Hi carlosam1409,
Based on your description, you said you got the error message is PowerPivot is unable to load the Data Model. If this error message is the whole error message?
And you said when you opened the manage window icon and get this error. In this circumstance, the reason for this error was by design and caused by modified user permissions. This error does not happen for an Administrator user.
With this kind of issue please read this article for more information:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2014/06/30/powerpivot-for-excel-2013-error-when-opening-the-manage-window-quot-we-couldn-t-load-the-data-model-this-may-be-because-the-data-model-in-this-workgroup-is-damaged-quot.aspx
And you can try to install the hotfix 2880450 package for helping you solve your issue, the steps of installing and enable this hotfix please refer to this link:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2880450
After these methods if the issue still exists, I suggest you to provide the whole error messages with your issue. Im glad to help you and follow up your reply.
Hope its helpful.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support