YANN LE CORRE
Soucelles
Summary
Highly motivated and versatile executive director with 15 years’ experience and proven track records in growth management, implementation of strategic plan, sales & marketing development, and general management within cross-cultural and multisite organization. Extensive experience in sales leadership, market and customer strategy development for customers all over the world, and program management on demanding and complex sectors. Recognized as optimistic, visionary, and open-minded to drive growth, achieve goals, ensure operational efficiency, and develop teams. Hands-on mentality, and pragmatic with entrepreneurial flair.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
General Manager
OSE GROUP
07.2022 - Current
- Industrial solutions and services (energy, electronics, capital goods, automotive, rail industry, healthcare, defense), Personally accountable for overall management of four business units, including 240 employees across five plants in France, five employees in China, and two in Germany
- Directly manage board of directors and BU support services
- Rigorously track P&L, budgets, and cashflow to optimize operational efficiency
- Lead sales and marketing efforts for all four BU with innovative new product line strategy
- Consistently oversee and monitor portfolio of global projects, ranging from €200K to €15M, totaling approximately 60 projects worldwide
- Key achievements: Growth in turnover from €42M to €47M
- Two key business units restructured, leading to EBITDA profitability increase of 20%
- Board established with directors and mid-term strategic plan confirmed
- Secured acquisition of 3 new international key accounts, resulting in €11M in FY23
- Completed implementation of new ERP system and initiated project controlling systems
- Projects portfolio monitoring of €60M with all business units.
- Developed and implemented strategies to increase sales and profitability.
- Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations.
- Managed a diverse team of professionals, fostering a positive work environment and high employee satisfaction.
- Cultivated strong relationships with clients, vendors, and partners to ensure long-term success and loyalty.
- Monitored financial performance, set budgets and controlled expenses to provide financial stability and long-term organizational growth.
- Managed budget development, forecasting, and financial reporting processes to track progress towards organizational objectives accurately.
General Manager
CORETEC GROUP
07.2017 - 06.2022
- Engineering and manufacturing company for automation solutions (plastic industry, capital goods, pharmaceutical), Successfully lead global operations and oversee all departments and subsidiaries, including
- Poland (140 FTE), Czech Republic (2 FTE), Caen/FR (50 FTE), and Rennes/FR (158 FTE)
- Diligently monitor P&L and budgets, ensuring financial stability and growth
- Strategically expand business footprint through acquisitions, streamlining integration processes and establishing new subsidiary
- Drive business development by expanding export markets, diversifying product line, negotiating projects up to €10M
- Skillfully manage all banking relationships, including negotiating new credit lines, securing project financing, and overseeing pool management
- Collaboratively manage shareholder relations and legal matters with boards and stakeholders
- Manage Executive and Strategic Committees and determine multifaceted strategies that drive consistent growth
- Key achievements: Successfully raised €10M in private equity funds
- Achieved significant increase in turnover, growing from €10M to €34M during period
- Improved profitability by 2.5x ensuring long-term business success
- Doubled "spare parts and services" turnover, increasing to €2M for FY21 versus FY20
- 15% growth annually on new stream of business
- Training and coaching R&D management, 2024: Training with Daniel Richard (former CTO and
- R&D director at VALEO)
- Restructuring, finance, cost-killing, Coaching with Vincent
- Rambaud (former CEO at PEUGEOT) Industrial reorganization, 2021:
- Coaching with Maurice de Raco (former GM / HRD at MECAPLAST) Marketing & business dev
- Coaching with Pierre-Olivier Pulveric (former VP marketing at POLAROID) Sales Strategy & pricing
Director of Sales and Marketing
CORETEC GROUP
09.2011 - 07.2017
- Engineering and manufacturing company for automation solutions (plastic industry, capital goods, pharmaceutical), sales teams, which include sales engineers, business developers, and KAM, while taking full ownership of Sales and Marketing strategy
- Manage all aspects of tenders/RFQ, approval of costing, and final negotiation of complex international projects ranging from €200K to €2M
- Actively participate in overall management and development of organization, including activities such as structuring, financing, and growth management
- Drove establishment of new subsidiary in 2012, specializing in sheet metal work and welding
- Successfully established international subcontracting partnerships with major countries such as
- UK, Germany, Africa, Spain, China, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, Romania, and others, further expanding overall capacity of business
- Key achievements: Successfully increased sales by factor of 4, growing from €2.4M to €10M over period
- Increased average project size, from €300K to more than €600K
- Successfully expanded export turnover from 20% to 70% of total revenues
- Successfully established entirely new "bonding" activity branch that generates annual revenue of €3M.
Project Manager and Sales Engineer
CORETEC SARL
01.2009 - 09.2011
- Engineering and manufacturing company for automation solutions (plastic industry, capital goods, pharmaceutical), Business development in France and abroad
- Costing/offer/negotiation of projects in France and Europe (€50K to €500K)
- Project management in terms of quality, cost and delivery from kickoff to final acceptance
- Agile methodology implemented for all programs (cross-functional)
- Key achievements: Increased sales (x2 over period from €1,2M to €2,4M)
- Enter 5 new strategic key accounts
- Increased export turnover (from 0% to 20% of total revenues).
Education
M.D. - Engineering Technology
EIGSI (Ecole D’Ingénieur En Génie DesSystèmes
Rochelle, La09.2009
Skills
- Management & Governance
- General management
- Strategic planning
- Global operations
- Lean Management
- HSE & CSR
- Team building and talent development
- Board management
- Innovation and R&D management
- Finance:
- P&L lead and Cashflow
- Fundraising and financing
- Controlling
- M&A and restructuring
- KPI and dashboards
- Sales & Marketing:
- Strategic plan
- Contract negotiations
- Business development
- Advertising and marketing
- Branding
- Project management:
- Intercultural project management
- PMS, Prince2
- Portfolio management
- Problem solving (QRQC, RCA)
- Claim management
- Risk management and mitigation
- IT:
- Google Suite, Microsoft 365
- Mind mapping and collaborative tools
- ERP, PDM, PLM, BI implementation
- Programming: VBA, SQL, HTML/CSS
- Network, cybersecurity, digitalization
- Process automation, workflow
- Portfolio management
- Problem solving (QRQC, RCA)
- Claim management
- Risk management and mitigation
- IT:
- Google Suite, Microsoft 365
- Mind mapping and collaborative tools
- ERP, PDM, PLM, BI implementation
- Programming: VBA, SQL, HTML/CSS
- Network, cybersecurity, digitalization
- Process automation, workflow
Certification
English: Advanced (TOEIC 835, 15
Languages
Timeline
General Manager
OSE GROUP
07.2022 - Current
General Manager
CORETEC GROUP
07.2017 - 06.2022
Director of Sales and Marketing
CORETEC GROUP
09.2011 - 07.2017
Project Manager and Sales Engineer
CORETEC SARL
01.2009 - 09.2011
M.D. - Engineering Technology
EIGSI (Ecole D’Ingénieur En Génie DesSystèmes
English: Advanced (TOEIC 835, 15
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