Bruno Grippay

Conferences: - NAAMSA Festival of motoring Johannesburg (August 2019) - Smarter Mobility in Africa Pretoria (September 2019) - TENCON 2019 Kochi (October 2019) - Ecomotion (May 2021) Webinars: - Morgan International (December 2020) - Kimo (January 2022) Media Exposure: - India Times (August 2018) - Indian Express (August 2019) - Engineering News (August 2019) - Business Day (August 2019) - Classic Business (October 2019) - CNBC Africa (October 2019) - The Change Podcast (October 2020)

$3b/year purchases in facilities and services for all entities in North America (Los Angeles, Detroit, Nashville, Mexico and Toronto). Staff: 5 senior managers, 17 managers and 100+ buyers. Cost reductions have been consistently above 7%/year. Project leader for offshoring G&A Processes to a Shared Services Center in India (Accounts payables, Administrative purchasing, Payroll, Customers satisfaction surveys, Help desks and Call centers, etc.)

Scope of work: all indirect purchasing (Capital, Logistics, Sales & Marketing, Outsourcing contracts, General services…) for 17 countries in Europe. Managing a Purchasing team spread out in each country.

Member of the core team who set up this new Department in the global Renault organization. The main target of this job was to convince the whole Renault departments to work together to achieve cost reductions in their outsourcing contracts. Manager of 12 buyers dealing with the highest part of services contracts worldwide (engineering, IT, Consulting, HR, temporary staff, market research, call centers, logistics). Turn-over = 600 million Euros. Our annual targets were between 3 and 10% cost reduction. To reach these goals, we carried out a specific strategy based on forecasting needs analysis, global market study, reduction of supplier’s accounts and recurrent requests for quotation. In April 2000, key member of a task force to set up a new department organization, became responsible to lead purchasing project managers (projects such as B2C, B2B, e-vehicle, CRM, Supply chain management, Media purchasing, as well as international motor shows and PET events).

Involved in more than 40 different missions in a majority of Renault departments, plants and subsidiaries around the world, mainly dedicated to audit purchasing processes and organization centrally and locally. Gradually took management responsibilities: manager in ‘93 and senior manager in ‘95.

Carried out two main jobs: analysis of the impact of a new working organization in a plant with a significant extension of new robots equipment; involvement in sociotechnical and socioeconomical studies for several new projects in France, Spain and Portugal.