Beatriz Dumont Defendi
About Beatriz Dumont Defendi
Beatriz Dumont Defendi is the Materials, Process, and Delivery Senior Manager - Tech Innovation at Procter & Gamble, with extensive experience in logistics, supply planning, and demand planning.
Title
Materials, Process and Delivery Senior Manager - Tech Innovation
Current Role at Procter & Gamble
Since 2021, Beatriz Dumont Defendi has been serving as the Materials, Process and Delivery Senior Manager - Tech Innovation at Procter & Gamble. In this role, she is responsible for defining and delivering major formulation and packaging cost savings projects for Gillette and Oral-B brushes produced in Brazil. She also oversees new product launches and initiative delivery, emphasizing process and design validation and the rollout of new formulations and packages in manufacturing plants.
Previous Roles at Procter & Gamble
Before her current position, Beatriz Dumont Defendi held various roles at Procter & Gamble. From 2018 to 2021, she was the Senior Demand Planning Manager in São Paulo, São Paulo. Prior to this, she worked as Logistics Manager - Supply Planning Manager in São Paulo for 7 months in 2017-2018, and as Logistics Manager - Customer Logistics Manager from 2016 to 2017 in Recife, Pernambuco, as well as in São Paulo from 2014 to 2016. She started her career at Procter & Gamble as an Intern in Customer Service Operations in 2013.
Education and Expertise
Beatriz Dumont Defendi has diverse educational achievements. She studied Engenharia Mecânica e de Materiais at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2012. She graduated with Engenharia de Materiais from Universidade Federal do ABC - UFABC, where she also earned a Bacharelado in Ciência e Tecnologia. Additionally, she achieved Técnico em Química at ETEC Julio de Mesquita and completed a Gestão de Pessoas na Organização Contemporânea course at Veduca.
Early Career and Technical Experience
Beatriz Dumont Defendi's early career includes roles as Técnico em Química at Sabesp from 2009 to 2011 and at Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa - Fundep from 2007 to 2008. She gained hands-on manufacturing experience as an Estagiária Técnica em Química at Rhodia Acetow in 2007. In 2012, she held a short-term position as a Research Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Team Management
In her current role, Beatriz Dumont Defendi manages a diverse team of 10 people, including managers, engineers, analysts, and technicians. She has developed technical mastery in process and process control strategies, materials and packaging technologies, quality assurance, cost innovation, and problem-solving/root cause analysis. Her responsibilities also include working with suppliers to develop and commercialize materials.