"A collaborative approach is one of the best way to perform and interact as team leader and member. As social human beings, I believe we go beyond targets together with a supportive and challenging environment with space for development"Andre is speaker, mentor and a senior commercial savvy professional that overcame many challenges in businesses willing to challenge its status quo.Energetic, passionate and hands marketer with experience in a wide number of positions and projects within the Food and Beverages space.Using a collaborative style, liaised with excellence with internal and external stakeholders to deliver sound business plans and projects."Most of my life is driven by 80% data analytics and 20% gut feel, trusting that there is always a great opportunity and learning behind a new and unknown path.""This approach has proven a great learning curve. The more experienced I become, the greater is my hunger in being exposed to greatness and big challenges".  Over 10 years’ experience in end to end Marketing roles including: - Setting, managing and executing the overall marketing plans; - Increasing Brand awareness through ATL, BTL campaigns (TV, radio, digital/social, PR, sampling, events); - Managed partnerships with external design, digital and creative agencies; - Category insights generation through Unify/IRI, Quantium and Ad-hoc consumer research to support NPD pipeline and Customer engagement; - Driving the Innovation agenda, project manage key stakeholders through a combination of design thinking tools and stage to gate process; - Launched +10 brands and 50+ lines extensions locally and overseas; Over 5 years’ experience in KAM-BD roles with strong local (Coles, Woolworths, Aldi) and international accounts (Tesco, Sainsbury, Reeve, Carrefour, Cencosud, Metro, Costco, Cosmo Centre, Importers-Distributors); Overseeing P&Ls, Budgeting/Forecasting, pricing modelling, business analytics to support decision makingAnd mentored, coached, lead and developed my peers and also cross functional teams.