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Cécile Meli-Pereira

Production And Purchasing Director
Montréal,QC

Summary

17 years of experience in production and supply chain management

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Production and Purchasing Director

Lanctot Ltee
Montreal, Quebec
06.2020 - Current
  • Company Overview: 2nd largest sport article distributer in Canada
  • Canadian Hat and Harricana workshop management (Hats and accessories made in upcycled fur):

- Management of unionized craftsmen/women and 1 production manager.

- Production planning and quality control management.

- Organization of production processes and leading labor negotiations related to collective agreement renewals.

- Contribution to setting seasonal objectives (budget, collection size per category and production targets).

- Management of workshop workload, development of cross-functional skills, and optimization of production times.

- Design and development of collections.

  • Purchasing for SWIX CANADA, NVO and Canadian Hat brands: calculation of the Open to Buy budget, analysis of the needs and placement of the Outsourced Collections POs (Quebec and import vendors).
  • Production management: quality control, guidelines, production planning and negotiation.
  • Collections: collection plan creation, brief to designer and development with vendors.
  • Participation in financial analysis and decision-making on company profitability, 3-year sales targets, purchase and production budgets (Open to Buy, Collection size per category), and presentation of results to Lanctot Ltee high management.

Senior Manager Production Macro-planning – Leather Handbags & Exotic Leathers

Hermès
Paris, France
01.2015 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: Luxury goods - Leather
  • Planification and deployment of the master production plan for the entire range of Hermès leather handbags (Birkin, Kelly and Constance styles included) and for all crocodile leather articles (wallets, handbags...).
  • Production budget management and setting up of reporting tools.
  • Monthly presentation of the key indicators to the concerned Hermès Leather directors (marketing, purchase management, merchandizing, sales department, manufactures director, finance).
  • Monitoring and production plan management of 5 specific manufacturing units, with monthly travels.
  • Functional management of the planification team (6 people):
  • Transmission of the information resulted from the macro-planning work and communication of each member’s production plan/objectives.
  • Communication of production alerts to the team (quality, sourcing, delays...)
  • Regular reporting from the team to myself regarding plan adherence.
  • Specific to exotic leathers:
  • Coordination on short and medium term of crocodile skins purchasing, according to production capacities of high-skill Hermès manufacturing units.
  • Establishment of turnover targets on 4 years, in collaboration with Hermès leather directors and crocodile leather purchasing department.

Leather Goods Industrialization and Quality Coordinator

Chloé
Paris, France
01.2011 - 01.2014
  • Company Overview: Ready-to-wear and high-end accessories for women
  • Industrialization of finished goods (handbags, wallets and leather accessories) and components.
  • Liaison work with marketing, product development and planification teams, manufacturers/suppliers and quality controllers.
  • Regular travels to visit factories and suppliers (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, China, India and France).
  • Signing off on the production roll-out after approval of pre-production samples.
  • Follow up and evaluation of quality control inspections on production (China, India, France).
  • Follow up of product lines in time and expertise role for After Sale Service.
  • Management of the industrialization and quality team (3 people).

Leather Goods Production Assistant

Chloé
Paris, France
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Company Overview: Ready-to-wear and high-end accessories for women
  • Production order launching for manufacturers and suppliers.
  • Production monitoring, shipments tracking and approval of production invoices.

Development and Production Assistant

Little Paul & Joe
Paris, France
01.2008 - 01.2010
  • Company Overview: High-end ready-to-wear for children
  • Search for new materials and contribution to collection building.
  • Elaboration of technical files English/French.
  • Approval and comments on materials, colours and samples/prototypes.
  • Production launching and monitoring, logistic organization.
  • Price and deadlines negotiation.
  • External communication (fair trades, look books...).

Product Manager Assistant

Okaïdi
Roubaix, France
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Company Overview: Mass market ready-to-wear for children and babies
  • Implementation of the store look book, technical files, colour and material ranges.
  • Collection plan monitoring in stores.
  • Competitors benchmarking and collaboration to store merchandizing.

Education

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ESIV
01.2009

Marketing, Fashion and Textile

EDHEC Business School, ESPEME Program
Lille
01.2006

Marketing

Fachhochschule of Ingolstadt
Bavaria
01.2005

Skills

  • Product development, industrialization and production quality management

  • Purchasing plan setting and production planning

  • Data crossing and analysis

  • Setting, management and follow up of budgets

  • Generalist software: Word, Power Point, Excel (expert certification)

  • Professional software: Lectra, Kaledo, Modaris, Gallery, Oracle, MSP, M3, SAP, ORLI, Illustrator

  • Team management (hierarchical and functional) and great ability for team work

  • Presentation of results and key indicators in meeting

  • Great organizational skills, sense of detail, and take pride on delivering quality work

Timeline

Production and Purchasing Director

Lanctot Ltee
06.2020 - Current

Senior Manager Production Macro-planning – Leather Handbags & Exotic Leathers

Hermès
01.2015 - 01.2019

Leather Goods Industrialization and Quality Coordinator

Chloé
01.2011 - 01.2014

Leather Goods Production Assistant

Chloé
01.2010 - 01.2011

Development and Production Assistant

Little Paul & Joe
01.2008 - 01.2010

Product Manager Assistant

Okaïdi
01.2006 - 01.2007

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ESIV

Marketing

Fachhochschule of Ingolstadt

Marketing, Fashion and Textile

EDHEC Business School, ESPEME Program
Cécile Meli-PereiraProduction And Purchasing Director