Country Manager Independents
I’m Pierre-Luc, I’m from France, and I’m a Country Manager for Toyota. I’ve always been passionate about cars. It’s what has driven my careers focus and I have been in the automotive business for over ten years, working with Nissan, Chrysler Renault and Fiat.
I’ve been with TME for seven years now and its flown past. I’ve always liked Toyota – my first car was a Lexus and I loved it. My career has been in automotive since university – getting Internships before a graduate post with Renault. I moved to Belgium in 2016 for family reasons and discovered that The European HQ of Toyota – TME – was in Brussels. I waited the ideal role came up that matched my profile and experience and applied, and now I’m very happy to be here.
I have a lot of experience in marketing cars and in connected services and multimedia, so Toyota’s new vision appeals to me. It’s a fascinating job as you are always learning. I travel a lot in for TME spending a day a week in an NMSE in France and in Spain, which is something I enjoy, seeing how the different markets work.
The culture here is great. We are very diverse and inclusive, with people from all over the world. People have a lot of respect for each other here. I feel we are heard; we are listened to, and our ideas accepted and that is important to me. It helped me to feel very welcome and to fit in quickly, and I have made more than a few friends here.
I like that Toyota is changing to a mobility company and is very involved in connected technologies. In automotive you have to be aware of environmental impacts so it’s good to know I work for a company actually doing something about that. I’m really proud of the launch of the new Mirai and talk to everyone about it – it would be great to drive a hydrogen car like that as its an ambassador for our advanced technology and leadership.
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