The Business Advisory

Director of Business Solutions

Director Of Strategic Partnerships

Accountability Division Director

Business Advisor & Team Manager

Khairy Varre

Founder and CEO

GPBL Penser projet

•	Business development: Develop and update our unit’s strategic plan; manage strategic projects; develop and negotiate contracts; develop + implement business development strategies to grow GPBL’s market base and ensure client retention.

•	Consulting team management : Lead and support my team during client mandates; manage team capacity and assign projects; manage strategic projects; manage GPBL’s consulting projects portfolio; train and coach consultants; manage conflicts; accountable for the Consulting department’s performance.

•	Project management consulting : Manage strategic projects of a political/sensitive and confidential nature;  manage stakeholders at different levels of client’s organization; identify and implement change management actions; design and implement business processes; continuously improve project, program + portfolio management methodologies; create content for training, coaching, conferences, articles and blog posts.
 
My clients include:
-	Société québécoise des infrastructures
-       Ministère des Transports
-       Ville de Montréal of Montréal (various departments)
-	Retraite Québec
-	Concordia University – Facilities management
-	Université de Montréal
-	Université du Québec à Montréal
-	Université Laval
-	Ville de Granby
-	Ville de Gatineau
-	Ville de St-Lazare
-	Ubisoft
-	SNC Lavalin
-	Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec
-	Régie du cinéma
-	Agence métropolitaine de transport
-	Hydro-québec (various divisions and departments)
-	Commission scolaire de Montréal (Montreal school board) 
-	Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor  
-	Commission scolaire de Montréal (material resources)
-	Commission administrative des régimes de retraites et d’assurances (CARRA)
-	City of Montreal – Large-scale projects bureau
-	Belron Canada
-	CSSS Therese De Blainville
-	Canadian Traceability Agency
-	Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST, now CNESST)

Director - Project Management Consulting

Project Management Consultant

BroadSign

•	Implemented project management tools, created templates for project monitoring and control, based on the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBoK) and trained personnel in project planning, monitoring, control, knowledge and documentation management
•	Managed the launch of digital advertising software Broadsign Suite 7.0 (requirements analysis, configuration, tests, training and implementation)
•	Managed the Arbitron project (a collaborative project to audit the digital advertising software offered by Broadsign to its clients)
•	Improved the functionality of the Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) to reinforce client communication and the efficiency of knowledge management systems
•	Managed changes and project risks
•	Developed and executed promotional projects Las Vegas Digital Signage Expo 2010 (USA) & London Screen Expo 2010 (UK) – contract negotiation and management, documentation management, etc.

IT Project Manager

•	Main point of correspondence with other departments, customers, suppliers and media
•	Ensured new contract compliance with company policy and followed up on customer transactions
•	Managed relationships with customers and business partners
•	Negotiated supplier contracts and followed up on orders
•	Prepared, revised and archived contractual documents
•	Designed new administrative processes on Visio, updated technical documentation on Dekie (internal Wiki) and on Subversion (SVN)
•	Developed and executed promotional projects Las Vegas Digital Signage Expo 2009 (USA) & London Screen Expo 2009 (UK) – contract negotiation and management, documentation management, and on-site logistics
•	Managed online promotional campaign (development of templates in HTML format, tests, deployment)

Project Coordinator

BLUE STORM MÉDIA

•	Led a market study for the launch of a new internal communication tool, and provided recommendations for implementation 
•	Identified problems in the archiving system and provided solutions 
•	Developed and implemented a new archiving system in the company, based on the ISO 15489 norm (user and client requirements validation, writing of scripts to facilitate research in the database, development of a project guide)
•	Provided coaching on project management tools (e.g : MsProject), and on the importance of strategically aligning projects with the company’s mission, vision and objectives 
•	Regularly followed-up project progress and communicated to the executive VPs (presentations, meetings)

Blue Storm

•	Assisted the production director (TV productions) in various project and operations
•	Managed the website content of « La Vie en Vert » (weekly TV show on environmental issues)
•	Managed relations with viewers and public
•	Coordinated two projects heavily covered by the media : « Espace SEDNA- Cascades-Rebut Global » and « Mission Zéro déchet électronique » (in collaboration with Bureau en Gros/Staples) 
•	Managed promotional campaigns for « La Vie en Vert », and projects « Espace SEDNA-Cascades-Rebut Global » and « Mission Zéro déchet électronique »

Helping entrepreneurs play it bigger and build 8-figures+ businesses that stand the test of time

For more than a decade, I helped dozens of organisations and hundreds of high performing teams deliver mega-projects ranging from $50M to $6B in scope. 

