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About Alain

Many companies claim to be customer-oriented.
In reality, the customer often remains on the periphery.

This is particularly true in industrial and B2B/B2B2C companies, where internal processes and organizational silos take precedence over customer experience and journey. Organizations gradually become self-centered, weakening loyalty and differentiation in their market.

My experience in large industrial groups has taught me one essential thing:
placing the customer back at the heart of strategy, organization, and processes is a powerful lever for transformation, performance, and the creation of value based on customer value.

A genuine customer-centric approach allows you to:
  • Give meaning to teams and align decisions around the customer
  • Develop a shared customer culture at all levels of the company
  • De-silo organizations and streamline customer journeys
  • Structure and guide transformation and continuous improvement programs

This approach enables companies to:
  • Strengthen loyalty and satisfaction
  • Sustainably improve the customer experience
  • Create top and bottom line value
  • Differentiate themselves in often highly competitive industrial markets where technologies are converging.
I support large companies, ETIs, and industrial SMEs in designing and deploying customer-centric transformation strategies, customer and employee experience (CX), Voice of the Customer (VoC) programs, by aligning culture, organization, processes, and operational practices around the customer.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • CX Transformation (Indépendant)
    Transition Manager - Consulting
    January 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)
    I help organizations accelerate their growth and transformation by making the customer the driver of culture, processes, practices, and decisions | CX & VoC Strategies | Mobilizing teams around a differentiating customer experience.
    Change Management & Transformation Customer Experience Voice of the Customer Continuous Improvement Project Management
  • General Electric - GE Grid Solutions
    Customer Experience Director
    January 2015 - December 2024 (9 years and 11 months)
    Creation and management of the Customer Experience function (global governance) | $8Bn | +10,000 FTE. Mission: Standardize CX processes & KPIs; VoC/NPS (Salesforce, Qualtrics, Business Tools); "Lean" and omnichannel customer journeys; Processes, tools, support for customer complaint and non-compliance management.
    • ● OTD 53% -> 85% on major cases
    • ● Global NPS +15 pts (F2F + 17 automated surveys)
    • ● Implementation of CX governance up to the CEO
    • ● Customer Portal
  • Alstom Grid
    Director of Transformation & Customer Satisfaction
    January 2011 - January 2015 (4 years)
    Direction of Customer-Centric Transformation in the context of Areva-Alstom integration | $6Bn | +10,000 FTE. Mission: "Clean team" and PMO for 2 integration streams; Customer-centric transformation "Ambassadors" program; Redesign of Customer Care & complaint processes and tools (Salesforce).
    • ● OneGrid Plan: 7,500 FTE, >100 sites
    • ● Governance 6 regions / 7 product lines
    • ● 360 customer view in CRM

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Education

  • MBA
    ESSEC
    2003
  • BA
    INSEEC
    1988

Certifications

  • AGILE PM FOUNDATION
    https://www.credly.com/badges/c78df050-97c8-4081-b763-6b39ffc99668?source=linked_in_profile
    2021
  • Lean & Six Sigma Master Black Belt
    Motorola University
    2010

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