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Madagascar

• Manager of all services offered to employees (Opex 27M$ / Capex 21M$): expat international travels – camps management (2,000 rooms)- catering services (7,500 meals/day)- office cleaning services- airplane and airfields services coordination – Covid management of a complete isolated camps for 5 months - for a Nickel/Cobalt mining and refinery operations of 10,000 + employees / contractors• Managing all aspects of expats and national employees needs and supports • Maintaining a solid and respectful relationship with the Catering supplier on the island and abroad. • Supervision of a team of 54 employees dedicated at serving the global employees footprint of the corporation • Coaching and knowledge transfer to the local employees and contractors

Madagascar

• Manager of contracts activities for a Nickel – Cobalt mining operations. (10,000 employees / contractors)• Managed all aspects of contract negotiations and suppliers relationships Supervios of a solid procurement team (72 employees)• Maintaining a solid relationship with suppliers on the island and abroad. • Develop a different suppliers footprint in order to reduce the logistics and the warehousing costs and expenses• Coaching the local non experience employees towards international procurement expertize

Kone, New Caledonia

Director procurement and materials management (contracts, purchasing, warehousing and logistics) for the Xstrata Nickel Mining Project (Koniambo Nickel) in New Caledonia. One of the largest (5B US$) nickel projects in the world with a production capacity of 60,000 tons of Ferro-nickel per annum.Lead a solid world class procurement and logistic team in establishing procurement policies and procedures combined with the right corporate governance guidelines.

Kone, New Caledonia

Manager contract group for Koniambo Project operations. Coordination of the sourcing activities for all major contracts, goods and services procurement and transportation needs.

Montreal Canada

Canadian Director for all strategics procurement activities for Xstrata Zinc Canadian group.Chairman Of The Board Of Directors Industrial Gas Users Association of Canada

Montreal

Corporate energy procurement director for all canadians mining divisons of Falconbridge Ltd.Chairman Of The Board Of Directors Industrial Gas Users Association of Canada

Abitibi, Quebec

President of a consulting firm dedicated to help human being believing in themselves and taking charge of their own destiny.Seminars, Leadership, Coaching and Personal Development.Coaching, training and consulting on industrial procurement and related activities

Procurement Director for all Canadian procurement activities for this major gold mining group

Dominican Republic + Sudbury Canada

Leading the Northern American procurement activities of this ferro-nickel mining group

Chapais, Quebec, Canada

Procurement Director for all procurement and logistics activities for two major gold and copper mining groups

Master Practicioner, Nlp, Diplôme

Private University Diploma, Leadership, Coaching And Personal Development

Leadership, Management, Team And Group Building