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Description

🎯 Expert in turning around profitability, business growth, and processes.

Missions :

✔️ Flash audit to boost your product, margin, and/or image performance

✔️ Quick additional revenue via optimization of product mix or ranges

✔️ Rapid optimization of your KPIs and reporting to aid decision-making

✔️ Ad-hoc support for your purchasing and/or upstream margin optimization

✔️ Rapid improvement of your retro-planning and processes for 100% on-time delivery

✔️ Express analysis and optimization of your stocks for revaluation

✔️ Flash implementation of an ESG strategy

📍 Based in Paris – Travel possible

💬 Interested? Let's quickly discuss your goals!

👉 What I can bring you:

✅ 17 years of experience in brand turnaround, product and process performance development and improvement. Expert knowledge of trades, prices, and challenges.

✅ Drastic improvement in profitability and commercial performance. Tailored strategies, listening, method, and proven agility: +2.3 points margin for Monoprix (textiles), 100% ESG collection and +3% revenue in 4.5 months.

✅ Flash leadership & project management, management or support of your multidisciplinary teams (creative, product, development, R&D, packaging, purchasing, digital, operational marketing, and e-commerce. Example: at Dim, launch of swimwear, contributing to 30% of revenue in 3 months.

✅ Responsiveness through the implementation of effective KPIs: monitoring, reporting, forecasting, decision-making, scenario planning, opportunity capture, or corrective action plans.

✅ Product sensitivity combined with a pragmatic approach, customer and results-oriented.

See you soon

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Lille (up to 50km)

VANESSA WU
COLLECTIONS TRANSFORMATION MANAGER
FASHION AND COSMETICS
July 2025 - February 2026 (7 months)
Paris, France
Mission to strategically structure the offer and secure performance in a context of omnichannel transformation and acceleration.

Mandate entrusted for:
- Redefining product strategy and price positioning
- Overhauling development processes, from retro-planning to market launch
- Rationalizing assortments based on product life cycles
- Optimizing the product/margin/volume mix
- Securing forecasts and improving margins and their control
- Streamlining decision-making cycles
- Supporting the transition to multi-country sourcing and upgrading

Results:
⌛ Significant reduction in time-to-market
💰 Launch of concept lines contributing +17% of revenue from the first season
👟 Improved offer clarity and optimization of SKU count
📈 Better volume anticipation and reliable projections

Direct management: 3 people + 2 freelancers – mobilizing, upskilling, and strategically aligning teams.
Product Strategy Complex Project Management Change Management & Transformation Product Development Change Management
MONOPRIX
OFFER PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
FASHION AND COSMETICS
April 2023 - December 2023 (8 months)
Clichy, France
Mission to optimize the offer and its commercial performance, and to oversee development and purchasing.

Interventions:

✅ KPI optimization and "Monday analysis".

✅ Briefs: identifying growth pillars and opportunities through analysis of trends, competition, and previous season reviews. Developing collection plans, target prices, and OTB (purchasing budgets), supporting ESG transformation from creation.

✅ Global retro-planning optimization, cascading down to departments to facilitate information transfer.

✅ Development piloting
- Sourcing selection (address book of +20 suppliers)
- Coordination of creative, product, and purchasing teams for launches: creating shared tracking tools to optimize information sharing
⌚ 35% time saved!
🚀 Supporting the upskilling of junior team members.

✅ Direct negotiation of strategic lines with suppliers, geographical reorganization to optimize upstream margin (China, Bangladesh, India).
📈 +2.3% margin

✅ Validation of material swatches, lab dips, and then prototypes with teams at all stages, from protos 1, protos 2, protos 3, size ranges, pre-production, and series head.

✅ Launch of attractive, loyalty-building, revenue-contributing, competitive concepts that respond to market and customer needs and evolutions.
👉 Flax line concept, soft and comfortable ecovero viscose, recycled cashmere, pointelle knit which became a new staple ✌️