Mar López Navarro

Mar López Navarro is an experienced professional with almost 20 years of practice in strategic finance, strategic planning and controlling, purchases, corporate finance and M&A. She is currently Purchases Director for Spain and Portugal at Procter & Gamble. Mar obtained a dual bachelor’s in Law and Business Administration (E3) from ICADE (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid) followed by MBA and MSF graduate courses at Boston College (MA, US). She has continued her educational journey with executive programs on general management (“Leading Significant Change” -Harvard Executive Education, 2017- and “Empowering People to be Accountable for Results”- Harvard Executive Education, 2016) and digital transformation (DIBEX-Isdi, Madrid, 2018).

Mar started her career as a M&A analyst in Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division in London working for the Financial Institutions and Media & Telecoms groups. She joined P&G in Geneva in 2004 to work as strategic finance manager for CEEMEA Beauty Care. In 2007 she moved to P&G Spain to work on category and sales strategic finance which was followed by leading the internal controls and processes redesign areas. From 2013 to 2015 she worked as Finance Director for Wella Spain and Portugal (P&G Salon Professional) and then from 2015 to 2018 she led Southern Europe (Italy, Spain and Portugal) financial planning and forecasting and strategic category financial management. By the end of 2018 she started working on cost effectiveness and purchases optimization and became Spain and Portugal Purchases Director by 2019.

Following her passion for education and her experience collaborating with several business schools (ICADE, IE) she joined IE as Adjunct Professor of Finance in March 2020.

Corporate Experience

• Spain and Portugal Purchases Director. Procter & Gamble. Madrid, (July 2019 - Present)

• Southern Europe Purchases Optimization Leader. Procter & Gamble. Madrid. (2018 - 2019)

• Southern Europe Financial Planning & Forecasting and Strategic Financial Analysis Leader. Procter & Gamble. Madrid. (2015 - 2018)

• Wella Spain and Portugal Finance Director. Procter & Gamble. Madrid. (2013 - 2015)

• Corporate Finance, Internal Controls, Category Financial Analysis. Procter & Gamble. Madrid. (2007 - 2012)

• Strategic Finance Manager. Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Beauty Care Group. Procter & Gamble. Geneva. (2004 - 2006)

• Analyst. Investment Banking Division (Mergers & Acquisitions). Telecoms & Media Group. Financial Institutions Group. Morgan Stanley. London (2002, 2004)

Academic Experience

• IE Adjunct Professor, Finance Department, March 2020 - Present

Academic Background

• Executive Digital Business Strategy Program (DIBEX) at ISDI (Madrid), 2018

• Harvard Executive Business Education Programs: “Leading Significant Change” (2017) and “Empowering People to be Accountable for Results” (2016)

• Dual degree in Law and Business Administration (E3) at ICADE (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) in Madrid (1997 - 2003)

• MBA and MSF graduate courses at Boston College (MA) (2002)