Damien Aimon

Corporate Strategy team of global market leader in small domestic appliances and cookware products
In charge of running strategic transversal projects
-External growth
-Strategic planning
-Ad hoc projects (geographies or functions)

•Advisory Board composed of 50 CEOs of large European companies, dealing with bilateral economic issues between European institutions and corporate sector
•In charge of coordinating task forces with ExCom members and elaborating recommendations entrusted to European Commissioners and President of institutions (e.g. Project Bonds initiative, Fostering Foreign Investment in Tunisia, Competitiveness and Governance of EU)

Management consulting: 6 years experience in Paris, San Fransisco and Dubai offices

• Corporate strategy and business development
--- Corporate strategy review in industrial companies: market and products assessment, study of adjacencies, definition of strategic priorities
--- Strategic 2020 vision for a diversified luxury and retail group (analysis of long-term consumer/competitive trends, process facilitation to generate disruptive business ideas together with divisions CEOs)
--- Projects in emerging countries (middle-East development and distribution strategy for a tools manufacturer, definition of product offering and distribution strategy for Low Income Banking customers of a Moroccan bank)
--- Industrial plan for the acquisition of a rental property investment company by a bank (strategic rationale for acquisition, calculation of potential synergies)

• Customer and marketing strategy
--- Customer focused projects in banks (assessment and optimization of a loyalty program, revamping of customer segmentation)
--- Complete redefinition of positioning for a small entity offering luxury telco services (vision, product offering and customer experience, distribution and operations)
--- Writing of internal Points of view and press articles on luxury and retail market (future shopping, new rules of luxury, luxury in a downturn, success factors in store concepts)

•Performance and organizational improvement, project management office
--- Supply chain, organization and business process redesign projects for luxury groups
--- Review of investment policies in stores for a grocery company
--- Support for the rebranding of a major telco operator (business rationale, implementation plan, project management office for 2 main workstreams)

• Private equity and M&A
--- Several due diligences in industry and technology (analysis of market and positioning)
--- Industrial plan for a 30 B€ industrial takeover (focus on purchasing and distribution)

Indirect sourcing (purchasing consolidation on a pan-European level)

• Reporting to the Indirect Sourcing Director for Europe (pan-European managed budget: 3 B€)
• Business needs definition, data analysis, supplier negotiation, pan-European roll-out
--- European Category leader for Office supplies (8 M€ budget, 230 sites; 1 M€ savings)
--- Organized of a reserve auction on engineering consulting (700K€ savings)
--- Finalized negotiation on archiving services and implementation in Europe

Junior Enterprise of Centrale Lyon (student-run association offering professional consulting services)

• Coached a team of 15 project leaders, for an annual turnover of 50 K Eur
• Organized events – Managed daily operations – Experience in customer services