Carmen Rodriguez

• Lead and supported cross functional team (+ 20 people) to develop global business strategy. • Screened and assessed external growth opportunities by appraising business and market potential, covering strategic, technical, financial, commercial and legal aspect by involving the respective departments. • Business Intelligence Manager, data extraction and analysis (IMS, Newport, Chemical Info…)

• EU Business development: 3YBP developed & implementing. • Stablished Sourcing partnership strategy (China, India & others): Product (API& FDF) and supplier evaluation. • Coordinated regional sales team by synergies establishment. • Internal IT project manager: Lead and/or support cross functional team to successfully implement SAP & CRM systems.

• Coordinated Product portfolio (API & FDF) management within all departments (Research and development, Regulatory & quality control, financing and engineering among others), BIOCIDE product leader. • Developed and executed full strategic sales and marketing plans and programs, including distributors and customers’ strategy for the 1.500 customers, 110 agents/distributors in 84 countries.

• Established, maintained and expanded business opportunities for the assigned area. • Assignment of client/ agent/ distributor channel strategy for API and Chlorhexidine portfolio. *Achievements: LATAM generics strategy designed, new business development with 40 % turnover increased.

• Managed and monitored activities, budget and expenditure. • Identifyed needs and developing new projects and project evaluation. Achievements: 10 projects designed, 2 projects evaluated.

• Advocacy and policy development for PAHO on global health issues (ex. Cholera-Free Hispaniola programme) working to raise awareness within European institution and other key stakeholders. • Monitored & reported humanitarian and conflict issues on EU policies and strategies. Achievements: Financial Assessment of the EU contribution to the UN Agencies, Programmes and Funds.

• Designed and implemented a new digital production cycle tracking system, replacing the original manual system, and integrated all levels of production staff in the process. Production team leader (50 – 75 people) • Monitored progress towards the goals of the financial plan securing the highest level of productivity and cost rationalization. • Maintained and navigated multiple international and national partner relationships involving customer affairs, purchasing and manufacturing logistics.

• Initiated entry into the Spanish market as internationalization process manager by developing partner relationships, expanding client portfolio and designing media marketing strategy. • Steered the Research and Development team of 10 people to ensure successful product development of more than 20 educational toys. *1st prize European Enterprise Awards for Science4you, Internationalization category, 2011.

Health systems, management , tropical clinical medicine,health Economy, health care in emergency situations, programmes of disease control, the methodology of investigation in health systems, in therapies versus classical, emergent and re-emergent diseases,project cycle, etc.

Five-year degree, three core courses studying a variety of different biological science subjects, and two advanced courses studying subjects in depth: Neurobiology, Biochemistry, Environmental issues, Immunology, Molecular genetics.