Jean Bigaouette

President at ACHTRAN Inc

Canada

About

Results are the outcome of planning, leadership and execution, which comes from the right strategies that are established from bold and clear visions. As a visionary transformative procurement leader, it is always my goal to advance the success of the organization, the function and the people who are part of it, through ambitions goals, collaboration, co-creation and utmost empowerment, in order to always meet or surpass expectations.

Experience

  • President at ACHTRAN Inc
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Une fonction Achats représente un investissement important pour toutes organisations et peut avoir un impact favorable important lorsque bien positionné.   ACHTRAN Inc. se spécialise dans l'analyse de performance, positionnement, exécution et génération de valeur de la fonction Achats au sein de votre organisation, dans le but d'y maximiser la contribution. - Maturité et capacités de la fonction; - Structure et talents; - Positionnement au sein de l'organisation et de sa gouvernance; - Plan stratégiques et tactiques de contribution financière - immédiats et à long terme; - Gestion de développement et performance des fournisseurs; - Gestion de risques; - Vecteur à l’innovation.

  • Agropur (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Vice President, Transformation - Systems and Business Processes
      Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Vice Président, Achat / Vice President, Procurment
      Apr 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Danone (12 yrs 3 mos)
    • Vice President, Indirect Purchasing
      Apr 2017 - Apr 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Leadership of North America's Indirect Purchasing team supporting: - Logistics - Marketing & Media - Corporate Services and IS/IT - Industrial Services - Capital Investments

    • Sr Director, Services & Goods, North America, Danone
      May 2015 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs

      Management of 4 functional areas for North America: - Capital Investments and Industrial Services - Logistics - Contract Manufacturing and Co-Logistics - Corporate Services and IS

    • Director, DanTrade Implementation, North American Operations
      May 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Leadership of team to drive implementation of DanTrade - Groupe Danone`s Amsterdam based Procurement organization - Project will covering more than 90% of R&P spend in zone - Project impacting 10 functions and involving more than 70 people in zone - Project scope impacts people, processes, systems and suppliers - Leadership of change management activities aimed at supporting the evolution of the organization - Leadership of organizational design aimed at implementing & developing future organization

  • Bell Canada (14 yrs 11 mos)
    • General Manager, Indirect Procurement
      May 2006 - Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      - Leads Indirect Procurement activities; - Ensures that annual objectives such as cost reduction and delivery of internal services are met or surpassed - Ensures addressable spend is properly contracted and that sourcing processes are sound, transparent & efficient; - Leads & ensure that ~30 team members are in the right role, supported and coached in order to accomplish their category management role - Ensure development, application and enforcement of corporate policies such as Travel, Training, Contract Labor, Consulting, as well as Compliance, Quality and Governance - Categories of spend: IS/IT, HR Benefits & Employee Services, Contract Labor & Consultancy Services, Outsourcing & Offshoring, Marketing, Print & Corporate Services, Real Estate, Supply Chain, Warehousing & Fleet Service, Financial Services, Travel & Expense Management. Overall consumption management on discretionary spend is also part of mandate.

    • Director, Outsourcing Management
      Nov 2004 - May 2006 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Management of outsourcing management team aimed at overseeing outsourced operations for IT, Billing and Receivalbe Management. -Contract Management -Annual Pricing Negotiations -Offshoring of activities -Right sizing of activities -Service Level Management & Optimization

    • Associate Director, Procurement
      Sep 2002 - Nov 2004 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Indirect Procurement Associate Director: - Corporate Services - IT - Travel and Expense Management - Fleet - Real Estate - Outsourcing