Andres' CV
Andres Villanueva
Strategy Consultant | Transformation Initiatives
Profile summary
Strategic Strategy Consultant with 4 years shaping transformation initiatives and operating model design across industrial and energy sectors. Trilingual in Spanish, English, and German, bringing cross-cultural expertise to complex advisory engagements and multi-site organizational projects. Known for aligning stakeholders, driving performance metrics, and delivering cost reduction results in fast-paced environments. Committed to shaping robust governance frameworks and identifying follow-on business opportunities for clients.
Career highlights
Cost Reduction: Drove workforce and outsourcing optimization initiatives that delivered a 30% cost reduction in 2023 at Seur S.A.
Operating Model Design: Designed operating models and identified follow-on business opportunities during advisory engagements at Advisory Experts.
Workforce Assessment: Assessed workforce effectiveness across 1,500+ FTEs during an organizational performance review at an oil and gas refinery.
Strategic Planning: Contributed to strategic plans for top-tier European satellite operators covering growth initiatives while managing project deliverables.
Key skills
Professional experience
Manages strategy and transformation initiatives across industrial and energy sectors while overseeing teams of up to 5 people. Coordinates operating model design, governance frameworks, and client advisory deliverables for complex multi-site organizations through 2025.
- Designs operating models and identifies follow-on business opportunities during advisory engagements.
- Facilitates client workshops and shapes recommendations focused on automation priorities.
- Contributes to strategic plans for European satellite operators covering growth initiatives.
- Aligns IT, operations, and procurement stakeholders during healthcare ERP transformation projects.
Delivered strategic advisory engagements for clients across industrial sectors, coordinating analyses of workforce performance, national waste operations, and digital maturity to evaluate operational models and infrastructure requirements.
- Assessed workforce effectiveness across 1,500+ FTEs during an organizational performance review at an oil and gas refinery.
- Supported the redesign and implementation of a national waste management system with a new recycling operating model.
- Evaluated digital maturity and automation potential across rail maintenance operator processes to identify transformation opportunities.
Evaluated national customer service operations within logistics, establishing performance metrics and shaping outsourcing workflows.
- Defined operational key performance indicators for national customer service teams.
- Drove workforce and outsourcing optimization initiatives that delivered a 30% cost reduction in 2023.
Served under executive leadership within the CEO office during 2021, overseeing administrative workflows, executive documentation, and cross-departmental internal communications.
- Drafted official correspondence and internal presentation materials for executive review.
- Organized schedules, travel arrangements, and meetings for the chief executive officer.
- Directed community outreach programs to increase audience participation.
- Managed sustainability projects in alignment with organizational standards.
- Contributed to collaborative community sessions focused on global network activities.
Master’s in European Union and China – Commerce & geopolitics.
Education
Investment Banking | Madrid, Spain.
- Ranked among the top 3 in class.
Industrial Engineering | Madrid, Spain
- Thesis: “Entrepreneurship and financing. Success stories in Aragón”. Grade: Outstanding.
Industrial Engineering | Zaragoza, Spain.
- Erasmus: Hochschule Esslingen. Stuttgart, Germany.
- Thesis: “Criteria and requirements for the use of robots in German SMEs”. Grade: Outstanding.
Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (I.E.B). Madrid, Spain.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Madrid, Spain
Thesis: “Criteria and requirements for the use of robots in German SMEs”. Grade: Outstanding. Universidad de Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain.
Languages
Spanish · Native
English · C1
German · A2