Fabio Arbitrio

Fabio Arbitrio

Chief Business Officer | Marketing Production Advisor | Advertising Cost Controller at VA Consulting
Milano, Italy

About me

VA Consulting is the world leader in transformation advisory.

Founded in 1994, born from Vitaliano Arbitrio’s ambition as an international producer of TV commercials. During the 80s he was President of the Italian Advertising Body up to ’94. In 2005, Alessandro Arbitrio joined the firm bringing twenty years experience at IBM as an expert in Digital Transformation.

We harness the power of data to provide independent, fact-based advice, enabling brands to supercharge their investments.

VA Consulting transforms clients’ investments to be more effective, faster and agile. Staff and agencies help you on the ‘what’ of marketing, but VA can help you deliver the ‘how’.

We transform investments through four key practice areas:

• Marketing Transformation
• Media Transformation
• Digital Transformation
• Data & Technology

These key practice areas are led by 100+ world class global marketing leaders, with decades of client and agency experience, operating in 50+ markets, who design transformation solutions. We gain alignment, save time, money and create simpler, more effective organisations.

We’re working with several global brands to transform their investments, such as L'Oréal, EssilorLuxottica, P&G, Generali, Geox, Ferrero, Pirelli, Asahi, Coca-Cola, Yamaha, Mercedes, Red Bull, Nespresso, Danone etc.

VA Consulting entrepreneurial culture, main values and far-reaching network enable us to increase quality, efficiency, reduce costs, stretch budgets, eliminate waste in order to offer your best production ROI.

We are a completely independent and impartial advisory.

Languages
  • English - Pro
  • Italian - Native

Positions

Chief Business Officer
Milan, Italy
2017 - Present (7 years 11 months)
Advertising Production Consultant | Marketing Cost Controller
Milan, Italy
2013 - Present (11 years 11 months)
• Marketing & Procurement Consultancy.
• Production Advisor & Cost Management for 300+MIO€ budget managed yearly.
• Marketing Expert working in the advertising area: ATL/BTL/EVENT&PR.

Creative Production Consultant / Advertising Cost Consultant in Agencies pitch & selection, project costs management, brand naming, TVC production, Post-production, talents, bloggers, Pre-press, Press, 2D/3D, BTL, Point of sales, Events & PR:

• Improve Governance & Efficiency
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Creative agencies pitch & selection, scouting, reference analysis, VA RFI template & VA Policy
• Project & Pitch management, support on brief definition. development GANTT, RFI, RFP, RFQ
• Cost management, negotiation/reduction, control in realt time & reporting
• Supplier management
• In-house agency implementation & optimization
• Audit management & reconciliation
• Improve Trasparency & Communication management
• Vendors / suppliers Management
• Suppliers Relation Management (SRM)
• Right & Compliant Commercial policy & Terms
• Media benchmarking in partnership with Ebiquity

PROPRIETARY VA TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
• System-6 "Integrated Budget Control System" Development Manager - VA's WF & Client Login
• System6-Smartquote Development Manager (tool for suppliers)
• System6-KOLB (Influencer benchmarking) Development Manager
• System6-FRC (Fulltime Ratecard Calculator WW) Development Manager
• System6-ASC (Annual salary calculator)
• System6-PPP (Pitch Posm Production)

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