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SÉRGIO VITORINO

SÉRGIO VITORINO

Panama City,Panama

Summary

Business professional with extensive leadership experience and track record of driving operational excellence. Known for fostering collaborative team environments and delivering consistent results. Proficient in strategic planning and change management, with focus on adaptability and reliability.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Leader Sleep & Respiratory Care (S&RC) LATAM

Philips SEM SA
05.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: Royal Philips, EURONEXT, NYSE – Revenue EUR 19.4B
  • Crisis management leader for UNO LATAM, with a Recall completeness of about 98%
  • Leveraged business opportunities during CV-19 towards record LATAM revenues and gross margin
  • AOP over achievements YoY (34% above 2023 AOP)
  • Customer NPS > 85% for the 3rd consecutive year
  • Led a complete business verticalization in LATAM enabled by a License to Operate model
  • Directed the Sales, Marketing, Clinical and Service into a 3-year strategy set-up to a significant market share recovery
  • Led and directed the setting up and execution of a LATAM Reputation Campaign to position Philips brand among a network of medical and non-medical KOL’s/DOL’s, customers and partners, and end users (patients)
  • Carried out a LATAM Commercial Excellence Program (Resilience Return Program) w/ double digit growth
  • Oversaw and directed business transformation projects (e.g

Sleep Pharmacy new Go-to-Market, E-commerce channels)

  • People’s development obsession while building resilient teams: introduced and executed a successful people’s development plan based on meritocracy while growing a talent pool of collaborators
  • Royal Philips, EURONEXT, NYSE – Revenue EUR 19.4B
  • Drives the overall organizational performance (OIT, Sales, Margin and Operational Excellence)
  • Leads Sales, Clinical and Product Services and Marketing to jointly engage and satisfy customers’ needs
  • Develops, updates, deploys and drives the commercial strategy for commercial teams
  • Acts as the 'voice of the market' towards business groups by spotting market trends and evolutions and being engaged in the constant process of business development
  • Coach and develop direct teams
  • Mentorship of high talents/high performing individuals
  • Builds best-in-class Indirect channel management relations and optimizes these contacts for commercial leverage
  • Led Global medical device Recall in LATAM by orchestrating direct team and enabling functions towards remediation completeness with zero Regulatory and Legal issues

Strategic Business Architect EMEA/LATAM

Philips Medical Systems BV
07.2017 - 04.2020
  • Company Overview: Philips Medical Systems BV, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • Key contributor to the overachievement of 2017-2020 Long Term Strategic Partnerships (LSP's)/Solutions sales results with exponential and double-digit growth, in LATAM
  • Co-lead the NBx/Transformation SRC project: Sleep Digitalization in Brazil to pilot phase (launched January 2020)
  • Led the successful deployment of configurable Solutions, in LATAM
  • Build, coached and mentored a team of Bid Managers, Finance Consulting and Strategic Architect in LATAM driving them into high-performing and successful sales results
  • Drove multiple experts for comprehensive solution design while orchestrating End2End, multi-year, configurable and complex LSP's/Solutions, with LATAM teams
  • Build and led C-Suite 'Co-Create' sessions (> 13 sessions)
  • Successfully developed value propositions & solution frameworks by extensively understanding customer healthcare ecosystems
  • Developed business solutions by connecting with diverse experts, inside and outside the organization and by using customer insights
  • Led the integration of other functions/staff (e.g Bid Managers) and the onboarding of Strategic Business Architect in LATAM
  • Led peer-to-peer best practices exchange by leading the development of LSP's/Solutions Proof Points

Global Business Manager – Homecare

The Linde Group
03.2013 - 06.2017
  • Company Overview: DAX30 – Revenue EUR 34B
  • Led the definition, set-up, development and implementation of the Linde Healthcare Academy for the Homecare business
  • Directed the process to launch the Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) business and the Remote Sleep Diagnosis in Colombia (revenues of 0.5MioEUR in the launch year)
  • Led the launch of a global COPD and NIV marketing campaigns (including Health Economic dossier)
  • Set-up, steered and led 2x Medical Core Team groups (COPD & NIV) which lead to new core respiratory solutions and a continuous support for growth
  • Led & conducted extensive respiratory market research that lead to market sizing, prioritizing and targets setting
  • Drove & developed the mid & long-term global strategy for the core respiratory offerings
  • Led a team of 7 indirect business and marketing reports, in a matrix organization
  • Identified and built opportunities for growth by developing and implementing new product/service offerings in existing and new markets
  • Homecare expert lead for the definition, set-up, development and implementation of Homecare Minimum Safety Requirements, in a global Team of Experts
  • Led & steered collaborative cross functional communication & cooperation with global/regional/local teams to define the areas of mid & long-term growth homecare and developed the so-called global road maps

