Trinidad Barrios Lira is an Industrial Engineer with a strong background in operations management, finance, and continuous improvement, bringing over eight years of experience across consulting, education, and corporate environments. She combines analytical thinking, high performance standards, and a people-centered leadership approach to deliver efficient, sustainable, and well-structured solutions in complex and fast-paced settings.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Operations Management and has extensive experience managing financial operations, cash flow, budgeting, compliance, and performance indicators. Her expertise includes streamlining processes, improving organizational efficiency, and supporting strategic decision-making through data-driven insights and structured planning.
As Co-founder and senior leader at Snow Consulting, Trinidad held multiple leadership roles, including Head of People, Finance Manager, and Continuous Improvement Manager. In these positions, she led professional recruitment, compensation structures, incentives, and feedback processes, while also overseeing financial management, purchasing, legal compliance, and strategic financial goals. She additionally monitored KPIs, supported client projects, and led strategic planning initiatives, contributing to an agile organizational structure and high client satisfaction.
Earlier in her career, Trinidad played a key role in continuous improvement initiatives within supply chain operations, where she standardized workflows across distribution centers using Lean methodologies, defined KPIs and operational routines, led problem-solving and process standardization efforts, and contributed to the development of a centralized planning and control function.
Complementing her business experience, Trinidad was selected as an Alumni of a highly competitive leadership program focused on educational equity, where she worked as a high school teacher in a vulnerable context while receiving continuous leMore...