Jose Quijada started his career at Ecolab as an Assistant Marketing Manager in 2011 where he was working on product launches and Voice-of-Customer for the Food & Protein segments in Asia Pacific, China, and Latin-America. After several marketing rotations, Jose became the first Global Dairy Marketer for Ecolab.
In September 2017, Jose transitioned into a Corporate Account Manager role for the North America market. In this position, Jose was the main point of contact to multiple Dairy companies in the US and Canada as their try to achieve their goals of manufacturing high quality and safe food at the lowest possible cost.
Due to the results delivered by Jose as a Corporate Account Manager, Jose became an Assistant Vice President for the North America market. In this role, Jose manages a team of Corporate Account Managers and a Dairy portfolio of over $120M in the United States and Canada.
In 2021, Jose was honored to be selected for the Next Generation Leadership Program of IDFA. This leadership program allowed Jose to work with multiple key leaders in the dairy industry around multiple important areas including dairy advocacy, sustainability targets and, especially, how to improve diversity in the dairy industry. Also, Jose has been working closely with IDFA to build the Dairy Diversity Coalition to attract and retain talent in the Dairy industry.
In September 2023, Jose was tasked to create and lead the Customer Experience team for Food & Beverage NA. In this new role, Jose will be responsible for designing and implementing processes and initiatives to deliver value for Ecolab customers, by integrating, among other things, digital innovations that will enhance customer satisfaction.
Before Ecolab, Jose worked in the digital industry for 5 years in Latin-America.
Jose got his MBA degree from University of St. Thomas in 2011 and his Computer Engineering degree from Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela in 2005. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and his twins.
