Result-oriented global leader with more than twenty-five years’ experience in Corporate General Management including Operations, Finance, Business Development and Transformation, acquired from a multi-billion consumer goods multinational company , a family owned pharmaceutical company , and a family owned logistics and real state holding , all leaders in their respective industries.
I have worked as a Corporate General Manager and leading the Finance, IT and Operations departments. I’ve lived in 5 countries and worked at country, continent and at corporate levels with work teams distributed throughout the world.
Hands-on Experience in Consumer Goods (FMCG), Pharmaceutical and Logistics Industries.
I have an industrial engineering degree with an MBA from the USA. I’m fluent in Spanish and English (from daily use) and have basic knowledge of German. I have both Swiss and Spanish passports.
These are some of the areas that I can add value based on my previous experience:
- Value Creation: Performance Measurement and Business Intelligence, Risk Management, Control and SOX, Planning Precision, P&L and BS expertise, Business Reviews with Opportunities Identification, Operations Management (Industrial, Supply and Value Chains)
- Business Transformation: E2E Process Management and Governance Culture (People, Processes, Technology, Data), IT Strategy & Leadership, ERP and Business Integration, Digital Transformation, Restructuring / M&A’s / Carve-outs, Outsourcing, Global Strategic Projects
- Innovation: Boost top line growth through multidisciplinary partnership and financial advice, Virtuous circle (budgeting and cost control), Process Innovation
- People Development: People Leader Capabilities, Honesty and Trust, Coaching and Mentoring, People Career Development, Build teams from scratch, Talent and Learning Development, Lead Change
- Detailed knowledge of how a business works.
- Seasoned executive with broad multicultural and multicountry experience
- Strategic vision. Constant anticipation of the needs of the company
- Negotiator and creative at the time of finding solutions and good strategist at the time of selling them. Tenacious in achieving results.
- Used to multinational corporate environments, and worked on both sides of the business (country vs. corporate needs), and family owned business
- Analytical, committed, with high learning capacity, accept new challenges and lead change.
- Organized and Methodical. Strong believer in processes management, as well as in the development and training of employees to do things right from the start with well-defined roles and responsibilities, as well as very well documented policies and procedures.
- Very advanced business acumen across all functions of an organization and deep financial expertise, being an operational and strategic advisor to the Board, measuring business and financial performance based on key indicators for continuous growth and improvement, in ALL business areas and departments.
- Transformational and Inspiring Leader. Growth is always a team effort and not an individual one, founded in developing talent and "work - life balance", making the company "the best place to work" to have a positive can-do atmosphere ... but always exceeding results. Good person to work with