Career Success Podcast

The sales and operations process is today, a fundamental tool to align priorities across functions within current multi-national organizations due to the complexity they have. It’s also key to understand how Operations has become central in today’s companies. In order to understand this process better and why it’s so important, but also how to build it, we have invited Francisco (Paco) Cadena. He...

On this episode of the career success podcast we are joined by Malte Dammann. Malte has 27 years’ experience within large blue-chip multinationals such as Imperial Tobacco, ABinBev and Mars. He is a truly international leader, bringing the best out of people regardless of the cultural and corporate context. He has a proven track record in steering organizational change to accelerate top and bottom...

Alejandro, Alex Ouziel is an executive-committee level business leader that has worked in Marketing, Sales and General Management in FMCG across Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa. Apart from his business career, Alex is also an avid runner. He’s completed marathons and the mountain race Tor des Geants twice. In a time where there’s a debate about work life balance or integration in the busine...

This week, on the Career Success Podcast, we have invited Tom Goodwin. Tom is a speaker and writer. He recently wrote a book titled Digital Darwinism which was published in April 2018. It offers a guide for business leaders on how to embrace the power of the new, to transform companies for the modern age. Education is lagging behind when we look at its adaptation to today’s digital age. We will be...

We hear about how supply chains are changing, transforming. But how does that actually happen and work? In order to discuss that, we’ve invited Mattia Aste, Global Manufacturing Excellence Lead at Monsanto, which is currently integrating with Bayer. He has a vast experience in Logistics, Planning, Manufacturing, Strategy in Europe, US and Global roles. Given his end to end perspective, we discuss...

This episode of the career success podcast we are joined by Ralf Neuser to discuss the on-boarding process for new hires. The onboarding process is a key factor to the success of every new hire and according to the SHRM Foundation which is a nonprofit affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management, half of all senior-level outside hires fail within the first 18 months. Ralf will give some...

There’s no doubt that supply chain and logistics are going through a major transformation, and the demographics isn’t an exception. In a space that used to be a dominated by males, women have gained territory in the last decades. Globalization has also contributed to diversifying the supply chain community. To speak about this topic, we’ve invited Flavia Sebastiani, currently a VP at DHL Brazil to...

On this episode of the Career Success Podcast we invited Minerva Acevedo to speak with us about the art of negotiation. Minerva has worked in consumer packaged goods in both marketing and sales roles, in the health and wellness industry with Johnson & Johnson and in the food industry with McCormick & Company. Through both experiences, she have been exposed to negotiations with large corporations s...

Beauty is one of the most dynamic industries out there today. To learn more about it, we’ve invited Gianni Pieraccioni. He’s a C-Level executive that’s worked with global companies like Revlon, Alitalia, J&J and Pepsico and we’ve invited him to understand more about the beauty consumer, its distribution and how it will evolve in the coming years. In this Podcast, we review: The beauty consumer and...

What Makes Latin America Different? With Jeferson Fernandes May 18, 2018 By Daniel Torres Dwyer Latin America is a market that is still a big mystery for many. While it’s biggest country, Brazil, has been recently on the headlines because of political instability, it is back on the growth track after some years of deep recession… this depicts the region a bit, unstable, unreliable in the short ter...

On this episode of the career success podcast we are following up with Craig Binkley, CEO of BINKTHINK Strategy Group on his white paper Digital Transformation and Impact on Value Chains and Routes to Market. During this podcast, Craig takes questions from our network on: The healthcare industry: how does Craig see the impact of digital fitting into the industry and what that means exactly. The hu...

Motivating a team can be a challenge. As business leaders, we will have to get people of different origins, ages, nationalities, genders, functions and even industries to work together. As this is a topic that comes up in many of our conversations, we have the pleasure to have Peter Hall on this edition to discuss it. Peter is currently the President for consumer brands at Dean & Deluca. Born in A...

Challenging yourself to take risks in your career isn’t always easy and there could be a lot to lose. We have invited Arnd Pickhardt former CMO of Lidl Germany to discuss with us his experience with taking risks.

The transition of Fast Moving Packaged Goods into the Online Retailing space has been a rocky one. Swinging from Direct to Consumer to Partnership approaches, the scenario does look clearer now than 4 years ago. But, is this going to settle like this? To look back into what’s happened and what is to come, we invited Sri Rajagopalan, Vice President and leader of eCommerce for J&J’s consumer busines...

Our guest on this episode of the career success podcast is Davide Lunghi. Davide has been working within the luxury industry since 2002 for brands like Fendi, TAG Heuer, Hublot and Zenith.

The Gender Pay Gap is the percentual difference of hourly pay between genders across levels and functions. This is a different concept to “Equal pay”, which compares pay between genders for doing the same job. To discuss this particular topic, we’ve invited Helena Perheentupa. Currently Head of Licencing for Mattel DACH, Nordics and Benelux, she’s balanced a successful career with family life, hav...

Montse Passolas is a highly qualified Global Marketing and Branding board level executive with over 18 years of experience in marketing and communications, digital, new product development, retail, PR and business development strategy within leading brands and companies. Montse is a true international profile with experience working in Spain, France UK, US, and with an emphasis on the beauty and l...

Roopa Varghese, Sr. Director of Digital Marketplaces and New Brands at Georgia-Pacific, provides her insights on how the US macro-economy has shifted and affected the Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Roopa has a lengthy business experience in the US, having been based there for over 12 years, having had leadership roles for the likes of The Boston Consulting Group and The Hershey Compa...

This week we speak with Mike Sukitch a global Sales Executive with a distinguished Procter & Gamble and Kraft Foods/Mondelēz International career, which includes sixteen years in key emerging markets assignments and sixteen years in the developed markets of US and Europe. He has a consistent and proven track record with extensive operational, P&L and strategic management experience performing as t...

LS International speaks with Walmart eCommerce’s VP of Digital Acceleration, Kate Pearson. We discuss with Kate about how an army background has contributed to her career in business. Being someone who’s managed big teams in traditional Retail but is currently working on projects that are cutting edge, she’s developed a leadership style that’s enabled her to be successful in very diverse set ups,...

On this episode of The Career Success Podcast, LS International speaks with Maureen O’Shea, Global Product Supply Senior Director for Biotech and New Molecules at Merck. We discuss with Maureen how she adopts Nike’s “Just do it” slogan in her approach to decision making and how it has led her to having successful hands-on experience in end to end supply chain across manufacturing, sourcing, logist...

LS International speaks with Patricia Corsi, CMO Bayer Consumer Healthcare to find out more about her experience in delivering results and leading successful business transformation in Latin America and Europe. Her fluency in 3 languages, combined with a strong sense of curiosity allows her to be closer to consumer and customer and to use this connectivity to better drive product mixes and use exp...

LS International speaks with Joanna Allen, Global Vice President for Hellmann’s at Unilever on the importance of a diverse workforce for successful employee attraction and retention. Joanna discusses diversity and recruitment, exploring ‘gender and sexuality, but also diversity in terms of mental processing styles, kind of different strengths and different experiences from geographies.’

The Edelman trust barometer says 51% of employees do not trust their CEO’s and we know employee engagement and trust is a big factor in that and a popular topic right now. We were joined by James Mounter, VP of Sales for J&J China to discuss his thoughts on leadership, management and employee engagement.

Attracting and retaining talent is a hot subject in today’s market. Employers are keener than ever to find out how they can adapt and lead today’s millennium. Gianluca di Tondo, Senior Global Brand Director for the Heineken® Brand explores how ‘they need to see you not only as the boss, but a mentor. You need to keep getting excited, you need to fuel their passion, and they need to see the passion...