Solvay

Steering Solvay towards innovation and sustainability while laying the groundwork for future executive leadership.

• Transforming and shaping the innovation portfolio to align with long-term business goals, promoting growth, sustainability, and reinforcing industry leadership.

• Implementing Generative AI solutions within the Business Unit, enabling a surge in speed and efficiency in our R&D operations.

• Catapulted innovative technology improvements, operational excellence, and energy transition, achieving a colossal >40% reduction in CO2 emissions since 2018. This propelled us towards carbon neutrality.

• Overhauled lab specifications and standardization, providing critical analytical services. Boosted Solvay’s licensing business, generating €2 million annually.

• Coordinated global network of 18 labs, ensuring integrity and reliability of €200 million chemical assets, bolstering key business operations and quality standards.

Process Innovation Manager (R&I) - GBU Peroxides

Propelled operational excellence and strategic alignment, setting the stage for subsequent leadership roles.

• Spearheaded procedural optimization across 18 global chemical plants, bolstering annual turnover of €1 billion.

• Coordinated with technical teams, facilitated industrialization and start-up of new production units. Implemented technology improvement programs, ensuring efficient ramp-up to full capacity.

• Championed the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, driving significant efficiency and productivity gains across all operations.

GBU Peroxides Technology Engineer & Digital Champion

Managed process engineering, production, utilities, and laboratory services while also overseeing demolition operations to improve site layout. Ensured strict adherence to safety and quality standards, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance.

• Transformed energy efficiency in the sodium chlorate unit, achieving a 4% improvement. This resulted in significant cost savings and a reduced environmental impact, demonstrating my commitment to sustainability and cost control.

• Directed the ISO 17025 laboratory, supervising the lab team to ensure strict quality control of our products while also delivering external analytical services (waste waters).

• Led team, executed safe demolition of deactivated plants, revamped layout, achieving complex operation with zero incidents.

Production Engineer & Analytical Services Manager

Ensured compliance and spearheaded improvement projects in environmental areas, fostering a culture of safety.

• Guided strategic environmental decisions through technical evaluations, improving company’s sustainability compliance with 30% decrease in TSS and 50% reduction in N-NH4.

• Maintained and strengthened positive relations with Portuguese authorities, enhancing cross-functional team leadership and stakeholder management.

• Prepared and submitted comprehensive environmental reports, demonstrating strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Deputy HSE Manager

APQuímica - Associação Portuguesa da Química, Petroquímica e Refinação

Key contributor in APQuímica's advocacy and regulatory affairs, aligning the Portuguese chemical industry with EU directives. Instrumental in engaging with authorities and associations, advancing industry interests in critical legislations like IPPC, REACH, and ETS.

• Served as a key liaison between the chemical industry and public authorities for IPPC, REACH, and ETS, achieving recognition as the Portuguese expert in Cefic’s REACH Experts Network.

• Instrumental in shaping industry responses and compliance strategies regarding critical EU regulations, demonstrating strong stakeholder management and regulatory standards expertise.

• Cultivated and leveraged extensive expertise in EU environmental and safety regulations, providing invaluable guidance to member companies, facilitating effective compliance strategies.

Technical Advisor for Responsible Care

In a world where innovation intersects with sustainability, my career is driven by a profound vision to champion sustainable innovation for a better world.

I am Nuno, a senior innovation leader with over 18 years of experience in the chemical industry. My expertise spans plant operations, lab management, global R&D leadership, and innovation management. Starting my career in engineering roles in Portugal and advancing to strategic leadership positions in Belgium, I have consistently prioritized merging innovative strategies with sustainable practices.

As Process Innovation Manager at Solvay's GBU Peroxides, I led initiatives that resulted in a significant reduction of CO2 emissions by over 40% since 2018. This achievement highlights the successful integration of sustainability into our core business operations. Beyond environmental impact, I have refined licensing business models by providing analytical services to Solvay's licensees, generating over €2M annually.

My leadership extends to building strategic partnerships with universities, research institutes, and other external stakeholders, securing €20 million in grants for innovative and sustainable solutions. I am committed to mentoring the next generation of professionals and actively collaborate with educational institutions to promote STEM and R&D partnerships, aiming to inspire sustainable future advancements.

