Corinne Josseron

Cristalange is a website based on a passion for the beauty of natural stones (gemstones). Internet on-line boutiques: Gemstones jewelry: www.cristalange.com T-shirts and other merchandising articles around the world of Cristalange: http://cristalange.spreadshirt.net/

United Coffee, €300 million sales,1 000 employees, global headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, eight production sites located in Europe, 60’000 tons of coffee beans yearly roasted and distributed (Private label, Out of Home). United Coffee is owned by the UK-based private equity investor CapVest and the management. Responsible for the group direct purchasing (packaging, tea, side products...) as well as some indirect categories. Position reporting directly to the group CFO

Printed packaging services from design to delivery - Visual communication (Flyers, business cards, car decoration, window decoration, signs...)

1) Breakthrough Innovation through a joint venture with Erehwon Innovation Consulting: Enabling breakthrough Innovation from opportunity identification to scaling up - Focusing on how eco-systems work - excelling at insight generation, addressing gravity hindering innovation & delivering high value innovation portfolio 2) Business improvement Six Sigma/Lean : Training & Coaching to drive value through rapid improvement events. Design of corporate improvement programs.

Management of 68,6 mio $US packaging Spend in 2006 Team leader of a European Folding Carton Cross sector e-auction project (Bids on 30 Mio $US) Member of an American Folding Carton Cross sector e-auction team (Bids on 20 Mio $US) 2003 Group team award (Novartis Group Purchasing Excellence Award) for both e-auctions. 2004 Team leader of a European Leaflet e-auction project (Bids on 8 Mio $US - 600 mio units)

IQP (Innovation Quality Productivity) Gold Champion (Lean, Six Sigma, Change management, Presentation skills) Member of the Innovation team of IQP

Responsible for purchases of plastic primary packaging for 7 production sites, including management of supplier base, strategic sourcing initiatives, standardization and development of packaging solutions for business area of 14 Mio Euro (pieces of an average price of € 0,05) Key Achievements : * Launch and development of the “European Plastic Packaging Mandate” : Integration of the subsidiaries and acceptance by the different departments * Management of a legal claim with international recall. *

Responsible for purchasing of Aluminium, Paper, Glass bottles for a Spend of 6 Mio Euro. Key Achievements : * Purchasing co-ordination between Boehringer Ingelheim Reims and the other local European purchasing departments, * Development and introduction of new packaging standards, within the Project Alliance Europe (transfer of pharmaceutical specialties from Germany to France and other subsidiaries). * Implementation of a purchasing centralized reporting system. (P.M.S : Purchasing Management Syste

Antipolis (1988-1992), University Paris XI (1987-1988), University Haute Alsace Mulhouse (1985-1987)