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Description

I am a senior consultant in R&D improvement projects and complex R&D project management - R&D transition manager

☞ Are you in industry, with struggling R&D projects:

○ Products lacking competitiveness, performance, or innovation

○ Innovation or product development projects that are too long or stalled

🛠 I WILL ACCOMPANY YOU by improving your:

○ Product innovation management - innovation roadmap management and innovation project scoping

○ Efficiency/effectiveness of your R&D engineering - complex systems engineering and project management

○ Your time to market and product competitiveness - analysis and challenge of products, processes, and tools (simulation, data, etc.)

• -> You will improve your R&D operational excellence to regain competitiveness (quality, cost, deadlines)

✅ WHY CALL ON ME?

○ 25 years of experience in R&D team management and R&D project management in the automotive industry

○ Technical expertise in system engineering, safety, simulation, and innovation management

○ LEAN - Kaizen / Monozukuri skills - ability to challenge cross-functional teams (R&D, purchasing, production)

○ Time to market transformation experience (development process from 3 years to 2 years)

📌 I am based in Lyon – I operate within a 2-hour radius of Lyon (including Paris)

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Lyon (up to 50km), Grenoble (up to 50km), Valence (up to 50km), Saint-Étienne (up to 50km), Chambéry (up to 50km)

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