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Pierre-Antoine ValentinPV

Pierre-Antoine Valentin

Category Manager - Achats IT & Telco

€800/day
Marseille, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Pierre-Antoine

I am an enthusiastic, rigorous and motivated self-employee with a positive mindset which leads to find the best solution for challenges I am facing.

Working in IT Procurement in luxury retail gives me the opportunity of developing relationships with demanding stakeholders, being able to assist them in their decisions process, and delivering critical projects in restricted timescales while reducing risk exposure for the company.

Led global sourcing projects and managing evolutive IT Procurement categories over time, such as IT professional services, IT infrastructure projects, Telco, SAP Finance and E-commerce softwares.
Manage the whole procurement process - From the shape of the need to the implementation phase.

Category management, customer centric, positive mindset, pragmatism, and good relationship with internal clients/stakeholders.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Marseille (up to 50km), Paris (up to 10km), Lyon (up to 10km)

Experience

  • TotalEnergies
    Segment Leader
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    March 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)
    Marseille, France
    Segment Leader dans la catégorie Achat Indirect / Digital Solutions

    Digital Solutions s'occupe de tous les sujets digitaux et informatiques liés aux sujets métiers industriels.

    Le segment sous gestion est le suivant:
    - Cybersécurité industrielle
    - Procédés, Laboratoires et R&D
    - IT pour la branche Gaz, Renewable & Power (GRP)
    - SPOC pour les sujets Raffinerie Chimie
    Achats indirects Achats IT Maintenance industrielle achats industriels stratégie achats
  • Kering
    Senior IT Procurement
    LUXURY GOODS
    November 2022 - March 2025 (2 years and 4 months)
    Marseille, France
    One to one negotiation for e-commerce solution with a major worldwide player Partnership negotiation for worldwide SAP roll-out and support SDWAN financial & contractual follow up during the roll-out phase (47 countries, 3 years project)

    - Salesforce negotiation for Marketing Cloud, Service Cloud and Commerce CLoud
    - E-Commerce Headless project
    - Global AMS support prepared and negotiated for a 5 years transformation plan
    - SAP ERP Integration project
    Négociation stratégie achats Achats IT SAP S/4 HANA Salesforce
  • Kering
    Senior IT Procurement
    LUXURY GOODS
    November 2020 - March 2022 (1 year and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    Network infrastructure - Global SDWAN project
    - 120m€ over 5 years
    - 50 countries / 2000 locations
    - 8 suppliers selected (over 18 in negotiation and 26 bidding)
    - New SDWAN Technology
    - Internet based approach
    - 40% savings estimated Telecommunications - TOIP consultation
    - 3,5m€ over 3 years
    - Transformation from old legacy to TOIP teams integrated for EMEA & AMER
    - ~20% savings
    - SaaS technology Professional services - Data, DevOps & Agile coaching
    - RFI for EMEA referencing
    - Design of the new approach and best practices
    - Volume rebate definition
    - Sourcing panel for MSA negotiation
    - Management of 1 junior consultant
    Sourcing Négociation Telco SD-WAN stratégie achats

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Education

  • 2012, Major - Procurement / Minor - Finance controlling, Major - Procurement / Minor - Finance controlling
    Grenoble Ecole de Management - Grenoble Graduate School of Business
    2012
    2012, Major - Procurement / Minor - Finance controlling, Major - Procurement / Minor - Finance controlling
  • 2008, Business/Managerial Economics, Business/Managerial Economics
    ESDHEM - A SKEMA undergraduate program
    2008
    2008, Business/Managerial Economics, Business/Managerial Economics

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