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

Atlas Agro

Director of Operations And Business Development

Yara International

Senior Executive of operational excellence for Americas region reporting directly to Vice-president. Responsible for governance, development and support of 38 plants and offices, in a region with more than 6,000 professionals.  The region has already achieved more than 400MBRL in savings and 500 improvement initiatives implemented in the last 3 years.

Director of Continuous Improvement for Americas

Senior Regional Continuous Improvement Manager for LatAm

Responsible for implementation of new corporate productivity system based on Lean philosophy in all 25 chemical and mine plants spread around the world. This is one of the major transformation programs in whole Norwegian industrial history with a overall target of 800MUSD savings and establishment of a continuous improvement culture in the company.

Global Change Leader

Yara Brasil

Head of 8 industrial plants in Brazil which produced more than 2.6M tons / year, annual budget of 91 MBRL and a team of 600 professionals.
Simultaneously acting as Corporate Safety Manager for 6 months and Corporate Lean Manager for 1 year.

Senior Regional Operations Manager

- Report to Operations Director, being responsible for 2 industrial units, including production, maintenance, quality, safety, environment, production planning as well as inbound and outbound logistics. These units produce 600,000 tons / year and have an annual budget of 30 MBRL. Team of 07 direct reports and 180 indirect reports.
- Leadership of asset footprint project in the region, resulting in the approval of an investment of 100MBRL for expansion of Rondonópolis plant, the signing of a contract of intention for a new plant in north of MT and the beginning of port operations in São Francisco do Sul / SC.

Regional Plant Manager

Responsible for overall Paranaguá plant, including production, maintenance, quality, safety, environment, production planning as well as inbound and outbound logistics. The plant produced 350,000 tons / year and have an annual budget of 15 MBRL. 
Under my leadership, Paranaguá site was transformed and became the most profitable and efficient plant in Yara Brazil that it was also recognised internationally byt the firm.

Plant Manager

Responsible for managing port operations, storage, production scheduling & sequencing, delivery plan fulfilment, inbound and outbound logistics (road and rail) and with annual handling of more than 1 million tons annually and a team of 20 direct reports

Logistics and Planning Coordinator

Responsible for production planning and control, productivity analysis, replenishment of raw materials and stock accuracy of 2 industrial plants

Production Planning and Control Analyst (PCP)

Approved in a competitive process for trainees with more than 12,000 applicants to become future managers of the company through a rigorous process of theoretical and practical development, in addition to getting to know various units and departments of the company.

Operations Trainee

RC SANTANA REPRESENTAÇÕES LTDA

Self-employed sales representative of construction materials for 4 companies in the states of Pernambuco, Paraíba and Alagoas.

Sales Representative

ARCLIMA ENGENHARIA LTDA

Responsible for receiving raw materials and inputs, storage, control, monitoring and distribution of supplies for the factory and works in various locations.

Logistics Supervisor

Movimento Beachwear

Responsible for receiving production batches, storage of finished products and distribution to 18 stores, as well as leading the implementation of the new ERP system.

Intern

Neoenergia Pernambuco

Responsible for all control, analysis and monitoring of the stock of wires and cables to distribute to several  contractors spread in the state.

Materials Analyst

Caixa Econômica Federal

I worked in the residential lease program supporting managers in establishing and updating the applicants' database, program presentations, among others.

RV CONSULTORIA

I worked in the analysis of stock levels, inventory process and monitoring of merchandise purchases in order to identify cost reduction opportunities in a building materials store.

Grupo Contax

I worked in the customer service department in call center with requests for repairs and severals services.

‣ I am a senior executive with 18 years of solid experience in management positions in Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement, majorly in multinational agribusiness companies but also with experience in garment and energy industries.

‣ I led an entire regional operations organisation encompassing 7 industrial sites, employing more than 600 people, and delivering 2,3 million tons of products yearly. It embraced all steps of manufacturing operations from raw materials receiving until to finished product deliveries to customers as well as HESQ, strategic planning, roadmaps, and asset footprint projects.

‣ Operational Excellence & Continuous improvement are one of my passions which made me a reference in this area. I designed and managed Lean-based improvement programs in manufacturing, supply chain and office areas, resulting in many business process improvements in customer experience, operations efficiency, costs and lead time reduction, safety and employee’s well-being.

‣ I developed and managed inbound & outbound logistics flows, ensuring the supply of reliable and efficient imported and domestic raw material to the plants. The responsibility comprised management of discharge operations in multiples ports, in-house and third-party inventory, partnership and contract management with rail and road carriers. This supply chain management responsibility included also the regional production planning & control process (PPC) ensuring the orchestration of production plan, plant scheduling, productivity, optimization of inventory levels and sales order fulfilment.

‣ I managed operational excellence programs leading to cultural transformation through cross-functional team leadership and change management methods in several countries in Europe and Latin America. I also attended several benchmarking visits business meetings in other countries in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

‣ I am moved to create impact, transform people and areas, leaving a remarkable legacy to the business.

Qualifications:
Operations | Operational Excellence | Leadership | Plant Management | Manufacturing | Continuous Improvement | Kaizen | Supply Chain Management | Inventory Management | Logistics | Change Management | Lean | Vale Stream | Cost Reduction | Productivity | Safety | Quality management | 5S | Projects | Performance Management | Program Management | Six Sigma | Process Improvement | Analytical skills | Cross-functional Team Leadership

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