Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

I support general management, project management, and industrial management facing complex, international, and highly engaging projects (margin, cash, deadlines, quality, and customer satisfaction stakes).

With over 25 years of experience in the railway and automotive sectors, I have managed and secured project portfolios up to $1.7 billion, in ETO / ATO, multi-site, and multicultural contexts (Europe, China, Russia, India, Africa, United Kingdom).

My positioning is based on:

- Immediately effective operational leadership.

- Structuring of project organizations, processes, and governance.

- Measurable results in execution performance (margin, commitment adherence, customer satisfaction).

I provide consulting, transition management, or operational support, with a pragmatic, field-oriented approach, combining business requirements and human leadership.

👉 My goal: transform high-pressure projects into levers for sustainable performance, while truly engaging the teams.

Let's discuss your situation:

Do you have a strategic project to secure, a project organization to structure, or a transition phase to manage?
Let's transform your project challenges into levers for sustainable performance together.
Adapted formats: full-time, part-time, short impact mission, or long-term support.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Perpignan (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km), Montpellier (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km)

FAIVELEY TRANSPORT (Groupe WABTEC),
Global Project Management Director, Services Group
January 2017 - January 2025 (8 years)
Gennevilliers, France
• - Development of the project process (value chain) and implementation of the ad hoc organization to serve the fast-growing service project portfolio and the diversity of ATO (Assemble-to-order) to ETO (Engineering-to-order) typologies.
• - Direct management of 12 Country/Region Project Directors (all continents).
• - Contractual, operational, and financial responsibility: quality, deadlines, margin, cash.
• - Deployment of excellence governance in execution focused on customer satisfaction and profitability.
• - Key results: portfolio from $900 million to $1.7 billion, +2% margin per year on average over the contract duration.
Contract Management Risk Management Industrialization Governance Continuous Process Improvement
FAIVELEY TRANSPORT (Groupe WABTEC),
Director of Strategic ETO (Engineering-To-Order) Projects, Transit
January 2014 - January 2017 (3 years)
Saint-Denis, France
• - Direction of critical ETO projects in Russia, Europe, North Africa, China, and the United Kingdom.
• - Management of strategic contracts (up to €70 million turn-key) and structuring of multi-site teams.
• - Obtaining the first GOST certifications and success on emblematic programs (Sochi Olympics).
• - Organizational change management (ETO UK): processes, simultaneous engineering, industrial resources.
• - Key results: significant improvement in quality, margin, and customer availability; growth drivers for CIS & China.
International Coordination Customer Relations Contract Management Institutional Relations
FAIVELEY TRANSPORT
Global Project Management Director, Braking Systems, Freight, and Couplers Business
January 2010 - January 2014 (4 years)
Saint-Denis, France
• - Management of 9 Project Directors in Europe, Asia, and North America.
• - Overall responsibility for QCD, margin, and customer satisfaction.
• - Implementation of a unified project governance and standardization of multi-site practices.
• - Key results: efficiency gains, measurable improvement in customer and economic performance.
Performance Management Controlling and Performance Management System Governance Customer Satisfaction