Marialva Ventura
Senior Director, Procurement Excellence-north America @CMA CGM
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Director, Procurement Excellence-north America @CMA CGM
Norfolk, VA, US
Lead Procurement Excellence across North America, strengthening governance, performance, and strategic alignment within the procurement function.Key Focus Areas:• Architect and strengthen enterprise risk and compliance frameworks that enhance visibility, accountability, and operational resilience across procurement.• Drive operational excellence through structured performance systems, control modernization, and analytics that enable forward-looking decision-making.• Modernize procurement capabilities through sustainability integration, digitized workflows, and data-driven process innovation that support long-term enterprise performance.
EDUCATION
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña
BA in Business Administration, Business Administration
Rochester Institute of Technology
Design Thinking Micromasters, Business Administration and Management, General
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo
MSc in Quality and Productivity Management, Quality Control and Process Improvement
Rochester Institute of Technology
Project Management Micromasters
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña
MSc in Management Accounting and Comprehensive Audit, Accounting and Finance
SKILLS
ABOUT MARIALVA VENTURA
I lead Procurement Excellence across North America, integrating risk governance, ESG strategy, and analytics into structured control environments that enable confident, forward-looking decision-making.My career spans finance, operational excellence, and procurement negotiation within global shipping and logistics organizations. Across each function, I have applied a systems-thinking lens to simplify complexity, strengthen accountability, and elevate performance at scale.Today, I design procurement governance frameworks that align risk, compliance, sustainability, and business strategy — transforming controls into drivers of enterprise value, digital maturity, and long-term resilience. I lead modernization efforts that embed data transparency, workflow digitization, and structured performance systems into the procurement function.My leadership philosophy is grounded in one principle: high performance only matters if it lasts. Operational rigor and human-centered leadership are not opposites; they are mutually reinforcing.Strong systems create clarity, discipline, and sustainability — enabling organizations and people to perform consistently without relying on urgency or heroics.As a working mother in executive leadership, I believe complexity does not require intensity — it requires structure. I am committed to advancing disciplined, resilient models of success that prove sustainable performance is both a structural and strategic advantage.I speak and write about:• Procurement governance as strategic architecture• Risk, ESG, and digitization as long-term value drivers• Systems thinking in complex operational environments• Building high performance that lasts
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