Looking ahead, my focus is on leveraging technology, innovation, and sustainability as foundational drivers of growth and corporate responsibility within large organizations or international institutions. My goal is to guide these efforts, ensuring that innovative and sustainable solutions achieve significant societal, environmental, and economic benefits.

I am eager to connect with organizations and individuals that prioritize visionary leadership and pragmatic approaches to innovation and sustainability. Together, we can create pathways that harness these strengths, driving progress that benefits our businesses and the broader world.

Let us unite our efforts towards a future that is as innovative as it is sustainable.

Nuno Formiga

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Future of Talent Project Manager 

Provide a Learning environment that builds critical capabilities for all employees and ensures organisational profitability for today and tomorrow. Create learning experiences that will make employees and leaders passionate about their own development and use technology to reach more people and make sure every Euro spent delivers a return.

Global Digital Learning Consultant

Maximize the adoption and impact of existing digital learning solutions and identify innovations to support organizational learning goals. Guide, equip and support learning responsibles with digital learning solutions and knowledge that boost and develop learning offer.

Digital Learning Manager

MISSION: To develop, maintain, adapt and deploy learning programs, and to monitor and ensure the deployment of these programs. 
SCOPE: Iberia and Africa

Actively search and research new developments and approaches valuable for the Learning domain.
Remain updated about external service providers within own perimeter (consultants, universities…), about their offerings and the quality of their services.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge about the strategy, organization, positions, processes and business challenges of the Group.
Benchmark own Learning approaches and services with other relevant companies in the Industry.
Propose learning solutions on request and provide support for the development and delivery
Select vendors and control external costs.
Develop company culture

Learning Iberia Manager

1. Training Planning
Participates on the planning of Training Events.
Responsible for the elaboration of Training Chronogram and Initial Training transversal for all employees
Responsible for doing and reporting the knowledge assessment and Monthly Training Report
Creation and update of the qualification training
2. Development of Training events, programs and tools
Responsible for the development of Training events and ensure the availability of the necessary items
(rooms, material, documentation, Trainers, accesses,etc).
Check for Training Suppliers – includes the negotiation of priorities. Reception and control of suppliers
invoices
Assures the creation of Training courses, sessions and participants booking in the LSO
3. Training Organization, Marketing, Execution and monitoring
Ensure the organization of Training Initiatives in terms of logistic aspects. Gather the documentation
needed for Training Management in the Company
4. Training Communication
Ensure the accurate communication about the Training sessions being taken, through LSO, for
Participants and Trainers. Management of information in SAP LSO System, Training DocLib in the
Teamsite and Training page on the 3S Intranet (CMS).
5. Training Assessment & Reporting
Assures the assessments of Training events and collect the necessary documentation. Prepare reports
about Training events monitored and its effectiveness. Legal Reports. Feedback Survey Reports
6. Badges and Fingerprint recognition(employee cards creation)
Creation of the Badges for each employee when they enter in 3S, as well as replace them when
someone lost it.
7 - Internships Management
Support HR Hiring in managing the IEFP agreements to internships. Control and Follow up of the
internships. Accompaniment of the trainees during their internship.
8 – Administrative Process of Labor Medicine and Health Insurance

Human Resources Specialist

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DGERT certification responsible: certification maintenance, improvement and extension
Quality Coordinator: quality requirements maintenance and improvement

Pedagogical Coordinator

IBM-BTOin Portugal
Client: BP Spanish

Technical Account for BP Spain - Preparation of reconciliations in Rec Template Tool, to investigate
the origin of the differences between the balances. Files Update in Rec Tool of reconciliations of the
month. Transmission of the final information for customers BP applicants.

Financial Accountant

Federación de Turismo de Granada

Touristic Sector of Granada and its Province.
Officer process of the Federation. Supporting tasks in all kinds of communications to the
associated companies.

Leonardo Da Vinci Programme  

Visabeira Global SGPS, SA

Telecommunications and Construction” (sub-Holding) Planning and Financial Direction
Current Account analysis. Expenses’ re-debit. Check’s Issuing. Bank deposits. Field agent’s payment
forecast. Receipt and validation of production’s maps, their classification and analytical accounting.
Registration and validation of Travel Expenses

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