Post on 03-Aug-2020
A cross-functional & entrepreneurial experience
Thomas BUDIN thomas.budin@essec.edu
Work Portfolio
Main Skills Developed• Project Management • Cross-functional coordination • Transversal issues overview
• Problem solving & analysis • Communication • International team-working
International Marketing
Suppliers & subcontractors R&D Plants
Advised on product concept & technical feasibility
Brief, sampling & project
management
Organised the tests of the primary & backup formulas
Organised the pilot & the production
planning
In
My Role
With
Paris ParisUK, DE, FR, IT UK, DE, FR, TU
Responsibilities
Managing and monitoring the teams from marketing to production: In charge of “Time, Cost & Quality” for the product launch projects
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Projects and Results
2013
Worked on 4 main projects with a minimum of 200,000 units/SKUS
Renewed a range of products
(packaging)
Launched new low-
cost products on the Turkish
market
Launched new
premium products for
a new brand
Launched a new
product with techno-transfer
from US to DE
CEO Suppliers & subcontractors Marketing
Drove the strategy and concept construction for new categories & brands
Sourced new business partners and drove the
quotations and negotiations
Validated the new concepts (formulas & packaging), drove the merchandising
In
My Role
With
Paris ChinaDE, FR, IT
Responsibilities
As an entrepreneur, a product manager and a business developer: Increasing the turnover and store traffic by creating new products
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Projects and ResultsDoubled the new categories turnover (1 million euros)
2014
Developed & repositioned oral care products to better sells performance in stores
Created a new food brand and dealt with the 1st French honey producer
(approx. 100,000 units)
Dealt with the first lacto-serum producer in EU for
baby powder milk products
ENTREPRENEUR2015
2014
Co-founder of three Tech startups in Singapore
For a liquor French SMBMarket study, identification of world opportunities & innovation recommandations
For absinthe: How to leverage on the export to US and increase the local market
in France?
For armagnac: How to increase export to China?
With NUS School of Design:
Created an app to empower women
community
On-going project:
Telecom startup in BtoB
On-going project:
e-commerce startup to
enhance the e-shopping
experience