Nicolas M
About Nicolas
HR Consultant at Boost'RH Group
Oct 2022 to date Interim management assignments
Assignment at a food industry site in south-west France
- In-depth transformation and optimisation of industrial performance
- Managing relations with social partners
- Managing the recruitment process , training and talent management
- Covering the HR Director role pending recruitment
Assignment at an international leather goods company
- Studies and research on a project to set up a subcontracting structure
- Designing and rolling out new ways of working combining remote and on-site work, more collaborative and more agile
Previous professional background
April 2021 Sept 2022 LANVIN - Human Resources Director
Turnover €66m - 240 employees, HR/General Services team 8 people
- Implementing a global transformation plan with its social consequences in the context of a new shareholder and the emergence from the COVID crisis
- Implementing group HR guidelines and reporting to the Group
- Leading preparatory studies for projects, negotiations, setting up and executing the action plan
- Preparing, organising and leading negotiation and consultation meetings with employee representative bodies, and drafting company agreements in France and internationally
- Ensuring a good working climate across all sites and stores in France and internationally
- Handling and securing matters relating to employment law and operational HR management
- Policy for attracting new talent and retaining existing talent
- Assessing employee performance and potential and running annual and professional appraisal campaigns for managers (people review, development plan, succession plan, identification of high potentials, etc.).
- Renegotiating health and welfare cover
- Managing employees in the USA, UK and Italy, and international mobility
- CSR initiatives implemented with the startup Derigueur
- Implementing an internal and external communication plan
- Managing general services, relocation and site consolidation
Oct. 2007-2021 S.T. DUPONT - Human Resources Director
Turnover €74m - 400 employees, HR/General Services team 6 people
- HR business Partner for Headquarters (Marketing, communication, finance, supply chain, sales ) and defining the Human Resources strategy (Europe, Asia, USA)
- Adapting the organisation to strategic direction and aligning company agreements
- Leading social dialogue, in France and internationally (CSE)
- Developing internal promotion, career management, international mobility
- Recruiting managers and managing succession plans
- Reviewing and improving the compensation and benefits structure and setting up a profit-sharing agreement
- Managing performance, sales bonuses and variable pay
- Enhancing the HRIS (setting up workflow and outsourcing payroll)
- Job-specific training (developing the " luxury attitude ", " identity card " and product training for the retail and wholesale channels )
- HR information ; introducing the individual social report
- Building personal development programmes for local management teams (Performance, Change management and Rewards & Recognition programme)
2002 - Sept. 2007 KERING Group, YSL Beauté - Human Resources Director
Turnover €650m - 4,000 employees including 1,200 at 2 industrial sites in France
- Implementing the human resources policy in line with the business, in a context of far-reaching reorganisation and integration of new brands
- Developing organisational structures and working systems in line with the integration of new brands (Stella McCartney, Alexander Mac Queen, Boucheron)
- Recruitment policy and resource optimisation according to events
- Managing employee relations and following up employment tribunal cases
- Drawing up and implementing the training policy and budget (FNE, work-study).
- Drawing up the HR budget and monitoring HR dashboards
- Internal and external communication (press, school relations, Intranet, etc.)
- Workforce and career planning (job evaluation, potential monitoring, succession plan, etc.)
- Managing a team of HR managers and staff (12 people)
April 2000 - Jan. 2002 VALEO Group - Human Resources Director
Electronics branch, Sensor and switch division
2,600 employees, head office + 6 industrial sites (3 in France and 3 abroad)
- Contributing to the " employee involvement " initiative, a strategic focus of the Group,
- In line with the Branch strategic plan, simplifying and optimising the structure: preparing, drawing up and negotiating a CATS (early retirement) scheme for more than 300 people, implementing a workforce "flexibilisation" plan
- Developing the organisation with VALEO standards and tools and contributing to the redeployment of resources and industrial capacity by encouraging relocations,
- Setting up a process of staff autonomy and empowerment
- Managing succession plans and monitoring the potential of managers and direct reports. Job guide, variable pay policy, a performance appraisal method.
- Advising and reporting to operational teams and Management,
- Supervising and coordinating the application of corporate HR tools,
- Managing a team of HR managers and staff (45 people)
Jan. 1997-March 2000 STALLERGENES - Human Resources Director
Pharmaceutical laboratory (Marine Wendel holding company)
France turnover €112 million - 450 employees including 350 in France
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