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Milan Area, Italy

Milan Area, Italy

Nominated by the CEO to build the Supply Chain function across the company, rapidly acquired knowledge of the situation and developed a detailed business plan to create a new supply chain culture. Functional areas involved Procurement, Direct Sourcing, Logistic Operations, in Distribution Centers and in stores, as well as P&L accountability. Reported to CEO and member of the board and managed directly a team of 25 and indirectly more than 500 employees in DC and Stores. • Executed a… Show more Nominated by the CEO to build the Supply Chain function across the company, rapidly acquired knowledge of the situation and developed a detailed business plan to create a new supply chain culture. Functional areas involved Procurement, Direct Sourcing, Logistic Operations, in Distribution Centers and in stores, as well as P&L accountability. Reported to CEO and member of the board and managed directly a team of 25 and indirectly more than 500 employees in DC and Stores. • Executed a business transformation program to support an ambitious growth strategy that included merging the Supply Chain of the 2 market leaders.• Built a referent model for a Sustainable Supply Chain able to serve different canals bringing sustainable value for every supply chain dollar.• Improved Supply Chain reliability through a vast program of perfect order fulfillment, cycle time and supply chain responsiveness with significant reduction of costs and stock.• Delivered best practices in France, Poland, Spain, Greece and cooperated actively in the definition of the Supply Chain model in Russia.• Directed the IT Team during 4 years to improve store productivity through modernizing the back office operations.• Initiated and directed an innovative 10-year plan to transform Leroy Merlin into a sustainable model.• Engaged in an ambitious business program of converting the company into a cross canal leader Show less

Milan Area, Italy

Nominated by the CEO to take in charge all of the administrative and financial systems, including finance, accounting, information technology and logistics. Member of the senior management team managed directly a staff of 7 including 2 financial regional managers, accounting manager, treasurer, IT manager, logistic manager and Audit.In this 3 years period, the annual revenue grew to USD 500 millions with all 15 stores with positive cash flow.• Designed and installed a… Show more Nominated by the CEO to take in charge all of the administrative and financial systems, including finance, accounting, information technology and logistics. Member of the senior management team managed directly a staff of 7 including 2 financial regional managers, accounting manager, treasurer, IT manager, logistic manager and Audit.In this 3 years period, the annual revenue grew to USD 500 millions with all 15 stores with positive cash flow.• Designed and installed a comprehensive sharing system to create bonus at store level along with 97% of employees becoming shareholder of the mother company.• Generated a mindset centered on progress and teamwork that led to significant improvement of the bottom line.• Reduced monthly closing of financial results from more than 10 days to 4 business days.• Designed and implemented an annual budget process that supported a 5-year business plan.• Implemented internal controls on inventory resulting in a 0.6% reduction of shrinkage. Show less

Milan Area, Italy

Hired by the CEO and moved to Italy to this newly created function to develop a culture of financial management in a start up company which had 4 stores and total revenue of USD 50 millions.Responsible for the full P&L of the business including, among other thing, financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis.As an active member of the Leadership team, managed the finances of a high-growth retail business (annual rate of growth of 30%) that reached 9 stores for USD 200 millions… Show more Hired by the CEO and moved to Italy to this newly created function to develop a culture of financial management in a start up company which had 4 stores and total revenue of USD 50 millions.Responsible for the full P&L of the business including, among other thing, financial metrics, reporting, forecasting and analysis.As an active member of the Leadership team, managed the finances of a high-growth retail business (annual rate of growth of 30%) that reached 9 stores for USD 200 millions revenue in 2003.• Turned around and brought the business unit to profitability in less than 18 months through reorganization including:• Improving sales and margin trough the installation of a procurement system in the stores• Opening of new stores with higher ROI.• Improving the bottom line with cost and inventory reduction.• Hiring and Training of staff including 9 financial store controllers.• Worked with local retail team to produce robust budgets and forecasts for all sales and cost areas. • Delivered a set up of tools to create budget and reporting analysis and 5-year business plan. Show less

Nice Area, France

• Store Financial Manager, led a team of more than 300 employees in flagship store of USD 80 millions annual turnover

Brussels Area, Belgium

Consultant in Business Performance improvement (France Telecom)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science, Economics & Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Honor Student in Economics Teaching Assistant at the Department of French and Italian