Claudia Mathias

Cláudia Mathias is an elite, high-performing B2B Merchandising and Category Strategy Director with over 15 years of experience architecting multi-million dollar product portfolios and driving significant enterprise revenue growth. Holding a foundational business degree from the prestigious McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, she has built a reputation as a highly analytical, objective executive who seamlessly bridges commercial retail strategy with complex technical execution.

Throughout her distinguished career, Cláudia has specialized in stepping into complex corporate pipelines, identifying operational vulnerabilities, and executing full-scale organizational change management. Most recently, she successfully overhauled a complex, multi-million dollar product matrix by introducing a rigorous Phase-Gate development framework and centralizing cross-functional operations entirely into Jira—effectively aligning everyone from C-level executives to front-line technicians under one efficient ecosystem. Her high-velocity execution directly accelerated time-to-market and delivered an impressive 39% new product revenue growth loop within a five-month window

Cláudia’s strategic toolkit spans comprehensive P&L ownership (managing up to $100MM portfolios), global sourcing matrix optimization, SKU rationalization, and deep vendor contract negotiations. As a trilingual professional fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, she brings a sophisticated, global perspective to cross-functional leadership, consistently uniting diverse engineering, supply chain, and marketing teams to exceed corporate margin goals.

Current Focus: Having recently completed a successful operational scaling chapter, Cláudia is currently leveraging her extensive network and open availability to explore high-impact Director-level opportunities, Senior Merchandising mandates, and enterprise-level strategic roles within sophisticated corporate ecosystems.