Francois GENON-CATALOT *
Manager Commercial - Business Development Enterprise Sales, eBay
Born on November 23rd, 1980, at Romans sur Isère (France).
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Current situation :
I'm a presales consultant for Oracle CRM On Demand in Dublin. I'm working mainly with french and spanish markets.
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Presentation :
I worked for more than 5 years as a project manager. Successfully leading important projects (up to 200 k€) and understanding customers’ needs made me develop my analytical capacities and my teamwork. I worked in a multicultural environment, with customers coming from France, USA, Poland, Mexico or Spain. I'm engineer of the Alès School of Mines.
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Future :
I would like to complete an MBA in the future (double degree Europe / US), in order to get a position as a Business Manager.
I speak fluently english, spanish, and french, and I spent one year studying in Barcelona.
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Network :
If you want to share your network with me or anything else, you can contact me by email : gens80@yahoo.fr or by phone : +353 (0) 8 57 25 49 70.
Linkedin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/fgenon
Xing : https://www.xing.com/profile/Francois_GENONCATA...
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547971781
Specialties:
Sales consulting, project management, online applications, clients requirements, working with client's teams, training courses, database administration (SQL Server), agro alimentary industry, wine and spirits, wholesale distribution.
Languages: French, English, Spanish. Good basis in German, Catalan and Chinese.
• Provide expert support to the EMEA sales force on all sales opportunities.
• Systems needs and client pains analysis.
• Working with the customer to understand their business issues and formulate a solution value proposition.
• Demonstrate products on-line or on-site, in detail when necessary, to small and large audiences.
• Working as part of a sales team to formulate account strategies and help to identify opportunities.
• Successful management of relations with Oracle worldwide teams and with our partners network.
• Responding to formal bids and realizing proofs of concept.
• Oracle sales school for Sandler Selling System.
2005 - 2008Project manager at Neotic
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food Production industry)
Informatic tools for agricultural traceability. Montpellier (France).
• Customer support of new projects (up to 200 k€): define project requirements and its price, project management, settings, training courses and post implementation reviews.
• Involvement in the pre-sales process and client expectations management.
• Development design and specification (asp and .net).
• Tutorials writing, solution testing and database improvement using SQL Server.
2002 - 2004Business solutions for wholesale distribution. Montpellier (France).
• Technical Account Manager: customer support of new projects.
• Tutorials writing and training courses taught on site in French, English and Spanish.
• Customer Service Manager (Saint-Gobain) for Spain (hotline using SQL Server).
• Project Leader: study and set-up of a new standard for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) with jewel suppliers and Carrefour.
Clients : Saint-Gobain, Carrefour, Vilmorin, Bazarland, Foirfouille, Delbard.
2002 - 2002Security Analyst at Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Applied Mathematics Department. Barcelona (Spain).
Improvement of data security system through the Internet (using java) and time comparative study.