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New York, United States

Reporting to North America President, NAM Sales Sr. Director and Germany’s Head of Applications. Responsible for East Coast and key accounts. Create understanding of market problems. Discover, validate, prioritize new business opportunities. Develop strategic relationships with prospects and customers. Lead awareness, nurturing, and advocacy market programs. Support ‘buy, build, partner’ business decisions.

New York, United States

⚙Lead construction of expanded Business Center and Application office in Chicago. Developed talent at Application office, manage site, budget, food application team lead. Latest developments: Plant-based applications, beverages, sweeteners, flavoring modulation, bakery, ice cream

Chicago Y Alrededores, Estados Unidos

⚙Lead construction of Application office in Chicago, Developed talent at Application office. Latest developments: Plant-based applications, beverages, sweeteners, flavoring modulation, bakery, ice cream

Mexico City, Mexico

Reporting to Plant Director. Managing new equipment and innovation technology acquisition. Installed snacks frying line, modernized fruit prep line.Technology RoadmappingProject ManagingStage Gate Process ImplementationLeveraging Strategic Relationships

Mexico City, Mexico

Reporting to Supply Chain Director, successfully managed and expanded twice the product portfolio across three different brands.Driving Product Development Strategy: Transformed the organization by Implementing innovation mapping, planning and scorecard into S&OP, helping create an integrated supply chain company. Successfully implemented go-to-market strategy across the company helping understand product positioning, key benefits, target costumer, regulatory concerns, packaging design and financial requirements. Successfully led formula cost strategy that enabled the company to plan for product portfolio strategy helping doubling the number of skus in 18 months. Lead the installment of H&W strategy that aligns all tactical product launches with Brand strategy. Enabled productivity strategy. Building and Leveraging Strategic Relationships: Successfully managed relationships with 2 suppliers building strategic relationships decreasing risk of a single supplier as well as partner with Procurement to build strategic relations with our top suppliers. This helped gain insights from each field and help manage negotiations as well as leverage risk of depletion in supplies.Technology Roadmapping/Transfer: Transformed the company´s vision by delivering product/technology roadmap for product extensions, new products, open innovation.Project Managing: Implemented and successfully managed all projects through an agile project managing scheme that helped map processes, increase accountability and reduced development times and rework.Stage-gate, Business Proposal: Optimized company´s innovation cycle by implementing a stage-gate process through identifying critical business routs and mapping internal partnerships. Implemented product brief and responsible for building business proposals and securing executive buy-in, funding, and approval for all innovation, creating governance policy for innovation.

Mexico City, Mexico

Reported to Innovation Director, successfully managed technical relationships with ~35 large and independent food companies in the snack and culinary businesses. Building and Leveraging Strategic Relationships: Consistently approached clients like Bimbo, Barcel, Mondelez, Unilever, and General Mills to initiate projects and present results, winning recognition as year´s best supplier. Liaised between clients R&D, Mktg and Procurement teams with McCormick´s Sales and Innovations teams to close existing projects.Project Managing: Successfully oversaw all new culinary products implementations by leading executive summary of all projects to Innovation Director to facilitate decision taking, and speed up go-to-market.Technical Expertise in Flavor Seasonings/Consumer Science: Provided technical support in-house and with clients for innovative solutions in flavor systems development, clients´ operational readiness and consumer science research within the Culinary Center. Spices for health sponsor.

Querétaro, Mexico

Reported to Innovation Manager. Led coordination of technology implementation with internal formula developers, manufacturing, procurement, quality assurance, engineering and marketing to develop innovative processes for new products uinder the brands Pedigree, Whiskas, Pal, and Dentastix.Driving Product Development Strategy: Led strategic research of process innovations, building strategic partnerships within Mars worldwide engineering and R&D teams leveraging findings to tropicalize new processes resulting in the implementation of new bakery and co-extrusion processes.Technology Roadmapping/Transfer: Fostered R&D innovation planning by delivering technology roadmap for new products for pet food snacking and semi moist.

Mexico City, Mexico

Lead technical support in H&W initiatives, development and product presentations. Convey product benefits to customer. Support new technology introduction for consumer understanding, development of flavor strategy.

Mexico City, Mexico

Reported to New Products Manager and Sensory Science Manager. Coordinated all development activities and engaged with quality, manufacturing, procurement, engineering, marketing and suppliers. Responsible for extrusion pilot plantProject Managing: Led R&D project from new raw materials, processes to finished product to develop I&O pellet snacks helping consolidate PepsiCo in Mexico and Central America. Guided successfully the creation, implementation and day to day shelf life studies for R&D. Successfully Implemented, consolidated and certified internal R&D sensory panels and consumer studies. Leaded the successful installment of new technology production lines for corn and extrusion. Liason with PepsiCo international R&D teams and with international ingredient and technology suppliers.Technical Expertise: Guided research and successfully implemented analytical methods for starch/protein cooking, and glass transition in PepsiCo Mexico and US. Coordinated reengineering of quality program to mantain competitive product design advantage. Managed research project successfully to identifed product attributes that impact purchase decision. Successfully led research project to establish relationship bewteen physiology and hedonic response for the snack consumption.

Mexico City, Mexico

Generate relevant consumer and product information. Develop statistical and physiological models, and shelf life estimation. Training, analyzing and coordinating analytical panels (differentiation and descriptive).

Lqa, Quimica

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