Yann Merchier

Leading the company in its strategic turnaround, redefining the business model, the team and the product to fit the B2B market of autonomous micro-retail solutions. Developing a complete new product in less than 6 months with an order book of 50 units in 9 months

Building the product management team and processes in order to set the product vision and manage software engineers (recruitment of 2 PM working with 10+ engineers). Delivering software (4 web applications,2 mobile android/iOS apps), hardware (connected weight scales and locks), algorithms (fraud scoring and automatic invoicing, presence detection with computer vision) and API integrations (payment, electronic labels,..)

Building the data team (recruitment of 5 data analysts and 2 data scientists) Creating a data pipeline and leveraging data science to generate business and operational insights and ultimately optimising both revenue and profit margin (going from 75% to 97% in-store product availability while cutting company waste from 12% to 2.5%)

As the company became a fmgc distributor, designing the supply and demand chain planning model including purchasing, warehouse operations and retail distribution (10+ suppliers, 1 warehouse and 45 point of sales)

Optimising and modernising the planning processes for the 2nd largest activity of the brand (accessories) Organising university competitions on logistics innovation and digital supply chain (Columbia University, Les Ponts et Chaussées, Centrale Paris, Tokyo University, Singapore U., HK University,ECOLE 42)

Key contributor of a major project to rethink product clustering in terms of merchandising and supply strategies. Upstream: responsible for all impacts on sales forecasting and production sizing Downstream: supervising the operational roll-out of new strategy in the retailing network

Planning and organising leather goods distribution for the network of french stores 18 stores accounting for 25% of zone turnover (2,000 M€) Main representative in stores for operations and supply Anticipating sales seasonalities Coordinating retail projects (development of the application for reservation process in store) Coordinating warehouse and supply chain projects Acting for the improvement of logistical and supply services to stores Designing and enhancing computer tools for distribution Managing the distribution of seasonal products across Europe, Middle-East and Africa (transversal task) Developing strategies with merchandisers for product new launches Optimising collections sell-through Restricting the supply network dynamically Strategic rebalancing of collections to manage product end of life

Retail Planner for Leather Goods and Accessories for Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Central Europe.