Jorge Vasquez

Experience

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  U21, Casa de Bolsa

  Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

  Account Executive

  - Financial planning and advising, through different financial products such as stocks, bonds, funds, health and life insurance, and FX hedging.- Careful exploration of stocks and FX markets in order to offer proper advise to clients.- Exceeded sales target by up to 200%, at the time that generates average profit of over 25% for my portfolio.- Quantification, Qualification and advice on credit worthiness for corporate clients and top private clients.- Part of the core team for a new risk analysis’s process, which included the identification of patterns on credit applications, as well as techniques for the identification of suspicious applicants. Show less

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  F.A. Ingenieria y Proyectos

  Feb 2008 - Feb 2011

  Financial Specialist

  - Develop/establish analysis to support the decision making process of new projects. - Successfully identify risks and opportunities, measure and report on KPI’s, strengthen and improvements for contracts with public and private institutions.- Improved business profitability by managing accurately variable and emerging cost on a high inflation economy, as well as analyzing other macro-economic factors.- Developed leadership skills by organizing monthly and half-yearly workshops with management and team members. Lead the administration and finance team hand to hand with the CEO. Show less

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  Diebold OLTP Systems C.A

  Mar 2011 - May 2013

  Budget and Forecast Specialist

  Data analysis and forecast integration- Developed a full process to manage the organization budget, and simplified the rolling forecast which had to consolidate with global templates. - Achieved recognition from Global as the Principal partner for LATAM. - Generated substantial saving by analyzing impact of FX exposure, establishing FX hedging.

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  Syngenta

  Aug 2016 - Jan 2017

  Business Analyst (fixed-term contract)

  Cross-functional excellence and Data analysis- Managed data and support processes for integrated business decisions by developing scalable sustainable reports and reporting tools, regarding Sales, COGS, GP, Functional costs, including high quality comments.- Created a fully interactive template to complete data for global seeds business unit and set budget books that were presented in directors’ meetings, as a result of the high quality information and dynamics on files when changing certain variables. Show less

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  Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics

  Mar 2017 - Jul 2018

  Market and Business Insight Specialist

  Smith and Nephew. Baar, Switzerland. (Medical Devices). Market and Business Insights Specialist.Data Analysis:- Generated high quality reports by collecting and analyzing data from several internal and external sources, as well as monthly generation of feedback by being part of the core reporting team.- Proactive generation of market news insights, on topics that broaden the vision on the actual and future market trends.- Generated several automated KPI, to track sales force orientation, targets, and internal sales promotions (Running with the wolves).Cross-functional excellence- Direct collaboration with Global Commercial Strategic Insights, and Business Intelligence team, as well as regional finance team to ensure alignment of data and generation of global template for internal data collection.- Led various market projects for internal data collection, including business unit director, KAMs, sales reps, and other internal areas. - Recognized as the first partner of franchise leads for generation of market and sales strategies, targeting, market segmentation, among other insights.Technical & Optimization partner- Simplified significantly existing reports and gave excellent maintenance to existing ones. Reduce reporting time more than 50%, allowing more time for insights generation.- Provided ongoing support to high management in the EUCAN region for decision-making, by generating monthly and ad-hoc reports by products, franchises, country, region. Show less

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  Takeda

  Aug 2018 - Dec 2019

  Commercial Data Partner - International

  Data Analysis:- Key lead on generation of data structuring, including running various data quality assessments between IQVIA and internal data, with statistic methods. - Lead quality assessment project, allowing our group to give guidance to market Insight teams on data usage and business implementation, as well as purchasing decisions, to avoid unnecessary expenses in low quality data sets.Cross-functional excellence:- Leveraging people, process, and technology to achieve continuous and sustainable improvements in commercial data management efficiency.- Managing Stakeholders including, MI&I teams, Commercial excellence, LOCs, others. - Activating cross functional projects with Data Vendors, Procurement, and Legal to assure data quality and availability, as well as keeping in line with legal and compliance requirements.Technical & Optimization partner:- Optimizing data purchase and availability through a centralized model. Commercial data team procure savings up to 20% in 2019 renewals.- Ensuring Quality Assurance on best contract agreement for data sharing across the full Global organization and managed compliance on data sharing with Third party vendor. Show less

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  Takeda

  Mar 2020 - Dec 2022

  - Defined user stories and prioritized backlog, to implement an end-to-end tool, web front-end in Power Apps, to gather data from multiple sources, analyze and define commercial strategy. Continuous delivery of enhancements in line with commercial strategy for various brands resulted in a 25% increase in data gathering in the EUCAN region.- Defined existing and new data structure and reporting logics to account for the business complexity for patients’ numbers in EUCAN by collaborating with the business owner and IT, translating the business needs into IT requirements, making use of Power BI as final data display.- Managed the implementation of a regional organizational data strategy, including the migration of data sets from various data-sources to a single SQL-Server-Azure-Data-Warehouse, by working with data consumers to define and document requirements, collaborating with the internal data-science-team to build data pipelines, and leading a team of contractors to write SQL-code which retrieve data from input into DW to later consumption by Power BI, IBM and local data visualization tool. Show less - As Data-Driven Leader I spearheaded the development of comprehensive dashboards and reports (PPT, Excel, Power BI) incorporating stakeholder input. This data-driven approach led to a 20% improvement in decision-making by analysing markets, competitors, and patient data.- By owning the data collection and reporting process for rare metabolic diseases I acted as data integrity champion and helped to increase forecasting accuracy from 70% to 85%. This focus on data integrity ensures reliable market and financial information to guide strategic results.- My leadership in process optimization focused in creating business analysis processes (Salesforce, Excel, Power BI) streamlined market-based scenario analysis. The utilization and promotion of new tools improved the data driven decision-making across functions.- Leveraging my financial understanding and business acumen, I provided an reliable point of view on market and customer performance, supported by facts and evidence contributing to the success of business review and strategic decision process. Show less

  • Project Manager / Product Owner. Commercial and IT, Europe, and Canada.

    Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Commercial Insights and Analytics Lead. Rare Diseases. Europe and Canada.

    Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
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  Sabbatical with some contractual projects

  Mar 2023 - Nov 2024

  Sabbatical

  Sabbatical year, visiting some countries and knowingly new cultures, including sounth asia, North and South America and several Central and Eastern European countries. Also got to do some volunteering work together with local organizations supporting in educational coaching and software skills