Who We Are
Founded and led by Christophe Roussel, Big Ideas consists of seasoned professionals, with skills and experience built from holding senior positions and working internationally.
Christophe Roussel
christopheroussel@bigideasconsultants.com
Christophe’s career spans over 25 years of retail leadership and expertise in strategic sourcing, procurement, logistics and supply chain management of food, clothing, general merchandise with top-tier global retailers - Tesco, Carrefour and Sainsbury’s.
His leadership, broad expertise and expansive thinking has a proven record in improving customer experience and loyalty, building profitable supplier partnerships, reducing the cost of doing business and delivering top-line growth.
His turnaround capability is demonstrated by his accomplishment as International Sourcing & Supply Chain CEO of Tesco. Here he led a small sourcing team to become a world-class business of scale and to become one of the key strategic units of the company, giving the Tesco Group competitive advantage to its products differentiation, brands strategy and profitability in more than 10 countries including U.K., Poland and Korea. He steered the US$2.8bn stand-alone business, with a team of more than 750 colleagues specialized in sourcing, product development and design, cost analysis production, technical, ethics and logistics located in various geographies like Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cambodia, India, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Turkey, Romania, Egypt, Morocco and Ethiopia.
Christophe has an exceptional track record of business improvement based on his philosophy of total enterprise engagement in change and performance management. He has the ability to quickly identify and diagnose growth impediments that go far beyond sourcing and logistics. He works with businesses to refine their sourcing strategy, business structure, product lines, supply chain channels and market position to achieve sustained growth and remain profitable.
He has a passion for delivering excellence by staying abreast with the ever evolving business environment and developing strong relationships with business communities wherever he goes.
Christophe also has an innate ability to build multi-cultural and multi-talented teams by spotting and attracting talent.