Creative Product Innovator with a passion for Brands that change the face of the Consumer Product Goods Industry. An agile driver of manufacturing processes applied to New Product Development targeting FDM, Convenience, Natural, Club, Food Service and DTC channels who can diligently apply Stage-Gate methodology but enjoys embracing a nimble hands-on approach depending on re-prioritization, project scopes and complexities.Expert Industry Insider with solid knowledge of US, APAC, EMEA and LATAM commercialized products as well as expert in complex in-country production and global supply chains.Nimble Leader of a team of three Senior Managers, who can easily identify critical co-dependencies across any Stage and scale up efforts while conveying the right amount of urgency and concise information to Executives that facilitate strategic and financially sound decisions to clear path forward.An adaptable product innovator with growth mindset and product intuition who can anticipate future trends and design consumer compelling products that exceed margin expectations, generate revenues and solidify unique brand proposition.CORE COMPETENCIES• Brand Marketing / Positioning • Product Development / R&D• Sustainable Ingredients & Packaging• Project Management• Global Product Marketing• Multilingual English-Italian-German speakerRECENT KPIs:• Renovated the main core juice line and expanded current assortment with trendy superfruit based, sugar & calorie conscious functional formulas that generated incremental 25 MM in 2 years across CostCo, Target, Publix and Whole Foods among others since June 2021. • Introduced a breakthrough blenderless preblended cube format in the frozen fruit category to overcome main pain point of smoothie and bowl consumers. Avg 4 u/s/w at major retailers after three months from introduction.• Repackaged categories in sustainable materials such as RPET, compostable plant fiber and other circular formats that have reduced over 750 tons of plastic in first year.• Tripled project output and reduced time to market by an average 30%in less than two years.• Expanded the team from two to four people result of increased capacity and complexity. Brought packaging design efforts in house from design agency. KPI: cut design costs in half.