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Technical Readiness Leader for Europe and MEA initiatives. Responsible for coordinating end to end all the functions and technical processes to launch a new product to the market. Translating business needs into technical requirements. From initial product design to the implementation in the production lines and launch to the market.

• Leader of the technical manufacturing team responsible for supporting daily operations while bringing new products innovation to the production lines.• Start-up leader of commercial and cost saving initiatives touching product design and manufacturing operations.• Delivering bcp and flexsourcing plans to avoid supply disruptions while maximizing capacity utilization• Implementing best practices in standardization PDCA and IWS processes focused on losses elimination

• Developing Operating Strategies to integrate business priorities into supply chain operations. • Leading weekly, monthly and quarterly drumbeats along the supply chain nodes: Planning Service Center, Markets, T&W and Manufacturing sites.• Driving End-to-End Cost Analyses per Customer and Replenishment Stream across Value Streams.• Delivering best in class synchronization results in Iberia and Eastern Europe markets.: Service, Cash and Cost. • Managing the digital program for Europe business planning: optimization and advance analytics tools.• Developing business continuity plans with plants, customers and suppliers to cope with Covid disruption

• Supply chain Modelling & Analytics to visualize and define E2E operating strategies.• Tool developer: Pilot rolled out and finally integrated as one of the corporate standard reporting tools for Supply Chain Planning Synchronization measures. • Data extraction, processing, analytics & visualization (Big Data, cloudera Hadoop, Knime, Tableau).

• Production, quality and environmental KPI data maintenance. Benchmark analysis and development of best practices for energy and water consumption across the production sites globally.• Digital transformation analyst – roll out a new program to visualize production and environmental data in real time to enable fast data-based decision making.

• Leading the study and implementation of a project consisting in repairing hydraulic pumps managing local people and local resources in Nikki (Benin). • Creating technical capabilities among the local population. Leading negotiations with local authorities to regulate this activity and grant them a contract as public workers