Juan Cruz Valdez Rojas
General Partner at iThink VC
Greater Buenos Aires
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & General Partner
2021 - Current
Board Member
2024
Member
2019
Paraguay & Bolivia Country Lead
2019 - 2020
Women Network Leader LAS (Inclusion and Diversity)
2017 - 2020
Lead a cross-functional diverse team to promote an inclusive and diverse culture within our workplace in Latin America South, with focus on gender diversity (women)
Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay Lead
2016 - 2019
Responsible for Monsanto’s businesses in Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. Team of 80 people. • Increased EBT 3x in 2 ½ years • Led the team that consolidated Soybean Biotech (Intacta) business, achieving 76% GP growth while increasing model integrity through effective stakeholder management. • Recovered profitability and increased MS in Corn and CP businesses, within complex distribution contract restrictions • Developed mid-management line strengthening succession plan, increasing women leaders from 0% to 30%. Received award #2 GPTW in Paraguay for 5 consecutive years
Latin America South Crop Protection Manufacturing Lead
2014 - 2016
Responsible for chemical manufacturing plant in Zarate, Bs As, Argentina, leading a team of 250 people (union and non-union employees). • Led operations within an extremely tough union conflict, interacting with Government, media, other companies’ leaders and union leaders • Led operations throughout a severe business downturn, including organizational structure reduction.
Latin America South Procurement Lead
2012 - 2014
Responsible for all Procurement and Global Trade operations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay (1+ billion USD spend), group of approx. 50 people. • Launched Procurement transformation in LAS, implementing Strategic Sourcing and Category Management model • Built new team • Achieved 15M$+ savings within highly inflationary context.
Monsanto is an agriculture company that offers agricultural products.
Global MRO Category Manager
2007 - 2012
Responsible for global negotiation of production tools, 200 MUSD spend. -Developed category purchasing strategy -Sourced Asia to develop low-cost countries -Developed Strategic Alliances within key categories.
Procurement coordinator
2004 - 2007
-Responsible for a group of 7 buyers
Buyer
2002 - 2004
Trade Marketing Analyst
2002 - 2002
Chocolate Category Low price segment strategy improvement Retail strategy improvement
Mondelez International is a food and beverage company that sells biscuits, chocolates, gums, and candies.
Raised $1,500,000,000.00.
Operations Engineer
1999 - 2001
-ISO 9000 implementation. -Balanced Scorecard implementation
Philip Morris International is a tobacco company that sells and manufactures cigarettes.
Raised $1,100,000,000.00.