Jean-Baptiste Rouaux

Sales Operations Manager

2024 - Current

Process Excellence and Automation lead - CEMEA

2022 - 2024

Program management, Value creation, Business transformation : - Process Excellence - Outsourcing - Offshoring - Automation (Software, RPA, BPM, LLM...) - Change management

PMO France - Stratégie et organisation

2017 - 2022

Investor

2021

Investor

2016

PMO - Operations project manager

2016 - 2017

PMO - Group Strategic Project Manager

2015 - 2016

Reporting to the Executive Committee I operate across Europe to lead the implementation of Pelican Rouge's strategic projects (€700m turnover, 5.000 employees). I use the full toolset of a project manager - from definition to closure - to achieve my objectives. • I managed 2 major projects - Strategic - Ingredient sales switch . Geographic scope: UK, France, Spain . Key stakeholders: sales, logistics and operations directors of each country . Results: €3m EBITDA generated in fiscal year 2016 - Operational - Products development . Budget: €2m CAPEX . Key stakeholders: executive committee members (CCO, CMO), R&D, new suppliers, etc. . Results: new product range to be launched soon • Other missions: - Operational - Re-routing of all the UK operators (600 routes) . Key stakeholders: UK Depot managers . Expected results: £500k annual cost reduction - Strategic - Business modeling, partnerships negotiations and data analysis Project Skills: Project scoping, planing definition, critical path development, stakeholder identification and management, work streams management, status and facilitation reviews, development and tracking of KPIs. Other skills: Business modeling, pricing, data analysis

Senior Manufacturing Engineer

2013 - 2015

Part of the Manufacturing Engineering team I liaised and supported Production and Engineering to ensure robust processes were successfully implemented to optimize the factory's efficiency. Project management: - Paint protection - £2m EBITDA at stake - New tooling and jig development Process deck management - Management of over 1.500 processes - 2 final assembly lines - 25 Operators - Design of new processes Operational support - Root cause analysis - Cross functional problem solving

Co-Founder - CTO

2009 - 2012

Co-founder of Exit 9, a web-marketing agency for mid and large cap companies, I was in charge of all technical areas of the business. - Managed and lead web development projects - Developed and presented creative marketing solutions to answer client's briefs - Took part in short and long term strategy development as well as day-to-day business managements

Virtual Manufacturing Engineer - Pre Series Center

2008 - 2009

Part of the project teams responsible for delivering new products on time, on budget and to the right quality, from first concept to series production, through key milestones. - Monitored prototype builds and lead problem solving activities - Represented manufacturing functions in cross-functional design reviews - Developed and lead urgent corrective actions

Product lifecycle coordinator intern

2008 - 2008

Within a Just-In-Time plant I was part of the team responsible for delivering changes on the product in order to improve productivity and to meet the client’s quality objectives. - Investigate and find root causes for quality issues and proposed technical solutions (8D, 5Y). - Represented product change team in cross-functionnal daily QRQC (Quick Response Quality Control) meeting. - Develop and lead urgent corrective action. - Develop and manage prototype tests on the production line taking into consideration DFA principles and reported the results using KPIs and metrics. - Lead the introduction of newly developed products on the production line

Long-haul Air Crew Member

2006 - 2006

Long-haul Air Crew Member

2005 - 2005