Élodie Quintela
Elodie Quintela is a French sewing student and former supply chain professional currently based in the Toulouse area, undertaking a significant career reorientation toward textile craft after over a decade working in industrial planning and international trade. Quintela began her academic career with a DUT Techniques de Commercialisation at the IUT Le Creusot, before completing a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with Honours at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2011. She went on to earn a Master's degree in International Trade with honours from Avignon Université, graduating in 2013. Her studies included international marketing, logistics, human resources, and strategy, and were complemented by a relational marketing project conducted in the United Kingdom and an export audit carried out in Brazil. Her professional career began during her studies through a series of roles at Itron, a metering technology company based in the Paris region, where she worked between 2009 and 2012 in production operations and logistics coordination, gaining early exposure to production flow management and supply chain communication tools including Total Flow Management. She also completed a retail internship at Sephora in Boulogne-Billancourt and a sales administration placement at Iberembal in Spain. From November 2013 to January 2016, Quintela held a flow management position at Massilly, where she oversaw manufacturing order scheduling, purchase and distribution order tracking, and stock reporting, while also contributing to daily and weekly production meetings. She then joined the renowned Beaujolais wine producer Georges Duboeuf as an Export Assistant from April 2016 to July 2019, managing commercial relationships across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, handling all export documentation and coordinating transport logistics. In July 2019, Quintela took on her most senior role to date as Planning Manager at Régilait, a French dairy cooperative, a position she held for over five years until August 2024. There she managed production scheduling across six workshops, analysed order books, tracked production adherence rates, and led a monthly meeting presenting six-month capacity forecasts to prepare maintenance shutdowns, audits, and operational planning.
