Vincent BICHET

En résumé

Entreprises

• Vista Buena Consulting (www.vistabuenaconsulting.com) - Fondateur / Chef d'entreprise

  2012 - maintenant Vista Buena Consulting is a firm focusing on bringing personalized advice, and accompanying its customers in implementing its recommendations, in the fields of:
  - Strategic positioning
  - Brand positioning
  - Customer relationship management
  - Manufacturing excellence and quality management
  - Restructuring and organization streamlining
  - Team building and energizing
  - HR management, talent identification and development
  - Advocacy and public affairs
  - Project management
  
  

• Holcim France Benelux SA - Directeur Général et Membre du Conseil d'Administration

  2009 - 2011 Holcim France Benelux is a one billion Euro turnover company, active in cement, aggregates, ready-mixed concrete and others concrete products and services. It employs 3’000 people in four countries.
  
  Main challenges and achievements:
   Weathered the economic crisis effectively (maintained roughly the consolidated Ebitda margin at the 2008 level) through carefully designed pricing strategies and adjustment of the fixed costs to the new volume of business
   Streamlined and simplified the business processes allowing for a sharp reduction of support process costs
   Divested and/or deconsolidated several non-core underperforming businesses

• Holcim France Benelux SA - Directeur général opérations ciments

  2004 - 2009 Member of the Executive Committee of Holcim France Benelux, in charge of Cement Manufacturing Operations, i.e. 6 integrated cement plants, 3 grinding stations, and of Geocycle, an industrial waste service provider
  
  Main challenges and achievements:
   Engrained a customer-centric mindset within the production team
   Developed an application-based portfolio of highly blended products
   Captured sizable operational synergies within the industrial set-up
   Enhanced Geocycle’s (a 40 million Euro gross added value business unit) reputation as an ecologically sound and sustainable solution provider for industrial waste valorization
   Systematically identified the next generation of managers and boosted their development

• SiamCity Cement (Thaïlande) - Managing Director

  2001 - 2004 Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee
  
  Siam City Cement is a public company, listed at the stock exchange of Bangkok. Holcim entered into a joint venture with Bank of Ayudhya in 1999, obtaining the management of this 600 mUSD turnover company, active in cement, ready-mixed concrete and aggregates in South-East Asia.
  
  Fully accountable to the Board of Directors for the Company’s operations and financial results
  
  Chairman of the Board of Siam City Concrete Co., a fully-owned subsidiary of SCCC
  
  Main challenges and achievements:
   Increased in a sustainable manner the operating efficiency of the company in an extremely oversupplied market
   Turned the company’s ready-mixed concrete operation into a profitable business
   Set up a professional procurement department
   Down-sized significantly the manufacturing organization
   Continued to identify talents and to develop the next generation of managers

• Siam City Cement (Thaïlande) - Executive Vice President

  1999 - 2001 Member of the Executive Committee of Siam City Cement Public Co. Ltd., in charge of Marketing and Sales, Logistics, Manufacturing, Ready-mixed Concrete and Procurement
  Chairman of the Board of Siam City Concrete Co., a fully-owned subsidiary of SCCC
  
  Main challenges and achievements:
   Complete re-structuring of the Marketing and Sales organization
   Set-up of a proper logistics organization
   Developed sustainable positions at the exports
   Streamlined the company’s cement and RMC operations
   Identified the next generation of managers and started their development

• Apasco SA (Mexique) - Vice President, Marketing & Ventes

  1992 - 1999 Apasco is a leading Mexican construction materials and services company. It employs 4’000 people nationwide.
  Member of the Executive Committee of Apasco, responsible for Marketing, Sales, Logistics and Distribution
  
  Main challenges and achievements:
   Defined and implemented a comprehensive branding scheme and positioned Apasco’s logo as the only nation-wide brand in Mexico
   Set up a highly efficient network of distribution centers throughout the Mexican market
   Built an import/export terminal in Manzanillo
   President of the Mexican Chamber of Cement Industry (1998-1999)

• Apasco SA (Mexique) - Directeur général

  1990 - 1991 Responsible for Marketing, Sales, Human Resources and Finance and Administration of the Southeastern Division of Cementos Apasco
  
  Main challenges and achievements:
   Turned a cash destroying business unit into a value adding position of the Apasco Group
   Through an intense focus on the relevant market, turned the Southeastern Division into black numbers within nine months

• Apasco SA (Mexique) - Directeur d'usine

  1988 - 1990 Responsable pour la production et les relations industrielles de l'usine de Macuspana
  
  Principaux défis et réalisations:
   rationalisation del'organisationde l'usine
   négociation réussie avec les partenaires sociaux d'une réduction de 33%du personnel
   développement et mise sur le marché d'un produit spécial pour la cimentation des puits de forage pétroliers

• Apasco SA (Mexique) - Responsable de la maintenance

  1987 - 1988 Responsable pour l'entretien mécanique et électrique des deux lignes de production de la cimenterie d'Apaxco, d'une capacité de 1,9 millions de tonnes par an.

• Apasco SA (Mexique) - Responsable de la maintenance mécanique

  1984 - 1987 Responsable pour l'entretien mécanique des deux lignes de production de la cimenterie d'Orizaba,d'une capacité de 1,9 millions de tonnes par an.

• Dundee Cement Company - Assistant to the Head of Maintenance

  1983 - 1984

• EcolePolytechnique de Lausanne - Assitant du Professeur Ryhming

  1981 - 1983

Formations

• Université De Lausanne (Lausanne)

  Lausanne 1991 - 1992 Mastère en gestion d'entreprises
  
  Faculté des hautes études commerciales

• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne EPFL (Lausanne)

  Lausanne 1974 - 1981 Mécanique

Réseau

• Mathieu SPONY

• Nathalie VANDERLINDEN

• Patrick FRANCHOMME