Florent de la Gastine

Vice President - General Manager

Rennes, Brittany, France

About

Experience

  • Cooper Standard (23 yrs 7 mos)
    • General Manager Fluid Europe and Global Advanced Manufacturing
      Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

      • General Manager Europe Fluid Leading the profitability and Growth of Fluid Europe Operations. - 6 plants in Czech Republic, Germany, France and Morrocco - 140 M$ in Sales, 1500 people, 18 OEMs customers. - Implemented strategy to improve EBITDA by 10% and double sales in 7 years. • Global Advance Manufacturing - Global coordination of new Processes development. - Capex optimization: reduction from $35 million to $25 million per year through better utilization, cost reduction and process innovation.

    • Vice President - World Class Product Development
      Jan 2019 - Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Engineering 4.0 • Push efficiency with Standardization, Globalization and Digital tools: - 30% performance improvement in 3 years, - 70% physical test reduction, move to virtual validation, - 20M€ decrease of the Engineering budget, - 14M€ in annual savings for VA-VE. • Partner with Business Leaders to set Product, Technology and Intellectual Property strategies. • Global management - Support functions CAD, CAE, Testing, Prototype, VA-VE. - 6 direct reports - worldwide team of 250 people - budget 21M€. Europe Global Profitability • Lead a transversal team to develop and execute a plan that achieves ROIC improvement through a combination of operational, purchasing, commercial, product development and footprint actions.

    • Sr. Director R&D Sealing Europe
      Jul 2015 - Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Sealing Europe • Management of the European sealing product development team. • Direct reports in each country - Total team of of 120 people working with all major automobile manufacturers - budget 12M€. Global Core Sealing Product Leader • Coordination between the different regions, lead of global standardization, tools improvement, digital needs, technical community animation, innovation roadmap.

  • Business Development - Water Pump at WILO SALMSON France
    Sep 2001 - Nov 2002 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • PSA Peugeot Citroën (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Project Management - Automobile body welding
      Jan 2000 - Aug 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Project Management - Chassis line assembly
      Jul 1996 - Dec 1999 · 3 yrs 6 mos