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Lisboa, Portugal

As Local Manager, I was asked to cumulate with “Food and Health” Competence Center, leading now directly a global team of 30 skilled collaborators and indirect team of 20.Main responsibilities:• Accountable for delivering consumer-oriented contents and services that will support DECO PROTESTE transversal activities and presence as a main consumer organization.• Global management of +30 collaborators team with highly diversified technical degree formation.• Ordinary budget responsibility > 1,5 million Euros • Institutional representation in several forums and councils, namely: o Member of the Advisory and Tariff Councils of ERSE - Energy Services Regulatory Authority.o Member of the general Assembly of ANEC - The European consumer voice in standardization.• Public interventions in various media stages on the issue of consumer protection, in particular matters related to regulation of markets and its impact on the final consumer.• Responsible for managing/planning/feeding digital tools & Focus Pull Campaigns based on simulators, product selectors and diversified end consumers tools to compare and choice advisor (Highlight for recent power purchase concerns such as supermarket price basket monitoring, Energy & telecom savings, Sustainability, and mobility tools, among others). Main achievement:• Enhance and foster innovation in the organization to remain Top of Mind of consumer movement, namely embracing digital and sustainability trendline; benefits negotiator for subscribers’ loyalty card; sustainable growth of incomes from quality labels offer to market; innovative methodologies for price surveys and compare ranking; deliver technical pillar for pull actions within the global marketing strategy, B2B included.o Fundraising international steering committee

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

Call to lead new “Competence Center” unit, designed to fully manage comparative testing activity for durable products, FMCG and Services (such as utilities & large distribution). Leading a team of +20 engineering degree people. Main responsibilities: • Accountable for delivering consumer-oriented contents and services that will support DECO PROTESTE transversal activities and presence as a main consumer organization.• Work in multinational culture environment & International collaboration on daily basis.• Task force, training team and monitoring committee member for Euroconsumers’s entry in the Brazilian market.• Budget responsibility ~ 800 k€.• Launch of new own distinctive quality labels offer to market, seed for the incoming B2B activities.• Public interventions in various media stages on the issue of consumer protection, in particular matters related to regulation of markets and its impact on the final consumer.• Responsible for managing/planning/feeding digital tools & Focus Pull Campaigns based on simulators, product selectors and diversified end consumers tools to compare and choice advisor (Highlight for the first electricity auction for end-consumers in Portugal, Petition/movement against energy over taxation, loyalty contractual terms in Telco sector, among others). • Institutional representation in several forums and councils, namely: o Member of the Advisory and Tariff Councils of ERSE o Member of the general Assembly of ANEC o Member of the Energy Expert sub-group of the former “European Consumer Consultative Group” (ECCG)

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

Invited to build and develop the local Market Research department, reporting to European vice Director. Leading growing activities and team up to 10 direct collaborators. Main responsibilities:• Accountable for delivering consumer-oriented contents and services that will support DECO PROTESTE transversal activities and growing presence as a main consumer organization.• Budget responsibility ~ 150 k€.• Public interventions in various media stages on the issue of consumer protection. • Responsible for managing/planning/feeding market research outcomes such as regular local product brand list for international comparative tests and related price surveys, global sectorial price survey (Highlight for the yearly supermarket retail price, sectorial price shopping guides), mystery shopping surveys (Highlight for some iconic studies such as funeral agencies, taxi services, postal service, car inspection service), Corporate Social Responsibility first enquiries, statistical surveys, among others.• Institutional representation in several forums and councils, namely: o Member of the Tariff Council of ERSE - Energy Services Regulatory Authority.o Member of the Advisory Council of - IRAR – Regulatory Institute of Water and Waste (nowadays ERSAR)

Lisboa E Região, Portugal

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Lisboa E Região, Portugal

Lisboa, Portugal

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