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Experience

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Marketing, Masters of Science 90 ECTS

    King’s College Business School, London, United Kingdom

  • Industrial Design, Masters of Arts 60 ECTS

    University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, United Kingdom

  • Industrial Design, Bachelors of Arts 240 ECTS

    ESA Saint-Luc, Liège, Belgium

Certificates

  • Project Management PMBOK

    Altran Education Services

  • Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

    Google Digital Garage

  • Goldsmithing

    Scuola Orafa Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy

  • Watch assembly

    Geneva Watchmaking School, Switzerland