Lisia Cintra is a 35-year-old Brazilian chemical engineer with 14 years of experience in quality and manufacturing roles at multinational companies like Monsanto and Unilever. She has a post-graduate degree in business administration and experience leading teams and implementing quality programs. Currently she is a regional innovation planner for Latin America at Unilever, responsible for innovation networks and timely project delivery in skin care categories.

1. Lisia A. Cintra
Brazilian, 35 years old
Av. Gessy Lever, 915 casa 64 – Mirante do Lenheiro
Valinhos - SP
Mobile : 55(19) 9269.7476
Home: 55(19) 3327.8680
Work : 55(19) 3345.9775
e-mail : lisiacintra@gmail.com; lisia.cintra@unilever.com
Education
• Post-graduate degree in Business Administration (FAAP / 2007)
• Graduate degree in Chemical Engineering (EEL - USP / 2004)
Summary of skills:
Fourteen years of experience with multinational companies - Monsanto (USA) and Unilever
(Brazil), where she was responsible for duties, as follows:
Regional Innovation planning ( Unilever - Skin Cleasing and Care)
• Development and management of innovation & strategic networks in Skin
Cleansing and Care Categories for LatAm; timely delivery of projects to the
region; engaging multifunctional teams and representing Supply Chain in the
deployment of networks; analysis of risks related to projects and optimization
opportunities for the Category globally.
• Responsible to develop sourcing unit study in order to reduce thirdy parties or
improve service level of quality or productivity.
Manufacturing area (Unilever - Ice cream process)
• Leader of the production team (68 employees) in charge of Quality, Safety,
Health, Enviroment, Costs, TPM and Production areas;
• Responsible for ensuring 100,000 litons of product/year;
• Implementation of improvement projects to optimize productivity / capacity,
comply with basic quality and safety requirements and reduce losses;
• Leader of all safety and quality incident investigations;
• Development of career plans for the operational team;
• Budget management.
Quality area (Monsanto & Unilever):
• Implementation of quality programs, such as SPC, HACCP, GMP, QVP, TPM, ISO
9001, ISO 14001 e OSHAS 18001;
• Reduction of consumer complaints and costs related to non conformance issues;
• Responsible for the Regulatory area at São Jose dos Campos plant by establishing a
standardized information flow system between Regulatory, Marketing, Quality and

2. Manufacturing areas to ensure information integrity of products and internal and
external customer satisfaction.
• Leader of the End Product and Packaging Quality Assurance team. Management of
Quality KPI’s, quality reports and customer compliance.
Solid experience in the implementation and maintenance of a supplier quality
evaluation program, including managing supplier quality audits and following up
suppliers’ action plans.
Professional background:
Unilever Industrial Ltda – (Jan/08 – current)
Job position: Regional innovation planner -LATAM (Nov/2013 – current)
Job position: Manufaturing coordinator (Nov/2010 – Nov/13)
Job position: Quality Assurance coordinator (Jan/2008 – Nov/2010)
Monsanto do Brasil Ltda – (Jan/04 – Jan/08)
Job position: Process Engineer_quality category (Jun/2007 – Jan/2008)
Job position: Quality Engineer (Nov/2004 – May/2007)
Job position: Quality Trainee (Jan/2004 – Nov/2004)
Languages
• English (Advanced)
• Spanish (Basic)
Courses
• Lead auditor (ISO 9001, ISO14001 e OHSAS18001) (QSP);
• Lead auditor of Quality Verification Program (QVP) – Unilever;
• Hygienic design for Personal care & Ice cream facilities – Unilever;
• SPC (Unilever do Brasil)
• GMP ( Unilever)
• HACCP (Unilever do Brasil)
• TPM (Unilever do Brasil)
• Quality tools (Brainstorming, Ishikawa, Pareto, 5-why analysis)
• Minitab (Unilever Brasil)
• Cleaning and Sanitizing Facilities (Unilever Brasil)
Experience abroad:
Spent one month in Mexico to implement improvements in manufacturing process.