Seasoned executive experienced in industrial Operations and Procurement
Industries: Food - Restaurant – FMCG – Packaging– Franchise businesses
International, multicultural executive who designs activities, deploys projects and adds value to business optimizing Value Chains, processes, investments and operational costs
Head of a team of 75 people working in Procurement, Quality, Logistics and procurement Finance covering ca. €700 million spend and supporting Elior (Catering) and Areas (Concessions) needs in France.
Direct management of 5 Procurement, Logistics, Quality and Finance Directors
Detailed Description
Savings generation over 3 years in a bull market, building a significant cost advantage versus goods and services market cost development
Design and deployment of a new architecture for Elior Group Procurement in France (IT, procurement, legal structure redesign) to improve system efficiency and enable Areas and Elior procurement split.
Company Description
Contract Catering ca. 4000 restaurants, revenue ca. €1.8 billion
In charge of Quality (process and products, food safety), Purchasing (Sourcing to Contract) and Supply Chain
Franchisees general managers’ advisor: in a complex and multicultural perimeter, build relationships with franchisees owners and advise them on how to develop competitive local and pan-European Supply Chains, bring New Products and Processes solutions to improve their P&L, guarantee Food safety and Quality.
Manage and develop a central team of 8 engineers and buyers
Detailed Description
Leadership of a transversal program aiming to reduce the restaurants value chain Total Costs (operational, Capex, SG&A) resulting in 10% decrease in Cost of Sales and 25% decrease in new stores CAPEX
New product and processes development, value chain re-engineering to improve in store operations
Development of turnkey supply and technical solutions to enable fast and efficient business development
Head of Procurement, Logistics and Group Engineering: covering €250 million spend for 40 subsidiaries, leading a team of 6 buyers, 2 engineers and 6 logistics specialists managing a spend of €30 million in domestic and international freight
Detailed Description
Creation from scratch and development of a Central Purchasing organization: conception and deployment of Group procurement strategy, organization development and team selection, gathering Divisions Directors buy-in to the central approach thanks to quick wins generation.
Substantial cost reduction and cost push avoidance of €25 million during the first 4 years achieved through addressing indirect spend and using fit for purpose procurement and sourcing strategies for direct spend
Company procurement culture transformation, performance management systems, value and total cost analysis deployment through training, coaching and processes setting. • Group logistics department reorganization to improve service level to operational branches; outsourcing of a part of the company-owned crops transport department to secure the activity during the vegetables crop peak season and minimize impact of potential strikes.
Company Description
Head of Procurement, Logistics and Group Engineering: covering €250 million spend for 40 subsidiaries, leading a team of 6 buyers, 2 engineers and 6 logistics specialists managing a spend of €30 million in domestic and international freight
In charge for creating a consolidated pan-European "Paper based" packaging purchasing for the 25 Mars Group factories across Europe, managing remotely a team of 4 corporate and 15 site buyers (spend: 200 M€)
Detailed Description
Some achievements:
• Creation of a centralized European corrugated carton purchasing organization (formerly locally purchased by the 25 European sites). Functional organization design and deployment. This initiative resulted in a continuous price decrease, initiated with circa 4 M€ savings out of an initial tendered spend of 30M€ as a first year "quick" win.
• Creation of a Pan-European purchasing organization covering paper based packaging: carton, corrugated, labels.
• Development of a 'European Paper Supplier Base' to deliver the most effective supplier competencies to support Packaging innovation and development teams in their projects. The supplier base was a mix of two different types of suppliers. The first category of selected suppliers was composed with major European packaging suppliers able to develop centrally packaging solutions and implement them across Mars European sites. The second category of suppliers was composed with local, skilled and performing companies selected to challenge the large pan European suppliers.
This supplier base delivered functional and qualitative improvements contributing to the reduction of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO: Beyond these benefits, this project also enabled to quickly deliver an additional average additional 3% price reduction between 2004 and 2005.
Trainer in Market Analysis for the Mars Purchasing internal university