Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original languageAbout Sébastien
I take care of your purchases to reduce your costs, secure your supplies, and structure your supplier relationships — through interim management, team reinforcement, or targeted missions.
Since 2020, I have been working as a freelancer in the restaurant, agri-food, retail, and industrial sectors, on operational and strategic purchasing topics. What sets me apart: I integrate quickly, I work with complete autonomy, and I deliver measurable results — not theoretical recommendations.
🎯My services:
- Tenders (launch, management, supplier selection)
- Negotiation & supplier management
- Sourcing (new suppliers, new geographical areas)
- Cost optimization & purchasing diagnostics
- Purchasing KPIs & reporting
- Creating a purchasing department from scratch
⚙️Examples of missions:
- Restaurants (+100 restaurants): complete purchasing diagnostic, supplier renegotiation, performance monitoring.
- Agri-food (+300 points of sale): tender management and supplier relationship structuring.
- Anti-waste: creation of a purchasing department from scratch (processes, suppliers, monitoring tools).
- Martinique: sourcing local suppliers for the opening of a new operating platform.
- Gin brand creation: sourcing raw materials and negotiating with partner distilleries.
- VSEs: structuring purchases and reducing costs without internal resources.
📊Method:
- Scoping call → objectives and deliverables defined together.
- Regular progress reporting vs. objectives. On-site or remote intervention, short mission or long mandate.
📬Let's work together:
Tell me in 2 lines your context and your main challenge. I will respond within 24 hours with a concrete initial position.
French
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Can work on-site
Bordeaux (up to 50km), Paris (up to 10km), Toulouse (up to 50km), Bayonne (up to 50km), Nantes (up to 50km)
Experience
- Consultant/FreelanceIndependentCONSULTING AND AUDITSSeptember 2020 - Today (5 years and 9 months)Paris, FranceIndependent mission: Freelance purchasing service for agri-food (France, Belgium, Luxembourg)- Portfolio of 300 restaurants,- Annual negotiation of visibility budgets and implementation of counter-performances with industrial partners,- Tender management to support the purchasing department,- Standard buyer tasks,- Stakeholders: KAM, CFO, CatmanIndependent mission: Development of the purchasing service for a growing food start-up (France)- Management of existing suppliers and renegotiation of agreements,- Work on the purchasing decision-making process with the introduction of new KPIs,- Sourcing and signing agreements with new suppliers.- Stakeholders: Founders, CFO, KAMConsulting firm mission: Sourcing for new product launch (France, England)- Launch of a new gin brand on the European market,- Sourcing and management of the project's tender from about fifteen French distilleries,- Global sourcing to find ceramic bottles,- Work on the construction of final product costs,- Stakeholders: Founders, KAM, CFOConsulting firm mission: Purchasing diagnostic for a restaurant company (Madrid, Spain)- Integration into a team of consultants to analyze the expenses of a company with a hundred restaurants,- Analysis of expenses, interviews with suppliers to understand purchasing conditions and their issues,- Search for optimizations in purchasing processes and ingredients/recipes,- Presentation of quantified optimization recommendations.- Stakeholders: CEO, Executive CommitteeIndependent mission: Sourcing and opening of a new operating platform in Travel Retail (Martinique, France)- Management of purchasing tenders: softs and food tenders,- Sourcing and logistics implementation: supplier sourcing, purchasing price negotiations, commercial terms negotiations.
- Enabling Procurement
On Malt
Purchasing ConsultantRESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICEDecember 2021 - February 2022 (2 months)Madrid, Espagne- Integration into a team of consultants to analyze the expenses of a company with a hundred restaurants,- Analysis of expenses, interviews with suppliers to understand purchasing conditions and their issues,- Search for optimizations in purchasing processes and ingredients/recipes,- Presentation of quantified optimization recommendations. - Select Service PartnersTrade Marketing ManagerRESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICESeptember 2018 - October 2020 (2 years and 1 month)Paris, France- Preparation of the annual Trade Marketing strategy: POS eligible for Trade promotions (out of 300 restaurants in VAE and SAT), product categories likely to be promoted, digitalization of promotions.- Negotiation of Trade Marketing investment budgets with beverage & food manufacturers: Pepsi, OSF, Danone, Heineken, Savencia, Sodiaal, Nestlé, etc.- Transformation of budgets into Trade Marketing activations: highlighting new products, cross-functional operations between VAE and SAT, relaying national key events of manufacturers at our points of sale.- Creation and implementation of Category Management monitoring for cold drinks: monitoring assortment evolution, creation of new sub-categories in line with new trends, implementation and analysis of tests; deployment of merchandising plans according to assortments.- Digitalization of Trade Marketing in restaurants: using Menu Boards screens and checkout screens to create in-store promotions.- Recruitment, training, and management of an apprentice.Achievements:- Creation (with a partner provider) of a digital promotion program with the objectives of: in-store activation to create incremental sales, new visibility lever for industrial partners- Contribution to a strong increase in Trade Marketing budgets invested by manufacturers- Creation of a trusting and lasting relationship with partner manufacturers- Growth in performance of the cold drinks assortment following the implementation of Category Management.- Digitalization of Trade Marketing in restaurants- Management
Reviews
M
Manon
PimpUp
Reviewed on 9/4/2025
We had the pleasure of collaborating with Sébastien on a purchasing mission at PimpUp, and the results are already very positive.
Sébastien quickly adapted to our strategy and has a good understanding of our purchasing and anti-waste challenges. In a very short time, he was able to analyze and validate offers, while negotiating advantageous commercial terms.
In summary: a complete, effective, and already impactful profile after only a few weeks. We are delighted to continue this collaboration 👌
Grégory
Enabling Procurement
Reviewed on 1/28/2022
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Education
- Master Grande EcoleESC Rennes2013