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Madrid, Es

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

CGIAR, a global research partnership dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis, as a Consultant to their Global Events & Engagement Management Team. In this role, I’ll have the opportunity to lead and support key UN Conferences of the Parties (COPs) on Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Desertification. These events play a crucial role in shaping the global response to some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet today.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Program Design, Management & Delivery to cohorts of 40 approx senior executives fromaround the world.➢ Module Director of the GEMBA Program in Barcelona (x2), Munich (x3), NYC (x3), SanFrancisco / Silicon Valley (x2) and Sao Paulo (x2). The Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) gathers accomplished business leaders from a vast array of industries, professional profiles, and cultural backgrounds. Together you will embark on a transformational learning experience that will change the way you perceive the world, leadership, and most importantly, yourself.The GEMBA takes place in five business hubs: Barcelona, New York, Munich, Silicon Valley and Asia. The program will carry you to key markets and business communities around the world to give you a truly global perspective. Providing you with the tools, the confidence and the expanded world vision to step up and become a truly global leader.#1 MBA in the World in 2021 - The Economist #3 MBA in the World 2023 - The Financial Times.#4 Executive MBA in the World 2024 - The Financial Times.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

OFFICE MANAGEMENT: Lead, research, vet and negotiate rates with vendors in the EU from scratch, coordinate payments and build long and reliable relationships.Lead an office move and 6 months later completed the management of a challenging office renovation with minimal disruption whilst team hypergrowth throughout the 2 months project. Total value + GBP 150,000.OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT: Developed and built on relationships with all international teams for increased efficiency and responsiveness of existing operations, and help define new operational strategies by working with CEO and other executives on special projects. Leading & Supporting critical aspects to the establishment of EU Ops, growth and development business. Created efficient and scalable administrative procedures, vendor accounts and reliable suppliers networks.Described as the "anchor" of the EU Organisation and go-to person that everyone knows, relies and trusts.COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATIONS & EVENTS MANAGEMENT: Key member of Team that launched Insulet European Operations on 1 July 2018. “Medical Device Company of the Year” at DPC 2019.EU Internal Events manager: Serve as a subject-matter expert, handling inquiries, developing action plans, assisting with preparation and dissemination of communications. Leading, designing and delivering key International Sales Meetings (both internal and external), Incentives Programs (EU President's Club), Townhalls. Internal Training Sessions, Product Launch Activities and Workshops.Lead the review of Sales Onboarding Programs in the pursue of a gold standard across the global organisation problem solving and leading the EU project overcoming barriers.Insulet Corporation (NASDAQ: PODD), headquartered in Massachusetts, is an innovative medical device company dedicated to making the lives of people with diabetes and other conditions easier through the use of its Omnipod product platform. For more information, please visit: www.insulet.com and www.omnipod.com.

London, United Kingdom

TEAM MANAGEMENT: Proactive management of teams, collaborating with all teams across the organisation to manage deadlines and schedules.COMPLIANCE: Ownership of specific project (TURC, Technical Underwriting Review Committee) Chairing the Audit Committee, requesting, filing and assuring all audits documents are up to date and all dates and action completion monitored. Manage the travel log, expenses and diary to fulfil audit compliance.TRAVEL COORDINATION: Regular international travel, arranging meetings with numerous participants in different time zones, booking VC’s in various locations. Submitting Expense Reports in different currencies. Arranging visas, transfers and hotels.VIP HOSPITALITY: Organisation both as guest and host. Checking equipment and supplies were ready, hotel bookings and travel arrangements booked and expenses timely filled, submitted and logged. Ashost, coordinating with Estate, Agent and Hotels the arrangements for the day. Generating and circulating the guest’s pack with all details and information.PERSONAL HOSPITALITYEMAIL MANAGEMENTHiscox Ltd. is an Anglo-Bermudan insurance provider, listed on the London Stock Exchange. An underwriter at Lloyd's of London, the company largely specialises in niche areas of the market, offering property and casualty insurance aimed at companies and high-net-worth individuals, as well as cover against such risks as hacking, kidnapping and satellite damage. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

London, United Kingdom

COMPLIANCE: Owned all aspects of compliance regarding delegation of authority, challenging and escalating any discrepancies to ensure adherence to policies and procedures, liaising with the compliance and audit teams.TEAM & MEETINGS MANAGEMENT: Organisation of multiple events from four to 150 delegates working to extremely tight deadlines, from strategy days to networking, ensuring all aspects are proactively managed. Budget Management, resulting in a £60k saving over one year (approx. 40% saving) and excellent relationships with vendorsGOVERNANCE: Creating agendas, circulating all documents, taking minutes and chasing actions, challenging and escalating where appropriate, as well as ensuring appropriate documentation logs for six monthly FCA audits.FINANCE: Ownership of expenses, supplier invoicing and events, ensuring savings were made where possible and ensuring cancellations were reimbursed. Negotiation of better rates.EMAIL MANAGEMENTTowergate Insurance (part of Ardonagh Group) is a UK-based insurance broker and risk management advisor, headquartered in London. It employees around 4,000 people across 100 offices in the UK and handles approximately £800 million of insurance premiums each year. Towergate is a group of companies that provide insurance products and specialist personal cover through multiple brands such as Footman James and Towergate Riskline as well as other independent brands.

