinary technological and commercial knowledge and anticipation, awareness of state of the art of the industry, contract negotiation skills, leadership of tender processes, management of strategic suppliers, supplier's engagement, assessment and validation. Other accountabilities are related with market survey and analysis, and identification of opportunities and new suppliers.

  • Head of Renewables Division at Iberdrola Engineering and Construction UK, Ltd.
    Oct 2010 - Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    The role consisted in the starting-up the Renewable Division of Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción subsidiary in the UK (Glasgow). The main accountabilities related with the role were onshore and offshore wind business strategy plan development, in combination with task scheduling, framework agreements negotiation and recruitment of the necessary workforce: project managers, project engineers, technical specialists and administration staff. Upon successful project opportunities identification, I managed various tender processes which were awarded. For those I acted as the interface towards the client as well as project coordinator for scopes as C&I Design, Civil Works Design and Site Work Supervision.

  • Implementation Team Coordinator. at Iberdrola Engineering and Construction
    Oct 2009 - Oct 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

    As a member of a reduced team of expatriated staff, I actively collaborated in the implementation of Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción subsidiary in the UK (Glasgow) as the internal technical service provider of Iberdrola’s owned Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN). The main accountabilities consisted in the analysis and integration of client’s and own operational processes related with Electrical Networks and Interconnections design and project delivery. In coordination with SPEN, I managed the process of Inter-company business model integration, which required extremely demanding multidisciplinary team coordination skills and strong client interface skills.