Posted 03/14/2018 11: 54: 34CET
PARIS, 14 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance has appointed its new management team to “accelerate synergies in key operational areas as part of the alliance’s medium-term plan for 2022”, which will begin to perform their new positions as of 1 April of this year, according to the company in a statement.
“We are announcing the teams of the alliance that will implement the next stage of convergence, through the increase of income, cost savings and measures to avoid expenses, they will contribute to duplicate the annual synergies to more than 10,000 million euros for the objective of the 2022 Alliance, compared to 5,000 million euros in 2016 “, assured the president and CEO of the alliance, Carlos Ghosn.
Among the new positions, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi will be the executive vice president of engineering for the alliance, with the function of managing all engineering activities, “especially product development”. He will be in charge of Gaspar Gascon, as deputy executive vice president of Engineering.
For his part, John Martin will be the new executive vice president of the alliance for Manufacturing, Production Engineering and Supply Chain Management, with the function of leading manufacturing, production engineering and the convergence of the management of the supply chain. supply. He will be responsible for maximizing synergies through improvements in delivery and efficiency.
Another of the new appointments will be Véronique Sarlat Depotte, who will hold the position of executive vice president of the alliance for Purchasing management and general manager, with the function of joining in a single team the purchasing activities of all the companies in the group.
Among the new appointments are Christian Vandenhende, as executive vice president of the Alliance for Quality and Total Customer Satisfaction, as well as Hadi Zablit, who will be the senior vice president of Commercial Development.