Jaume Puig Piñol

About Me

Industrial engineer turned supply chain professional. I work at Almirall, a pharma company based in Barcelona, managing relationships with external manufacturing partners. Day to day that means contracts, suppliers, projects and a fair amount of spreadsheets, all with the goal of getting medicines out the door on time.

Resume

My education, work experience, & skills.

Experience

Almirall

Supplier Relationship Senior Manager

December 2024 – Present

Managing Almirall's relationships with external manufacturing partners. That covers outsourcing strategy, contract negotiations and keeping multi-team projects on track. Also running the Global Supply Excellence initiative, a long-running effort to improve processes and build shared performance metrics across the team.

Almirall

Supply Planning Specialist & Interim Global Supply Planning Manager

July 2021 – December 2024

Planning production, managing procurement and keeping finished goods flowing from external factories. I was the link between suppliers and internal teams in Logistics, Quality, Regulatory and Finance. Also led several product launches and pushed for adopting digital tools like Power Apps within the team.

ETSEIB – UPC

Assistant Professor

July 2020 – April 2021

Helped out in the Business & Economics department. I put together course materials, exercises and exam questions for undergrad lectures.

Allianz Technology SL

ICT Disaster Recovery Analyst

April – November 2018

Worked on the IT Service Continuity Management (ITSCM) project. A good introduction to how large companies think about risk and keeping things running when something goes wrong.

Education

ETSEIB – UPC

M.Sc. Industrial Engineering, Business Management

2019 – 2021

Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering. Thesis: Biological Drug Launch Analysis.

Luleå University of Technology

Erasmus Exchange Programme

2017 – 2018

One semester in Luleå, Sweden. Engineering and management coursework, plus an introduction to Swedish.

ETSEIB – UPC

B.Eng. Industrial Technology Engineering

2012 – 2019

Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering. Thesis: IT Service Continuity Management Project.

Skills & Expertise

  • Supply Chain & Operations
  • Microsoft Excel & Power Platform
  • Business Strategy & Process Design
  • SAP (ERP / R3 / Ariba)
  • Project & Stakeholder Management
  • Python

Languages

  • Catalan
  • Spanish
  • English (C2)
  • French (A2)

Outside Work

Things I'm into.

Wine, Cava & Corpinnat

Grew up in the Penedès region, so wine was never going to be optional. Learning about grapes, producers and appellations, mostly by drinking them.

Food

Not a cook, but I love eating out and trying new things. Any cuisine, any price range. Always up for it.

Running

My way of switching off. Just lace up and go. Sant Sadurní has great trails very close by for when the road gets boring.

Travel

The Erasmus in Sweden was a good shove. I've kept at it since, mostly chasing good food and places that feel a bit different. Still plenty on the list.

Reading

All kinds of books, fiction included. The hard part is finding the time, not choosing what to read next.

Tech & AI

Interesting to me, not just useful for work. I tinker with AI tools, build small automations and try to keep up with what's coming. This website is exhibit A.

Highlights

Some things I've worked on.