Pedro De Sousa Santos Email & Phone Number

Alcobaça, Pt

Portugal

INTERNATIONALIZATION CHANEL Building Portugal's Ecosystems: Scaling, Adapting and Growing.Accelerate your business internationalization: 🔹️Strategic Thinking🔹️Partnerships and Alliances 🔹️New Business Development🔹️Accelerate your international growth.Advising Corporations, Associations, Municipalities and other Institutions( public/ private) in designing and implementing their own international business plans:City Marketing and Municipalities: 🔹️Focus on City Marketing Strategic Thinking;🔹️#Rescope #Rebrand #Recruit #Rechange🔹️ Cities of Culture Programe;🔹️Accelerate Portugal's Business-Ecosystem 🔹️ Focus in International Markets and Clusters 🔹️Nacional and European FundingSPECIAL PROJECTS#Mentoring #Trainning #Consulting

Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

HIGHER EDUCATION CHANEL CECC is a global humanities research centre, responding to the challenges brought about by globalization and media change and the growing awareness about the role of culture in shaping the 21st century. CECC’s core mission is the study of culture, literature, art and communication as drivers of societal change and the promotion of advanced research training in the humanities, with a focus on the development of innovative cross-disciplinary challenge-based inquiry.

Lisboa, Portugal

FUNDING INNOVATION CHANEL AAVANZ provides Innovation Consulting Services for SMEs and start-ups on the set-up of innovative projects, preparing their market strategy, raising R&D and innovation funding and management of such projects successfully.AAVANZ builds on an experience base of more than 20 years of involvement in RTD activities with the European Commission (from FP5 to Horizon 2020), European Space Agency (ESA ARTES Program) and structural funds in Portugal (PRIME, QREN and PT2020).

Lisbon, Portugal

SOFTWARE GOVERNMENT CHANEL Building Ecosystems through Partnerships & Communication for North America Region.🔹️Strategic Internationalization🔹️Marketing and Communication for Public and Private sectors🔹️ Market segmentation focus🔹️ Building Innovative Ecosystems🔹️ Partnerships and Alliances🔹️Tender analyzes and proposalsAbout Quidgest:Quidgest is a global technology company based in Lisbon, a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence to software development.

Portugal

HIGHER EDUCATION CHANEL In the first World Happiness Report, published by the UN in 2012, Portugal ranked 73rd out of 155 countries. And curiously, this was one of its best places in the still short history of these reports.In 2013 Portugal was even more unhappy: 85th place.And in 2014 it continued to get worse: 88th place.In 2015 Portugal reached its worst place: 94th.In 2016, hope returned: 89th place.2017: 77th place.Portugal's best place was in 2018: 66th place. A significant rise of 10 places. What are the explanatory reasons for this rise? Is it possible to continue to climb? What needs to be done?2019: 59º; 2020: 58º; 2021: 58º; 2022: 56º.World Happiness Day: March 20th. Celebrate!

Fátima, Portugal

HOME FURNISHINGS CHANEL Build Portugal 2020 Internationalization Project;🔹️Strategic Business Plan🔹️Design Management🔹️International Business Development Go 2 Market🔹️Parternships & Alliances🔹️New Business 🔹️Collaborative projectsMatceramica, is located in Vale de Ourem, Fátima, in the central coast of Portugal, and it´s the largest manufacturer of earthenware in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the largest in Europe.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

VISCOM & EDUCATION CHANEL Manage and Coordinate International Client Opportunities;🔹️Collaborate with the sales teams and distributors in managing global client opportunities 🔹️Take the lead in establishing global framework contracts with distributors 🔹️Utilize CRM for international lead management and to build relationshipsInternational Strategic Planning and Business Development🔹️Develop strategies for identifying and proactively developing new business opportunities, 🔹️Identify targets, lead and implement international strategic account planning🔹️Leverage the brands and reputation to expand into foreign markets International Sales Knowledge Management🔹️Maintain an up-to-date understanding of current global capability; prices, product language availability, services, and discount scope across US & Latin America international markets.🔹️In partnership with the CEO, Senior Vice President & Chief Commercial Office and the Marketing Director forecast International sales goals by identifying and evaluating opportunities for international revenue growth. 🔹️Act as subject matter expert to produce collateral and capability reference material for the sales team to support proactive development of sales and existing clients’ international requirements 🔹️Create and communicate a global international client pipeline on a regular basis which outlines international client activity, key contacts and key competitor positions across key multinational organizations and report out to VP Commercial Officer 🔹️Understand, monitor and communicate international competitor threats and opportunities. 🔹️Partner with the Marketing Director ensure international marketing is in alignment with the overall company messaging 🔹️Partner with Marketing team to assist in executing international marketing strategies🔹️Coordinate B2B events, Seminars and Trade shows.

