Gustavo Monsores

Led innovation initiatives and new product development aligned with market strategies and corporate sustainability goals. Managed a US$ 5M cross-functional project portfolio as PMO, ensuring governance, on-time delivery, and resource planning. Acted as the primary liaison between technical teams and senior leadership, strengthening communication and strategic alignment. Directed a multidisciplinary team, driving alignment meetings, activity prioritization, training, and talent development. Facilitated strategic workshops, including initiatives focused on cost reduction in product manufacturing, delivering measurable operational efficiencies. Standardized project management methodologies and tools, formalizing processes and enabling accurate resource forecasting in the short, medium, and long term. This transformation positioned the department as a global benchmark in project governance. Served as acting R&D Manager for nearly six months, leading strategic decision-making and sustaining high performance. Experienced in leadership, project governance, process standardization, and business strategy execution.

• Unique member of the global team for B2B On-Road Prorojects in South America with direct reporting to Worldwide Heads based in France and Thailand, managing the product plan to exceed customer expectations, meet the group's strategic ambitions and generate value. • Developed over 45 new offers, involving more than R$ 60 million, from opportunity study to product specification according to customer needs (using Design Thinking approach), value proposition elaboration, providing support content such as Reasons to Believe, product argumentation, and relevant training materials, as well as project management in the MKT/Commerce perimeter. These offerings represent more than 60% of the AMS Michelin product mix, including the best-selling tire by Michelin worldwide and the most advanced technology and most disruptive offer proposition in two decades, creating a synergy offer of tire + service with a 9.2% reduction in fuel consumption compared to premium market competitors, besides creating a methodology to prove the benefit for any customer worldwide. • Key achievements: Michelin Outstanding Award in 2021; Maintenance of market leadership in Brand Power Score and market share.

• Responsible for developing new products for passenger vehicles, mainly OEM projects, from RFI/Q response to model definition, ensuring tire quality and productivity, including homologation process, and management and planning of regulatory tests, machines, and vehicles. • Leader and technical representative of Michelin for major automakers in AMS events, forums, and national and global projects, totaling over 18 tire projects, including Volkswagen Amarok, Honda HRV, Ford Ecosport, GM S10 and Cobalt, and Hyundai HB20, focusing mainly on Rolling Resistance, Handling, and Noise.

• Project Manager for Process and Equipment Improvement, aiming to increase sector productivity, quality, and safety, including coordination of third-party companies for the same purpose and responsible for major rolling mill refurbishments. • Responsible for evaluating equipment and tools for safety and ergonomics improvement, participating in accident analysis, ergonomic analysis, process analysis, development of operational standards etc.

• Strategic job position to be one of the leaders and executive of the group. • Process Improvement Engineer, aiming to increase process productivity and quality. • Project coordination using MASP methodology and development of 2D and 3D tool and component drawings using AutoCAD and SolidWorks.

• Coordinator of development of machine, tool, product, and metal structure projects through needs analysis, development of 2D and 3D part and machine drawings, material specification, coordination, and cross-functional leadership of employees from the beginning of part fabrication to final assembly testing.

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving, assisting in project development mainly focusing on operator safety. • Statistical control of oil consumption for the cold strip mill #3 lubrication plan.

2007 (postponed due to job changes, Area: Machine and Robot Projects