Laura Lidia García López

Manage new product development for corporate and regional customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Develop customer specific solutions for confectionery, bakery and ice cream segments. Bring marketing and consumer insights to the customer and co-create value added solutions. Lead strategic projects to contribute to business growth in the Region.

*Development of strategic national projects (identification of opportunities, analysis, concept development, planning and implementation) for dairy (cheese and yoghurts) and meat industry. *Analysis and presentation of Key Performance Indicators for Top Management. *Development and management of an Engineering Internship Program for all the plants (5 meat manufacturing plants and 5 dairy manufacturing plants) and supply chain area. *Elaboration of Efficiency Report (Production Performance).

*Research, evaluation and purchase of process equipment and engineering services for national projects in meat and dairy factories. *Specification and Purchase of process equipment *Review and analysis of purchase requisitions, investigation and development of suppliers, preparation of bid specifications, issue of bid requests and review of quotations. *Development of strategic business projects *Search of new technologies for process equipment for the meat and dairy industry.

*Training in Manufacturing, Quality,R&D, Food Safety and Engineering. * Management of a capacity increase project in coordination with USA engineering support. *Support to Technical Application Group in the development and implementation of new products. * Member of Local Nestle Continous Excellence Committee for Total Performance Management "TPM" implementation. *Internal Auditor (ISO 9001, ISO 22000 and National Legislation for the Food Industry)

Leader of "Reduced Testing" Project *Coordination and direction of technical analysts and scholars to certify production process and raw materials suppliers. *Design and supervision of a new software to control reduced testing process in raw material, bulk and finished products. *Final results of the project overcoming initial goals.

Food Colloids, Food Additives, Milk and Dairy Products Technology, Advanced Analysis and Modelling of Food Products and Processes, Packaging selection and design, Food Microstructure, Enzymology, Optical and mechanical properties of foods. Graduated with Honours Research Distinction

Food Chemistry Microbiology Product Design Milk and Dairy Products Processing Meat and Meat Products Processing Fruit and Vegetable Processing Cereals and Oilseeds Processing