Then in 2018, I quit my lucrative job on a Tuesday afternoon, to start my own business helping entrepreneurs achieve their business goals in record time.  

I wanted to equip small and mid-sized organisations with the knowledge and tools that large corporations use to conquer markets. 

I built that consulting business to 6-figures within a few short months before folding it (and my MBA lecturer gig) to join Kelly Roach's team as a business strategist to 7-figure entrepreneurs.

The best move of my life.

Over the past 4 years, we've grown the Business Advisory from low 7- to 8-figures and are on our way to our portfolio of companies to the $100M in revenue.

I've mentored 100+ of entrepreneurs across hundreds of different industries to play the business game bigger and triple their revenue year over year through simple, timeless corporate strategies adapted to the online world.

🚀 Helped executives start and grow their business to $100K in 6 months and $250K within their first year
🚀 Helped entrepreneurs go from $200K to $1M within 12 months
🚀 Helped low 7-figure businesses triple their yearly revenue within 12 months
🚀 Helped create many multi-million dollar businesses over the past 4 years

All of the above with innovative business models, and very healthy profit margins.

Because I know that all things being equal, the biggest influencing factor for CEOs success is their mindset and worldview, I also launched my podcast "The Mastery Matrix" in 2021. Every week on the show, I help entrepreneurs reframe their perspectives, and build their mind, body, spirit and systems for greatness.

My #1 belief: everything has a solution. If you ask enough questions, you'll always find the answer. 

Today, I am the Program Director for the Legacy Leaders Mastermind, the premier CEO coaching & mastermind group for multi-million dollar business owners ready to transform their businesses into self-led, scalable, and sellable companies – so they can exit for a premium and build generational wealth in the process.

Think: Leadership Coaching, Scaling Businesses and Integrating Life and Business For More Impact And More Impact.

Want to discuss working together? Send me a connection request and let's chat!

Khaïry Varre

GEBANA 

Co gestion de l'entreprise, équipe permanente 100 collaborateurs, équipe de plus de 700 collaborateurs pendant les campagnes de mangues fraîches et séchées et d'anacarde, gestion financière, gestion des opérations, gestion de l'IT, nouveau projet d'usines de production...

GROUPE HAGE

Mission d'audit, d'analyse, d'évaluation, des process sur l'ensemble des services, des fonctions du centre commercial, des fonctions supports... qui a abouti à un rapport et à des préconisations d'une nouvelle organisation (équipes: recrutements, évaluations, objectifs; commerciales: nouvelle organisation; procurement et transit avec de nouveaux processus; comptabilité et finance; informatique...), de nouveaux processus...

CONSULTANT / DIRECTEUR CENTRE COMMERCIAL 

CAPEMBA (TRISTAN GROUP)

BASE UNIT MANAGER in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: schipchandling management, sale of industrial equipment, TOTAL oils, PPE ...., team management, warehouse management, stock management .... Commercial management ...
Following the violent incidents at the end of March 2021 in Palma, (near Pemba) region of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, activities were interrupted, companies demobilized their teams. TOTAL's LNG project has been shut down .... CAPEMBA has also demobilized its teams ....

BASE UNIT MANAGER

YESHI GROUP

Mission for the YESHI Group in Italy following purchase of goods, materials, furniture resulting from a store bankruptcy to organize the shipment to Ivory Coast, control the goods, supervise the stuffing in the containers (18 40 "containers) , make sure the shipment goes without problem ....

CONSULTANT

YESHI GROUPE (Headquarters in IVORY COAST)

OCTOBER 2011 TO DECEMBER 2019: GENERAL MANEGER AT YESHI GROUP (Cameroon,
Congo, Ivoiry Cost)

May 2019 December 2019: 64 CONSTRUCTION (Yeshi Group) (COTE D'IVOIRE):
GENERAL MANAGER:
Responsibilities: management of YESHI group construction projects and external construction projects:
management of project teams, technical, operational, purchasing, financial, HR, external service
providers, after-sales service ...
Projects: various projects for the Yeshi group, various external projects ....

