Rueil Malmaison
KEY COMPETENCIES:
Over 25 years of extensive experience in international management (of which 10 years expatriated in Middle-East), in the management of profit centers with key competencies in trading, international sales, large projects negotiations, marketing, services, purchasing, change management programs.
PERSONNAL PROJECT:
General management of international profit center or business unit or medium size corporation.
Global management of purchasing organisation for a large cost driven company
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
Preparation to French Officer Air Force Academy (E.P.A.) 1974-1976
- Math.Sup & Math.Spé (M)
Reims Management School & Middlesex Business School London 1976-1980
- Graduated from Reims Management School. (CESEM) - June 1980
- B.A.(Honours) in European Business Administartion (Grade 2nd Upper) - June 1980
PROFESSIONNAL BACKGROUND:
I joined Schneider Electric Global Purchasing organization early 2008 to lead all Purchasing Transformations Programs for 2 years, before being appointed since 2010 in the position of Senior Vice President - Non Production Purchases for Schneider Electric group overall, responsible for purchasing performance and organization of 4 billions €uros of non production purchases.
Previously in Schneider Electric I assumed in 2007 the position of Senior Vice President for Services & Projects Line of Business in the new IT Business of Schneider Electric with a P&L responsibility over 600M.US$. This new business unit of Schneider Electric was created with the merger of the 2 recent acquisitions of APC (2007) and MGE UPS Systems (2006) where I was holding the position of Senior Vice President for Europe & International with a P&L responsibility over 400M€.
French national and graduated from Reims Management School (France) with B.A. Honours from Enfield Business School (London - UK), I started my career as sales engineer and sales manager for companies involved in IT solutions (CII Honeywell Bull), trading of piping equipments (Trouvay & Cauvin) or building materials (Lambert Industries), mostly in Middle-East.
Then I joined Merlin Gerin to set up a subsidiary in Saudi Arabia in 1986. Merlin Gerin was later acquired by Schneider Electric, where I held different management positions in finance and sales, ending as Marketing Director for Middle East & India Zone, totalizing eventually more than 10 years of expatriation and 15 years of experience in Middle East.
I cumulated more than 30 years of international management experience in different fields of trading, international sales, large projects negotiations, marketing, services and purchasing.
VALUES:
My personal leadership values are based on trust, entrepreneurship, teamwork, solidarity and integrity.
My personnal values are based on loyalty, truth, work and service.
Mes compétences :
Building materials
CEO
Change Management
COO
Energy
General Management
International
International management
International Sales
Leadership
Management
Marketing
Materials
Negotiations
PIPING
Purchasing
Sales
Trading
