I hired Valérie as our Export Director in February 2013 and I’ve been managing her directly for almost 4 years.
She has been delivering great results in developing our international business, setting up our distribution network, building relationships with our partners and increasing our brand. She was also involved in general management as a member of our Executive Committee.
I saw her evolve and grow in her role. She built a great team and setup management processes that are still in place today.
Also, she has been very professional and committed, willing to learn (especially important in technical environments as is the case for Itris) and a real team player. She is also clearly full of energy !
I would definitely recommend Valérie as an employee … and as a great human person.
Valérie hired me for her international sales team two years ago. With a lot of patience and enthusiasm she made me learn the different tasks (that were unknown to me coming from HR). The way we worked together was affected by the sympathy for each other. Often, we had sat down together and tackled the workload with a great hand-in-hand teamwork.
To the international team belonged also the distributors around the world. Valérie had built up strong relationships with them, guiding them in the difficult task of selling our products. She has established effective routines, that now serve me well after having taken over this part. Also, in this transition process of handing over most of her tasks to me before leaving, she was very efficient and loyal.
One of her strengths is to welcome new challenges. She likes to learn, even if it is a difficult technical context.
I can only recommend Valérie as a team leader to any employer of any industry.
It’s not often that you come across someone as dedicated and enthusiastic as Valérie.
I met Valérie 8 months ago when she interviewed and hired me as a marketing assistant for her international sales team. Straight away I noticed her work ethic, how she is always full of ideas and always wanting to learn more. She is a supportive manager and she has a lot of passion for the subject.
What impressed me most was her ability to speak many different languages, with at least five to a professional standard. This knowledge has provided Valérie with a lot of intercultural awareness which supported her successful management of our international distributor network.
Although I only got to work with Valérie for a short period of time, I learnt a great deal from her and I highly enjoyed working with her.
Any employee would be lucky to have the chance to work with Valérie and she would be an asset to any team.
Valérie a été ma tutrice de stage et ma manager à Itris. Elle a fait de ma première expérience professionnelle une aventure épanouissante.
À l’écoute, attentive mais exigeante, elle a mis un point d’honneur à faire évoluer mes compétences et a toujours su comment me motiver.
Au début très présente et formatrice, elle m’a laissé de plus en plus de responsabilités et d’autonomie jusqu’à ce que j’aie mes propres projets.
Je souhaite à quiconque d’avoir un jour Valérie comme manager ou simplement en tant que collègue et je lui serai toujours reconnaissante de tout ce qu’elle a fait pour moi.
J’ai travaillé sous la responsabilité de Valérie pendant 6 mois lors de mon premier stage chez Itris Automation. Je n’aurais pas pu espérer avoir meilleur référent ! Nous avons travaillé ensemble quotidiennement, elle a su être très pédagogue et a été une très bonne manager, toujours à l’écoute et de bons conseils pour améliorer les capacités de chacun.
Valérie est une personne créative et toujours à la recherche d’améliorations à apporter à son travail et celui des autres.
Valérie est aussi très inspirante par sa capacité de travail incroyable. Je l’ai vu travaillé avec acharnement pour des projets importants et toujours dans la bonne humeur. Cela a vraiment été un plaisir de travailler en collaboration avec elle. Elle restera pour moi une belle rencontre tant sur le plan professionnel que personnel.
Je terminerai simplement par dire que, tout employé a de la chance d’avoir Valérie comme collaboratrice ou responsable
Références de partenaires
I met Valérie two years ago in a customer plant: immediately I liked her personality and her determination. Later I found her very intelligent way of approaching people. The cooperation between us has been very strong, reinforced by a growing mutual confidence. We have often discussed about our marketing and customers, we always have been found a successful solution, talking openly and without prejudice. The remarkable ability to learn languages and attention to improving is one of her best soft skill.
Working with Valerie It was very pleasant and motivating: I’m sure everyone will do well to collaborate with her: each company will do a deal hiring Valerie
Desde RAYFOC Ingeniería nos pusimos en contacto con Valérie en el año 2015, cuando ella estaba creando la red de distribuidores mundiales para Itris. Confió en nosotros, y nosotros en ella. Nos abrió las puertas de Itris para que podamos ser distribuidores en Argentina de sus productos y software, permitiéndonos expandir nuestros servicios de ingeniería a diferentes empresas en nuestra región. Es una excelente interlocutora y siempre estuvo disponible para nosotros, a pesar de las diferencias horarias que nos separan. Es una persona muy activa y con una gran calidez humana.
