
David Forero
Skills
Timeline
Professional experience for David Forero
• Conduct in-depth analysis of key markets (e.g., energy, automotive, and industrial) to assess client´s leadership decision-making. Immersion in different industries and their organizational structures. • Develop strategic business intelligence reports by synthesizing industry data, company structures, and financial models for market leading clients. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver market-entry strategies and operational frameworks
• Designed and implemented a global process standardization & harmonization toolkit, improving operational efficiency and compliance. • Led multi-regional workshops across Europe, the Americas, and China, guiding internal and external stakeholders through the standardization framework. • Developed AS-IS and TO-BE process models, aligning country-specific workflows with a globally harmonized blueprint. • Oversaw the standardization stocktaking phase in North America and LATAM, ensuring on-time completion.
• Conducted user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate product features, implementing test acceptance KPIs. • Implemented user stories and customer journeys aligned with the product innovation strategy. • Managed product improvement initiatives to enhance user experience. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to validate product functionalities.
- 3 years and 10 months, Feb 2018 - Nov 2021
Business consultant
Bayport
• Optimized and documented HR processes across LATAM, ensuring alignment with global HQ policies. • Led organizational design innovation, enabling business model transformation. • Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives, automating 80% of HR processes and effectively communicating process changes across the organization. • Designed and implemented a performance management system, leading C-level workshops to integrate corporate goals within teams.
- 1 year and 11 months, Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Process & Product Lead
Sistemcobro
• Leaded the swift company-wide to BPM within a year implementation. • Defined the master products framework, ensuring profitable business models. • Orchestrated Kaizen events, boosting operational efficiency. • Owned the pricing model ensuring profitability and negotiation. • Ensured new customers’ success, defining the optimal operation model. • Defined new product features by structuring business requirements. • Leaded the IT change committee for new features, creating a prioritization model.
• Analyzed customer claims and solve them. • Implemented of a root case analysis eliminating recurrent errors. • UAT and documentation of new products, ensuring is optimal deployment.
- 1 year and 3 months, Sep 2013 - Nov 2014
Project Manager / Consultant
Productivity Consulting
• Co-created a custom tool to measure the employee’s strategic focus. • Evaluated of workloads of +400 employees and proposed the optimal head count, organizational model and implementation plan. • Leaded a project to evaluate the added value of each process by positions on the company using the SIPOC framework. • As project leader, evaluated positions/processes interactions via SIPOC.
Educational background for David Forero
- 1 year and 6 months, Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Msc In Innovation & Entreprenuership
EU Business School
- 5 years and 10 months, Aug 2008 - May 2014
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Languages
Spanish
C2 (Expert / native speaker)
English
C1 (Fluent)
German
B1-B2 (Good)
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