Bernard de la Croix

Vice-President Sales and Marketing at John Cockerill Defence

Liège, Walloon Region, Belgium

About

Overseas projects manager 30 years project, proposal, contract negotiations, and general management Focused on energy transition, environment, defence and space industry Goal : manage important projects to the full satisfaction of the customer and the company Specialties: Team leading Customer relation Planning Cost control

Experience

  • Vice President Sales and Marketing at John Cockerill Defence
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • VP Project Execution at John Cockerill Hydrogen
    Mar 2023 - May 2026 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • John Cockerill (11 yrs 8 mos)
    • EPC senior Vice-President
      Oct 2020 - May 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Deputy Chief Marketing Officer
      Nov 2016 - May 2023 · 6 yrs 7 mos

      John Cockerill Defense. Report to the Chief Marketing Officer

    • Proposal Manager
      Oct 2011 - May 2023 · 11 yrs 8 mos

      CMI Defence In charge of the pre-sales project management and the preparation of the offers for : - new equipment - new services - upgrades - spare parts

  • DSEC (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Member of the Executive Committee
      Oct 2009 - Sep 2011 · 2 yrs

      Responsible of the Biomass department

    • Project Manager
      May 2008 - Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Biodiesel tunrkey plant

  • CMI Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (8 yrs 6 mos)
    • Project Manager
      Jan 2006 - Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      CMI Energy - HRS Project 1: Turn key power plant boilers (2 units) in consortium (leader) with Skoda (Balance of Plant). (750 MW - 45 Mio €). Project 2 : Turn Key power plant boilers (2 units) in consortium (leader) with INITEC (Balance of Plant) (750 MW – 70 Mio€)

    • Configuration Manager
      Jan 2002 - Dec 2005 · 4 yrs

      Managing a team of 5 persons. Responsible for the configuration of all the CMI Defence products. In the meantime project manager for the product Lifecycle management IT implementation in the company (all services involved)

    • Project Manager
      Nov 1999 - Dec 2001 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Project Manager CMI Defence (contract 250 Million € with GDLS Canada). Team leader of a task force. Planning - cost control - reporting