French heritage apparel manufacturer scaling retail and digital operations
Petit Bateau is a 130-year-old French textile manufacturer with 1,001–5,000 employees operating across design, production, and retail. The tech stack—SAP, Power BI, Tableau, SQL—reflects a traditional manufacturing and retail operation in the midst of system modernization. Active hiring across finance, marketing, ops, and sales, combined with projects around retail transformation and heritage concept rollout, signals a push to centralize operations and improve forecasting accuracy after identifying gaps in cost control and sales prediction.
Notable leadership hires: Information Systems Director, Treasury & Insurance Director
Petit Bateau manufactures and sells apparel under a heritage brand established in 1893, headquartered in Troyes, France. The company operates a vertically integrated model spanning design (SketchUp, AutoCAD, Figma, Photoshop), production (manufacturing teams), and direct-to-consumer retail. Current operational focus centers on dashboard development for sales visibility, retail concept standardization across locations, budget forecasting, and IT infrastructure stability—reflecting a transition toward data-driven management in a traditionally product-centric business.
SAP (ERP), Power BI and Tableau (BI/dashboards), SQL, Excel, POS systems, and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro) plus SketchUp, AutoCAD, Figma, and Canva for design workflows.
Retail transformation and heritage concept rollout; sales and budget forecasting improvement; dashboard development for sales performance; IT crisis management and system availability; and capex/budget management optimization.
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