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Bernard Bechaz

Transition Manager - R&D Innovation Consultant

€1,100/day
Lyon, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Bernard

TRANSITION MANAGER and R&D INNOVATION CONSULTANT:
• Urgent interim management: temporary replacement of a director or manager
• Lead the transformation of your R&D Innovation towards greater Performance and Agility with the customer at the heart of the processes

An engineer and also a leader, my expertise is based on 30 years of operational responsibilities in industry and interim management experiences in various sectors.

► DO YOU WANT to improve your R&D Innovation PERFORMANCE:
• Reduce your development times
• Launch more innovative projects
• Anticipate and better understand customer needs
• Control your budgets and project profitability
• Be more responsive and flexible
• Increase project quality

► I WILL ACCOMPANY YOU:
To implement sustainable solutions, by working on the 4 levers of change:
• Processes: Rigor, Robustness, and Agility
• Organization: Efficiency and Pragmatism
• Innovation: Dynamism and Audacity
• Technological Strategy: Coherence and Anticipation
• Project Management

► WHY CALL ON ME?
I bring you:
• Immediate operational experience (interim management)
• In small and large organizations, in France or internationally
• A strategic vision of the company and expertise in R&D Innovation processes
• Pragmatic TRANSFORMATION proposals with rapid results
• Personalized support

My convictions: Performance and therefore sustainability are built with processes that are both solid and agile; by putting the customer at the center of concerns. R&D must be part of a company vision and culture that fosters a spirit of collaboration, autonomy, and responsibility, a source of employee motivation

I operate throughout France and internationally. I am based in Lyon.
Fluent English.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Grenoble (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Thomas & Betts,
    Vice-President R&D of the Installation Products Division
    January 2016 - May 2021 (5 years and 4 months)
    Memphis, TN, USA
    Emergency lighting, medium voltage connectors, connection, cabling… - Revenue: 1.5 billion US dollars As part of the integration of Thomas & Betts into the ABB group, reorganize R&D and boost innovation
    • Member of the Management Committee, transformation of R&D through the creation of technological competence centers
    • Coordination and management of R&D teams: US, CA, UK, FR, CH, NL, CN - 200 people
    • Creation of an external ecosystem (Startups, customers, suppliers) and internal (ABB research centers) => growth in new product launches (+10%) and cost optimization (-10%)
  • ZABD Consulting
    Transition Manager Director R&D Innovation
    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    February 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)
    1 - Transition management, missions carried out:
    • Interim management, temporary replacement of the R&D Director
    • Diagnosis of organizations, optimization and transformation of product development processes
    • Restructuring of technical teams, recruitment
    • Project portfolio management
    • Sectors: industrial aluminum carpentry, Renewable energies
    • Average duration 10 months

    2 - Consulting in business organization, in the specific field of R&D Innovation.
    Objective: to provide solutions for Research and Development activities to regain performance, but also agility.
    The principle is to improve and simplify organizations & processes to find a balance between flexibility, agility, and rigor, with the customer always at the center of concerns:
    - Change management
    - Performance improvement
    - Project management

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Education

  • Arts et Métiers Engineer
    Paris University of Technology
    Ingénieur Arts et Métiers

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