Mérieux NutriSciences CEO and leadership

Nicolas Cartier is a Chief Executive Officer at Merieux NutriSciences and is based in Lyon Area, France. He has worked as Assistant to the chairman and CEO at SANOFI; Executive VP, Industrial Microbiology at bioMérieux; and Sales Director, then Business Unit Director at SANOFI. Nicolas studied at Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées between 1988 and 1991, Ecole Polytechnique between 1985 and 1988, and Sciences Po between 1988 and 1991.

IT Executive with a strong track record of driving growth and profitability through business transformation, aligning technology strategy with business needs, driving successful project execution, and building high performing teams to achieve success.

Specialties:

•Leading business transformation by re-thinking products, markets, channels, and business models by understanding and applying technology trends.

•Enabling data driven decisions with data science, analytics, and artificial intelligence / machine learning.

•Driving growth and profitability by focusing technology discovery, strategy, and execution to deliver direct impact to customers and the bottom line.

•Applying 80/20 principles to drive growth and profitability through prioritization, discipline, and execution.

•Aligning business and technology strategy in global manufacturing companies.

•Building and leading high performance, execution oriented global IT organizations in multi-billion dollar global, decentralized organizations.

•Implementing large scale, global business systems including ERP, CRM, eCommerce, and Business Intelligence.

•Integrating and separating global IT organizations, processes and systems resulting from acquisitions and divestitures.

•Creating and leading IT sourcing organizations to manage RFP, pricing, contracts, and performance of top global suppliers of Software, Hardware, Telecom and Services.

•Leading global teams and projects. Ability to read, write, and speak fluently in Spanish and French.

Over 10 years of managerial experience in diverse finance-oriented roles mainly in the hitech industry.A top-performing, diligent, detail oriented , and multitasking individual with extensive experience in initiating, planning and leading cross-organizational processes , with broad business perspective, excellent interpersonal skills and 'out of the box approach'.Proven track record in the following:*Playing a meaningful role at increasing revenues in hundreds of percentages. *Planning and implementing budget control processes in local and global companies. *Re-organizing the Finance department and ensuring its organizational structure supports the company's business activity and growth. *Establishing the entire local and global taxation layout.*Initiating significant cost-reduction steps valued at hundreds thousands of dollars.*Saving the company millions of dollars by performing taxation planning. *Investing company's money effectively and streamlining currency hedging processes thus increasing revenues from financing .*Experienced in leading cross-organizational projects throughout their entire life-cycle.*Motivating, leading and managing employees ,both directly and matrix.*Characterizing and implementing ERP financial module.