Katherine Navarro

About Katherine Navarro

Multicultural Management professional with experience leading innovation – generating…

Experience

1. Regional Innovation for Latin America and the Caribbean

   Subway

   Jan 2017 — Present

   Work on the culinary development of concepts, product prototypes, formulas, and commercialized consumer connected products that support menu and brand strategies. Work with Supply Chain and vendor networks to ensure a full funnel of ingredients, platforms, products to work with, balancing cost efficiency with ingredient quality, working in partnership with internal cross-functional teams and proactively translating conceptual ideas into compelling new or improved menu items for the Subway brand.• Works with leadership to deploy and refine the Subway menu vision, rooted in a strong understanding of the brand, consumers, markets, and broader industry; converts vision into a pipeline of compelling concepts and products.• Supports on the planning, execution, and quality assurance of CLT\'s, taste tests, internal and external product showings, and photo shoots as necessary.• Provides culinary input to cross-functional teams throughout the innovation and marketing creation stages of bringing menu items to market.• Collaborates with Operations Department to ensure conceptual products can be translated consistently with operational excellence.• Ensures products are developed within specified cost parameters to ensure achievement of our business targets (traffic, profit, menu mix and sales), while delivering on quality experience

Education

• Universidad del Pacífico (PE)

  Busniess Administration

  1994 — 1997

• Asociacion Cultural Peruano Britanico Lima - Peru

  English

  1993 — 1997

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Spanish
• Critical Thinking
• Research and Development
• Creative Problem Solving
• Administrative Assistants
• Teamwork
• Microsoft Excel
• Outlook
• Sales Management
• Public Relations
• Microsoft Word
• Powerpoint
• Operational Efficiency
• Leadership
• Customer Service
• Project Management
• Operations
• Real Estate License