London, United Kingdom

GOVERNANCE: Meeting facilitation across various levels in the organisation, agenda creation, taking minutes and proactively chasing on actions to ensure completion.LEGAL SUPPORT: Drafting of up to 30 legal documents per week ensuring compliance, due diligence and KYC, including NDAs, letters of engagement, as well as maintenance of all company formation paperwork, checking against Companies House.TEAM SUPPORT: Owned all team documentation and logs ensuring team awareness of vital information via regular meetings and communication. Booking of travel, accommodation, meetings, workshops and networking events.FINANCE: Allocating £5.5m of solicitors time across multiple cases in a timely manner, ensuring accuracy and challenging where applicable on both the allocations as well as the process.JAG Shaw Baker’s primary focus is corporate and commercial law for venture-backed companies and their range of investors. The team’s breadth of experience can support the entire life cycle of traditional venture-backed companies from seed stage through growth capital investment rounds and M&A, to IPO and other exit routes. It includes support securing and commercialising IP, corporate governance and on-going operational activity.The firm is making intellectual property and technology rights a cornerstone of the practice to support their client base.

Madrid Area, Spain

TEAM MANAGEMENT: Owned all team documentation and logs ensuring team awareness of vital information via regular meetings and communication. Collaborating with all teams across the organisation to manage deadlines and schedules, with particular focus on finance and compliance. Research and manage international reallocation related matters for a team of 20 members.Assigned to the client, EXXON Mobil and SABIC. Total reported value: 400M USD.SABIC and EXXON MOBIL have tapped Técnicas Reunidas to undertake a petrochemical project in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) and Exxon Mobil, through their 50-50 joint venture company, KEMYA, awarded Técnicas Reunidas (TR) an EPC contract for two packages amidst strong international competition, for their upcoming Saudi Elastomers Project (SEP) intended to produce an array of chemical feedstocks, Elastomers and related products needed to support an automobile industry project to be undertaken in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.SABIC is a market leader in key products such as ethylene, ethylene glycol, methanol, MTBE and polyethylene. SABIC operates in more than 40 countries across the world and has 60 world-class manufacturing and compounding plants in locations across the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Its headquarters are in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.Exxon Mobil is the world’s largest refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Its chemical company ranks among the world’s largest. Exxon Mobil is an industry leader in energy with over a 100 year history.TR is one of the leading international engineering and construction companies for oil and gas production, refining and petrochemicals and power generation projects for a broad spectrum of customers throughout the world. Most of Técnicas Reunidas' business is concentrated on large turnkey industrial projects, although they also provide engineering, management, start-up and operating services for industrial plants.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Supporting the Offices of the Chairman, the CEO, the CCO and the CFO, North AmericaTEAM SUPPORT: Organisation of events a conferences, scheduling meetings, training session and travel arrangements across multiple time zonesPROJECT SUPPORT: Supporting a variety of projects on an as required basis, specifically owning the end to end co-ordination of University students (Columbia Univ) and Government representative (President Obama Adm) visits to manufacturing plants, increasing knowledge in students of renewable energyPA SUPPORT: Extensive and complex diary management of internal and external meetings, Visa applications support and owning all incoming and outgoing mail for the Management team, International travels, meetings and conference calls arrangements in different time zones.FINANCE: Management of expenses, Purchase Orders and invoices With more than 15 years’ experience, Gamesa is a global technological leader in the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of wind turbinesGamesa is listed on the Ibex 35 and forms part of Dow Jones Sustainability, FTSE4Good and Ethibel sustainability indexes.

New York, New York, United States

NEGOTIATIONS SUPPORT: Drafting of bilingual (English and Spanish) meeting reports for conferences, seminars and complex UN resolution negotiations and EU co-ordination meetings. Translation of complex documentation from English to Spanish and vice versa. Circulating documents in a timely manner among colleagues from all European Union delegations.EVENTS: Organisation of various events, booking venues, hotels, drivers, interpreters and technicians. Including 2 General Assemblies. Assigned to a 1 year project during the Spanish Presidency of the European UnionPilar has been employed as an executive assistant at the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations in New York for a one year project as a member of the Office of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, being involved in all the sustainable development cluster-related matters at the UN bodies concerned with economic and social affairs.Her responsibilities consisted in managing all the relevant administrative matters, being responsible for the accounting of the Office, as well as attending multilateral meetings, including coordination meetings of the European Union, briefings, seminars and other meetings related to the area of expertise. She also participated in negotiations on United Nations resolutions and helped write reports on those matters, in English or Spanish, under the supervision of the competent Counsellor at this Mission. Ms. Catalán de Ocón has shown to be a very committed, efficient and focused professional, as well as being capable of multitasking with great attention to detail. She works hard, understands quickly and respects deadlines. She also has a very positive and lively attitude, together with teamwork skills. Due to her outstanding qualities, both on the professional and the personal level, I highly recommend her for any future position.Juan Antonio Yáñez-BarnuevoAmbassador Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations

New York, New York, United States

Left after my non renewable J1 visa expiredMAIN TASKS: Supported a team of eight senior recruiters in establishing and growing new business with candidate sourcing, client identification, market mapping and job searches. Cold calling, headhunting candidate interviews, business development and market.Research market trends and new business opportunities and updating my team. Update databasewith client and candidates details. Schedule and register meetings and interviews.•Developed comprehensive contact details to facilitate the launch of MP Legal USA•Candidate sourcing via websites, networking sites job boards•Headhunting•Interview candidates•Business Development.The role of a recruitment consultant is to act as an intermediary, identifying and sourcing suitably qualified candidates on behalf of its clients. Candidates are recruited either for permanent or contract positions (typically for a fixed term) or on a temporary basis. Within the overall recruitment industry, the market for professional recruitment services is a specialist sector which has developed more recently. Michael Page is widely recognized as leading the development of this market around the world.

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

•Chase Ads on Press and Work Seeking Websites to keep Consultants in my team updated with the latest opportunities in the market.•Schedule and register phone interviews with candidates.•Update database (client and candidate information)•Some cold calling to Law Firms, arranging meetings with some Top International Firms • Business Development, bringing on board a few new clients.

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