Global Business Development Manager – Ventilation Therapy & REMEO

The Linde Group
03.2011 - 02.2013
  • Company Overview: DAX30 – Revenue EUR 34B
  • Led the revenue growth in Non-Invasive Ventilaiton in EMEA countries (>11% YoY)
  • Co-led the Homecare Product Portfolio Harmonization (PPH) achieving savings of 10MioEUR in EMEA countries
  • Led and developed the Ventilation product & service offering (from the start-up phase to implementation)
  • Co-lead the REMEO team to successfully launch new solutions in new geographies/countries
  • Developed Ventilation mid & long-term global strategies
  • Directed marketing strategies, actions and proper financial planning for the Ventilation product & service offerings
  • Led the research and implementation of existing and new Ventilation product and service offerings, including new business models across the globe
  • Led & drive Marketing Communications in developing and implementing homecare marketing campaigns for International scientific events/symposia
  • Together with Information Systems carried out the set-up of new Telehealth Solutions in Homecare services

Global Business Development Manager - Six Sigma & Cluster Headache

The Linde Group
04.2009 - 02.2011
  • Company Overview: DAX30 – Revenue EUR 34B
  • Led Global Revenues increase by 29% and EBIT growth of 15% with Cluster Headache service offerings
  • Led the set-up and implementation of a global Cluster Headache marketing campaign
  • Led the search, analysis and incorporation of new product, service and business models based upon depth customer knowledge in the Cluster Headache segment
  • Developed and implemented the global Cluster Headache strategy
  • Drove new product, service and business models into superior commercialization and transferred them to countries globally
  • Monitored monthly countries performance of existing service offerings through selected KPI’s while successfully maximized sales & EBIT
  • Led an internal expert team with the basis of assuring constant product and service development and innovation
  • Led and drove an external team of medical stakeholders (neurologists, pain specialists, patient associations) to successfully identify customers’ needs

Homecare Business Development & Respiratory Clinical Specialist

Linde Sogas
06.2004 - 03.2009
  • Co-owned Homecare P&L with Revenues increase from 2.2MioEUR to 10.6MioEUR (2004-2009)
  • Led the launch of the Cluster Headache service offerings, in Portugal
  • Led the introduction of the Six Sigma methodology in Homecare, in Portugal
  • Led the clinical supervision of care of the homecare team w/ 7 direct reports
  • Led the definition, development and implementation of all Homecare service clinical and operating procedures
  • Collaborated in the development and implementation of the mid & long-term homecare strategy
  • Built and led a local team to define and implement selected Key Performance Indicators for the Cluster Headache offering and Six Sigma methodology
  • Led the set-up and implementation of Six Sigma program in the commercial homecare team
  • Led a regional team of clinical specialists responsible for the screening, analysis and incorporation of new product and service offerings
  • Co-lead the set-up, development and execution of Homecare marketing campaigns
  • Promoted homecare product and service offerings directly to physicians ensuring a sustainable patient growth
  • Collaborated in the Portuguese National Homecare tender submission being the lead in the definition of the clinical/technical services and medical devices

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics
Lisbon, Portugal
01-2009

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Catolica Portuguese University
Lisbon, Portugal
03-2000

Skills

  • Organizational leadership
  • Operations management
  • People Development
  • Stakeholder management
  • Continuous improvement
  • Business development
  • Marketing strategy
  • Performance management
  • Crisis management
  • Analytical thinking
  • Decision-making
  • Cross-functional team leadership

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Portuguese
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Upper intermediate (B2)
French
Elementary (A2)

Certification

  • Six Sigma: Black Belt License - 2012
  • Lean Methodologies License - 2017
  • C-Cuite Methodologies License - 2018

Work Availability

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Accomplishments

  • Achieved Customer NPS >85% by delivering ultimate customer experience
  • Achieved double digit sales growth YoY by introducing a 3 year sales, Marketing, Clinical and Service Excellence Program
  • Led and resolved product recall through orchestrating a multi-stakeholder group (internal/external) towards remediation
  • Built and developed a core team of individuals transforming them into a high performing team

Software

Office 365

Quote

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.
Steve Jobs

Timeline

Business Leader Sleep & Respiratory Care (S&RC) LATAM

Philips SEM SA
05.2020 - Current

Strategic Business Architect EMEA/LATAM

Philips Medical Systems BV
07.2017 - 04.2020

Global Business Manager – Homecare

The Linde Group
03.2013 - 06.2017

Global Business Development Manager – Ventilation Therapy & REMEO

The Linde Group
03.2011 - 02.2013

Global Business Development Manager - Six Sigma & Cluster Headache

The Linde Group
04.2009 - 02.2011

Homecare Business Development & Respiratory Clinical Specialist

Linde Sogas
06.2004 - 03.2009

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Catolica Lisbon School of Business & Economics

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Catolica Portuguese University
SÉRGIO VITORINO