Über Jean-Bernard
I am a visionary innovation and procurement leader with international experience across multiple industries and proven ability and consistent delivery in turning ideas into business impacts, building ecosystems, accelerating business growth and transforming organizations.
Aiming to turn procurement functions into business accelerator and strategic growth engine, and/or advise organizations in orchestrating successful (open) innovation programs and/or lead radical (open) innovation initiatives.
As a freelance advisor, I partner with leaders to accelerate growth, challenge assumptions, and deliver measurable results.
- Experience: 23+years.
- Sectors: Tobacco (SFP) / FMCG, Consumer Electronics, Telecom, Defence.
- Organizations: ~10 different from Startups, Scale-ups to Global Corporates.
- Roles spanning: (Open) Innovation Leadership and Management, Procurement Transformation, Industrial & Quality Management, R&D Direction and Technology Engineering.
- Educations: Innovation360 LP - Innovation Management Green Belt, Procsi Change Management Practioner, Advanced Masters’ in Purchasing & Supply Chain Management, MSc in Engineering - Physics.
- Core Strengths: Innovation Management (Supplier Enabled-Innovation – Open Innovation) • Ecosystem Builder (Partnerships, Collaborations, Cross-functional leadership) • Procurement Excellence (Strategic sourcing, Legal & business frameworks design) • Transformation & Change (Strategy and Operating model design, Cultural change management) • Leadership & Impact (Building high‑performing teams and mentoring future leaders, breaking silos, consistently challenging the status quo).
- Soft skills: Autonomous • Creative • Results‑oriented • Entrepreneurial mindset • Strategic thinker & Operational excellence • Technical fluency & Business acumen • Resilient • Collaborative • Change agent • Agile • Persuasive communicator and influencer.
Französisch
Muttersprachlich oder zweisprachig
Englisch
Verhandlungssicher
Nur remote
Führt Projekte hauptsächlich remote aus
Projekt- und Berufserfahrung
- PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL (PMI)Senior Leader Open Innovation & EcosystemsJuni 2020 - November 2025 (5 Jahre und 5 Monate)Neuchatel, Switzerland› Acted as a cultural catalyst to neutralize corporate immunity, building a C-suite-backed Open Innovation engine from scratch.› Embedded a "fail fast, learn fast" mindset and secured autonomous funding to launch 10+ Innovation Hubs and deliver 25+ validated PoCs.
- ALTICE GROUP / SFRHead of Supplier-Enabled Innovation (SEI)August 2011 - April 2020 (8 Jahre und 8 Monate)Paris, France› Engineered a systemic SEI framework across a $300M vendor ecosystem, elevating ALTICE from transactional customer to strategic co innovation partner.› Orchestrated this ecosystem to share risks and capabilities, extracting exclusive market privileges to launch a continuous innovation pipeline delivering a massive first-mover advantage, such asthe world's first commercial WiFi6 gateway.
- WAVECOM / ALCATEL / VIAMICHELIN / ESSEC /Early Career FoundationsFebruar 2002 - August 2011 (9 Jahre und 6 Monate)Paris, France› Elevated my mandate from technical execution to strategic leadership via an ESSEC Advanced Master's, cementing the cross-functional business acumen needed to bridge R&D with C-suite objectives and to architect transverse operating models.› Forged deep technical excellence across the full 360° B2C product lifecycle in hyper-agile Consumer Electronics. I directed R&D teams and orchestrated external tech ecosystems to translate early-stage technologies into market-ready products.
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Ausbildung und Abschlüsse
- Master of Science in EngineeringPolytech' Clermont2002Full-time 3 years program in Physics and Materials.
- Advanced MastersESSEC2010Full-time 9 months program in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management with 3 months thesis
Zertifizierungen
- Change PractitionerPROSCI2025
- Innovation Management Green BeltInnovation 3602025