Experience
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Project Manager
since 2020 - Vestas Northern Europe, Malmö, Sweden
- Contributed to doubling the department’s projects intake over two years through continual process improvement.
- Used Stage Gate Process to manage more than 30 software and hardware projects with internal stakeholders, coordinating each with a different internal team of 5 specialists and external contractors.
- Oversaw planning, scheduling, configuration, delivery, installation and testing of customised wind park control systems.
- Built more than 20 business cases and oversaw the implementation and delivery.
- Supported sales with quotations and contract revision on more than 25 projects.
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Product Manager, Watches
2013-2020 Woodshores, Landskrona, Sweden
- Built business cases and steered product portfolio planning, leading to compound 50% sales growth over two years.
- Provided subject matter expertise for brand value creation and cost optimisation: Nordgreen (Denmark), NUUN Official (Bahreïn), Patria Watch (United Kingdom).
- Facilitated the acquisition of intellectual property and the retention of 12 person staff, Festina Candino (Switzerland).
2015-2019 Festina Group Technology, Malmö, Sweden
- Provided baseline for portfolio strategy and for pricing strategy allowing to reach sales of nearly EUR 3.8 million by year two.
- Helped to set up supply chain involving more than 10 vendors, by helping to scout and by providing appraisal from a cosmetic perspective.
- Helped to steer the portfolio expansion to 11 product lines by year four through product positioning, design workflow, colour, material and finishing (CMF).
- Helped to reduce cost by 25% through improvements to design for assembly and design for manufacturing.
2014-2015 Vantgard, Grandson, Switzerland
- Contributed to a yearly growth of 40% by setting up and maintaining an e-commerce channel.
- Planned and implemented new markets entry, with sales in more than 80 locations.
- Set up contingency supply chain and fulfilment channels across China, the European Union and North America.
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Product Design Manager
2007-2013 The Longines Watch Co., Switzerland
- Helped to achieve double digit growth within three years through contribution in competitive intelligence, product lifecycle management and new product development.
- Oversaw the ideation, design, request for quotation, revision and validation of more than 50 commercially released lines.
- Standardised the process across four departments and brought continual improvement.
- Developed methodology for reverse engineering designs and artwork due to lost archives, for more than 20 projects.
2003-2007 Morellato Group, Milan, Italy
- Led creative task force in charge of developing product portfolio that generated EUR 70 million in sales by year three.
- Supervised the development and semiannual launch of more than 50 lines of watches and costume jewellery for fashion licences.
- Steered trends monitoring and new materials scouting.
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Software Developer, LAMP and .NET stack
2001-2003 Homegate, Milan, Italy
- Account management of more than 20 projects.
- Developed of HTML4 standard compliant content management software (CMS).
- Continual process improvement and market monitoring for technology updates.
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Assistant Design Manager
1999-2000 T'Ai Ken, Wavre, Belgium
- Creation of blueprints for more than 20 projects, including furniture measurements, water and electrical connections.
- Process optimisation, reducing the lead time between sketching and CAD output from 3 days to 3 hours.
- Adaptation of the process from B2C to B2B and standardisation of products for hotel chains.
Degrees
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Marketing, Masters of Science 90 ECTS
King’s College Business School, London, United Kingdom
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Industrial Design, Masters of Arts 60 ECTS
University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, United Kingdom
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Industrial Design, Bachelors of Arts 240 ECTS
ESA Saint-Luc, Liège, Belgium
Certificates
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Project Management PMBOK
Altran Education Services
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Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
Google Digital Garage
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Goldsmithing
Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
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Watch assembly
Geneva Watchmaking School, Switzerland