Alessandro Arthur De Leonardis

Experience

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  Boehringer Ingelheim

  Nov 2003 - Sept 2017

  Manager in charge for Health, Safety and Environment, Facility and Real Estate for Group’s Headquarter located in Milano (research labs, administration offices, marketing & sales including field force safety), fully accountable towards local regulatory authorities as well as Corporate Functions.Implemented a clear EHS strategy for Milan Research site, ensuring positive Audit results (both from Corporate and Local authorities), Employee Awareness/Engagement and targets achievement. Delivered Country Security governance model, ensuring adequate protection to assets, people, premises (access management, CCTV, data protection, clean desk policy, server room, audit, and business reviews). Led company’s real estate properties, ensuring adequate profitability in line with local and global strategy (including renovation/revamping projects). Directed company’s office site in Florence (50 workstations) until closure, enhancing real estate market value for non-strategic properties.Key Contributions: Achieved goals in each area of responsibility, based on personal and team’s contribution (12 persons), suppliers’ management, and OpEx/CapEx management (OpEx budget: 4.8M Euro/year and CapEx budget: circa 2M Euro/year). Zero Work Accidents on site (excluding in itinere events) at Milan Research site. Received a notary’s delegation to manage EHS topics on behalf of Boehringer Ingelheim’s Employer. Implemented/re-engineered maintenance plans at Milan Research site as well as supervised renovation, refurbishment, and revamping projects (both for labs and chemical warehouses and office spaces) in order to ensure best technical solution in place with regards to HVAC, electrical plants, civil engineering, fire protection and utilities. Received a notary’s delegation to manage urban planning topics on behalf of Boehringer Ingelheim’s employer. Designed and implemented comprehensive and first-in-class building automation system for Milan Research site, created from scratch. Show less

  • EHS & Engineering Manager

    Jul 2008 - Sept 2017

  • EHS Specialist

    Apr 2004 - Jun 2008

  • EHS Stage

    Nov 2003 - Mar 2004
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  Ecolab

  Oct 2017 - Jun 2019

  Facilities Manager South Europe & Fleet Manager Europe

  Reshaped the Function from scratch to deliver adequate services to building and people, in coherence with business needs, ensuring a positive cost/benefit balance (maintenance, safety and security in workplaces, cleaning service, canteen, fleet management, travel and expenses, call centre, warehouse, and post office).Managed safety and security governance model, ensuring adequate protection to assets, people, premises, and intangible assets (access management, CCTV, data protection, clean desk policy, server room, audit and business reviews). Designed a clear real estate strategy for the region, supporting wider corporate strategy and making workplaces and buildings available and suitable as per needs. Negotiated and delivered commercial agreements as well as led architecture/engineers team. Directed fleet management service at European level, structuring adequate KPIs/SLAs with preferred partners, setting up management reviews for a continuous improvement approach to ensure transparency through dedicated IT automation solution.Key Contributions: Directed facility managers’ network in the region, supporting processes alignment and best practice sharing  Developed a cross country team to reduce costs while improving services. Led at European Level the implementation of a completely digitized solution for Fleet Management, thus aligning and standardizing European Fleet manager’s role (from operational to managerial tasks) and identifying cost saving opportunities Show less

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  Prelios

  Jun 2019 - Jun 2020

  Head of Global Service / Facility Management

  After many years as a "Customer", I moved to the "other side" of the business to play the role of Facility Management Business Manager for Prelios Integra (part of Prelios Group), dealing with customers from leading Companies in Bank, Insurance, Oil&Gas sectors. We deliver a broad range of Facility and Real Estate services to our customers, following their needs with a “tailor made” approach. Current portfolio focuses on HeadQuarters and Industrial Buildings, where major items are related to hard services (such as HVAC, electric plant, BMS, fire protection, etc.) and safety&security; we focus on running services as well as improvement/refurbishment projects. Show less

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  LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) - Borsa Italiana

  Jun 2020 - Sept 2024

  Facility Operations Manager

  I had the opportunity to join London Stock Exchange Group, a leading global organization in financial sector, by supporting the Italian branch Borsa Italiana as well as the Romanian branch (CoE for IT services). Role purpose was essentially to review Facility Operations across countries and define improvement plans, aiming at cost optimization and service/quality standardization (consistency across sites), while clarifying the value proposition for internal customers.Great part of the tenure has been focused on supporting the organization in navigating COVID19 impact: protecting employees’ health during pandemic crisis, defining a new real estate strategy aligned with hybrid working models when finally exiting the emergency. Refocused premises and building operations to provide a “reason to be” onsite, thus promoting social and collaboration spaces rather than traditional desk areas. Show less

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  Borsa Italiana

  Oct 2024 - now

  Facilities Manager Italy

  All my previous experiences have backed a new challenge, following Borsa Italiana acquisition by Euronext, the leading market infrastructure for European Capital Markets: as part of Borsa integration into a wider European frame, my purpose is essentially to redefine the Facility and Real Estate Strategy at Country Level, by working on three layers: Supply chain (service bundle, supplier list reduction, cost reduction), Processes (leveraging digital tools to foster lean, simple and efficient processes, thus saving time and costs), People (re-assess competence, skills and re-size roles and team structure).Supporting Organizational evolution and full integration into a Pan-European Organization by: promoting Real Estate footprint consolidation projects and space lay-out re-definition, adopting a “fit-to-purpose” approach (hybrid working model); securing significant cost improvements (20%); promoting employee engagement and wellbeing leveraging physical space and H&S culture. Show less