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Henri B.

Head of Operations and Supply Chain

Works remotely from City of London

  • 51.5073
  • -0.1277
  • Suggested rate €222 / day
  • Experience 7+ years
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Part-time, 2 days per week

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Location and workplace preferences

Location
City of London, United Kingdom
Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Preferences

Project length
  • ≤ 1 week
  • ≤ 1 month
  • Between 1-3 months
  • Between 3-6 months
  • ≥ 6 months
Business sector
  • Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Raw materials industry
  • Tech
  • Environmental
  • Energy & Utilities
+15 other
Company size
  • 1 person
  • 2-10 people
  • 11 - 49 people
  • 50 - 249 people
  • 250 - 999 people
+2 other

Verifications

Freelancer code of conduct signed
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Verified email

Languages

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Categories

Skills (34)

Henri in a few words

I started working at Danone, before taking a step toward Circular Economy by working at Loop, since the first days of the project in Europe. During the years, I've been leading a good number of cross-functional projects, also managing the operational execution - Launching new Brands on the UK and Ireland Market , setting up the ecommerce pilote in France and then the UK for Looop before launching the products in Parisian stores with Carrefour.
I enjoy especially working on retro-timing and risk analysis with the cross functional team, while setting up and adapting a dynamic business model. I believe these three elements to be the key to excellence in execution.
I've also worked in the fields of sales forecasting and analysis, production planning and industrial capacity management, fields in which I would be happy to bring my expertise, either developping efficient and easy tool in excel or using the existing ERP.
I also happen to be very passionate about theatre and cinema, I work with a few crews in London, doing theatre, improvisation theatre and short movies, which definitely feeds my communication and creativity, skills surprisingly useful when working in operations and supply chain.

Experience

Loop

Environmental

Head of Operations UK

City of London, United Kingdom

June 2018 - Today (4 years and 9 months)

• Structuring and managing cross-functional teams for multiple projects across both countries
• EU Operations team Set-up & Management
• Business Modelling for Loop Europe across both Markets
• Implementing processes and ways of working

Key achievements:
- Launch of the Paris Loop Trial – First Launch Worldwide, 0.5M Budget over 2020, Partnership with Carrefour and Brands (Coca-Cola, P&G, Danone)
- Launch of the UK Loop Trial – 0.5M Budget over 2020, Nationwide, Global Partnership with EcoLab & DHL, +130 Private Label Products
- Loop Launched in Store with Carrefour – First in store Worldwide, 10 Stores opened in Jan 2021
Supply chain Team management Project Management Microsoft Excel Business model Scrum Risk analysis Microsoft Project

Danone SA - Danone

Agriculture

Projects & Portfolio Manager

London

October 2016 - June 2018 (1 year and 8 months)

4 Markets: United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium & Netherlands
Project Manager on 3 brands: Activia, Actimel & Oykos/Oikos

• Implementing processes and ways of working in 2 new countries
• Structuring and managing cross-functional teams for 3 brands across 4 countries
• Managing 32 projects: Catalogue, Profitability, Activation, Innovation & Renovation
• Landing innovations, renovations, delists, productivity and pack changes projects
• Delivered new product innovations, renovations, delist, productivity and pack changes projects
• Managed all projects to ensure 5 star execution with commercial viability
• Utilised strong stakeholder management skills (internally and externally) to achieve objectives
• Created strong contingency plans to secure launch date
• Proactively highlighted risks to the business
• Built strong communication plans and created team spirit
• Consolidated knowledge and best practice into processes

Key achievements:
- Factory Kick-off for a Renovation of the Full Activia Range in the UK – project generating £22m net sales
- Factory Kick-off for a break through Innovative sub-Range on Actimel in the UK & Belgium – estimated uplift 1.4 million incremental sales
- Optimised Raw Material Write-Offs for 2018 budget: £220k
- Landed 14 projects on time and in line with retailers / marketing briefs
- Implemented 3 pack activations on the full range within a year
- Launched 3 Subranges within 9 months:
o Oykos Special editions (generating £2.5 m net sales).
o Disney Yoghurts Pouches (£1.5 m net sales).
o Renovation of Actimel Double 0 (generating £17 m net sales).
- Challenged current processes to guarantee launch dates: graphic chain reduced from 16 weeks to 6 weeks
- Managed to reduce write off costs for delist of products: £200k saved on packaging waste

Supply chain SAP Microsoft Excel VBA Microsoft Project Business analysis

Danone SA - Danone

Agriculture

Supply Planning Manager

London

January 2014 - October 2016 (2 years and 9 months)

• Optimised production plan for Danone European industrial network:
o Customer Service Level: > 99% deliveries on time in full
o Waste Management: < 0.6%
• Managed Production Capacity of European factories for UK on a 12 months horizon
• Coordinated and harmonised the Promo Plan with Sales
• Launched and maintained the Danone European initiatives for Continuous Improvement at European level

Key achievements:
- Developed an excel extension of the SAP production management tool: Also utilised in the French and German Business Units
- Implemented a new Process with Sales to insure capacity check on promo need: uplift capacity increased by 300 To per month and horizon widened by 8 months
- Drove cost reduction through Waste Management saving £800k
- Implemented new projects across the department to optimise production planning (linked with Demand Planning and Logistics).
- Ensured a smooth transition to peak period by developing back-up scenarii: Production scheduling and optimisation of stock holding
Microsoft Excel SAP VBA Business analysis Supply chain

Education

  • Master Degree

    Neoma Business School

    2014

Certifications 

  • Master Degree
    Neoma Business School
    2014