Experienced Senior Director in the Commercial retail leader managing both large single and multi-sites within different countries (EMEA & CIS markets). I practised swimming competition, I love all the sports following all the big events. I'm a juke box human as said one of my son :-) And I'm always happy because life is the most beautiful thing.
https://www.takko.com/fr-fr/
https://www.primark.com/en-us 5700 sqm 35M € 300 staff
https://www.celio.com/fr-fr Management / Partnership – 3 Zones ( Israel/ Middle-East/KSA) • 70 POS - 50M€ (Wholesale & Retail) • Partners Business review meetings • Maximizing Sales and Profitability – Budgets, KPI's, P&L • Supply Chain Optimization, pricing, competition studies • Marketing – Commercial calendar, products placement, press events, social network • Partners Standards Controls – Visual Merchandising, Guidelines, Mystery shopping , Commercial Audit • Leasing Manager Meetings - negotiations with landlords - Stores openings (follow-up of the works) • Mall Management – Lobbying
http://www.promod.com Management / Partnership – 3 Zones ( Africa- Central Asia/ Middle-East) • 40 POS - 30 M€ (Wholesale & Retail) • Partners Business review meetings • Maximizing Sales and Profitability – Budgets, KPI's, P&L • Supply Chain Optimization, pricing, competition studies • Marketing – Commercial calendar, products placement, press events, social network • Partners Standards Controls – Visual Merchandising, Guidelines, Mystery shopping , Commercial Audit • Leasing Manager Meetings - negotiations with landlords - Stores openings (follow-up of the works) • Mall Management – Lobbying
http://www.bestseller.com • 20 Opening Stores in major cities in France (seeking locations, leasing contracts & negotiations with landlords and follow-up of the works) • 8 Stores Management – Belgium • Buying monitoring in commitment with HQ in Denmark • 15 M€/ Staff 200 employees
http://www.hm.com • Top 3 worldwide Flagship Store Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 2250 sqm +50M€ 220 staff Union trade negociations Co-branding events : Karl Lagerfeld Viktor & Rolf Stella Mc Cartney
Gael is a thorough retail professional and very focused on top line strategy and execution. His strengths include delivering objective and quantifiable results…
I recruited Gael based on his international retail experience. His commercial skills were solid. His people skills were exceptional, and he was a real motivator and he was a very effective coach. He was overqualified for the job but the teams were complete, and we counted on him for Training and development of 300 + ( many young inclusive teams. He delivered the set targets and more. We regretted when he left the company for personal reasons.
Gaël did a fantastic job in H&M flagship store Haussmann, he managed smoothly a total team of 300 people, secure a revenue growth and the highest turnover/M2 of the company. He also set very high standard in term of consumer service and visuel merchandising.