reporting to Senior Director L+D Global and HQ Vendor, Cost and Compliance. Focus on Dojo, the corporate learning platform to help Santander transition to the leading global financial services platform with branches reaching 185,000 users. • Owned and managed the Dojo and Global L+D P&L with entrepreneurial perspective. Driven vendor and cost strategy: Build-vs-buy decisions, vendor portfolio optimization, and global budget planning. Vendor negotiation and contracting. • Led revenue initiatives: Value proposition design, business model review, and expansion to new clients. • Strengthened governance, operational metrics, and transparency across Global L+D. Key results • Contracted all key global vendors within target time and budget. • Balanced annual budgets and increased efficiency through rigorous spend control. • Achieved budget savings of 16% in 2024 and 48% in 2025. • Freed up resources for new L+D priorities and fostered a culture of transparency.
reporting to the CEO. Member of the Executive Committee. P&L responsibility. Team of 10. • Led business and procurement ops across 10 countries,16 internal clients, managing a €650M perimeter. • Defined and agreed objectives, plans, strategies, structures and processes, both internal and client facing. Focusing on greater closeness to the bank. Expanded services to external clients. • Expanded business scope into supplier risk management and transactional sourcing. • Strengthened client penetration and satisfaction, aligning processes with bank needs. • Drove digitalization and online negotiation adoption. • Developed business with other entities in Europe (Spain, HQ, Portugal, UK, etc.). Key results • Expanded consumer procurement penetration from 25% to 41%. • Achieved 11% average savings and 50-60% online negotiation share. • Raised NPS to 8.2; service starts without contract reduced to 8%. • Met or exceeded effectiveness, efficiency and volume SLAs and KPIs.
reporting to the Director for Continental Europe • Built Aquanima from ground up, establishing it as the purchasing point of reference. • Expanded into supplier certification and contract management services. • Designed and aligned structures and processes with HQ and local clients. • Grew perimeter to 80% of purchasing volume at Santander. • Exceeded cashflow objectives for 11 consecutive years. • Achieved 12% average savings.
reporting to the Director for Business Development/ Corporate Strategy • Co-led launch and operation of e-travel companies; negotiated JV, acquisition and cooperation agreements. Defined market entry strategies, business plans, budgets, and partner agreements. • Prepared board decisions and briefed C-level executives. • Jointly drove corporate cost-saving programs from analysis to implementation, identifying, validating and delivering €100M in savings p.a.
reporting to Director for Asia and Americas. Held P&L responsibility for 5 national companies and GMs, 150 staff, turnover €37M. • Defined regional strategies. Led negotiations with partners and providers. • Raised Market share + 2% and annual net profit: €4.5M, + 13%, local re-organization, containing personnel and telecommunications costs. • Improved financial and marketing planning and control. • Negotiated with multinational and key accounts, e.g. Aviatur, the largest travel agency in South America with complex multi-year solution.
reporting to Finance Director and CFO • Elaborated and agreed IR role, objective, strategy, positioning, transparency policies, and communication calendar (road shows, presentations, etc.). Built relationships with fund managers and analysts; managed internal/ external feedback loops for continuous improvement vs. market expectations. • Developed and executed internal project establishing valuation of Dragados. • Proposed and executed project to raise transparency in communications together with corporate communications contributing to outperformance of share vs. peers.
responsible for South America and Europe reporting to Finance Director and CFO • Identified infrastructure concession projects in several countries, determined financial alternatives and evaluation criteria; coordinated financial/legal/fiscal analyses. • Developed financial proposals integrated with technical solutions, negotiated with financial institutions and conducted co-ordination with consortium partners.
Consultant in strategy and operations studies particularly for multinational consumer product and industrial companies. Developed and performed analyses, expert liaison, client relations, recommendation development and presentation of solutions.
Developed business plan, organisation and recruitment (6 months)
Reporting Marketing Managers/ Directors on various projects.