Olá! My name is Rafael,
I'm an International Business graduate from Brazil, who likes to call himself a “Creative Communicator”: someone who thrives on solving problems, embracing challenges, and helping people.
With a diverse background spanning design, marketing, and corporate innovation, I’m always eager to jump into new projects and pick up whatever skills are needed to get the job done. I love learning, collaborating, and finding creative solutions wherever I can make an impact, and have been developing my experience over my entire life, living in Brazil, US, France and now England.
[SKILLS & LANGUAGES]
Fluent Portuguese & English, Intermediate French & Basic Spanish
MS 365 ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆, Excel ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆, Illustrator ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆, Photoshop ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆, Brand Design ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆, InDesign ⋆⋆⋆⋆, Design Processes ⋆⋆⋆⋆, Marketing Campaigns ⋆⋆⋆⋆, Brand Communication ⋆⋆⋆⋆, Business Innovation ⋆⋆⋆⋆, Social Media ⋆⋆⋆, Web Design, ⋆⋆⋆.
High communication and leadership skills.
High tech literacy.
High presentation skills.
[QUALIFICATIONS]
[BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MARKETING]
[2020 - 2023]
SKEMA Business School
Belo Horizonte, Brazil – Antibes, France
Graduated with a 96% grade average at SKEMA, a global university with a multi-campus structure, in a course that develops from the traditional idea of business, encompassing diversity, humanism and innovation. Besides taking many leadership roles, acted as the school’s spokesperson for student related events.
[SERVICE DESIGN BOOTCAMP]
[2022]
Ioasys
Online
Bootcamp promoted by ioasys, lasting 4 months, where I developed Tamojunto as a team, a platform aimed at promoting innovation among MEPs in the Food Service area, promoting a culture of collaboration.
[ORATORY & COMMUNICATION COURSE]
[2021]
Conquer School
Online
Course offered by Escola Conquer in the subject of Oratory and Communication.
[HACKATHON - TECHNOLOGY & SUSTAINABILITY]
[2021]
CRA-MG
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Third place in the Hackathon promoted by CRA-MG with an emphasis on sustainability. Solution developed in Figma. I was responsible for managing the group's project.
[HIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGE]
[2018-2019]
O’Connor High School
San Antonio, TX
In this program, I spent a year living in San Antonio - Texas. I lived with an American family and had many good experiences communicating with people from different cultures.
[EXPERIENCE]
[HEAD OF MARKETING]
[2023 - Present]
STILLA Flowers
Antibes, France
Ever since STILLA’s re-branding, I’ve acted as the Marketing Manager to establish the brand as yachting’s #1 supplier of Real Flowers That Last a Year. I developed the full marketing plan, brand identity, as well as communication style, all creatives, social media, website, packaging, creative and photography direction. I also worked directly and established many partnerships with industry leaders.
[FREELANCE CREATIVE]
[2021 - Present]
LAGE Design
Worldwide
As a freelancer, I bring a flexible, adaptive approach to every project, combining creative communication, design, and strategic thinking. I’ve partnered with clients across various industries, such as Ronaldo Fraga, recognized as the 'poet of fashion' in Brazil, or Drosophyla, listed as one of the 100 best bars in the world.
[NEW PROJECTS, DATA & BI]
[2022 - 2023]
Be Honest
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Joined Be Honest as a responsible for establishing new projects, creating new ways of disseminating honesty and developing new sales channels at Be Honest, a reference company in the minimarket sector. After detecting a lack in the way we used and structured data, migrated to creating a data-leaned culture at the startup.
[STRATEGY & INNOVATION INTERN]
[2021 - 2022]
Grupo SADA
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
In this job, I worked as an intern in the Strategy and Innovation team, where we used tools such as design thinking, service design, open innovation and intrapreneurship to develop modern, efficient and reliable solutions for the company's internal pains. I worked on developing an Agile culture for the sector, based on Scrum methodology.
[FOUNDER & LEADER]
[2020 - 2022]
SKEMA Ventures Club
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Founded and leaded the club that aims to encourage entrepreneurship at my university. We designed a pre-accelerator program to get students' ideas off the ground and into SKEMA Ventures' global innovation hub. We are also planned and structured workshops, learning paths and events.