Rodrigo Gutierrez

- Finance Business Partner for manufacturing operations, providing financial insights to support decisions impacting margin, cost structure, service level, and production priorities. - Lead plant performance analysis, translating operational results into forward‑looking financial implications for management decision‑making. - Support CAPEX planning, governance, and ROI evaluation, ensuring alignment between operational investments and business objectives. - Drive standardization of financial processes and reporting, improving cost visibility and comparability across manufacturing activities. - Collaborate cross‑functionally with Production, Engineering, and Supply Chain to evaluate trade‑offs between efficiency, capacity, and financial performance.

- Member of a strategic operations finance team focused on centralizing, automating, and standardizing plant controlling and cost management processes across the manufacturing network. - Led the redesign of key finance‑operations activities to improve decision support, financial governance, and operational efficiency at scale. - Acted as a bridge between manufacturing sites and central finance, enabling consistent performance management and data‑driven decisions. - Supported the deployment of best practices across multiple plants, strengthening financial discipline and operational comparability.

- Finance Business Partner for cocoa manufacturing operations, supporting cost, margin, and profitability decisions across the end‑to‑end cocoa value chain, from raw material sourcing to finished and by‑product transformation. - Provided financial insights to evaluate operational trade‑offs related to yield, efficiency, capacity utilization, and product mix, directly impacting manufacturing margin. - Led cost management and performance analysis initiatives, identifying optimization opportunities that improved production profitability and cost structure. - Partnered with Production, Quality, Supply Chain, and Engineering teams to align financial objectives with operational execution, ensuring sustainable and compliant manufacturing performance. - Coordinated cross‑functional teams to support decision‑making under food safety, quality, and regulatory standards, balancing operational constraints with financial outcomes. - Enhanced cost visibility and governance across cocoa operations, strengthening decision support for plant management and regional stakeholders.

- Led the standardization and implementation of capitalization and asset management frameworks, improving governance, cost discipline, and decision consistency across multiple manufacturing plants. - Provided financial leadership for capital investment projects, developing detailed business cases, ROI evaluations, and budget follow‑up to ensure alignment with operational priorities and profitability objectives. - Acted as finance partner for operations and engineering teams, supporting investment decisions that balanced capacity, efficiency, compliance, and financial returns. - Strengthened CAPEX governance and fixed asset controls, enhancing visibility, accountability, and financial planning accuracy. - Collaborated with cross‑functional stakeholders and delivered training sessions on CAPEX management and financial best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and value‑focused investment decisions.