Gilles Rey

Director of Operations (Based in Lille, France. Reporting to the General Manager of Auchan Import Export) • Manage 5 direct reports, teams of 40 in France, dotted line to 5 managers in Asia. • Director of supply chain: - Formulate global supply chain strategy and coordinate end-to-end import, logistics & inventory optimization operations worldwide from sourcing origins to European markets. - Develop “shared services” supply chain organization for European purchasing synergies in textiles and private la

Director of Operations China (Based in Shanghai. Reported to the Managing Director of Auchan Trading China) • Recruited and managed 5 direct reports, teams of 37 in Shanghai and Guangzhou. • Director of supply chain: - Redesigned sales & operations planning (16000 orders in 2007) from order placement to delivery to 16 distribution centres in Europe including order scheduling, supplier management, logistics and transportation, customer service. Improved on time delivery to customers from 70% to 94% in 2 yea

Sales Manager Asia-Europe Based in Paris, France Migration of client portfolio after the acquisition of EACBEN by Maersk.

Supply Chain Operations Manager Asia (Based in Singapore then Shanghai from July 2000. Reporting to the International Supply Chain Manager) • Managed China sourcing office from 2001, own team of 5, network of agents in 8 Asian countries. • Contributed to reduce cost of goods sold by 9% a year, pipeline inventory by 23 days, number of vendors from over 500 to 150, to cut time-to-market from 6 months to 6 weeks on selected product categories, to achieve 99% quality and on-time delivery rate by end 2002. • D

Sales Manager Asia-Europe (May 1990 to April 1993) (Based in Le Havre, France. Reporting to the Commercial Director) Set up sales operations in France as agent for EACBEN (Asia-Europe shipping line). Sales of $8 million in 1992. Developed a consolidation and distribution platform in Hong-Kong for the greater China region that saved French customers 17% of their freight costs. Country Manager Saudi Arabia (July 1988 to April 1990) (Based in Dammam. Reporting to the Middle East Line Director)