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Jorge Peña

Senior Project Manager
Bogotá

Summary

Experienced project management professional (PMP) with expertise in team collaboration and delivering results in Information Technology, Retail, and Pharmaceutical sectors. Skilled in strategic planning, risk management, and effective stakeholder communication. Known for reliability and adaptability in fast-paced environments, ready to drive impactful outcomes and lead projects to success.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6054
6054
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Engagement Manager

Coupa
05.2025 - Current
  • Managed change requests efficiently while minimizing disruptions to ongoing projects, ensuring seamless transitions between phases or deliverables.
  • Leveraged data-driven insights to inform decision-making processes leading to more informed strategy adjustments.
  • Enhanced client satisfaction by building and maintaining strong relationships, addressing concerns, and providing timely solutions.
  • Ensured compliance with industry regulations through diligent monitoring of processes, documentation, training requirements.
  • Drove process improvements by conducting thorough analyses of existing workflows and implementing best practices across all functional areas.

Senior Project Consultant

SAP Colombia
12.2021 - 05.2025
  • Senior Project Consultant for deployments in Latin America of SAP Fieldglass (Cloud), leader cloud solutions for administration of external workforce.
  • Main responsibilities:
  • 1. Responsible for individual projects, and the project management execution activities, throughout the project lifecycle managing timelines, resources, risks and issues, project governance, mitigation plans, communication plans, budgets, and forecasts.
  • 2. Through the projects, I engage with a variety of internal SAP stakeholders and customers, as well as third party SAP partners as needed. I am responsible for developing and maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders of all levels, both internally and externally, and C-Level stakeholders.
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors, ensuring best value for both the company and our clients.
  • Achieved project success by effectively managing resources, timelines, and budgets.
  • Demonstrated adaptability by successfully navigating unexpected challenges during the course of various projects.

Project Manager

Procter and Gamble P&G (PHCI)
04.2018 - 05.2021
  • Regional Project Manager for the Andean Cluster (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia) and Belgium for consumer health products.
  • Main responsibilities:
  • 3. End to end leader and Project Manager for roll-out, new products, shelf life extension and packaging projects with incremental sales more than $1MM USD.
  • 4. Lead virtual teams and create channel communications across business units in a matrix environment.
  • 5. Support financial viability and analysis for new initiatives from different business units.
  • 6. Lead projects follow up meetings to upper management and stakeholders. R&D, F&A, Regulatory, Medical, Supply, trademark, safety, toxicology, packaging.
  • 7. Ability to manage current and new suppliers that support projects at Merck (Now P&G Personal Health Care)

Project Manager

Bienestar Colombia
06.2011 - 07.2013
  • Project manager delivering technological solutions including the design, development, planning, executing, controlling and closure of e-commerce solutions.
  • Main responsibilities:
  • 1. Suggest to Senior Management Organizational Structure all technological needs of the company.
  • 2. Formulate and periodically update the Manual of Organization and Functions of the area, according to the growth of the Organization.
  • 3. Assess and communicate the official statistics of computer-based information issued by the appropriate organizational units.
  • 4. Lead development teams for Website and E-commerce sites.

Project Manager

Hewlett Packard Colombia
06.2007 - 12.2010
  • Project Manager for Hewlett Packard. Software: Data Protector (Backups and Restore) and Storage Essentials (Storage Management).
  • Main responsibilities:
  • 1. Design services packages for software implementation (Data Protector and Storage Essentials) with incremental sales more than $400 USD.
  • 2. Managing projects for software installation in Colombia and South America end to end.
  • 3. Product Line manager elaborating processes of revenue and forecast.
  • 4. Build relationships with partners to support operations of software installation.
  • 5. Creating SOW (Statement of Work) for custom software installations.

Education

Master of Science - Leadership and Project Management

Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
05.2017

Master of Arts - Education

Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
05.2015

Electronics Engineering - Project Management

Universidad El Bosque
11.2009

Skills

  • Microsoft Project

  • SAP Fieldglass

  • SAP Activate

  • Jira

  • Smartsheet

  • PMP

  • Project Management

  • TrackWise Change Control System

  • Microsoft Office Suite

  • Project planning

  • Client relationship management

  • Scope management

  • Project scheduling

Certification

PMP Project Management Professional Certified

References

Juan, Vitali, Senior Manager Supply Chain, juan.vitali@pg.com, Procter and Gamble

Timeline

Senior Engagement Manager

Coupa
05.2025 - Current

Senior Project Consultant

SAP Colombia
12.2021 - 05.2025

Project Manager

Procter and Gamble P&G (PHCI)
04.2018 - 05.2021

Project Manager

Bienestar Colombia
06.2011 - 07.2013

Project Manager

Hewlett Packard Colombia
06.2007 - 12.2010

Master of Science - Leadership and Project Management

Purdue University

Master of Arts - Education

Purdue University

Electronics Engineering - Project Management

Universidad El Bosque

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