Lucas Cotasson

Senior raw materials buyer @ Pierre Fabre Laboratories

About

Consultant at ALCIMED an Innovation & New Business Consulting company My purpose is to explore and develop my clients' uncharted territories (new technologies, market innovations, high growth markets and strategic foresight) Main sectors : Food / beverages and agriculture

Country

France

City

Toulouse

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Skill

Engineering, Project Management, Microsoft Office, Linux, Microsoft SQL Server, Management, PowerPoint, Market Research, Research, Analysis, Teamwork, Travail d'équipe, Étude de marché, Recherche, Analyses, Stratégie marketing, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Anglais, Marketing Strategy

Experience

Senior raw materials buyer

Pierre Fabre Laboratories

2023-4 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

Spend 20M€ Portofolio pharma, cosmetics & nutraceutic Lead buyer : - Excipients : sugar derivatives, flavors, éthanol - APIs, vitamins, minerals

Raw materials Buyer

Nutrition & Santé

2019-9 - 2023-4 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Région de Toulouse, France

Spend 15M€ Lead buyer (sugars, flavors, spices, dry fruits, nuts, palm oil, condiments)

Buyer inflight

Newrest

2017-10 - 2019-9 · 2 yrs

Région de Toulouse, France

Graduate program

Newrest

2017-1 - 2017-10 · 10 mos

Région de Paris, France

Innovation Strategy Consultant intern

Alcimed

2016-3 - 2016-10 · 8 mos

Région de Paris, France

Sales and Marketing

Newtree

2015-2 - 2015-8 · 7 mos

Région de la baie de San Francisco, États-Unis

Improving sales and communication of 2 NEWTREE café located in the financial district Building strong Marketing actions for NEWTREE Café Co-Managing the café (orders, stock, team management)

Operational Marketing Manager

Newtree

2014-7 - 2014-12 · 6 mos

Région de Paris, France

- Sales following up and control : Reporting to the sales Director - Diversification and extension of distribution retails - Setting up of new distribution retails - Benchmark, business intelligence (informations gathering) : competition, prices, customers (data, statistics, market research) - advertising actions in outlets - Promotional campaign analysis - Promotional and distribution retail manager in Paris

Education

ENSAT

Agricultural Engineering; food science Engineering

2013 - 2016 · 3 yrs

The ENSAT is a public and national « Grande Ecole » in life sciences, funded by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. France has a highly selective system of "Grandes Ecoles", i.e. institutes training high level engineers, in parallel with a large network of Universities, dealing mainly with basic sciences. A large proportion of managers and executives in major companies, both private and public, come from these "Grandes Ecoles".