Leonardo Vargas

Leonardo Vargas

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Costa Rica

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  • CIRTEC MEDICAL
    ESG Compliance Manager - Customer & Supplier Compliance Programs
    CIRTEC MEDICAL
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 7 months)
    • Manage customer-facing ESG and product compliance requests across regulated medical-device supply chains, translating complex customer needs into clear evidence packages, action plans, and response timelines. • Coordinate cross-functional escalations across Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Customer-facing teams, and external platforms to resolve documentation gaps, supplier non-response, data conflicts, and urgent customer commitments. • Use Assent Sustainability Platform, BOMcheck, SharePoint, Excel/Power Query, Confluence, and Jira-style trackers to monitor account/request status, identify bottlenecks, and prioritize high-impact follow-ups. • Developed structured outreach and escalation strategies for supplier declarations, improving
  • The Coca-Cola Company
    Sustainability Manager & CDP Environmental Performance Lead
    The Coca-Cola Company
    Apr 2024 - Jan 2025 (10 months)
    • Led enterprise stakeholder engagement across Operations, Finance, Procurement, Legal, EHS, Engineering, external partners, and corporate teams, converting technical and operational issues into actionable business priorities. • Owned governance and reporting cadence for 500+ deliverables, using structured follow-ups, KPI tracking, dashboards, evidence requests, and decision logs to reduce ambiguity and protect delivery commitments. • Built and communicated business cases for a ~$10M CAPEX roadmap across water, energy, and carbon-reduction initiatives, aligning operational needs with measurable efficiency, compliance, and risk-reduction outcomes. • Developed Power BI, Excel, and SAP-based dashboards to communicate performance trends, data q
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    Senior Sustainability & Water Projects Lead Engineer
    VyP Hydroadvisors
    Feb 2023 - Apr 2024 (1 year 3 months)
    • Served as a client-facing advisor for industrial and regulated customers, conducting discovery sessions to identify operational pain points, compliance risks, resource inefficiencies, and project opportunities. • Prepared solution recommendations, technical presentations, CAPEX/OPEX inputs, implementation roadmaps, and executive summaries to support customer decisions and project approvals. • Coordinated customers, vendors, internal specialists, and leadership stakeholders to define scope, deliverables, risks, responsibilities, and success criteria before and during execution. • Used structured data collection and KPI tracking to improve transparency in customer projects, support issue resolution, and identify operational improvement oppo
  • Grupo Mathiesen
    Regional Sales Sustainability Project Manager
    Grupo Mathiesen
    Mar 2021 - Feb 2023 (2 years)
    • Executed GTM strategy for sustainability and industrial solutions across LATAM, partnering with Sales, Engineering, Procurement, Logistics, and Product teams to position value-based solutions for enterprise customers. • Supported customer acquisition and account development through discovery, proposal input, RFP/RFQ support, technical-commercial presentations, and translation of complex solutions into business outcomes. • Engaged customers across water, energy, circularity, chemical, and packaging initiatives, aligning solution scope with customer goals, implementation feasibility, and commercial priorities. • Identified market needs and customer pain points to shape new offerings, improving positioning for organizations seeking cost redu
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    Senior Consultant / Lead Auditor
    Diglö Engineering Consultants
    Apr 2020 - Feb 2023 (2 years 11 months)
    • Delivered advisory sessions, audits, webinars, and executive presentations for private organizations and industry groups, building credibility with decision-makers in regulated environments. • Guided clients through compliance gaps, corrective actions, documentation needs, and process improvements, converting technical findings into practical action plans and follow-up priorities.
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    Environmental Lead Engineer
    Biothane, Veolia Water Technologies Techno Center
    Oct 2019 - Mar 2020 (6 months)
    • Analyzed data, benchmarks, and European regulatory requirements to support technical recommendations for wastewater, biogas, and resource-efficiency projects; prepared clear presentations for technical stakeholders.
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    Water & Sanitation Technology Engineer
    W.W.T Ingeniería S.A.
    Mar 2014 - Oct 2018 (4 years 8 months)
    • Managed client-facing technical projects for water reuse, wastewater treatment, and zero-discharge programs, including solution evaluation, CAPEX roadmaps, operator training, and implementation support. • Trained 50+ water facility operators and supported continuous improvement initiatives tied to service reliability, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
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    PM4R Professional & Agile
    Feb 2022 - Current (4 years 6 months)
    Certification
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    Postgraduate Degree in Water Reuse & Desalination for Sustainability
    Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
    Jan 2021
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    Lead Auditor QHSE
    May 2020 - Feb 2021 (10 months)
    Certification
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    Master's Degree in Environmental Urban Water & Sanitation
    IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands
    Jan 2020
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    Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Chemistry
    National University of Costa Rica
    Jan 2015
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    Customer/Supplier Compliance Escalation Model
    Professional Experience
    Dec 2025 - Current (8 months)
    Built targeted escalation approach for repeat supplier non-response, connecting account risk, buyer ownership, evidence gaps, and customer commitments.
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    Net Zero / Resource Efficiency Roadmap
    Professional Experience
    May 2024 - Oct 2025 (1 year 6 months)
    Supported a portfolio of water, energy, and carbon initiatives that helped deliver a 48% emissions reduction while improving leadership visibility and execution discipline.
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    LATAM Sustainability GTM Execution
    Professional Experience
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2023 (1 year 2 months)
    Helped position sustainability, water, chemical, and circularity solutions as business-value offerings for enterprise customers across LATAM.