Olivier Salomon

CEO

Paris, Île-de-France, France31 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years of consulting experience.
Expert in retail and consumer goods transformation.
Passionate educator in corporate strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic leader in Retail and Consumer Goods consulting.

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Skills

Core Skills

RetailSupply ChainCorporate StrategyOperations ManagementBusiness TransformationStrategyBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Strategy

Other Skills

Multi-channel strategyRetail operationsCategory managementPurchasingFact-based negotiationsInnovationTechnologySupply chain transformationStrategic OperationsConsumer GoodsHealth PracticesOperational excellenceSupply Chain optimizationRevenue developmentFact-based negotiation

About

As a Partner & Managing Director at AlixPartners, I lead Consumer Goods, Luxury and Retail initiatives, project work, and intellectual capital development in France and across Europe. With over 25 years of strategy and management consulting experience, I help clients achieve tangible, measurable, and bottom-line results in challenging and complex situations. My core competencies include multi-channel strategy, retail operations, category management, purchasing, fact-based negotiations, supply chain, innovation, and technology. I am also a passionate educator and board member, teaching corporate and business unit strategy at Sciences Po and supporting the development and innovation at the Tepper School of Business. I am fluent in English and French, and have a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS/MS in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne.

Experience

Alixpartners

Partner & Managing Director

Feb 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos · Paris

Leading Consumer Goods & Retail initiatives, project work, intellectual capital development in France and across Europe.
Multi-channel strategy, retail operations, category management.
Purchasing, Fact Based Negotiations.
Innovation and technology in Retail.
Supply Chain transformation in Consumer Goods and Retail.

Multi-channel strategyRetail operationsCategory managementPurchasingFact-based negotiationsInnovation+4

Carnegie mellon tepper school of business

Member of the Board of Alumni

Jun 2013 – May 2019 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

Supporting development and innovation at the Tepper School of Business as well as connection with the Alumni network in Europe

Sciences po

Maître de conférence en Stratégie

Jan 2008 – Present · 18 yrs 3 mos · Paris Area, France

Teach Corporate and Business Unit Strategy to Master students
Consistently evaluated amongst top teachers by students.

Corporate Strategy

A.t. kearney

Principal

Feb 2007 – Jan 2015 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Paris Area, France

Strategic Operations, Consumer Goods & Retail, Health Practices
Sold and lead multiple transformation programs with a focus on operational excellence and improved value proposition to customers. Expertise in online retail and development of omni channel organizations.
Key assignments include:
Supply Chain transformation for retailers (multiple channels)
Distribution strategy
Promotional effectiveness
Collaboration across the value chain
Manufacturing Strategy
Procurement - Fact Based Negotiation
Shelf availability
Forecasting
End-to-end Supply Chain optimization
Due diligence (Vendor/ Buyer)
Also:
Top 20 globally in upward feedbacks in 2011, 2012, 2013
Responsible for European Managers Training 2009-2014
Lead Pro Bono assignments in France 2009-2014

Strategic OperationsConsumer GoodsRetailHealth PracticesOperational excellenceSupply Chain optimization+4

Essec business school

Visiting Associate Professor

Jan 2007 – Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Paris

Professor of Strategy and Manufacturing Strategy to Master students

Strategy

6-24 consulting

Partner

Mar 2003 – Dec 2006 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Paris Area, France

Turnaround and restructuring for medium size businesses. One of six founding partners.
Operational excellence, Supply Chain optimization, revenue development in the Retail, Consumer Goods, Logistics, Industrial sectors. Managed the turnaround of a large European 3PL.
Committed to tangible, measurable, bottom line impact.

TurnaroundRestructuringOperational excellenceSupply Chain optimizationRevenue developmentBusiness Transformation

Vivendi universal

VP Business Development

Oct 1999 – Mar 2003 · 3 yrs 5 mos

M&A and Business Development responsibilities within Internet Division of VU
Involved in the acquisition, integration and launch of web based businesses including: Vizzavi, Scoot, AlloCiné, iFrance...
Business development for Scoot across Europe: negotiation of JV agreements; negotiation of Telco distribution agreements; acquisition and integration of Loot.com in the UK
Business development in the US (@viso, VU Games...) and in Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland)

M&ABusiness DevelopmentNegotiationAcquisition Integration

A.t. kearney

Business Analyst to Manager

Mar 1995 – Oct 1999 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Wide range of projects across Europe, Asia and the US with a clear focus on the Consumer Goods and Retail industries.
Projects include:
Corporate Strategy and Business Development across Asia for a leading European retailer
European strategy for a manufacturer of fast moving technological goods
Retail in France: reengineering of procurement processes, Fact Based Negotiation, redefinition of product portfolio, reassessment of pricing policy, Private Label strategy...

Corporate StrategyBusiness DevelopmentFact-based negotiationBusiness Strategy