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Álvaro Carpintero

PartnerMadri

Coleads the firm’s pharmaceutical and medical-products work, and helps companies in a variety of sectors with their operations transformations

Álvaro is the coleader of the firm’s Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products Practice, a part of the Operations Practice, and leader of the Iberian Operations Excellence Program. He has extensive experience with operations projects in a broad range of sectors, including consumer goods and automotive, with a strong focus on pharmaceutical companies.

Examples of Álvaro’s recent client engagements include the following:

  • designing and leading a readiness program for a biopharmaceutical facility to be able to pass a US Food and Drug Administration readiness audit, with a focus on setting up the critical processes for quality-management systems (such as deviations, corrective and preventative actions, change controls, and validation)
  • implementing a global pharmaceutical network’s operations transformation—which included areas such as manufacturing, quality laboratories, maintenance, and engineering—and designing a turnaround plan to address compliance, quality, and supply needs
  • implementing the operations transformation of a global tier-one automotive company across its network

Álvaro is an accredited Six Sigma Green Belt and applies his familiarity with process- and quality-improvement projects to his work.

Álvaro is McKinsey's partner sponsor of recruiting for IESE.

Published Work

Advanced tech elevates process modeling in batch-processing industries,” McKinsey & Company, June 2022

Smart quality in advanced industries,” McKinsey & Company, March 2021

Smart quality: Reimagining the way quality works,” McKinsey & Company, January 2021

The evolution of quality: Higher quality output, lower cost of quality,” McKinsey & Company, April 2017

“Stop fighting fires: Transforming quality on the shop floor one unit at a time,” Flawless: From Measuring Failure to Building Quality Robustness in Pharma, McKinsey & Company, 2014

“The high stakes of pharmaceutical compliance: Pitfalls in handling remediation,” Flawless: From Measuring Failure to Building Quality Robustness in Pharma, McKinsey & Company, 2014

Past Experience

GRUPO FARGUELL
Operations manager

Johnson Controls
Production manager

Valeo
Production manager
Project manager

Education

IESE Business School, University of Navarra
MBA

Universidad de Sevilla
MSc, mechanical engineering
MPhil, energy engineering