Agnaldo Santos
Technical Innovation Executive | Strategic Program Manager | Cross Cultural Leadership | High Performance Team Building | Product Development | Innovation Leadership
- Role
- Vice President - Product Platform Leader - North America at TK Elevator
- Location
- Marietta, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Agnaldo Santos
Senior Executive, with more than 38 years’ experience, working for global companies, with extensive management experience in R&D operations, and new technologies implementation. Responsible for development and release of several improvement projects in record time and major positive business impact (+ USD 150 Mio – first year). Successful implementation of strategic turnovers in the company in different countries, resulting in 25% performance increase, 33% cost reduction, including employee satisfaction growing from 54% to 89%. Strong co-creation mindset, working with big universities in innovation, shortening technology development by 4 years, and bringing bottom-line UDS 40 Mio savings. Well-developed negotiation skills, with accurate sense for strategic agreements, which grants differentiated capacity for conflicts solving and results achievement. Leader coach profile oriented, focused on team development assuring autonomy and strong soft skills. Professional with accurate cultural sensitivity, acquired during extensive leadership with several international sites. The set of experiences and qualifications result in a superior ability to obtain solid results with long term stability.I put myself available to new connections, and experiences exchange, which can add value to continuous improvement and career development.
Experience
Vice President - Product Platform Leader - North America
Mar 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US
Responsible for managing product platform implementations, from concept to full launching, across entire value chain. Interacting with local and global engineering, supply chain, and field organization. Granting successful launching of innovative products, in alignment with business objectives and customers\' expectations.
Education
IMD
Business Program (HPL) High Performance Leadership, Business Administration and Management, General
Rutgers University - Camden
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Strategic management
2025
Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo
Industrial Designer - Product Project Specialist, Mechanical and Mechanisms development / Plastics and ergonomics
1988 — 1992
BSP - Business School São Paulo
Business Management - Compact, Business Administration and Management, General
2009 — 2009
USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Master, Product Design / Building Interface / Architecture / User Interface
2006 — 2008
IMD
AHPL - Advance High Performance Leadership
2013 — 2013
IMD
Specialist - Orchestrating Winning Performance Program, Business Administration, Management and Operations
2010 — 2010
Skills
- Strategy
- Team Building
- Team Leadership
- Technical Product Development
- Cross-Platform Development
- Process Improvement
- Change Management
- Gestão Do Ciclo De Vida Do Produto
- Planejamento Estratégico
- Microsoft Project
- Indústria Manufatureira
- Gestão
- Melhoria De Processos
- Gestão Operacional
- Engenharia
- Sap
- Gestão Da Mudanças
- Melhoria Contínua
- Continuous Improvement
- Estratégia
- Liderança De Equipe
- Manufacturing
- Desenvolvimento De Produtos
- Formação De Equipes
- Gestão De Projetos
- Product Development
- Engineering
- Project Management
- Planejamento De Projetos
- Melhoria De Processos Empresariais
- Operations Management
- Project Planning
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