Nicolas
COO/Managing Director - France - iCEO #61870

Experience

Expert at conceiving, developing, and executing comprehensive strategies in the areas of organisation, Strategic Sourcing, Direct & Indirect Procurement and Source-to-Procure processes. Team builder highly skilled at leading international organisations to maximize opportunities, reduce costs.

Major Achievements

•Implement strategy to balance office locations enabling us to deepen our partnerships with our customers, increasing our ability to share knowledge among our sourcing experts, and reduce costs associated with where we perform each of our functions. As part of this, I led the conceptualization, strategy, planning and implementation of Sourcing shared services operations in Beijing, Bangalore and Costa Rica and a strengthening of our regional hubs with key strategic resources. •Creation of a Talent Management process: to increase Sourcing’s capability through recruitment, internal development and talent upgrade; to maintain optimal retention of key talents, to develop next generation of Leaders. •Evolved the group into a project-minded organization, closely aligned with business strategy, capable of identifying and leading cross-functional projects, and growing its scope beyond traditional areas of responsibility into process and demand management. •Deploy tools & processes enabling improved decision making, effectiveness, operational efficiency and risk mitigation.

Industry Sector Competencies

Software

Telecommunications

Consumer Goods

Financial Services

Media

Professional Objectives

Function: CPO, COO, etc....

Interim Manager: Yes

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time

Prefered Locations: Singapore, Switzerland

Additional Professional Interests

Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

France

Switzerland

UK

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Professional)

Business development (Professional)

Acquisition and shadow management (Professional)

Geographical expansion (Professional)