Almudena Marti Salorio

Senior business strategy & operations consultant | Execution ownership | Executive MBA 2024

Spain

About

Another consultant profile, I know. Fair enough. I do enjoy a good powerpoint and I can disappear into an excel model for hours. But that’s not where I truly create value. I own projects’ end-to-end execution. For almost 9 years now: - I take ideas through execution. - I own the trade-offs. - I adjust fast when reality proves a plan wrong. Models and decks don’t move companies. Accountable decisions do. I’ve built my career at the intersection of strategy and the real business: operations, commercial change, financial alignment. Scroll through my profile. If something triggers a question, or if you’d like to hear about the failures behind the shiny picture, reach out. I’m always open to talk.

Experience

  • Philips (Full-time · 7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Sr. Business strategy & operations consultant with full execution ownership
      Dec 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

      Senior in-house business strategy & operations consultant, working across multiple cross-functional transformation projects with execution ownership. I partner with senior and executive leadership to translate strategic priorities into execution, operating hands-on across complex initiatives. Bridging strategy with execution across: • Commercial relaunches & go-to-market: sales strategy restructuring and value proposition redesign across B2B and B2C, covering sales, marketing and salesforce management end-to-end. Direct enablement of sales teams (usually around 10-15 people). • Supply chain, S&OP and operations: cost efficiency initiatives, lead time reduction and improved demand and production forecasting. • Financial alignment: revenue forecasting, pipeline tracking and sales projections aligned with financial planning to support decision-making and execution.

    • Sleep Apnea (Business strategy & operations consulting: Business manager)
      Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Manager of the sleep apnea business for IBERIA, relaunching business after Philips’ collapse in 2021. Key Results: • Restored pre-crisis revenue levels despite 47% reduction in portfolio. • Forecast accuracy up by 24pp. High impact in working capital efficiency and cash flow management. • Lead time reduced by 11 days, product DIO reduced by 8 days. How: • Recall management: replacement coordination of +200K sleep apnea machines, using logistics as a lever to renew lost commercial alliances. • Sales: standardised pricing policy, redesigning order management (prioritizing recurring business, bundling and customer tiering among others). Salesforce management. • Development of proprietary market modelling framework to calculate market size, customer purchasing power and wallet depth (overcoming fragmented, inconsistent data). Unique in the industry. • Financial planning: implementing forecast-based model to align commercial and operational planning with financial forecasting. High impact in working capital efficiency and cash flow management. • Operational efficiency: new inventory management system, identifying supply chain bottlenecks, streamlining order processing.

    • Software Solutions (Business strategy consulting: Area Lead)
      Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Revenue growth via restructuration of product mix in five Southern European markets: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, and Greece. Key results: • +20% additional revenue in Southern Europe (LFL). • Increased IGM in Southern Europe by 12%. How: • Identified high-margin products and developed plans to push their commercialization. • Categorized customers based on product fit and potential added value to their workflow (first-time right). • Redesigned sales strategies to increase revenue both from new customers (hardware sales bundling) and more intensely from installed base/existing customers (cross-selling, upselling, and SaaS/subscriptions).

  • Analyst & Project Management support at Naturgy
    Jul 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Data Analyst: analysis of energy poverty in Spain & its socioeconomic impact to support justification and funding for energy efficiency projects. • Designed and managed new databases for project management using Excel, Visual Basic for Applications, and Tableau. • Supported the execution of energy efficiency projects for vulnerable households (mainly through logistics and operations support).

  • Summer internship: Data analyst & support at Gas Natural Fenosa
    Jul 2015 - Aug 2015 · 2 mos

    Summer rotation programme on data analyses regarding energy management for vulnerable households.

  • Summer internship: External relations & Public Affairs at Naturgy
    Jul 2014 - Aug 2014 · 2 mos

    Support on public affairs (press and media) department. Data analyst for internal energy efficiency programs.