Laura Cuartas

Experience

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  Productos Familia Sancela

  Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

  Internship, R&D tissue

  Principal achievements:- Give the optimal doze of colored laminating glue for kitchen towels for manufacturing.Activities:- Realize physic and chemical lab analysis of products in development.- Characterization of new and existing raw materials.

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  Grupo Familia

  Jan 2014 - Mar 2014

  Special Project specialist; R&D Tissue

  Principal achievements:- Lab analysis with full characterization of 3 new raw materials. Activities:- Realize physic and chemical lab analysis of products in development.- Characterization of new and existing raw materials.

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  Paf ltda

  Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

  Advisory Sales Specialist

  Principal achievements:- Responsible of a sales budget of 600 Million COP a year (EUR 325.000)Activities:- Identify possible potential new costumers. - Give technical specialized counseling to costumers. - Ensure compliance of the budget both sales and AR collection.

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  Grupo Famila / Essity

  Sept 2014 - Oct 2020

  R&D Tissue paper engineer

  Principal achievements:- Responsible for the design and development of at least 14 projects a year. In charge of managing and prioritizing the projects to accomplish the launching dates and comply with the budget.- Responsible for savings projects that have generated savings up to 600.000 CAD (1.800 Million COP) a year.- Implemented with the guidance of the R&D manager. The division and categorization of the R&D teamwork to increase projects' execution speed to 20% faster.Activities:- Design and development of tissue paper products delivering products as solutions that meet theconsumer needs, working in partnership with marketing, quality, packaging, technology, and production.- Responsible for product upgrade projects and manufacturing upgrade projects.- In charge of test prototypes, instructing, and supervising the manufacturing team.- Optimize the dose of raw materials and chemicals- Evaluate new chemicals and raw materials to get profit savings.- Implementation of saving projects both for tissue products and raw materials.- Create and update the technical specification of the tissue products.- Provide technical support to production and quality, helping with solutions.- Ensure that all the projects were aligned with operational excellence.- Participation and organization of innovation workshops. Show less

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  Alimentari Foods Inc

  Jul 2021 - Apr 2022

  Customer service representative

  Activities:- Assistance customers to find and select the products that adjust best to their needs.- Maintaining inventory and product quality; ensuring the full display of the products on the shelves.- Unpacking, labelling, and displaying products.- Creating and designing posters to advertise different products of the store. - Manage proper, attractive, and with strategy merchandise displays, ensuring strategic placement of products that maximized purchases.

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  Kruger Products Inc

  May 2022 - now

  Product Development Manager

  Principal Achivements: - Managed 24 projects in 2022 and currently 34 projects so far for 2023, achieving the launching dates for each project.- Managed projects with stakeholders from five business units and headquarters, working with team members from five production plants in different locations throughout Canada and the US.Activities:- Manage a project portfolio with a broad understanding of the business requirement for each product and packaging development project, profitability, critical decisions and go-live dates.- Create an effective project plan to meet deadlines with clear action items, scheduling, controlling and identifying the critical paths.- Lead and conduct workshop meetings and reports to provide project updates to project stakeholders. - Collaborate with internal partners to ensure that the end product meets the business requirements and manage risk assessment.- Ensure product development documents are stored adequately in the internal system.- Partner with company areas such as production, quality, finance, and legal. Show less