
Olaya GL
@olayagl
I build growth strategies, brands, and go-to-market launches for consumer product portfolios.
What I'm looking for
Business & Marketing Strategist with 13+ years of experience scaling product portfolios, leading end-to-end Go-To-Market strategies, and managing P&L performance within global organizations. Skilled in developing data-driven brand activations and unifying Marketing, Sales, and Finance to deliver sustainable commercial growth.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
-Leveraged consumer insights and community-driven research to inform strategic decision-making, product positioning and innovation development.
-Directed go-to-market strategies for new sub lines, coordinating cross-functional teams across Marketing, Sales, Category Planning and Finance to deliver business objectives.
-Defined and executed the growth strategy for the Seasonal portfolio, aligning b
-Led category growth planning, portfolio optimization and innovation initiatives, balancing short-term commercial objectives with long-term brand development.
-Spearheaded 360° marketing and media strategies, executing integrated digital campaigns, media plans, and local activations to boost brand equity.
-Developed integrated business and marketing strategies based on consumer insights, market tr
-Spearheaded Trident’s 360° "60 Minutes" campaign, driving 100% local creative strategy, asset development, and multi-channel TV and digital execution.
-Designed and executed digital media plans and local activations to strengthen long-term brand equity and consumer engagement.
-Owned category P&L tracking, portfolio strategy, and revenue growth initiatives to optimize brand profitability.
-Led NP
-Drove commercial strategy across Retail and IC channels, defining optimal portfolio assortment, promo plans, and custom product bundling.
-Developed high-impact customer selling stories and trade presenters to empower the sales force and improve channel execution.
-Coordinated and managed the commercial setup for major Retail events and high-impact In-Store Activations to drive conversion at the
-Month-end closing process and reporting to Metro Group analyzing main KPIs.
-Financial monthly and yearly forecast, analyzing main deviations. 3 years plan strategy (P&L, balance and financial notes)
-Monthly reports and presentations for the Board and Directors.
-Budget consolidation, ensuring deadlines and collaborating with all departments.
-Building the financials for new product launchings
-Annual Plan process. Ensure targets across Cluster, FP&A teams, Marketing and Commercial teams.
-P&L Analysis anticipating Risks and analyzing Opportunities to deliver financial targets.
- Advertising and promos budget ownership
-Analyze financial statements (Balance Sheet, Income Statement P&L).
-Monitor Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable activity and ensure that AP invoicing are posted for month end utilizing SAP.
- Support Annual Audit (Preparation of Official Books and Annual Accounts using Legalia).
-Transfer price analysis
- USGaaP and Local GaaP Accounting analysis.
Financial Planning Analyst Gum & Candy Iberia
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015 (1 year 5 months)
-Give support to business decisions trough an accurate planning of financial statements and a deep analysis of variances between actual data and different scenarios. Variances drivers: Volume, product mix, pricing, product cost and advertising and promotion expenses.
-Build financials to support the decision of launching new products, discontinue them and promotional activities.
- Analysis of cust
-Responsible of deep market results understanding through Nielsen analysis.
-Support marketing strategies to increase sales and coordinating relations with communication agencies.
-Decomplexity projects in order to simplify and clean up our Portfolio.
-Packaging change & supervision of the Final Artworks
-Social Media (Website & Newsletter) responsible
-Queried and Interpreted internal sales.
-Monitoring and control of the advertising in different newspapers.
-Data base building and direct support to the Marketing Director.
-Organized different events and responsible of confirmation and attendance.
Participación como becaria en el departamento de Idiomas de IE University
Sep 2010 - Jun 2011 (9 months)
Support and assistance to exchange students helping them translating their final papers and integrating them in the Spanish culture.
Participación como becaria en el departamento de admisiones de IE University
Sep 2009 - Jun 2011 (1 year 9 months)
-Participated in the “Jornadas Orientativas in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain” promoting my University.
-Represented IE University in AULA, (International Lounge of the Student and of the Educational Offer) in which I promoted my University to different representatives from the higher education community.
-Participated and collaborated with the university in the activities of marketing, promotion and i
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Southern California
USC Marshall Business School, Marketing and Communication
2012 - 2013
IE Business School
Graduado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas, Marketing
2009 - 2013
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