Maxence Lefort

implid is acompagnying his clients for nearly 10 years in their Transformation Projects and is able to adress its expertise wether the goals are Management oriented, Sectorials or Digitals.

Kalisign coproduces and retails illuminated signs of high quality thanks to a specific process of fabrication, called "Bloc-LED". With an exclusive partnership with a Chinese plant localized in Guangzhou, Kalisign distributes its products world widely to sign maker and retailers who are not able to produce such quality at the good price. I joined Kalisign for 6 months as the Logistics Director and ended-up to bring some help regarding a new marketing strategy: As a Logistics Director, I developed my skills by: - handling all logistics from the quotation to the delivery - handling communication between factory and salesmen - editing the shipment documents for import and export - following-up shipments - resolving conflicts and after-sale services - recruiting and training of the new Logistics Head Then I started to work on the launch of a new marketing campaign, as soon as the new Logistics director was ready to work, by: - updating the communication media - creating new media and communication contents - updating the website (using Wordpress) - establishing the communication strategy, with the help of an agency - prospecting new clients

C2C MOVERS is a relocation company based in Shanghai, China. It offers premium moving services for expats world widely. During my 5 months internship, I had the chance to try to achieve some tasks by using both the knowledge I had from my courses and what I gathered writing my thesis. As a Junior Logistics consultant, I dealt with moving oriented work such as: - managing moving teams on occasional field work - managing the planning of the teams Regarding daily basis operations: - Containers tracking around the world - Responsible for the importation/ exportation process ( consolidation, documents ...) - Daily communications abroad - Customer follow-up - Planning of the arrival of the containers abroad (managing the synchronisation between the agents, the moving teams and the information to the client) As a Business developer: - Update of a database of potential companies to approach (LinkedIn, private network ...) - Attempting to events to promote C2C Movers in Shanghai, within expats network - Prospection and development of the sponsoring / partnerships with key actors of the network in Shanghai - Cold calls and establishment of new partnerships

I realized a gap semester during 6 months at Kalisign, in Lille. Kalisign coproduce and retail illuminated signs of high quality thanks to a specific process of fabrication, called "Bloc-LED". With an exclusive partnership with a Chinese plant localized in Guangzhou, Kalisign distribute its products world widely to sign maker and distributer who cannot afford to produce such a product of quality at the good price. Kalisign can still be considered as a start-up and that allowed me to work on a bunch of projects and activities within the company. Here are the details of the different missions I had been trusted to realized: Logistic Assistant - Operations handling on a daily basis (help on the redaction of the Import/ Export files) - Follow-up of client's order Project Manager: ERP - Integration of the new kalisign's ERP (Odoo), I was the lin between developers and internal department of Kalisign. Entirely customized and developed ERP for Kalisign. Project Manager: ISA Sign Show - Planning of the participation of Kalisign to an international fair in Orlando (USA) : logistic, responsible for the stream of goods and people. - Supervision and participation as a commercial on the fair from April the 16th to the 26th 2016. Project Manager: Mobile application - Manager of the développement of a mobile application for Kalisign, together with the development of a new product of Kalisign's range. Creation of the specifications file, link and communication between developers and decision maker.

I realized this internship to complete my bachelor study. Tradi'Balade is a tourism-oriented small company, based in the heart of Lille, in France. It runs several little businesses and I took part in two of them. Responsible of operations for the Souvenirs shop Operations manager is a big word because it was a small structure but at this scale, I did as much as I could to improve the daily operations of the souvenirs shop. - Inventory of stock - creation of an excel file that was centralizing all informations (stocks, sales, prices...) and were updating automatically itself (each sales were deduced compare to stock when entering the sales in the excel file) - establishment of strong relationships with supplier and better follow-up and anticipation thanks to the excel file. Business developper for Tradi'Balade The main business of Tradi'Balade is to offer a nice and historical visit of the city of Lille in an original way: driven in the mythic car of Citroen, the 2CV. I was responsible of developing the business by: - advertising thanks to partnerships with restaurants or tourism offices. - developing the network with team building agencies - building new prospects databases and approaching these companies, proposing our services for team-building - Finding new ideas for the development of the BtoC branch.

Summer internship during my second year of study. I worked for Devianne, a ready-to-wear store, part of a french chain. During this experience, I had my real first contacts with clients within a commercial structure. It was very interesting to see the different categories of client, to test different sales approaches and strategies. I was also proud to achieve my first sales. Together with sales experience, I also had the chance to experience some merchandising and participate to my first inventory.