Eventually it will become HRD to the group

Three unfortunate posters of Orange on the walls, a barely déballé computer, an anonymous Office... Bruno Mettling not drags. After writing, at the request of François Fillon, a report on the redesign of a heavily deficit press distribution system, the Inspector of Finance has just arrived at the bedside of France Telecom. At the age of fifty-two, he was appointed Executive Director, on a mission to the Director-General, Stéphane Richard, crossed under the ors of the departments. As a first step, the roadmap will be draw predictive management of jobs and the skills of the 100,000 employees in France and build the internal training centre. Eventually, it will become HRD to the group. "Take in hand the reins of the Directorate of human resources of a company without knowing neither trades nor men, this is not serious, or then is a transposable HRD!" launches Bruno Mettling who, according to a trade unionist, "knows his files.

In the service of the State such as the major States of the position, the Caisses d'Epargne and Banques Populaires, the Social Affairs were the Red wire of his career. Since its first in the Ministry of economy, in 1980, as attaché to the Direction of the budget, Bruno Mettling chained sensitive records: he will live the crisis of the steel, the wrath of the fishermen, the revolt of the suburbs or even the reform of the CAP, prior to follow, behind the scenes of the cabinet of Dominique Strauss-Khan in Bercy social relations and the reduction of time to work in public enterprises. "I am neither a pure human resources nor a pure financial, but a contractor, said Bruno Mettling". I think many in the patina of time, the accumulation of experiences.

Catholic, amateur detective

In fact, stock market, raised by his mother in a family of five children, a graduate of the IAE of Aix-en-Provence learned on-the-job. "I am become Inspector of finance by the internal way." I am not from a high school. "I had to my evidence," he says.

His career is taking off in 1988, when Jean - Cyril Spinetta the Advisor recommends technical Cabinet of the Minister of labour, Social Affairs and employment, Michel Delebarre. "It was a budgetary extraordinarily human with a very high awareness of its mission, remembers Michel Delebarre.". With him, there is never filled strokes. "Faithful, Bruno Mettling will follow at the Ministry of equipment, housing, transport and the sea, and then became Deputy Director of his cabinet to the Department of the city, which it will help to lay the first stone in 1991, urban crisis.

After a passage in the direction of the position, this left Catholic, amateur detective and jogging, to embark, in 1999, the National Fund for savings banks (CNCE) social sites. Under his leadership, the pension plan is balanced and the statutes of the regional funds revisited "from basements to attics. Soon, social relations ignite: in 2003, unions filed an appeal before the State Council on the conditions of his arrival in the group. Trade unions will be rejected and remains it a year in Office, before leaving to the Banques Populaires... But the case remains an injury for this admirer of Mendès-France, Blum, Jaurès, that his former colleague in the Office of DSK, Nina Mitz, described as "warm, gentle, smiling and listening". Satisfied, he convinced. "I did was not able to disagree with him.". And that's what that is dangerous! "says René Guyot, former delegate Union national SNB of the Banques Populaires group.