Portugal-Usa

INTERNATIONALIZATION CHANEL 🔹️Business & Strategy Consultant🔹️Communications and Marketing of Special Projects🔹️News Business and Media Relations Development 🔹️Development of Corporate Awareness and Media Focus🔹️Brand Consulting/ International Brand and Media Strategy🔹️International Marketing 🔹️Press Officer🔹️Be part of the of the multinational clients in a range of industry sectors 🔹️Support implementation of a number of different projects at any one time 🔹️Support the clients team in identifying and building opportunities both internally and externally 🔹️Contribute to winning new work by supporting the team in engaging with existing clients and identifying potential opportunities

Greater Los Angeles Area

HOME FURNISHINGS CHANEL 🔹️In this position I was responsible for driving sourcing activities and initiatives across multiple business channels and served as a contact point responsible for building and managing relationships with key vendors and business unit stakeholders in driving global sourcing initiatives.🔹️Understand, collect, review and act on commodity pricing trends🔹️Worked closely with product development on new product innovation on cost modelling and potential supply base while delivering the lowest possible total cost of goods.🔹️Lead negotiations with vendors and deliver best total value including quality, price, lead time and terms and serve as the procurement and contract expert resource for assigned commodities and projects🔹️Drive project execution through development of project plan, communication of expectations and deliverables and enforcement of timeline🔹️Worked closely with the Global Sourcing team in Asia and Europe and act as the lead communicator between Asia, European and U.S. stakeholders in providing detailed specifications, order quantities, cost targets, timelines, etc.🔹️Source new products and new suppliers as required🔹️Create and maintain strong business relationships at all levels of the organization

New York, United States

GOVERNMENT AGENCY🔹️Sourcing Trips🔹️Buying Programs for the retail, importers and media🔹️Press office coordination for Trade and Tourism🔹️Organization of Media Tours🔹️Specialized press and events (international trade shows and seminars (reports, press clippings, press conferences)🔹️Facilitation of media contacts and optimization of media awareness🔹️Marketing of several key public and private Portuguese brands🔹️Wines of Portugal Manager🔹️Market research and identification of business opportunities 🔹️Research and identification of business partners for companies 🔹️Creation and development of promotional activities of products and services 🔹️Assisting companies in implementing business plans and investing 🔹️Representative on behalf of companies in negotiations 🔹️Supplying information regarding companies, products and services

Fátima, Portugal

HOME FURNISHINGS CHANEL 🔹️Contribute to strategic product development plans🔹️Contribute to the Product Development infrastructure🔹️Drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects for Product Development - Private Label🔹️Ensures business needs were being met🔹️Identified and developed business opportunities for the Private Brand portfolio🔹️Manages the development of Private Brand products with other business areas (for example, Brand Marketing, Merchandising)🔹️Promote and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity🔹️Provide supervision and development opportunities 🔹️Provides technical support to the Private Brand team

Alcobaça, Portugal

HOME FURNISHINGS CHANEL 🔹️In this role I was responsible for the development of our product portfolio roadmap and launch of the respective new products & product iterations on a worldwide basis and developed new product value propositions (positioning, price, and promotion) for products in the portfolio and will also launch these products globally.🔹️Develope and manage the strategic new product marketing plans and programs for our product lines to grow the business and meet/exceed global Business Plan forecasts🔹️Lead the marketing function on cross-functional new product core teams🔹️Work closely with New Business Development and R&D to develop next generation products and procedural techniques / workflows to ensure was maximizing the opportunity in the market segment🔹️Developing marketing plans for new products worldwide in alignment with commercial groups🔹️Direct new product launches around the international markets🔹️Analyzes competitive products and incorporates competitive strategies into product development plans🔹️Developed value proposition (positioning, price, and promotion) for new products🔹️Delivered product training at global launch training programs🔹️Ensures business continuity through demand planning and forecasting activities with regional commercial marketing partners

Doctoral Program In Communication Sciences, Faculty Of Humanities, Ph.D. Communication And Media

Activities and Societies: Regionalization; Decentralization; Mediatization; Agenda Setting; Strategic Communications; Emerge-Submerge..

Master'S Degree, Manegment "Marketing For Cities And Municipitalities", Master

Activities and Societies: This academic work aims to actively promote and contibute with relevant strategic axis plans together.

Undergraduate Degree In International Relations, International Business And Affairs, Undergraduate Degree

Certificacion On Corporate Tranning, Business/Corporate Communications Protocol, Professional Trainning

Public Speaking (Cap) & Corporate Trainning, Clients Relashionships And Corporate Communication

From Awareness To Action, Ecology