Jordi Clotas

• Managed budgets for various departmental initiatives.
• Implemented training programs for enhanced employee skills.
• Coordinated recruitment efforts to attract top talent.
• Conducted performance evaluations to identify areas for employee growth.
• Controlled costs to keep business operating within budget and increase profits.
• Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
• Reduced operational costs through comprehensive process improvement initiatives and resource management.
• Achieved significant cost savings by renegotiating contracts with key vendors, without compromising service quality.
• Negotiated favorable terms with suppliers, cutting operational costs while maintaining quality of service.
• Identified and communicated customer needs to supply chain capacity and quality teams.

Transport Responsible- Ice Cream and Frozen Foods) for Frigo & Frudesa (Unilever Foods Spain, SA). 2000-2003.

Skills and competences: Organization of Secondary Transport Routes + International Transport and Transport procurement for IC/FF portfolio.

Customs Logistics Manager (Unilever Foods Spain): Responsible to control orders from our dealer Spanish network (services' frequencies adapted to each concessionaire depending on the volume of each season)

Transport Manager- ICFF, Refrigerated Foods, Ambient and Raw Materials (Unilever Foods Spain). 2004-2007. Skills and competences: Organization of Secondary Transport Routes + International Transport and Transport procurement for IC/FF, Refrigerated and Ambient portfolio.

Buying Department and Customs Affaires Manager (USCC, Unilever Supply Chain Company).2008-2009, Responsible to negotiate and control operations and costs from/to non EEC Countries. Responsible to control and negotiate non EEC operations (maritime and air transport for samples and big productions coming from Unilever Companies in countries as Brasil or USA. For example, I was negotiating the production of special items for Mercadona in New York following orders from our Supply Chain director in 2008)

Before working at Unilever, I was working for several forwarding agents' companies.

1990-1992: Altinsa Estéllez. Mi experience in logistics in my family business allowed me to access to a Spanish/ Portuguese company to learn customs affaires, air and sea transport. There were still European frontiers.

1992-1996- General Transport Spain. I started with this forwarding agents' company to work with LCL and FCL cargo to/from countries as France, UK, Italy, Germany, Switzerland.

1996-1998: Rotra Doesburg/Trade Monistrol. I received an offer to transform a hauliers company into a freight forwarder with daily service Spain/Netherlands/Spain

1998-2000: Intertrànsit. I received a new offer from one of the one of the most important freight forwarders based in Barcelona, with lot of prestigious correspondents all around Europe. This company, Intertrànsit, was at that moment, woeking with Frigo (Unilever IC). And then... the biggest opportunity of my life: to work as Transport Manager for Frigo.

2010-2015: After leaving Unilever (the company offers me the possibility to go work for Unilever -USCC's Head Offices at Schaffhausen, after at Katowice and finally Singapore (to manage air and sea transport of raw materials), because of my personal situation, I decided to leave the company. I was then working for Molgas, a company specialized in LNG transport (Liquefied Natural Gas) in Spain and France.

2015: Finally, I accepted a very interesting offer (my current job) from one of the biggest trucking company, Molinero Logística, to start with a project of transport and controlled temperature (specially Ice Cream, Frozen Foods and Bakery) LCL distribution.