Stephane Santos

Global Continuous Improvement Leader, Engineering Services

• Implemented Supply Chain processes globally for the Laboratories and the Design Office (Demand Planning & Forecasting, Capacity Management, Capital Investment) leading to an increase of capacity utilization of 40% globally
• Set Up and coached Six Sigma Lean turnaround projects for the Design Office, Laboratories and Protoshop centers in Korea, Japan, China, Europe, California.
Main focus: development cycle time reduction, functional excellence and efficiency

Sector: Automobile

Program Manager Renault-Nissan Customer Team

New product introduction of 7 new diesel engine boosting turbochargers and lifecycle management for turbos in production (Portfolio USD 120 Mio).
• Management of a team of application engineers, supply base and manufacturing
• Led design to cost and cost lifecycle with supply base
• Customer point of contact through the development cycle

Sector: Automobile

Europe Program Manager for financial services

• Managed 3 direct reports in the UK and the Netherlands
• Re-engineered and digitized the accounts payable shared service centers in Europe including 7 sites (Net savings ~USD 500 k)
• Led outsourcing of non core activities to Mexico and India
• Managed service relationship with outsourcing partner
• Created a company branch in Italy increasing the billing by USD 800k

Sector: Financial Services

Managed Projects in Germany and Greece for Telco operators.

Sector: Consulting and Services

3. Project manager for Balanced Scorecard – Strategic Controlling

• Managed the project within the 5 business units and 15 business lines: time, quality and budget (USD 1.5 million budget over 2 years)
• Led business strategy assessments for the fixed and mobile networks divisions (USD 10 billion sales) within cross functional teams (BD, HR, PLM, R&D, Manufacturing)
• Implemented the strategic business metrics in a web based tool and supervised a team of 7 IT-consultants



2. Controller for the Eastern Europe Commercial Area

• Planned, forecasted and reported for all telecom infrastructure projects in the area
• Participated in a project to define and implement Business Balanced
Scorecards related to the Economic Value Added of the division



1. Financial Analyst

• Led the R&D and OEM-Project controlling (USD 14 Mio budget).
• Planned, forecasted and reported for the manufacturing centre.

Sector: IT - Telecommunications