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🎯 Your Supply Chain is a performance lever, not a cost center. I help you activate it.
Supply Chain & Procurement Director — 30 years of international experience, including 4 years in General Management (full P&L). I work on a permanent or interim management basis with SMEs, mid-sized companies, and large groups undergoing transformation, to structure, stabilize, and improve the performance of their Supply Chain organizations.
Results achieved with my clients and employers:
📈 Service level increased from 83% to 99%
📉 Inventory reduction from 25% to 70%
💶 Several million euros in procurement and logistics savings (reverse logistics, transport renegotiation, procurement centralization)
🏭 Team management up to 380 people, multi-site, multi-country
What I bring concretely:
⚙️ Transformation & Structuring
Creation/overhaul of Supply Chain organizations, S&OP deployment, procurement centralization, optimization of international and intralogistics flows
📦 Operational Management & Steering
Management of multi-site teams up to 380 people, profit center management, HSE/CSR steering
💰 Performance & Cost Reduction
KPI steering, S&OP, transport renegotiation, distribution network optimization, reverse logistics
🖥️ IT & Data Expertise
ERP (SAP, JDE, Microsoft Dynamics/Navision, Sage, Cegid), MRP/APS (Oracle MRP, Manugistics, Logility, Futurmaster), Power BI, WMS, EDI
Sectors: Cosmetics · Chemicals · IT/Cloud/Telecom · Electronics/Semiconductors · FMCG (Wines & Spirits) · Industry/Construction
🌍 Trilingual French · English · German
📍 Paris — Available from July 15, 2026
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French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 30km), Lille (up to 30km), Nantes (up to 30km), Bordeaux (up to 30km)
Experience
- CosmétiquesSupply Chain Director (Interim Management)HEALTH AND WELLNESSJanuary 2026 - Today (7 months)Paris, FranceINITIALLY 6 MONTHS but extended*************************************Supply Chain Management(45 people)Production & subcontracting planningProcurementCustomer ServiceLogistics & DistributionImplementation of S&OP & RCCPCosmetics sector, in a highly responsive international subcontracting environment.Reporting to the General Manager & functionally to the Group Supply Chain Director
- French BloomSupply Chain Director (Interim Management)WINE AND SPIRITSJuly 2025 - January 2026 (6 months)Paris, FranceCompany in the non-alcoholic sparkling wine sectorSupply Chain Director (including production)Procurement-Supply Planning-Production Planning - Production Monitoring - Creation of packaging with marketing - Customer Order Management (B2B & B2C), Logistics & copacking - Global transport with US subsidiaries, Australia,... & distributors.
- OVHcloud Paris
On Malt
Global Supply Chain Director (Interim Manager)TECHAugust 2024 - April 2025 (8 months)Croix, FranceNB: Initial mission from August to December, extended until the end of April 2025Mission Description:Following the departure of the previous Group Supply Chain Director, the team had been without a manager for several months. It was necessary to regain leadership of the teams (40 people across multiple sites in Paris/Lyon/Roubaix/Croix, and in Canada)- Global Supply Chain Management (forecasting, planning, production planning for 2 production sites in Croix & Beauharnois (Canada), procurement, inventory management, customization, customer service, transport, distribution strategy across 43 datacenters worldwide.- Optimization of the 460,000 server fleet- Participation & support of the ongoing transformation plan with an existing consulting firm.- Backlog management & customer request management (MTO).- Inventory Management (Inventory/Budget/E&O)- Improvement of IT tools- Ensuring optimal customer service- Implementation of reportingTools and software: SAP, TABLEAU, ANAPLANManagement: 40 people (across 5 sites / 2 countries – France & Canada)
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Education
- MASTER 2 - DESS Strategic Procurement ManagementIAE Université Pierre Mendès France1996MASTER 2 - DESS Management Stratégique des Achats obtenu en formation continue
- CYGMA - Procurement Management and Operations CycleIAE Université Pierre Mendès France1995(CYGMA) - homologué Bac+4 obtenu en formation continue
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