Within the framework of the RITES project (Role of the Engineer in the Transformation of Companies and Society) initiated by the Board of the École Centrale de Lille, a second “reverse pitch” was hold online on Wednesday, October 6 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
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This was an opportunity to hear the testimonies of Caroline de Grandmaison (CGI) and Pierre Kieffer (Vinci Facilities) on their career paths and how they respectively took up intense professional challenges.
An exchange always based on sharing, conviviality, and transparency, to enable everyone to better understand the reality of the engineering profession and to discover what the numerous practices have in common: versatility, understanding of systemic issues, management of complex systems, multi-dimensions of action levers and solution orientation.
Meet the speakers:
- Caroline de Grandmaison, Vice-President at CGI, consulting activities for the retail, luxury goods, consumer goods, industry, energy, utilities, and telecom sectors
A graduate of MIAGE, she has spent her entire career with CGI (Unilog at the beginning of her career, then Logica, then CGI through successive growth operations). She began as a business engineer, then as a Key Account Director, before moving on to manage one, then several, business units. A particularly remarkable trajectory in a market where men are over-represented, but which stands ready to accept more women, as Caroline can testify. - Pierre Kieffer, a 2007 graduate of the École Centrale de Lille, began as a business manager at Vinci Energies
After a career in this branch of the Vinci group, he was spotted for his skills and potential by Vinci Facilities and successively took over the management of two business units, in 2014 and 2019. This is the career of a company manager, an autonomous intrapreneur within a huge but decentralised group, and therefore a very interesting testimony. Even more so as this career path has not always been without obstacles.