Damien Durand

Strategy Deployment Office Director

Switzerland

About

Experience

  • Schindler Group (Full-time · 5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Strategy Deployment Office Director
      Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    • Engineering project leader
      Feb 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Schindler Lifts (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Full-time · 4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Service Director
      Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      In charge of the service department in Singapore: - Participating member of the senior management team and leader of the service team (around 280 people) to ensure customer excellence and employee engagement - Full P&L responsibility on a portfolio of more than 60 Mio SGD turnover - Develop and implement strategies and structures to grow a quality culture and continuously gain efficiency, raise safety standards, achieve excellent customer service and drive further growth - Establish strong relationships with key customers to create new business opportunities - Develop people, build a succession pipeline and promote teamwork by continuously communicating, supporting and collaborating with the people in EI and beyond - Pro-actively drive (crisis) communication and collaboration with BCA (Building & Construction Authority Singapore) and manage high media attention - Represent the business within the Jardine Schindler Group and Schindler worldwide on various initiatives Key achievements: - Global Employees Engagement Survey: local results raised by an average of 4,2 points in all categories, 14,5 points above Singapore national norm - Customer: Detractors decreased by more than 30% and promoters increased by 10% in the last 2 years - Portfolio: more than 25% growth in size and 35% growth in value in the last 3 years, with over 60% increase in reliability - People Development: 90% managing positions filled with internal Schindler people in the last 3 years, including 70% internal local promotions, and enhancing diversity - Reached highest score in Group Technical Compliance Audit - Successfully managed the continuity of the operations during Covid crisis and Singapore lockdown by providing accommodations and support to our foreign workforce and finding business agreements with our customers

    • Fulfillment Manager
      Apr 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

      In charge of the fulfilment of service activities for Singapore East and West: - Manage a team of more than 80 people (including 6 Service Leaders and 6 engineers) to ensure customer and employee satisfaction - Full P&L responsibility on a portfolio of 3000 lifts - Develop and implement strategies to gain efficiency, push for high safety standards, increase quality norms, achieve customer excellence and drive further growth - Establish strong relationships with customers to secure existing portfolio and identify business opportunities - Develop people and contribute to long-term programs to overcome the shortage in personnel - Harmonize processes and deploy best practices across service teams to improve the management results - Closely collaborate with other departments (New Installations, Training, HR, Logistics, Finance, Sales) - Trainer for some group and local trainings (modular maintenance, EI business): provide trainings to local employees according to the group strategy and the local needs Key achievements: - Created a strong relationship with a government agency and became their preferred service provider and partner to work on future maintenance standards for Singapore (including remote monitoring and predictive capabilities) - Improved the portfolio reliability by 100% within 2 years - Implemented Quality initiatives to prepare for the Group Technical Compliance Audit

    • Service Manager
      Mar 2016 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

      In charge of service activities on the portfolio of existing installations for Singapore West: - Manage a team of 2 Service Leaders, 3 engineers and 41 technicians to ensure customer and employee satisfaction by planning the personnel needs including route organization, workloads, hiring and training - Ensure portfolio compliance to the new BCA norm, advise customer, and improve the quality standards - Implement optimized processes and increase efficiency to improve the management results - Ensure implementation of all corrective actions on portfolio and Group safety initiatives within the teams

  • Schindler Group (Ebikon)
    • Project Manager
      Jan 2015 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Managing the EN81-20/50 project on R&D side to ensure all Schindler products are compliant: - Define, set-up and implement the strategy to update Schindler products to comply with the new European norm EN 81-20/50 - Elaborate cost optimized technical solutions for all product lines - Harmonize whenever possible the different Schindler product lines - In collaboration with Supply Chain, organize the global implementation of updated products in production Key achievements: - Released compliant products within project budget and schedule - Released new design to limit the impact of the new design on the building constraints (pit and headroom) and to allow the operations to stay competitive - Implemented harmonized solutions (pit station) across different product lines to optimize the costs

    • S5500 Product Manager
      May 2014 - Dec 2014 · 8 mos

      Project management of all product management tasks required in the successful delivery and introduction of the Custom Modular Program: - Translate Market requirements into technical specifications. - Ensure that order process (offer and order configuration, lay-out, tools) is in agreement with Zone landscape and in line with Zone’s specifications. - Define and implement price and costs structures for components and system (offering, ordering, tracking and reporting). - Develop methodologies to achieve the program objectives. - Coordination and alignment of R&D, Product Line Management, Corporate Training and Corporate Purchasing in regards to product and configuration related activities. - Coordinate and follow up on Zero-Series selection and target achievement. - Adherence to product management budget and milestones. - Coordinate and follow up product improvement and cost reduction activities.

    • CMG Supply Chain Manager
      Jan 2013 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

      In charge of the global supply chain for the Custom Modular Global product line: - Optimize supply chain processes and strategy as well as total cost in each Schindler Zone. - Set up the supply chain and production capacities according to budget and sales figures. - Ensure overall quality of supply chain to meet customers’ requirements.

  • Supplier Development Specialist at Schindler Elevator Corporation (U.S.)
    Nov 2009 - Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    Responsible for supplier development and industrialization strategy, related policies in line with Corporate Purchasing standards, for the CMG-NA project (S5500): 
- develop and industrialize specific suppliers to maximize sourcing opportunities, - manage the implementation and the associated budget of the S5500 production lines, 
- contribute to the production and supply chain expertise to increase internal and external suppliers’ capabilities,
 - work with R&D to improve the design based on production feedback, in term of cost savings.

  • Schindler France (Full-time · 4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Service Leader
      Jun 2007 - Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for the improvement of the business of a 750 units portfolio of lifts (1.2M€): - manage a team of 10 technicians, to realize the maintenance and repairs tasks (service maintenance, call-backs, repairs, etc.) - improve by 20% in 2 years the turnover of this portfolio, by selling modernizations, replacements, and maintenance contracts.

    • Process and Quality Manager of Modernization design Center North West
      Jun 2005 - Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      In charge of the Quality and Processes for this new engineering department (about 80 employees), whose customers are the French, Belgium and Luxembourg branches of Schindler group: - prepare the ISO certification (passed in March 2007). - define and install processes adapted to a market in full expansion, and coherent with the group policy.