Vincent MOLINARI

Solina, a world leader in customised ingredient solutions for the meat and charcuterie industry:

Tasks:
- Responding to customer briefs: international manufacturers and smaller regional manufacturers.
- Planning of trials: weighing and production of mock-ups in the pilot hall.
- Supporting the raw materials department: listing and replacing new materials.
- Longer-term research projects: clean-label solutions, replacement of additives.
- Laboratory management: raw materials stocks.

End-of-study internship in Valrhona's Marketing Department, in the "RSE - Inno Amont" team.

Missions :
- Development and marketing activation of Valrhona's future disruptive innovation: concept work, customer paths, workshops, activation tools, link with communication, R&D and design thinking agency.
- Prospective on the future of chocolate: market analysis, synthesis of consumer studies and insights, customer interviews.
- Writing of my dissertation on the ambitions of disruptive innovations in the context of a mission-driven company: qualitative interview analysis, literature and bibliography.
- Analysis of the European bean-to-bar market: competitive analysis on the Internet and at a trade show.
- Redesign of marketing materials for the cocoa bean offer: close liaison with the cocoa sourcing team and the creative agency.
- CSR watch: alert to the challenges facing the cocoa industry and popularization of related scientific subjects.
- Various marketing missions: creation and redesign of packaging, benchmarking, sales forecasts, pricing analysis, monitoring of trends and innovations.

Student project of product development, as part of my speciality at ISARA, Sustainable Food Product Innovation :

- Backer : Entrepreneur incubated at ISARA wanting to import in France the manufacturing process of a Japanese snack product, the Senbei, a rice cracker (no manufacturing process in France).

- 360° project :
/ Industrial brief: Context, product objective, recipe development and manufacturing diagram.
/ Production in a pilot plant: "kitchen" tests (prototype) then pilot tests on a larger scale, microbiological analyses and aging tests.
/ Projection on an industrial line for 1 year: Industrial management (projected and expected volume, factory/line plan, scheduling, supply, flow and stock management, equipment, production cost calculation).
/ QHSE: BPH file, HACCP analysis, DUERP drafting, environmental impact analysis (eco-design).
/ Recommendations and proposals to the sponsor: marketing, packaging and others.

- Role in this project: Project manager, coordination role between the 14 members of the project team and the stakeholders (sponsor, technical tutor and management).

Papote is a young startup producing artisanal pasta made from durum wheat, grown in agro-ecology at the Grandes Tuileries farm in Sézanne, in the Marne region (51).

I was able to carry out 5 main types of mission within this beautiful agricultural and agro-artisanal entrepreneurial project:
- Preliminary study for the development of a new product, the Risoni: Brief, business potential study (market analysis and competitive intelligence), technical pre-feasibility (bibliography), creativity session and proof of concept (consumer survey). Deliverables: recommendations with first Proof Of Concept of the new pasta.
- Production: Help with start-up, production and cleaning of the production workshop.
- Communication: Content management of social networks, newsletter, blog post, influence and partnership.
- Business : Sales on markets and commercial animation.
- Digital : SEO and website

Second year internship of 6 weeks in a vineyard to discover the functioning of a farm in France.

Missions :
- Help of all kinds on the farm, participating in all the work of the vineyard: pruning (thinning, leaf removal, trimming), vatting and topping, bottling, labeling, irrigation, trellising, fertilization.
- Carrying out an agronomic diagnosis of the vineyard and a financial and organizational analysis of the estate.
- Learning about the general functioning of a farm, the difficulties in relation to team management and the ability to adapt.

In charge of the ISARA Junior-Enterprise department, in charge of putting students (consultants) in touch with studies and missions, for pedagogical purposes, of commissioning companies.

Missions :
- Management of a team of 7 business managers on the services of the Junior-Enterprise: agronomy, environment, food science, sensory analysis, statistical and sociological studies, R&D etc.
- Organization and animation of the meetings of the pole on the various projects annexed to the studies: communication in the school, installation of processes and standard procedure, reorganization of our services etc...
- Customer relations: contact, analysis of needs, development of commercial proposals and relevant solutions for the project (scoping note, quotation, agreements, etc.).
- 6 studies/projects carried out throughout the mandate: Startup, SME, ETI and large companies.
- Preparation of the mid and end of mandate audit.

JE calls on students to work on corporate assignments it receives, in exchange for educational value-added and compensation.

Missions :
- Realization of the Junior Entreprise studies for different companies, public institutions or associations.
- Example of studies: Implementation of an associative project of short circuit in underprivileged areas, market study of papillotes, writing of a deliverable on agricultural yields etc...