Contract Manager

bernard Horgues-debat

bernard Horgues-debat
  • 59 years old
  • marié
  • La Chapelle sur Erdre  (44)
  • Driving licence

Professional status
Freelancer

Job/career Open to opportunities

Project Manager

After New Sales Experiences,I really confirmed my position of Senior Contract Manager by being sent to Hong-Kong, and be resposible for the right completion ( erection, commissioning,costs, delivery time, quality)for some 25 projects in southern China.
Back to France, I was given the responsability to developp "Service Business", consisting mainly in negociating large refurbishments/modernisations/extension contratcs world-wide.

Professional experience

Gérant General Manager

BHD-Consult - Nantes - France(Permanent contract - 2006 - 2008)

  • Promote and help franch marine suppliers in developping their business towards "Service to Ship-owners"

Productiion Manager & After-Sales Manager

MAc-GREGOR - Nantes - France(Permanent contract - 1999 - 2003)

  • Between 1999-2003, I am responsible for managing all erection and commissioning teams in Saint-Nazaire, Turku, Miami, Singapore (130 people) and to ensure the simultaneous completion of new contracts through and with support of the Mac-Gregor international network
  • Meanwhile, as AfterSales Manager worldwide, I did set up the Life cycle concept, and negociated full maintenance contracts with the main Cruiseship owners. Mac-Gregor became the worl-leader for elevators in the marine sector.

General Manager, Sales & Network Support Service Division

Wartsila-NSD-France - Mantes la Jolie - France(Permanent contract - September 1994 - May 1999)

  • Set-up a International After Sales Service for ZAV40S Engines through Wartsila net-work

Senior Project Manager

New SULZER DIesel Hong-Kong - Hong_Kong - Hong Kong SAR of China(Permanent contract - 1990 - September 1994)

  • Co-ordinate local execution of power plant projects in China (drawings, local purchases, co-ordination for erection and commissioning) and negotiate and obtain acceptance certificates of power plant
  • Because of the booming for Power Plants in China, I was requested and implemented and managed a local structure for the implementation and monitoring of diesel power plants in Southern China (local Service engineers, local purchasing dpt, and after-Sales department)

Area Sales MAnager

SPIT - Valence (26) - France(Permanent contract - 1980 - 1989)

  • Define a new Export policy, and develop in non-European countries, an international network for Sales and After Sales through new agents or branches.

Junior Area Sales Manager

Alsthom-ATlantique - Paris - France(Permanent contract - 1974 - 1980)

  • Co-ordinate the checking of all tenders or contracts worth 15 M€, on the financial , commercial, technical and juridical side, for all Alsthom divisions for Energy and Shipbuilding projects

Interests

Sport

  • Sports: tennis( senior today)tenis table,
    Ex-hockey team coach ( won Junior HKong ChampionShip in 2003)
    canoé-kayak monitor, , and Life Saver ( at YMCA Camps in the US)
  • Hobbies : Bridge ( = passion), scrabble ( on line games)

Skills

Managerial skills

  • Business Unit management, complete financial & accounting reports and manpower management
  • -Management andCoordination of multidisciplinary teams and multicultural France and International, production, procurement, erection teams, supervisors, designers and service in coordination with subcontractors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Set-up and management of a international sales and after sales network for division s of some industrial internatioanl groups
  • Sales of turn key contracts, new projects, refit, modernisations, maintenance, and operation for Power plant and for naval sectors
  • Project Management from signing till final acceptance certificates for Power plants Scope management, time and cost responsibility and quality as per customer expectations
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Informatique

  • PAck Office : word, excel, Powerpoint
  • SAP et Citrix,
  • MS Project

Languages

  • French mother tongue
  • English fluent
  • Spanish fluent
  • Classical arabic basic knowledge

Education

Institut du Commerce International

ICI paris (January 1979 - December 1979)
  • Master Business Administartion in international affairs

Ecole des dirigeants et Créateurs d'entreprises

EDC (September 1971 - June 1974)
  • Option Commerce international