My name is Nicolas, I am 25-year-old French professionnal and I am looking for new career/business opportunities in whole China!

I lived 6 months in Shanghai in 2008 for an internship and I totally fell in love with China which explains why I strongly want to come back in order to work and settle there! I already have quite an interesting international experience since I lived in the USA, in Mexico, in China and Luxembourg, I hold a Masters Degree in Internation Business Administration and I can speak French, English, Spanish, and Chinese!

I will arrive in Shanghai next Monday, November 2nd 2009; I will then be available from this date onwards for any interesting interview anywhere in China! Please note that I am interested in both permanent and V.I.E program positions. Also please note that I already hold a valid F Visa.

Please find my resume below! Feel free to contact me directly at nicob57@yahoo.fr if you are interested and/or have any question.



WORK EXPERIENCE


Feb. to Sept. 2009 Customer Services Manager
Vodafone Procurement Company, Luxembourg City (Luxembourg)
Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC – counting around 200 employees) started to trade on Feb. 16th 2009 in was created in order to centralize all Vodafone Group orders for devices such as USB sticks, mobile phones etc. The mission of the VPC is to be the main link between the operating companies (OpCo’s) and the suppliers in order to manage the order process in all aspects.
- Main contact between our OpCo’s and our suppliers at a global level such as: Huawei Communications, SAGEM Wireless, TCT Alcatel, ZTE , DARTS Technologies
- Direct negotiation with suppliers in order to fulfill our OpCo’s requirements regarding delivery dates
- Owned transaction interface to more than 10 customer accounts (OpCo’s) and up to 5 supplier accounts for all aspects of order process
- Escalation point for our OpCo’s and suppliers: needed to solve any issue raised by our OpCo’s and/or suppliers in a timely manner
- Processed our OpCo’s orders each one representing between 1K and 200K USB sticks and/or mobile phones which represented a sales volume of up to 2M€/order .
- Processed an annual global trading volume of 250M€
- Important use of Excel in order to report directly to our Directors: New Launches, Forecast
- Use of SAP R3 in order to validate each Sales Order and Purchase Order: review of the quantities, unit price, total amount, products ordered, delivery dates, contact details

March to Sept. 2008 Sales Representative
World Events Agency, Shanghai (China)
World Events Agency (W.E.A) is an event company based in Shanghai (China) with a representative office in Beijing counting around 20 employees and that developed the Expat Show Shanghai and the Expat Show Beijing; these exhibitions were created in order to help the expatriate communities of both Shanghai and Beijing to find all the products/services (Finance, Health, Education, Hotels, Sports, Travel, Beauty, etc) they might need in the daily life be it professional or personal.
1) Our free magazine launch – Expat Mag/贵人
- Created our magazine website www.expatmag.cn
- Created our distribution network in China
- Direct negotiation for our magazine distribution in Shanghai and Beijing: Five star hotels such as Hilton, Hyatt, Portman-Ritz Carlton, Le Royal Méridien, Ramada Plaza, or airlines such as Swiss
- Around 10K copies of our magazine were distributed between Shanghai and Beijing
2) Direct Sales
- Developed a new product called Bus Mailing for companies to advertise in our show
- Created customers database
- Cold calls and direct presentation of our product to customers
- Sold products to customers such as “The Spa at the Hilton” and famous bars and restaurants in Shanghai

March to August 2007 Marketing Assistant for the Puro Potosino Program
H. Ayuntamiento de San Luis Potosí, SLP (Mexico)
The Puro Potosino Program is part of San Luis Potosi’s City Hall (counting more than 10K employees) Economic Development Department. The objective is to help local businesses to develop by providing them with financial services, exposure to the market by organizing fairs, organizing trainings in marketing, international trade, management. Puro Potosino counted more than 700 registered companies and also helped to improve local employment.
- Managed a complete study and published a comparative study in order to find out if there was any equivalent program in Mexico and Europe.
- Directly gave presentation of the study (results and recommendations) to our Board of Directors. The study was presented to the Federal Government by the Board of Directors and was rewarded as the being the best local development program in Mexico
- Attended and organized events such as fairs and trainings
- Managed our website new designed and updates: www.puropotosino.com




May to August 2006 Marketing & Business Administration Assistant
American Marketing Systems Inc., San Francisco (USA)
American Marketing Systems Inc. (AMSI) is a real estate and property management company based in San Francisco (USA) with representative offices in San Diego and New York City counting more than 50 employees.
- Developed new ways of advertizing both our Sales Department and Furnished Rentals Departments
- High use of PowerPoint in order to directly report to the COO
- Marketed and Advertized our new properties online
- Attended many networking events in order to present our company and its different actions and programs to other professionals, e.g. in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
- Organized Real Estates Sales Meetings
- Trained our associates to a website meant to each the paperwork between our company and our customers; learnt about Californian Real Estate Laws and processes.
- Trained and supervised new interns


EDUCATION


Université Paul Verlaine – Business School of Metz, France

Sept. 2008 “Master Administration des Affaires” (Honors)
(French equivalent of Business Administration)
Management and languages (Business English, Business Spanish)
Intercultural Management, Commercial Negotiation, Human Resources
University Paul Verlaine, Metz (France)

June 2006 License Degree (French equivalent of Bachelors of Arts) in Foreign Languages applied to the Business World (French, English, Spanish and Chinese)
Economy, Law, Management, Marketing

SKILLS


Languages spoken French (native speaker), English (bilingual), Spanish (bilingual) and Mandarin (intermediate)

Computer Skills SAP R3,Windows XP, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Express), Internet