Bio

Nuno Almeida, throughout his career, has embraced leadership roles in Retail, Digital Businesses, and eCommerce. Those roles had complete responsibility for the strategy, operations, or team development. His curriculum shows a vast experience in Operations Management at Lidl from 1996 to 1998 and then SonaeMC from 2002 to 2011. Head of E-Commerce and Customer Mobility at Sonae MC (2011-2015). He complemented this experience with roles in the Commercial area as Commercial Director (1996-2002): Areal (Book Editors), AEIOU, and Terravista (news and entertainment portals). In Sonae MC, he conceptualized the user experience of the 'Portal Móvel' solution (2006) and led a central infrastructure maintenance operations MAC (2007). Afterward, he headed the management of the checkout solutions by implementing self-scanning, development, and roll-out of self-checkout solutions. He implemented the single queue concept in SONAE MC Stores (2010-2013). In 2011 he led the team that developed the Bom Dia Store concept. He leads essential transformations while heading Sonae MC's E-commerce and Customer Mobility. Some examples are the renewal of Sonae MC's e-commerce platform, the launch of the Cartão Continente app (loyalty program), Continente's Store apps, and Sonae MC's first dark store. He also leads the investment of Sonae MC in Ulabox (a food e-commerce startup in Barcelona), where he was a non-executive board member. Still, at Sonae MC, he undertook the challenge as Bagga Head of Business. He led the concept change in +100 stores, the opening of +50 new cafeterias, and the business's turnaround. Nuno has explored new challenges as a contracted consultant at EY Consulting in Portugal and the Retail Division of United Nations' World Food Program posted at the Rome Head Quarters. At the WFP, he leads projects that aim to pursue the development of sustainable retail markets. Throughout his career, he has developed skills and competencies in Management, Project Management, and Operations Management in food retail stores, E-commerce, and digital experience. Today apply this experience as a Senior Manager at EY.