Nicolas RENAUDIER

NORTHSIDE is the buying office for a French company specialized in sourcing and importing gift and promotion items. Customers are mainly mail orders companies (ex: Redcat group companies).

- Manage 6 people:
* Sourcing team : 3 merchandisers, each specialized either in gifts and home, bags and accessories, and consumable goods for airline industry (amenity kits, blankets…)
* Order follow up team : 3 merchandisers assistants in charge of orders follow up
- Assess and select Chinese suppliers, through frequent visit to factories
- Assist merchandisers in decision’s making, before passing the order
- Production set up
- Follow up of production’s compliance
- Set up and follow up of lab testing to comply with EN regulations and quality standards, in collaboration with laboratories (BV, SGS, LNE…) and suppliers
- Report production status to French mother company
- Manage retro planning and follow up tools
- Animation of the online sourcing system
- Implement ISO 9001:2000 management standard in Northside Hong Kong office

Sector: Import - Export

Logitoys is the buying office in Asia of all toys for Gueydon’s private labels. Gueydon is the number 1 toys wholesaler for French market, and among the 3 first specialized retailers

- Design packaging for all the goods part of Gueydon’s 20 private labels (approximately 300 items), in collaboration with external designers and factories
- Control final packaging’s compliance with graphic charters
- Control normative markings compliance with EN safety regulations and standards
- Quality control follow up
- Implement social audits
- Set up corrective actions
- Develop close relationship with suppliers through regular contacts and visits

Sector: Import - Export

- Supervise business and marketing relationship between IBM and its wholesalers
- Elaborate quarterly marketing plans
- Set up the Channel Map, a supportive tool for sales people
- Daily backup for the wholesalers
- Pre-sale assistance

Sector: Software publishers