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Bernard Verneret

Telecom Senior Manager

Bernard Verneret
71 years old
Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
In charge of the performance of a customer centre in France, I draw on:

 more than 10 years of different operational responsabilites in customer relationship and sales in France (France Telecom Orange Group)

 15 years of different expériences to telecoms operators in Africa & Middle East areas: due diligences, launch of mobile operations, CMO, CCO, business development
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Degree in Business Law

Paris I University (France)

September 1971 to June 1974
International Private Law

Master

Institut Supérieur des Affaires - Jouy-en-Josas (France)

September 1983 to June 1984
Special Management Program
  • good interpersonal and networking skills
  • work in multicultural environment
  • capacity to transfer know-how
  • excellent communication and organisational skills
  • wide experience in telecom industry
  • expériences in a lot of countries: Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Morocco, Kenya, Yemen
  • organisation, processes, methodology
  • due diligences and assets evaluations
  • implementation and management of customer centres, inshore and offshore
  • In charge of the performance and results of a customer centre; I drive a network of 4 call centers based in south of France: headquarters near Bordeaux and call centres in Albi (Tarn et Garonne), Anglet (Pyrénées Atlantiques), Limoges (Haute-Vienne) and Narbonne (Aude)
  • With nearly 500 call or web agents, the objective of this unit is to assist Orange customers with their use of Orange services like TV, VoIP, High-speed Internet
  • We serve more than 100k calls a month
  • With my team, productivity, quality of service, waiting time, customer satisfaction are my daily concern
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  • To develop business of the company in the country: Sofrecom, an affiliate of Orange group, provides expertise and transversal solutions in telecoms consultancy, network and information system engineering
  • To maintain and develop the relationships with the key accounts in the country: telecommunications operators, telecoms departments in major enterprises of the oil industry, regulation authority...
  • To answer to tenders and negotiate contracts
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  • As Projetc Manager, I was in charge of the prepararation and the launch of "Orange Centrafrique", new player in the country
  • Contributor for the Business Plan and the roadmap of the deployment
  • Participant in the negotiations with Government, license agreement
  • Supervision and management of the technical and commercial teams
  • Coordination of the deployment operations, respect of the planning and of the commitments towards the Government
  • Relationships with Orange headquarters and suppliers: civil work, radio, switch, IN, Wimax, billing platform...
  • Job descriptions and recruitment
  • Implementation of the organisation, planning and communication, coordination of the launch
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  • Various missions of audit, assessment, consultancy or due diligences for Orange (several countries in sub-Saharan Africa), Socatel (Central Africa), Sonatrach (Algeria), Teleyemen (Yemen)
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  • As Project Manager, I had to pilot the implementation of the internal call centre of the operator, with 100 positions
  • I also assist the operator to set up and implement a sales and marketing strategy (existing analysis and market study) and a commercial organisation
  • I was also project leader for the implementation of a corparate organisation
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  • As Project Manager, I was in charge of the launch and the roll out of "Libercom", an affiliate of Benin Telecoms SA
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  • Launch of 2 affiliates of Orange Group first in Ivory Coast then in Madagascar
  • Advisor to the general management
  • To put a sales and marketing department in place
  • In charge of the marketing, customer care and sales teams; coordination of IS management
  • To develop and implement the marketing strategy: offers, communication, mix marketing, introduction of services (time to market)
  • Implementation of the sales and customer care organisation, billing system and back office
  • Implementation of the business processes
  • Launch of the operator everywhere in the countries: launch of the own shops and the indirect sales network
  • Implementation of the kpis
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Consultant

Maroc Telecom
January 1996 to February 1997
Full-time
Rabat
Morocco
  • Change management
  • Reengineering of billing and recovery processes within the framework of the implementation of a new Information System

Chief Commercial Officer

Socatel
April 1994 to December 1995
Full-time
Bangui
Central African Republic
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Sales and Customer Care Manager

France Telecom
January 1984 to March 1994
Full-time
Nantes, Caen
France
  • Sales Manager - Normandy branch (from 1984 to 1987): 300k subscribers - 130 M€ annual turnover - 180 staff
  • Deputy head, in charge of regional billing and collection unit - Pays de la Loire area (from 1987 to 1989): 1,4M customers - 500 M€ annual turnover - 180 staff
  • Deputy head, responsible for sales and customer department - Pays de la Loire branch (from 1990 to 1994): 150k subscribers - 70 M€ turnover - 90 staff