cfo, agency, marketing communications, France, finance director
Sector: Marketing Communications
Mandate to hire a newly created group CFO role for the agencies in Paris of a network that was part of a top three marketing communications group. It was a highly political environment because all agencies were previously completely independent, plus part of holdings were in JV.
cfo, finance director, cluster, France, western europe, services, us corp, nyse, chemicals
Sector: Sustainability & Purity
Hired the CFO for France, Belgium & the Netherland for an NYSE listed company with local sales of $750m. The key challenges for the CFO were many-fold. The management matrix employed by this company was highly ambiguous with ownership of the P&L shared with European teams plus the history of acquisitions had led to a complex and large team based across 8 locations, with multiple ERP platforms and four shared service centres …
Sector: Pharmaceutical
CFO of the French subsidiary of a US pharmaceutical group. The listed US corp experience massive growth following the launch of a new class of product, growing to the current size of $1.5bn in the country. The challenge for this mandate was finding candidate in traditional Big Pharma companies who were capable of adjusting to the unstructured and highly dynamic pace.
