Gábor Szentiványi
International ICT Director
France
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Highly skilled senior IT manager with over 10 years experience developing and executing IT strategies in alignment with corporate objectives. Successful in global manufacturing environments during all cycles of business, including high growth, downturns and acquisition integration. An established record as a leader & business partner who collaborates with other executives to use information and communication technology to transform and simplify business processes while delivering an understandable and measurable benefit for the corporate management. Solid project management skills, with the ability to deliver milestones on-target and under budget. Strong talent for process reengineering and optimisation, focused around cost reduction and improved efficiency. Able to work with multicultural and international teams to achieve common ground and meet company objectives.
Global Director, Enterprise Client Services
Coty Inc.
Since June 2012
Full-time
Paris
France
- Director of IT service delivery and owner of the end user experience, setting up centralized IT services for Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Serving 12000+ clients, managing regional IT teams and local infrastructure activities in 24 countries. Leading the local infrastructure transformation project to improve client experience with high end technologies.
Director, European Infrastructure Services
Coty Inc.
Since June 2011
Full-time
Paris
France
- Lead European IT Infrastructure and services, own production and daily functionality as well as future developments. Ensure the daily existencefor 15 countries, 5000 end users, own service based approach to reach corporate targets on the maximum performance by minimal fix costs. Agile to find opportunities and synergies in a geographically distributed environment.
• Established transparency, business driven service
• Implemented basic ITIL methodology, global incident management and problem management, escalation
• Reorganized low performing outsourcing contract
• Formed one team from 40+ independent internationally distributed professionals and aligned them for common targets
• Took human and fiscal ownership, moved the organization from locally linked ITs to one centralized corporate IT
Group IT Infrastructure Manager
Bonduelle
Since September 2009
Part-time
Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
- Lead strategy and development for the group distributed IT infrastructure. Direct the French IT infrastructure team, global corporate teams, and international outsourced teams in implementing infrastructure processes, systems, and services. Plan and allocate resources. Manage all aspects of networking, communication, messaging, and distributed IT services for 55 sites in 14 countries. Negotiate and maintain supplier contracts. Track system performance against KPIs.
• Changed Group messaging strategy for 3500 users, moving to the Cloud (SaaS).
• Revolutionised the entire group-level networking strategy.
• Eliminated €300,000 in annual costs by introducing VoIP.
• Within 1 year, grew IT services by 200% and launched IT security processes.
• Rescued a nonfunctional outsourcing contract via negotiation.
• Facilitated acquisition of France Champignon by merging their infrastructure with existing processes.
• Drove collaboration between team members on infrastructure initiatives.
Responsible for International Coordination
Bonduelle
July 2008
to October 2009
Part-time
Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
- Directed international IT functions for 35 sites across 12 countries. Identified human resources needs for each location and assured necessary processes, standards, and personnel. Developed, implemented, and updated insourcing and outsourcing strategies. Planned and executed delivery of international IT projects, including tracking key milestones. Served as primary point of contact for company financial and line management issues. Facilitated communications between central IT divisions and international locations.
• Delivered 25% cost savings against international budget
• Enabled transparency in international IT processes by establishing a configuration database.
• Improved inventory and IT management by developing and implementing group inventory and ITIL-based IT management systems.
• Enhanced overall communications and transparency at an international level via international reporting.
IT Manager Germany, Central and Eastern Europe
Bonduelle Deutschland GmbH
May 2004
to June 2008
Part-time
Reutlingen
Germany
- Promoted to address acquisition integration for a recent financially unstable acquisition. Orchestrated German IT department operations, personnel, and outsourced teams. Ensured appropriate management and delivery of all IT services. Administered multiple IT budgets and invoicing for different areas. Oversaw financial tasks and human resources processes. Monitored systems and staff performance. Key member of the Crises Management Team.
• Lowered operating costs for Germany 40% within 3 years, reaching €400,000 per year.
• Created a high-availability IT architecture with 24/7 availability.
• Provided necessary stability and organisation for the German IT department.
• Led development and implementation of the corporate ERP system, upgrading from SAP / Delta Business to J.D. Edwards.
• Supported acquisitions by merging IT systems from new companies into existing operations.
• Reduced unnecessary outsourcing to critical functions only via a new insourcing / outsourcing strategy.
IT Manager Central and Eastern Europe
Bonduelle Hungary
May 2001
to May 2004
Full-time
Budapest
Hungary
- Headed IT operations and strategy for the central and eastern European regions. Built the IT division from the ground up, with a focus on creating a scalable, robust architecture capable of supporting corporate information systems. Outlined IT security, networking and connectivity, messaging, and communication protocols. Monitored and allocated the IT budget while maintaining cost control measures. Spearheaded international technology projects. Directed a team of 8 remote personnel.
• Launched the international IT department. Developed processes and functionalities, along with clearly-outlined IT policies and standards.
• Defined and maintained fully-transparent budgets for each company within the organisation.
• Coordinated education and training for 500 users distributed across 6 countries.
• Provided IT technical support services in conjunction with strategic leadership.
IM Manager
Johnson & Johnson
April 2000
to May 2001
Full-time
Budapest
Hungary
- Handled all aspects of information management and associated tasks. Coordinated management reporting activities. Ensured appropriate processes for processing raw data to produce information necessary for business operations.
• Streamlined overall IT operations by designing and implementing multiple key applications that performed functions such as marketing planning and automatic reporting.
IT Manager Hungary
Novartis
March 1998
to March 2000
Part-time
Budapest
Hungary
- Supervised departmental operations for the IT sector. Served as local representative of corporate IT interests. Established and maintained both IT and communal budgets. Delivered expert user support and technical services.
• Supervised transition from cc:Mail messaging to Lotus Notes.
• Created and deployed IT outsourcing procedures.
• Instrumental in SAP implementation.
- IT Governance • Infrastructure Management • Technology Strategy • Project Management • Process Design • International Team Management • Project Planning • Process Optimisation • Change Management • Budget Administration • Organisational Strategy • Cost Control • Vendor / Supplier Relationships • Negotiation • Communications • ITIL Standards
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Multilingual:
English, French, German, Hungarian - MBA diploma
- ITIL V3 certification
- various technical certifications