Sept 2016-May 2019: ALUCONGO BERNABE (CONGO): GENERAL MANAGER:
Responsibilities: management of 2 sales sites and a processing plant, 85 employees, management of all
the services of the company (HR, Commercial, Sales, transit-supplies, accounting and finance, customer
recovery, marketing and communication, ) ....
Projects: development through the construction of a new plant, several points of sale in Pointe Noire and Brazzaville at the end of 2016 and until the end of 2019

October 2011 Sept 2016: BERNABE CAMEROUN: GENERAL MANAGER:
Responsibilities: management of 2 stores, 90 employees, management of all the services of the company (HR, Commercial, Sales, transit-supplies, accounting and finance, customer recovery, marketing and communication, after-sales service ...).
Achievements: increase in turnover in 5 years by 50%, increase in operating profit by more than 100%,
implementation of procedures for organization, inventory management, management processes, control of expenses ....

GENERAL MANAGER

BRICOMAN

DIRECTEUR DE CENTRE DE PROFIT:
Responsabilité d’1 magasin de 50 collaborateurs, de la gestion commerciale, du service client Réalisations: augmentation de la fréquentation de 15%, mise en place de soirée After 8 afin se fidéliser la clientèle d’artisans, mise en avant d’opérations commerciales et mise en situation

DIRECTEUR MAGASIN

COOPLECNORTE

DIRECTEUR COMMERCIAL – CONSULTANT – AUDITEUR

CONSULTANT DIRECTEUR COMMERCIAL

BRICOSTORE ROUMANIA

DIRECTEUR DE MAGASIN à l’international :
Responsabilité d’1 magasin de 120 à 180 collaborateurs, gestion d’un CA de 60 millions d’euros et maintien de celui-ci pendant la crise de 2008 à 2011, gestion commerciale…
Réalisations: maintien du CA pendant cette période de crise quand les autres magasins perdaient jusqu’à 30% de leur activité, réimplantation du secteur BATI du magasin….

DIRECTEUR DE MAGASIN

ATAC SIMPLY MARKET (GROUPE AUCHAN)

CHEF DE PROJET INFORMATIQUE ET FORMATEUR, DIRECTEUR DE SUPERMARCHE:
	Responsabilité de la mise en place d’un progiciel de gestion de stock et d’approvisionnement assisté par ordinateur dans 30 magasins, 2 entrepots et 1 centrale d’achat, formation des équipes magasins, entrepots, centrale d’achat, de formateurs référents sur le progiciel, accompagnement du changement,et d’organisation métiers
	Gestion d’un magaisn en paralléle durant 1 an: management à distance
	Réalisation: implémentation de 30 magasins, 2 entrepots et 1 centrale d’achat; formation et accompagnement du changement auprés de 600 collaborateurs, formation des nouveaux formateurs référents…

DIRECTEUR / CHEF DE PROJET INFORMATIQUE / FORMATEUR

CHAMPION SUPERMARCHE FRANCE (GROUPE CARREFOUR)

DIRECTEUR DE SUPERMARCHE :
Responsabilité d’équipe de 25 à 50 collaborateur (3 magasins en 5 ans), de la gestion commerciale, du compte d’exploitation, du remodelling d’un magasin, de l’agrandissement d’un autre site, du redressement d’un magasin en perdition Réalisation : mission de  3 mois au BRESIL comme formateur Produits frais et audit du service achat ; agrandissement d’un magasin : passage de 1200 m2 à 1800 m2, augmentation du CA de 30% et de 20% de la fréquentation ; sur un autre magasin mission de redressement afin de ceder le site en franchise ou passage dans le groupe dans l’activité discount

DIRECTEUR DE SUPERMARCHE

GENERAL MANAGER. COMPANY MANAGER. FOOD - DIY - TRADING MANAGER

More than 23 years of experience in Management positions in food, DIY and trading retail, including 9 years of professional activity in General Management positions in Africa (Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Ivory Coast).

Polyglot: 3 languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) in addition to French; Arabic and Romanian notions

Agile (3 positions in 3 countries in Africa during the 9 years in the same group), methodical, versatile, organized, rigorous, solver, manager and merchant, curious, liking multicultural and multidisciplinary exchanges, listening to the collaborators of clients and partners, I am ready to take on new challenges and challenges.

Liking to meet other people, interested in various fields of activity, do not hesitate to get in touch, I would be delighted to discuss my experience and yours and to share.

Keywords: food retail, DIY, trade, industry, business management, P&L, commercial management, products, marketing, communication, distribution networks, BtoB clients, BtoC, commercial animation, Kpi'S, customer experience .....

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