Carlos Rojas

Manage New Product Development, Process Improvement, and IT projects. Lead multi-functional and multi-disciplinary teams from Mexico and US. Improve company's current project management processes. Identify risks within the projects and create response plans for them. Support other project managers and transmit knowledge by giving advise, training and coaching in order to achieve their project's objective. Maintain constant communication with sponsors, teams and board of directors.

Planning and executing business development strategies. Operational analysis and management. Relationship building with commercial partners to increase the store catalog and negotiate with them prices, terms and delivery options. Competition, expansion opportunities, customer and market analysis. Social media surveillance and statistical analysis.

Involved in product & material cost take out projects for GE refrigerators. Coordination of diversified work teams (suppliers and internal corporative personnel such as planning, manufacturing, design and product engineering departments). Contact and negotiation activities with GE (Louisville, KY) and Mahindra-Satyam (India) staff. Cost reduction opportunities identification. Contact and negotiation with local and foreign suppliers.

Technical analysis for Mexican Patent Applications for mechanical and electrical inventions to overcome technical rejection imposed by the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI). Consulting services and legal assistance to foreign clients in the patent application process. Communication with foreign clients in order to monitor their patent applications, offering them the best proposal for their patent applications.