Nicolas Cosqueric

CIO Southern Europe at Danone

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

About

Experienced Chief Information Officer in Consumer Products and Retail industry. People leader focused on driving business performance through technology. IT professional with a M.B.A. from IESE Business School.

Experience

  • CIO Southern Europe - Global lead on Program & Project delivery at Danone
    Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Lead large‑scale digital, data, and AI‑driven transformation at Danone across Iberia, Italy and Greece. Managed a significant IT & Data portfolio, embedding analytics and AI into core business processes to drive simplification, performance, and value creation. Lead overall portfolio, program and project excellence for Danone globally.

  • Group CIO at Damm
    Oct 2017 - Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos

    Damm is a leading beverage and retail producer with a turnover of 1,26 MM€ in 2018. 4500 employees. 16 production facilities. Budget of 30 MM€. Team of 60 internal. Definition and validation by senior management of a strategic plan to shift from a cost-center operation to a business partner IT organization Highlighted Achievements: • Proposal of a new organizational structure (more customer centric, extension to 60 internal FTEs) • Operational raodmap to change the day-to-day operations to a service based model and adjustment of the workspace to a more collaborative model • Re-focus of the IT roadmap on value add initiatives (Distribution model, Retail landscape, Export, 360 vision of customer) • Finance: shift from an IT fixed-cost to a variable model (areas understanding cost drivers and how to influence them)

  • IT Transformation head (post acquisition of World Duty Free Group by Dufry) at Avolta
    Feb 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Dufry is the leading travel retailer with presence in more than 60 countries and turnover of more than 8 billion CHF. Leads the implementation of the Dufry IT Transformation program aiming at integrating the various acquisitions into a common IT landscape (SAP based) enabling a single business operating model and its inherent synergies. Leads the various projects and teams (80 FTEs of Project managers and ERP experts).

  • CIO at World Duty Free Group
    Jun 2015 - Feb 2016 · 9 mos

    Oversees the Information Technology for a leading travel retailer. Presence in 20 countries with a turnover of 3 billion euros, span of 550 shops and 1800 points of sales. Team of 80 internal staff. Budget of 20 MM€ Opex/12 MM€ Capex. Highlighted Achievements: • Integration between WDFG and Dufry information systems. Definition of long term integration strategy.

  • Voluntary sabbatical at Own
    Sep 2014 - Jun 2015 · 10 mos