Jean-Marie OLLIVIER worked for a long time within a well-known group in the agro-food sector, Wisdom, one of the major players in the cheese and dairy world.
En poste depuis septembre 2020, Jean-Marie OLLIVIER is starting a new page in his professional career at SPHB's general management, but also about his family life since he moved to Reunion with his family. "A choice of life", sums up this entrepreneur, qui fêtera ses 50 ans cette année, to explain the enthusiasm that drives him to pilot a professional tool like SPHB. This is an opportunity for him and for the company with the arrival of an experienced professional.
“In 25 years of career, I have always worked in the food industry "says Jean-Marie OLLIVIER who started as a young salesperson at Joker Jus de Fruits, a family business at the time. Then he goes on to develop sales for a cooperative, always in drinks. He then moved on to the cheese and dairy world. "I had the opportunity to go to the West Indies to take care of the iconic brand Elle&Vire. From thread to eel, I have recovered all of the overseas departments and territories, with Reunion Island as well as Madagascar and Mauritius in my area, Seychelles… But also the Pacific: New Caledonia, Wallis and Polynesia. An important sector that I piloted from Guadeloupe. "" There are cycles in life and I wanted to change "continues Jean-Marie OLLIVIER. Back to headquarters, in Paris with his wife, he is entrusted with the regional management of Dom Tom & Africa always for her&Vire.
The envy of industry
"I took care of this area for two years, I often travel to Africa. Then I became a daddy of a little girl and, Parisian life weighing on us, we went to my origins in western France where I took charge of sales and marketing for two years of a cooperative, a very interesting experience, mainly focused on private label and supermarkets. »
C’est alors qu’après 10 ans d’export et de développement de marque se présente une nouvelle opportunité : Her "old boss" at Elle&Vire, informs him that we are looking for someone at Savencia to do B To B. "I wondered what B to B was and it made me want to go. » Jean-Marie OLLIVIER prend la direction de Cheese Ingrédients fin 2009, a subsidiary commercial entity of the Savencia Group located in the heart of the Normandy countryside. The company operates on the market for cheeses used as ingredients for agri-food professionals in France and for export. On arrival, l’activité fait 10 millions d’euros de chiffre d’affaire. A son départ en juillet 2020, elle en fait plus de 45 millions.
« J’y suis resté presque 11 ans. But I was missing the industrial part which was managed directly by the group's cheese factories, confides Jean-Marie OLLIVIER. My goal was to resume or join an activity like the SPHB, I wanted to take responsibility for a complete industrial tool with all aspects, development, production, marketing and sales. As luck would have it, LESIEUR was looking for someone and I raised my finger ... "
Marketing, export, brand development, B to B, industry : Jean-Marie Ollivier has all the strings to his bow.
