Gabriel Rosas
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal member since February 20, 2025
Gabriel is a highly accomplished leader and strategic business professional with over 12 years of experience driving global organizations' innovation, transformation, and operational excellence. With a strong foundation in strategic operations, he has consistently leveraged data, technology, and lean methodologies to drive measurable results, optimize processes, and create significant value. Gabriel has worked for leading brands such as McDonald's, Kimberly-Clark, MARS Incorporated, and FMC Inc.
Career Highlights
Case Studies
Operational Performance Measurment Transformation
Expertise
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean
- Operational Excellence
- Operations
- Process Design
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Strategy
Work Experience
Director of Operations Excellence and Global Technology
McDonalds Corporation
- Directed product and process investments of $10 million by developing data-driven strategies to uncover gaps and risks. I ideated solutions with sustained implementation plans.
- Implemented an end-to-end financial operation optimization project, yielding a 30% improvement in operational efficiency, improving data accuracy, and identifying over $10 million in saving opportunities.
- Deployed a $2 million Agile strategy across a team of 300+ associates, resulting in a 100% adoption rate and optimized processes and ways of working.
Senior Strategy and Business Operations Consultant
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Acted as the operational excellence expert in aiding the business unit president to identify operating model discrepancies and implement solutions to maximize process outputs.
- Improved the innovation management framework through optimization of portfolio management technology and resources, resulting in over $500,000 in hard savings.
- Led a team of both technology and operations associates to design and deliver a KPI scorecard Power BI tool that yielded a 60% process efficiency improvement.
Global Senior Manager - Process Optimization and Resource Planning
Mars
- Stood up and streamlined a transformative HR system integrated operating model consisting of over 26 new processes across a global team of over 200 associates.
- Created and executed a two-year training and capability roadmap strategy that enabled a 20% learning curve improvement across a global organization.
- Established and end-to-end S&OP demand planning process through a heavy focus on automation and technology integration, resulting in $300,000 in annual savings.
Regional Lean Continuous Improvement Manager - Organizational Effectiveness PMO
Mars
- Performed as a head value creation program manager responsible for the delivery of an annual savings pipeline of $65+ million for the North American region.
- Led a portfolio management digital transformation project across the organization to improve reporting effectiveness, yielding a 50% efficiency improvement across commercial operations.
- Developed and executed a Power BI KPI digital transformation project to streamline twenty operating work streams into one single source of data truth.
Industrial Engineer
Mars
- Functioned as an internal consultant identifying process inefficiencies and providing cost savings solutions, yielding $345,000 in site savings.
- Owned, managed, and streamlined the site KPI performance process through the digital integration of twelve work streams into a Tableau scorecard.
- Performed as a head portfolio manager for site activities related to R&D, manufacturing transformation, and capital investments, yielding $5 million—$15 million in continuous improvement savings.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Texas A&M University - College Station, TX, USA
Certifications
Green Belt
MARS Incorprated
Skills
Finance
Budgeting, Operational Finance, CFO, Financial Modeling
Output Software
Microsoft PowerPoint, Jira, SharePoint, Microsoft Outlook, Smartsheet
Other
Microsoft, Excel 365, Visio, Process Design, Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, Operations, Chief of Staff, Strategy, Business Operations, Strategic Planning, Operational Excellence, Center of Excellence (CoE), Planning, Operating Models, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), Annual Planning, Optimization, Business Process Optimization, Supply Chain, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Strategic Planning & Execution, Process Improvement, COO, Business Strategy, Procurement, Career Coaching, Business Process Improvement (BPI), Organizational Strategy & Design, Process Flows, Change Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Training & Training Content Development, Process Mapping, Standard Operating Procedures Development, Service-level Agreements (SLAs), Finance Transformation, Organizational Structure, Cost Cutting (Cost-out), Business Analysis, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain Optimization, Manufacturing, Miro, Organizational Design, Human Resources (HR), Growth Strategy, Revenue Analysis, Company Strategy, Financials, CTO, SAP, Confluence, Communication, Supply & Demand, Growth, Finance, Performance Analysis, Budget Modeling, Microsoft Power BI, Brand Marketing, Innovation, PMO, Project Management, Industrial Engineering, Process Optimization
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