Álvaro García Gutiérrez Email & Phone Number

Málaga, Andalucía, España

1. End-to-End Portfolio Governance: Managing the end-to-end workflow within the portfolio, ensuring the traceability of objectives and the achievement of strategic goals.2. Strategic Collaboration: Ensuring the portfolio planning and alignment working closely with Product Portfolio Heads, product management teams, and key technology teams to facilitate effective portfolio planning and alignment.3. Financial Management: Collaborating with the Portfolio Operations team and other key teams to ensure control over cost and funding planning, delivery, metrics, and governance.4. Process Standardization: Helping to promote consistency in Lean Portfolio Management practices through the standardization of processes and tools. I support the Portfolio team in the Lean Agile transformation, facilitating the effective and efficient adoption of these methodologies.

🚀 Portfolio leadership, driving the company's strategy. 📊🌟 What do I bring as a value:1. Strategic Alignment: Ensuring that projects align seamlessly with company's vision and goals, accelerating progress and success.2. Project Management Expertise: Supporting project managers with cutting-edge techniques and processes, and rigorously enforcing project management policies.3. Cost Control: Successfully optimized cost control within the portfolio, promptly identifying budget deviations and applying corrective actions.4. Visual Progress Enhancement: Revolutionized project tracking for enhanced decision-making, making sure projects stay on the fast track to success 📈.

Madrid, Comunidad De Madrid, España

🚀 I spearheaded project planning, monitoring, and delivery, focusing on time, cost, and quality aspects. 🌟 Main Contributions:1. Efficiency Maven: Boosted project success rates through streamlined time management and cost control, an invaluable asset for the fast-paced industry.2. Innovative Project Management: Pioneered a new project management standard rooted in PMI principles, supplemented by extensive experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies. Positioning for exceptional project performance.3. Knowledge Amplifier: Enhanced team expertise by developing comprehensive project management training programs, fostering a culture of continuous improvement in project management methodologies.

Chengdu (China) / Mexico City

🌏 Taking on a pivotal role in ensuring European quality standards for Adidas store furnishings, my journey was marked by an exciting cultural challenge and the opportunity to collaborate with diverse nationalities.🌟 Key Highlights:1. Global Collaboration: Navigating cultural nuances and working closely with teams as an expat in China and Mexico, I harnessed a unique perspective to deliver quality that transcends borders, a valuable asset in our interconnected world.2. Technical Excellence: Supporting the production department, I enhanced production techniques and industrialization processes, bridging gaps and optimizing product development.3. Quality Transformation: Successfully aligned production with European standards, exceeding client expectations, and generating a positive economic impact for HMY. Spearheaded the creation of comprehensive quality checklists and documentation, streamlining the validation of a wide product range.4. Streamlined Operations: Developed and implemented internal work instructions for blue-collar workers, fostering a more efficient and quality-driven work environment.

Madrid, Comunidad De Madrid, España

🚀 In this fast-paced retail sector, my role as a Project Manager at HMY was all about delivering projects with precision while adapting to last-minute changes. The challenges and successes of this role have shaped my project management journey.🌟Key Highlights:1. Speed and Adaptability: Navigating a constantly evolving retail landscape, I honed the art of quick decision-making and adaptive project delivery, a valuable skill set for agile environments.2. Innovation in Process: I undertook the challenge of introducing new project management processes and routines in a dynamic, less mature project environment, making me adept at change management and process optimization.3. Speed to Market: Contributed significantly to reducing project timelines, allowing key projects to reach the market faster and ensuring client satisfaction.4. Client Portfolio: Successfully delivered projects for major retail clients like P&G, Adidas, Yves Rocher, Suavinex, and Mercadona, reinforcing my ability to manage high-stakes, high-profile projects.5. Stakeholder Engagement: I strengthened client relationships and stakeholder involvement through strategic communication plans.

Madrid, Comunidad De Madrid, España

Bespoke product displays, brand communication elements and in-store shelf testing solutions.The biggest challenge was making some ideas come true in a very limited time. Making the designs work from a mechanical, economic and sustainability point of view.✓ Contributed to deliver fast time to market projects for large retail clients.✓ Developed 3D models and drawings from a manufacturability approach.Thanks to this experience I began to have an appetite not only for pure R&D work but for a much broader scope.

Madrid, Comunidad De Madrid, España

Mondragón

Joined company's R&D team for new product launch within product portfolio.Participated in all phases of the project, from conception to prototype development, testing and validation.✓ Developed 3D models and prototypes, produced detailed drawings and assisted proposal submissions.✓ Successfully brought to industrialization a new home appliance concept.Best practices in Adobe Illustrator, AutoCAD and Siemens NX.

Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco / Euskadi, España

Bachelor'S Degree, Industrial Design Engineering

Master'S Degree, Project Management

Master'S Degree, Industrial Design Engineering