Sergio Paz

Background

About Sergio Paz

I’m a senior executive with over 22 years of experience leading Quality, R&D, and Innovation across Latin America, driving business transformation through excellence, digitalization, and consumer-centric strategies. Throughout my career, I’ve demonstrated strategic leadership by leading multicultural teams in complex environments, building strong partnerships across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing, and R&D to elevate quality from a compliance role to a strategic business enabler. I specialize in delivering measurable results — including a 44% reduction in deviations, €1MM+ in cost savings, and 49% improvement in product superiority KPIs and expanding the original scope by 90%. My leadership style is hands-on, purpose-driven, and focused on empowering teams to co-create impactful solutions that enhance consumer experience and brand equity. I excel in change management, operational excellence, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring that quality systems are robust and aligned with business objectives. Passionate about transformation, innovation, and continuous improvement, I’m now looking to expand my impact in new technologies and market that combine strategic leadership, change management, operational excellence, and product management. COMPETENCE/STRENGTHS: • Team and Strategic Leadership • Change Catalyst and End to End focus • Strategic vision, thinking, planning and execution • Ability to influence and manage actively multifunctional interfaces, areas and stakeholders. • World class leader for big teams across multiples geographies/countries and cultures • Strong knowledge of Quality Systems and WCM/TPM system • Purpose-driven leader who empowers and develops my team to achieve excellence • Cross-functional Collaboration • Risk Management ACHIEVEMENTS: • Designed and Executed Product Integrity Program and Superior Quality product program • Established competitor monitoring program • Transformation of Quality Culture beyond product compliance • Designed and implemented Superior Supplier Program (Building Partnerships) • Quality Digitalization agenda 100% implemented in key factories • Led Market incident crisis with minimum company impact • Improved all quality metrics including new superior product KPI • Identify and execute many saving projects, linking with WCM/TPM tools.