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Brethenoux DENIS

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OBJECTIVE
Join the automotive industry as Business Unit VP/Director, Program or Operations Director in order to develop/increase activity in Europe, APAC or BRIC countries.
Strong industrial culture of launches/challenges with autonomy, open mindset and International culture.
Open to work not only in automotive Industry

KEY EXPERIENCES & STRENGTHS
• 18 years of management experience in automotive business: good customers knowledge (PSA/RSA/NISSAN/FORD/VW/MMC/TMC) along with different technologies - electronics lines, Harnesses plants, JIT Seat plants, Stamping, Welding and sewing processes
• Operational and General Management positions: have successfully handled management role in program management, Sales and Operations including management of strong social Crisis
• Strong values : Team building, focus on result, root cause mindset, Profitability and customer satisfaction
• International experiences : managed multicultural teams and programs with overseas experience including 3 years in Spain/Portugal, 1 year in Japan, 2 years in Eastern EU, 1 year in Russia and India

Entreprises

  • Faurecia - Général manager russia faurecia automotive exterior

    2013 - maintenant Need to launch faurecia activities on russia
    2 plants to Launch in tatarstan region
  • Lear corporation - Operation Director Russia and France

    Southfield 2012 - 2013 • Manage 3 JIT seating plants in Russia - Sales 0,4b€ in 2012, 0,8b€ in 2013, 611 people to 1300 people in 2013.
    • Manage operations growth/launch with 2 new JIT plants to launch (Kaluga and Togliatti), 50% sales and 50% workforce increase, and with 1 new foaming plant and 1 new Cut&saw plant.
    • Create a team in Russia, train them in order to have People available to grow inside Lear Russia with a notion of Succession plan and OI improvement (Team building trainings, Incentive system, personal roadmap for each key player)
    • Handle 3 Successful launches in 2012 (T73 (metal, cut&saw, JIT, HR), MMC outlander JIT, Foaming plant) and prepare 5 future launches beginning of 2013 (PSA/MMC/Ford/LADA/VW)
    • Quantified actions: ppm improvement (Was: 100 ppm; Is:35 ppm), logistics improvement (5000 uncompleted cars last year/ 1000 this year and nothing since 4 months), profitability improvement (+5% OI in 6 months and robust roadmap), efficiency improvement (Minimum 1 Workshop per month for each plant), 15% of Logistic improvements (Have trailers loaded at 100% for European transportation or making Milk run), Escalation process creation for all employees.
  • LEAR Corporation - Directeur des opération JIT pour Clients Français

    Southfield 2008 - 2012 • Lead 6 JIT seating plants in Europe (3 plants in France, 1 in Spain, , 1 in CZ, 1 in Slovakia) 1300 people, Sales of 0,8b€)
    • Re organized the Full print of the French plant by merging the 2 Parisian plants in 1 plant; Direct negotiations with unions on site with a lot of external pressure from extremist political group that were driving Lear employees (14 Weeks of Strike, 6 m€ yearly savings).
    • Insure 4 successful launches with Quality (achieved 50ppm after 6 months vs 500 ppm) and Cost improvements comparing to Business case (-6% as medium on each launch)
    • Train the team to be more focus on Customer (Increasing of internal target vs Customer) , KPI and profitability ownership (checkbook, Task Ownership, …), and autonomy (sharing action instead of asking action)
    • Create a spare parts center for French Customer to insure better services (was 50%; Is 97%) and profitability (OI improvement of 15%)
  • Lear Corporation - Directeur de Plateforme

    Southfield 2006 - 2007 Seating Platform Director, 250M€ sales/ year
    • Lead business activity of global programs for Renault (X61, L90 India & SA) and Toyota
    • Put in place an action plan to make projects profitable (improvement of 35% comparing original Business case by controlling each changes, share the strategy between Eng/Sales/Purchasing and plant and by following for each department their tasks)
    • Achieved and surpassed customer and Lear targets for Quality: 0 ppm, Profitability: + 35% OI
    • Coordinate the complete team (Program manager, Launch manager, Planning Manager, Product Change Manager, Commercial, Plant manager) with different nationality, culture and specialty.
  • Lear Corporation - Directeur Commercial activité Sièges PSA/RSA

    Southfield 2005 - 2006 • Lead sales activity of a business unit of 1,2 b€/year
    • Coordinate sales actions of 8 sales manager
    • Create and have customer commitments for sales strategy for all sensible subjects with customers (technical shutdown days, strikes, Quality issues)
    • Recovered 3,5m€ of old litigant subjects that nobody was taking care.
  • Lear Corporation - Directeur du programme B0 (JV Toyota:PSA)

    Southfield 2003 - 2005 • Lead an international seating program – Customer : Toyota/PSA - Sales: 70Mi€/year reporting each month to Lear CEO;
    • Action + OI improvement of 30% regarding original business case
    • Responsible for the operation during the launch (2 new plants in Eastern Europe)
    • Coordination of pluridisciplinary teams (Product/Process/.Quality/Purchasing/Logistics in several countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, CZ, Poland and Japan)
  • Magneti Marelli - French Telematic business Manager

    Nanterre Cedex 2001 - 2003 French Telematics business Manager 1 DIN (Radio/Telephone/navigation) with displays (LCD and TFT)
    • Sales: 200 Mi€/an, 12 projects
    • Insure a difficult launch linked with the SW validation (establish a team to make driving test in parallel of PSA in order to have more data on IT issues and establish special team at PSA)
    • Insure the 12 launches on each PSA cars
    • Take over the New Telematics platform for PSA
  • Lear Corporation / United Technologies Automotive - PRogram Manager

    1994 - 2001 Program manager for Smart Junction boxes and Harnesses for the Citroen C5 (Sales: 69 Mi€/an)
    • Successful Launches for harnesses and with the first smart junction box between PSA and Lear
    • Insure the growth of Valongo Harnesses plant (start at 40 employee to 600 within 1 year, 1200 2 years)

Formations

  • EPITA

    Paris 1990 - 1993 ENg en Informatique Industrielle & Intellignece artificielle

    Compétences acquises, disciplines abordées, activités annexes.
  • EPITA - Ecole D'Ingénieurs En Informatique

    Kremlin Bicêtre 1990 - 1993 Informatique industrielle intelligence artificielle et Automatisme
  • Lycée Frederic Ozanam (Lille)

    Lille 1988 - 1990 BTS Mécanique et Automatisme industriel

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