Francesco Caccavo

The full responsibility of HR dept in Douglas, a multinational based in Dusseldorf (Germany). With over 500 stores and 2.800 employees in Italy, I have also the supervision of Spain with 300 stores.
Talent Management, Organizational design and development, HR digital transformation, training, compensation and benefit, labor relations.

1. Re - engineering of La Gardenia and Limoni organizations ( and designing of the new service company Leading Luxury Group with new HQ in Milan)
2. Assessment of both company’ s people ( Limoni - La Gardenia)
3. Closing of both offices HQ (Bologna and Grosseto)
4. Outsourcing of La Gardenia warehouse in Grosseto
5. Reorganization of the 650 stores ( both company) with reduction to 500 ( closing of 150 stores ) and managing the over 750 layoffs according with unions
6. Reduction of the Limoni POS Personnel Cost (percentage on turn over ) to 35 % t o 19 % ( in three years from 2014 to 2016)
7. Development and identification of new company Culture, new store behavioral model ( defining a different approach to client and new sales model ) new internal communication model, New training and development process:
the new LLG Training Academy, New Talent management process

In 2007 new s hare holder s ( L Capi tal and Er gon Capi tal Inves tme nt Funds ) dr ov e the company in
an ac cel er at e d gr owth, f r om 85 to 156 s tor es and f r om 383 to 800 employee s . I was re spons ible
for the e nt i re HR pr oce s s . My ac t i v i t ies were foc us ed on ne twor k devel opme nt, rec rui t ing and
t r ai ning of new s tor es s taf f and new HQ s taf f .

This new experience in a little retail company but with a high growth rate, was focused, for the first years, to develop payroll dept and on the starting of the first internal Academy School to prepare new employees to the new challenges of market.

Based, first in Empoli (FI) and after Piombino (LI), I developed new HR projects (recruiting and training) in different areas like industry, naval and air transports, retail.
In Empoli (FI) business unit of Manpower Spa, (after a short experience in Switzerland in the same business) with the cv screening, recruiting, payroll and commercial activities.