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Gabriel A.

Go-To-Market Head (Team Lead)

Colombia3+ years experienceAvailable in 2 weeks$11,000/mo

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Notable Highlight

Reengineered distributor business model, saving USD $340K while driving +12% projected sales growth through optimized pricing, promotions, and cross-channel commercial strategies.

Experience Summary

Gabriel is a Commercial Strategy and Revenue Growth Management leader with over three years of progressive experience at APA, a Colombian consumer goods company. He currently serves as Go-to-Market Head, having previously held the role of Business Intelligence Lead, with expertise centered on commercial strategy, analytics, and cross-functional business impact. He demonstrated strength across revenue growth and commercial decision-making, including pricing strategy, promotional planning, P&L management, channel optimization, distributor performance analysis, sales forecasting, financial modeling, dashboard development, and data-driven decision-making. His work spanned close collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Logistics, and Supply Chain stakeholders. In a SKU portfolio analysis, G. identified that approximately 40% of 635 SKUs delivered less than 10% of sales while contributing more than 70% of negative bottom-line impact. This analysis led to the deprioritization of roughly 190 underperforming SKUs and contributed to an approximately 3-point improvement in the company's bottom line while simplifying the SNOP process. He also built a distributor P&L dashboard initiative covering 36 distributors. He standardized P&L reporting, centralized sell-in, sell-out, sales, and inventory data, and created a dashboard to support leadership decision-making on distributor profitability and long-term channel partnerships. The solution was initially built using SQL, Python, and HTML and is being migrated into Power BI. G. demonstrated proficiency in translating complex analytical findings into business-facing recommendations. He leverages dashboards, bottom-line framing, and visual tools such as waterfall charts to help non-technical stakeholders understand commercial impact. He also supported go-to-market planning for multiple product innovations. His technical toolkit includes Power BI, SQL, Python, HTML, BigQuery, and AI-enabled workflows (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) to accelerate coding, reporting, and operational productivity. Academically, he holds degrees in Economics and Business Administration and is currently pursuing an MBA in Project Management and Digital Transformation.

Key Achievements

Reengineered Alpina's distributor business model as a Go-To-Market Analyst, generating USD $340K in savings through discount strategy optimization. As Business Intelligence Coordinator, improved sales quota accuracy from 95% to 98% and identified USD $500K in savings opportunities via automated P&L tracking tools covering USD $14.7M in monthly sales. As Go-To-Market Head, co-led commercial strategies across channels representing over USD $50M in monthly sales, delivering a projected +12% sales growth with only a +5% increase in operational costs.

Skills

Revenue Growth ManagementPricing StrategyPromotional PlanningP&L ManagementCommercial StrategyFinancial ModelingDemand PlanningPower BIAdvanced ExcelData AnalysisStata SoftwareBusiness Transformation

Work Experience

Go-To-Market Head (Team Lead)

APASASB · Bogotá, Colombia · Nov 2025 - Present

  • Co-lead the design and execution of commercial strategies across all sales channels representing over USD $50 million in monthly sales.
  • Own Revenue Growth Management (RGM) initiatives for the traditional channel, leading pricing strategy, promotional mechanics, and price architecture to maximize revenue and profitability.
  • Manage initiatives for the digitalization of the traditional channel, impacting over 55% of company sales, including automation of delivery routes, electronic payments, and salesforce digitization.
  • Develop and manage distributor P&L frameworks, ensuring at least 1% profitability while maintaining cost efficiency and competitive compensation structures.
  • Design and execute cross-channel commercial strategies optimizing product mix, pricing, and trade investment, delivering projected +12% sales growth with only +5% increase in operational costs.
  • Lead initiatives to double foodservice channel sales through tailored service models and cost-efficient structures across customer segments.
  • Lead commercial analytics and forecasting initiatives, improving sales quota accuracy from 95% to 98% and enabling mid-term demand planning aligned with revenue and profitability targets.
  • Design incentive and performance models aligned with commercial objectives, ensuring 100% payout accuracy while improving salesforce productivity and ROI visibility.
  • Build integrated dashboards (Power BI) tracking KPIs, P&L performance, and ROI of commercial initiatives, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making for senior leadership.
  • Reengineer the distributor business model, saving USD $340K through optimization of discount strategy and commercial investment efficiency.
  • Manage transition of USD $1.5M in sales from direct to distributor channels while maintaining profitability and service levels.

Business Intelligence Coordinator

APASASB · Bogotá, Colombia · Jan 2024 - Oct 2025

  • Lead commercial analytics and forecasting initiatives, improving sales quota accuracy from 95% to 98% and enabling mid-term demand planning aligned with revenue and profitability targets.
  • Design incentive and performance models aligned with commercial objectives, ensuring 100% payout accuracy while improving salesforce productivity and ROI visibility.
  • Build integrated dashboards (Power BI) tracking KPIs, P&L performance, and ROI of commercial initiatives, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making for senior leadership.

Go-To-Market Analyst

APASASB · Bogotá, Colombia · Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Reengineer the distributor business model, saving USD $340K through optimization of discount strategy and commercial investment efficiency.
  • Manage transition of USD $1.5M in sales from direct to distributor channels while maintaining profitability and service levels.

Go-To-Market BPO

APASASB · Bogotá, Colombia · Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

  • Develop automated P&L tracking and commercial performance monitoring tools for USD $14.7M monthly sales, identifying USD $500K in savings opportunities.

Commercial Financial BP Intern

APASASB · Bogotá, Colombia · Jul 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Manage USD $500K in tactical resources and sales incentives for the drugstore channel, aligning investment with channel profitability.

Assistant Professor

UDLA · Bogotá, Colombia · Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Support instruction and academic planning for undergraduate economics courses; mentor students in applied problem-solving and analytical thinking.

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