I'm always looking to meet new people. Feel free to connect via LinkedIn or contact me directly at joel.dumont@outlook.comLocated in China, Ningbo, we are doing sourcing for Gifi, a French retailer with 650+ stores and $1.5bn of sales. We are a team of 70+ professionals in delivering high-quality and cost-effective products for the European market. With an Executive MBA and 23 years of experience in China, I have a strong technical background and a deep understanding of the Chinese culture and business environment.I leverage my skills in manufacturing process improvement, problem solving, and R&D operations to drive innovation and efficiency in our sourcing and procurement processes. Since Covid reopening, we have renegotiated our costs and gained double digits percentage.We reshuffled our supplier base, and increased our new product offerings. We have also reduced our overall costs by more than 20%, while maintaining our standards for design and safety. My mission is to build a sourcing and procurement powerhouse that creates value for our customers and our company.Broadly, I have a real passion for problem solving. I always go back to root cause analysis no matter the issue. It fits well for products development in almost an obvious manner. I found it fits also with sourcing, operations management where analytic skills come into play as much as "gut feeling" during negotiations.I am a strong believer of people. Without being candid, I take real pride in recruiting and help developing people. It makes resources management much easier when people are highly capable. I am grateful I got to be in cross-functional team leadership positions almost all my career, it provides invaluable openness to general management.Competencies: General Management, Research and Development, Products engineering, Projects Management, Supply Management, Negotiations, Sourcing, Problem Solving, Cross-cultural teams leadership.