Jean-François FONTAINE-BOULLÉ (cx)

My JOB

Since 2006, I am Sales & Marketing Director for a subsidiary of Elior, one of the main international groups dedicated to catering.

Services & Santé, company specialised in retail business within public and private hospitals in France, is the second operator on this domestic market. Our implementations, a part from catering, could also include vending machines, a press/book store activity, and a television offer for patients drived from the cafeteria.

My main duty is to develop our restaurant chain named "Café & Compagnie".

I am also in charge of the entertainment of our network from the headquarter to each local outlet with new products, incentives, news services... and I take care of the internal and external communication of our company.

MY SKILLS

International Skills -> A Life experience and sixth-sense development
- Recognize that keeping an open mind helps break-down barriers
- Smile and be oneself: it establishes a relationship
- Comprehend importance of global vision in today's world without forgetting local needs

Business Selling Skills -> Targeting the Supply and Demand
- Define and convince my client what he needs
- Believe in self-motivation and team work to accomplish that task
- Incorporate benchmarking in decision making process:

Curiosity for competitors products
- Build a long terms partnership with my distributors in their organization and buying opportunities
- Meet my yearly sales targets

Engineering Skills which apply to Sales -> Building and Manufacturing the goods
· Plan and budget with cost-efficiencies restraints for the work to be done
· Design and construct project
· Participate in Bidding, Contracting and Supervising processes

Project Management and Communication Skills -> Building a team
Embrace power of communications
- Bring people with different expertise and background towards the same goal
- Build and nurture bridges between departments of the company
- Recognize individual accomplishment

new technologies, gastronomy, movies, antiques, subdiving, comics, MG's from the 60's, Bentley, trikes,