Pascale PONS
Des solutions aux besoins et litiges : communication, juridique, administratif
I’m 58. I want to work. I can. I like. I must work.
Meet me, you’ll see it is not winter, it is Indian summer. Time to harvest. To harvest skills experienced day after day, from one sector of activity to another. (First contact www.pascalepons.com )
I am looking for a job of executive assistant to a manager. One who would appreciate to see his desk cleaned up of loads of papers and details by someone accurate, having a good judgement, able to understand formal and informal organisations, his goals, , and used – more than to transmit - to get things done by multidisciplinary teams of different cultures.
How? My basic craft, executive assistantship, has been a springboard to build up a career in advertising agencies where I learned to organise, to handle, to work out, to drive and where I developed personal characteristics such as understanding, convincing, passing on, and acting.
As you know, in advertising agencies it is like in sport, age limit is quickly reached; therefore I revived executive assistantship. Of course I was better at 45 than I was at 20, and I am better at 58.
I carried out temporary jobs as English bilingual executive assistant, most of them to presidents, which allowed me to bounce back in the area of international trade where, as initially executive assistant to the Manager of Usinor International and Economic Business and subsequently to Arcelor Manager of international law business and Arcelor vice-president in charge of international business, I handled the international trade disputes. Going, along the route, through a privatization and two mergers of what became the first worldwide steel group.
As you probably know those disputes, mainly initiated by the USA, but also by many other countries, jeopardize access to markets. Millions of euros are at stake each time. Initiated from state to state, they involve the highest levels of management, governments, lobbies, and are aimed at production sites and subsidiaries scattered all over the world.
My assignment? To free the desk of my boss of the load of papers and details which cluttered up, to prioritize tasks, to find the right contacts, to ensure the accuracy of the responses to governmental questionnaires, to meet dead lines, to motivate multidisciplinary teams of different cultures and get them to understand US and international trade laws.
It meant of course to handle data as sensitive as production capacities, development strategies, the group’s merger plan, users’ expectations, sales costs, production costs, technologies, and so on… To get our point to the government authorities leading the investigations …. And win sometimes.
I am immediately available, immediately operational.
Pascale Gillaizeau Pons
13 contacts2007 - 2007Temporary assignment – Bristol Myers & Squibb – Quality Management - Translator
Translation of Environment, Health, Security BMS standards from English to French
1998 - 2002USINOR – International and Economic Business Division - ARCELOR – International Legal Business Department.
Working language english.
Coordination of international trade disputes investigations : To ensure the accuracy of responses to governmental questionnaires and the respect of time lines. To get cross-borders teams understand the US and international legislation and its requirements. To make our points to the governmental authorities leading the investigations. Handling such sensitive information as production capacities, development strategies, group’s merger plan, users’ expectations, competitors’ strenghts and weaknesses, sales costs, production costs, production technologies, the structure of the shareholding of the group and its subsidiaries.
The actions to which I contributed :
- USA safeguard clause
- European Union safeguard clause
- Canada safeguard clause
- Poland safeguard clause
- Tchek Republic safeguard clause.
- China safeguard clause
- USA Antidumping petition against cold rolled flat carbons from France.
- USA antidumping petition against cold rolled flat carbons from Belgium and Spain.
- USA antidumping petition against beams from Luxembourg.
- USA antidumping petition agains cold rolled stainless steel from Belgium
- USA antidumping petition against cold rolled stainless steel from France.
- USA anti-subsidies petition against cold rolled flat carbons from France.
- USA anti-subsidies petition against hot-rolled flat carbons from France.
- USA anti-subsidies petition against bars from France USA anti-subsidies petition against flat stainless steel from France.
- European antidumping petition against cold rolled products from 7 countries.
- Canada antidumping petition against hot rolled flat carbons from France.
- USA antidumping petition against stainless bars from Italy.
- USA antidumping and anti-subsidies sunset reviews against coated flat carbons from France.
- USA antidumping sunset review against stainless ropes from France..
- Appeal of ITC preliminary decision in regards of the USA anti-subsidies petition agains flat stainless steel from France.
- USA antidumping annual review agains stainless ropes from France..
- USA antidumping annual review agains stainless bars from France.
1994 - 1997BP (Executive assistant to a team of Africa roving engineers)- CGEA (Bilingual executive assistant to the General Manager), FFSA - Fédération Française des Sociétés d’Assurances (Bilingual executive assistant to the Président), FUJI SANKAI COMMUNICATION (Président), IMS (Bilingual executive assistant to the Président), LYONNAISE COMMUNICATION (Bilingual executive assistant to the Président) – SLI (Bilingual executive assistant to the Financial Manager), SOTHEBY'S (Bilingual executive assistant Arts Déco Department), RHONE POULENC (Bilingual executive assistant to the Quality department manager), THOMSON ELECTRO-MENAGER (Bilingual executive assistant to the General Manager), TOSHIBA (Bilingual executive assistant to the Président), USINOR SACILOR (Bilingual executive assistant - Financial Management), Prod's - Groupe Euro RSCG (Advertising publishing coordinator Hypermarkets Continent)
From executive assistant to account supervisor, McCann-Ericson - Publicis - Joannis Schneider Conseil - Bélier - FCA ! - France 2
1975 - 19931975 – 1980 - McCANN-ERICKSON - Executive assistant, advertisising assistant, account executive – european lauchings - european campaigns coordination 1980 – 1983 - PUBLICIS - Account supervisor - 1983 – 1984 - JOANNIS SCHNEIDER CONSEIL Account supervisor -1985 – 1988 - FCA !- Account supervisor -1988 - 1989 - BELIER - Account supervisor - 1990 - -FRANCE 2 - Technical counsel to the Communication Management - 1991 – 1993 - BERNARD MOORS CONSEIL Manager of client service.
To build up, to organize, to handle national and european advertising campaigns :
Repositioning of firms or products
– BHV, Hypermarkets CONTINENT, CANON Bureautique, FLORALINE - Rivoire & Carré.
Launching of products
– Gamme ELSEVE - L'Oréal, WEEK-END - Laboratoires Pharmygiène, Insurances LA MONDIALE, Flour MALICIA, 3 M, european launching sun glasses SUNSITIVE by Corning Glass.
Lauching of stores
– BHV, Hypermarkets CONTINENT.
Reinforcement of awareness and building up national brand images
– LES MUTUELLES UNIES, HOM, BELLE LITERIE, GLEN TURNER, LABEL 5, WEIGHT WATCHERS, INDOCID de MSD, GENOXONE Ciba Ceigy group, GERVAIS FINDUS, Bank HOTTINGER, TORNADO
Or european brand images
– OCE PHOTOSIA, LEVI'S, ICI, KRUPS, COCA-COLA.
Gaining the loyalty of customers, stimulating sales.
– LE FIGARO, L'EXPRESS, CANON, Flour MALICIA, GERVAIS FINDUS.
Communication audit
– SITA, Conseil Régional POITOU CHARENTES.
1968 - 1974Paris : 20th Century Fox Film Production - Secretary of the Advertising and publicity manager for Europe and Middle East, Public relation assistant on the set - Roger Vadim Production - Private secretary.
New York : Gillwood Production – movie producer – Executive assistant
