Virginie Gervais

Current

• Business Management Director at Alcatel-Lucent

Past

• Operation Strategy Office Direct at Alcatel CIT
• Cross Project Manager at Alcatel CIT
• Inventory Manager at ALCATEL AUSTRALIA

• Central Program Office Manager for CEGETEL program at Alcatel CIT
• Order Processing Manager at Alcatel CIT
• Central Planning Manager at Alcatel CIT
• Supply and Operations Manager at PETROFINA Group - Fina France
• Refinery Operations Manager at PETROFINA group - Fina PLC UK
• Supply and Operations Coordinator at PETROFINA group - HQ Belgium
• Researcher at PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE - JAPAN
• Researcher at Lyonnaise des Eaux

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Education

• Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine
• Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie
• ESSEC - promo Alcatel n°10

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Industry

Telecommunications

Virginie Gervais’s Summary

More than 15 years in Operations and Supply Chain in international companies in France and abroad (Japan, Belgium, UK, Australia).

Expertise in Cost reduction program for multi-national company through transfer of competences and organizational restructuring

Virginie Gervais’s Specialties:

Supply Chain and operations management
Project Management
Budgeting and cost control
P&L management

Virginie Gervais’s Experience

• Business Management Director

  Alcatel-Lucent

  (Public Company; ALU; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  -Design and implement the new organizational restructuring projects,
  -Set-up of the Financial Model of the Business Division (~8500 people in ~40 countries, Sales 1,2B€),

• Operation Strategy Office Direct

  Alcatel CIT

  (Telecommunications industry)

  March 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 11 months)

  -Ensure global cost optimization and operational efficiency for the production of the services (~400 people in 8 countries, investments 5.3 M€ in 2006, Sales 850M€),
  - Implement SAP for the Supply Chain for Applications products.

• Cross Project Manager

  Alcatel CIT

  (Telecommunications industry)

  September 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  Coordinate the Transfer of Production from Alcatel factories in Europe to Alcatel factory in China (70 M€ in 2004) and Contract Manufacturers in India and Brazil (50.9 M€ in 2004, benefit 12M€) and ensure quality control of the local production

• Inventory Manager

  ALCATEL AUSTRALIA

  (Telecommunications industry)

  February 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 7 months)

  -Establish and maintain effective company-wide inventory control, devise strategies for inventory reduction, achieve with BD cooperation (finance and marketing) measurable inventory reductions as per target levels.
  -Define processes: Quotation process (RFQ on suppliers), Forecasting process, Forecast Review process, Last Time Buy process.

• Central Program Office Manager for CEGETEL program

  Alcatel CIT

  (Telecommunications industry)

  February 2000 — January 2001 (1 year)

  -Ensure the overall costs and finance administration for the program (Orders and Sales 1.3 Billion FFR a year): follow-up of financial figures and make them available to regional officers and to the Division Top Management,
  -Consolidate the Cegetel contracts which consisted in evaluating financial risks: follow-up of working capital, review of offers and contracts proposals.

• Order Processing Manager

  Alcatel CIT

  (Telecommunications industry)

  May 1999 — January 2000 (9 months)

  -Organize GSM (900 Mhz) infrastructures' production ensuring on time delivery to customers
  -Evaluate financial risk on stocks of finished products,
  -Be part of the production cycle's reduction working group,
  -Analyze the PULL process (order processing's process) and elaborate a new strategy to prepare for the SAP software introduction.

• Central Planning Manager

  Alcatel CIT

  (Telecommunications industry)

  May 1998 — April 1999 (1 year)

  -Define the production plan annual budget,
  -Set-up monthly components supply's plan,
  -Analyze the PUSH process and elaborate the new strategy to prepare for the SAP software introduction.

• Supply and Operations Manager

  PETROFINA Group - Fina France

  (Oil & Energy industry)

  November 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 6 months)

  -Define annual strategy for supply, negotiate with shipping and pipelines companies for activities in France, optimize the sourcing of the depots,
  -Pilot user of SAP/RM software.

• Refinery Operations Manager

  PETROFINA group - Fina PLC UK

  (Oil & Energy industry)

  July 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 4 months)

  Lindsay Oil Refinery (UK, refinery shared 50/50 with TOTAL), in charge of production’s optimization using a linear program GRTMPS, ensuring shipping activities matched to refining and marketer's' requirements, study of new markets to increase added value, pilot user of SAP/RM software

• Supply and Operations Coordinator

  PETROFINA group - HQ Belgium

  (Oil & Energy industry)

  May 1991 — June 1995 (4 years 2 months)

  -Supply of feedstock for the petrochemical plant, production’s optimization of the main refinery of PetroFina using the linear program

• Researcher

  PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE - JAPAN

  (Research industry)

  January 1990 — December 1990 (1 year)

  -Research on carbon and nitrogen removal through a biological treatment, and a solid-liquid separation by ultra-filtration
  -lectures in different congress

• Researcher

  Lyonnaise des Eaux

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Environmental Services industry)

  July 1989 — December 1989 (6 months)

  Research on nitrification in a bioreactor using fixed bacteria

Virginie Gervais’s Education

• Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine

  Master of Sciences , physico-chemical processes , 1989 — 1989

• Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie

  Engineering , Geology , 1986 — 1989

• ESSEC - promo Alcatel n°10

  Master in Business Management ESSEC , 2006

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Virginie Gervais’s Groups:

•    Supply Chain Management Practitioners & Experts
•    Supply Chain Management Group
•    PADI Scuba Divers
•    Telecom Executives Business Network
•    Alcatel Lucent Association Group (+ 3,800 members WW)
•    The Talent Buzz
•    European Professional Women's Network

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