Alain Parent

Local market leader in selective perfumery in Austria with a yearly turnover of about 90mEUR, 650 employees, 12.000 SKUs Full P&L responsibility of Austrian Business Unit, including Retail and People Management, Purchasing, Marketing, e-Commerce, Logistics, local IT, Finance & Controlling Drive Digital Transformation, eCommerce Store turned #2, launch of Click&Collect

Full P&L responsibility of Austrian Business Unit Turnaround business in 2 years, overperforming market in second year Refit program based on new M5 Store Concept pushed through whole country, Top 10 locations in first 6 months / Minor refit program for smaller stores. Assortment clustering and trade activities, adapted Look & Feel Cost efficiency program incl. salesforce reduction of 5%

Marionnaud, Member of CK Hutchison Holdings. #2 in selective market in France with a yearly, turnover of about 630mEUR, 4000 employees, 15.000SKUs Member of Management, in charge of strategic refit program & internal communication Implemented successfully a major Shop refit program with >150stores refitted in 2 years, with sales growth beating target/ results vs. previous years Complete re-building of Store team commitment, decision and implementation process to push store performance

additionally to Trade Director agenda: Successful Launch of the WIN program - International agreement with Top Tier suppliers for the selective market: incl. preparation, negotiation together with Top Management Follow-up of 2 major WIN Partners

Member of Management, responsible for Purchasing, Product portfolio, Marketing, Customer Service and Supply Chain processes. 20-people team. Major organic growth boosted by striving loyalty program, best 2 years in 2010 and 2011 Setup of Lifestyle segmentation approach in CRM activities, Launch of e-commerce activities in 2008, second e-commerce site within the Marionnaud Group Successful Launch of Exclusive Brands and Own Labels in Austria

Project Manager, Marionnaud - Perfumeries of A.S. Watson, Vienna, Austria and Fällanden, Switzerland. Acted as Sales Manager for a test format in Switzerland called The Perfume Shop Performed an Audit which led to their closure in 2007

Strategy & Management consultant based in Paris, France (until Apr ’01) and Munich, Germany Broad scope of projects including: complete strategic reviews, Business plan modelling, IT Landscape and process optimization, interim management for telco leaders as well as Business IT alignment in financial services