Denmark: FLSmidth has announced the appointment of Eric Thomas Poupier to a newly created position in group executive management, as group executive vice president, business development. Poupier will take up his new position on 15 January 2014.
Since 2011 Poupier has been a manager at Bain and Company in Stockholm, managing projects for Nordic clients. From 2007 to 2011 he was a consultant for Bain and Company and specialised in reorganisation, growth strategy, sales force effectiveness and performance improvements. Over 2005 to 2007 Poupier completed a full time MBA study in the USA and in 2005 he held the position of purchasing manager for Bosch Group in Changzhou, China. Previous to 2005 Poupier had a number of managerial positions in strategic purchasing within the Bosch Group in Germany.
Eric Poupier brings with him a broad experience within business and strategy development as well as within purchasing and change management. The new business development position in group executive management was created in an effort to strengthen FLSmidth Group's competitiveness by focusing more on effectiveness, strategy development and integration.
