Vincent BALLET
Chemin des Grandes Terres
01360 - Bressolles
Phone : 04 78 06 28 60
Mobile : 06 13 08 69 32
Email : vincentballet@yahoo.fr
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WORK EXPERIENCE
06/2007 – 06/2009
Area Manager Sweden & Baltics, Steelcase (Stockholm) – Office furniture worldwide leader (13 000 employees)
- In charge of developing the business in Scandinavia (4 000 K€)
- Setting up of new dealerships in the Baltics (Partnership with Intera in 2008 - www.intera.ee)
- Organisation of the visit of 9 architects at the Steelcase Worklab in Rosenheim, Germany
- Projects follow up from A to Z (Finasta project in Vilnius – 200 workstations – 250 K€ deal – largest project in Lithuania so far)
- Managing team of fitters during installations (maximum 5 people)
- Prospecting for global account clients and strategic targets such as architects, real estates, specialized magazines
- Creation of a marketing campaign for 200 Swedish architects/interior designers
- Market studies in potential new markets (Greenland)
04/2006 – 09/2006
Junior consultant, Tech’Innove Expansion (Lyon) – Consulting
- In charge of building up ‘action plan’ for national clients (PME/PMI) from diverse fields
- Market and competitor analysis, Intelligence Economics, detection of market needs according to the know how of the client
- Aims : innovation, diversification, differentiation (offer, positioning)
03/2005 – 09/2005
Recruiter & Investigator, IN VIVO Etudes et Stratégies (Lyon) - European Marketing Research
- Recruiting people for national surveys about goods according to specific criteria (consumer’s behaviour)
09/2003 – 11/2004
Sales Manager, BCV TECHNOLOGIES (Lyon) ex subsidiary of Schneider Electric – Transformers manufacturer
- Taking in charge of international clients (Alstom, SNCF, ABB)
- Answering of public offerings and follow up of both technical and commercial files
- Prospecting, visiting clients, market researches
- Making of a business plan for Schneider C.E.O
04/2002 – 06/2002
Internship in the Microwaves Research Lab of the Polytechnic School of Montreal
- Research on a very specific topic about micro waves transmission