Con absoluta confianza recomiendo a Valérie para trabajar en cualquier empresa que quiera crecer mundialmente.
It is my great pleasure to recommend Valérie for any sales, marketing or management position with the international organizations.
We have been working together to provide the latest technological services, and products to our customers and Valérie successfully created solutions to customers needs.
Valérie is a great person and a truly valuable asset to any organization.
It has been a great experience to have the opportunity to work with such undeniable talent as Valérie, and I hope She will find a new challenge near our industry.
Valerie hat technisch anspruchsvolle Zusammenhänge in einem internationalen, mehrsprachigen Umfeld erklärt und die Inhalte transportiert und verständlich gemacht. Sie hat ein Netzwerk von Unterstützern und Partnern für die Idee und Produkte von ITRIS Automation in Europa aufgebaut. Sie war dabei immer sehr zielstrebig, freundlich und auf die Situation und Bedürfnisse des Gegenübers orientiert.
Nous avons sollicité Valérie pour un mission de consulting pour notre démarche à l’export et tout particulièrement sur l’Italie et l’Allemagne. Elle est intervenue 3 à 4 j par mois dans un premier temps pour le cadrage de l’action (consulting) puis dans un second temps pour la recherche de partenaires intégrateurs (action opérationnelle).
Voici les missions menées :
– Conseils stratégique : présentation plan d’action export pour l’Allemagne et l’Italie, recommandations…
– Accompagnement export avec suivi d’une alternante, formation à la prospection
échanges avec la direction générale, commerciale et marketing
– Opérationnel : prospection et négociation avec nouveaux distributeurs et apporteurs d’affaires sur l’Italie
Les réalisations obtenues :
– Mise en place d’une stratégie de développement du business international
– RDV avec une dizaine de partenaires potentiels en Italie
– Signature de d’un contrat de partenariat en Italie
Les qualités et compétences de Valérie :
– Culture du résultat, implication dans les missions
– Connaissance de l’industrie à l’export, notamment Allemagne et Italie dans notre cas
– Capacité d’écoute et de communication avec ses interlocuteurs internes et externes
I have met Valerie at her capacity as the Export Director and Partnership manager Itris Automation. As one of the business partners of Itris, I have closely worked with Valerie on numerous business and technical issues and found her to be exceptionally bright and intelligent with high capacity of learning complex business and technical subjects.
In all our mutual endeavors, she has demonstrated professional attitude combined with the great personality which helped create good working atmosphere.
Whenever I needed her involvement and ability to tackle new business issues – she always found the time, patience and flexibility to come to mutually agreeable solutions.
I strongly believe that Valerie will be a major asset to her future employer.
Ms. Valérie Fontaine has asked me to write a testimonial about her which I hereby will grand with great pleasure. Ms. Fontaine has worked for the French company Itris Automation based in Grenoble. Since May 2016 ATS Applied Tech Systems BV in The Netherlands has become a partner of Itris Automation for which Ms. Fontaine worked as Export Director and International Partnerships Manager for almost 4 years.
I got to learn Valérie as a person who is very dedicated to her work and she must have spent many hours in understanding the products of Itris. These products demand a more than average level of technical knowledge. Although Valérie has no real technical background, she managed to demonstrate, explain and to some level support the products as someone who has used these frequently.
Also in her communication I experienced Valérie to be a very pleasant and tactful person. She is interested in the personal work situation of her business partners and manages to create a bond with them and I am sure also with her colleagues, that makes that in a natural way they are willingly to do “the extra step” for her. Also her unexpected high level language skills added with Valérie’s sense of humor contribute in an easy contact with her.
What I have valued in Valérie very much is that she tried to stay in the communication of her business partners with her other colleagues in Itris. It is my personal experience that I had sent an e-mail for support to a colleague of hers, she was not cc-ed, but the same day I received a reaction from Valérie. It explained that it could take longer than normal to receive an answer from her colleague because he was out of the office for business for some days, at a location where Internet access was difficult. It is this kind of involvement and commitment that makes that a business relation doesn’t feel “forgotten” or “unattended”, that I have never experienced before with other business relations, but which to my point of view is a very valuable quality in customer relations. I like to wish Valérie lots of luck in finding a new and higher professional challenge in her life. I am sure she will be a
valuable asset to the company that hires her.
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