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Cedric N.CN

Cedric N.

Senior Product Manager | Agile & Product Coach

€550/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Cedric

Senior Product Manager with 9+ years of experience, specialized in framing, delivery, and structuring complex digital products in highly regulated environments (energy, industry, automotive, utilities, e-commerce).

Experienced in multi-team and multi-stakeholder contexts, I cover the entire product lifecycle: vision, discovery, framing, delivery, management, change, and growth.

I bring strong expertise in Agile (SCRUM), scaled Agile (SAFe), backlog structuring, product governance, business case development, as well as the ability to align business, IT, architects, and sponsors.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 30km)

Experience

  • EDF
    Solution Manager – PLM 3DEXPERIENCE
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    March 2026 - Today (5 months)
    Montrouge, France

    Context

    EDF – DNIPN / PLM & Transverse Services Competency Center (CC PST). Deployment, coherence, and evolution of PLM 3DEXPERIENCE within a large-scale nuclear engineering program, managed in a SAFe / MODEX environment.

    Role & Scope

    PLM Solution Manager — DNIPN scope (first generation). Guarantee of the functional coherence of PLM solutions and framing reference between business teams, IT, and the integrator.

    Achievements & Responsibilities

    • Frame 3 EPICs per quarter covering 70% of the target scope for the first generation
    • Contribute to the pre-emergence, emergence, and framing of EPICs (analysis, options, IT transitions)
    • Supervise the description of associated features and capabilities
    • Ensure backlog monitoring, data quality, and artifact completeness in Jira
    • Lead governance instances: Epic Review, Solution Review, COSUI, COMOP
    • Contribute to the continuous improvement of MODEX and its guidelines

    Results / Impacts

    • Complete structuring of the PLM backlog covering 70% of the target scope for the first generation
    • Improved business/IT alignment in a complex multi-stakeholder context
    • Contribution to securing critical milestones of the DNIPN program

    Environment / Teams

    Stakeholders: BPDO, IT architects, Product Managers, integrator, PLM 3DX teams
    Methods: SAFe, MODEX
    Tools: Jira, Confluence
    Sector: Nuclear engineering
    PLM Product strategy Requirements framing Backlog management IT Architecture
  • Veolia
    Agile & Product Coach and Business Case Framing
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    October 2024 - August 2025 (10 months)
    Aubervilliers, France

    Context

    International group for environmental services (water, waste, energy). Mission focused onsupporting teams in adopting an Agile and product approachwhile developing a **strategic product business case**.

    Role & Scope

    Freelance Agile Coach and Product Manager for business and IT teams, multi-stakeholder.

    Achievements & Responsibilities

    • Product & Agile maturity assessment (questionnaires, interviews, artifact analysis)
    • Co-creation of improvement roadmaps per team
    • Facilitation of practical workshops covering the entire product lifecycle: discovery → delivery → growth
    • Structuring of practices (vision, prioritization, OKRs, continuous discovery, delivery)
    • Support in building and validating a business case (Factor team)

    Results / Impacts

    • Concrete skill development for teams through operational workshops
    • Harmonization of product & Agile practices
    • Structured and sponsor-validated business case

    Environment / Teams

    Agile (Scrum / SAFe), Jira, Confluence, Slack, Teams, Miro – product/IT teams (~10 people)
    Team coaching Product Discovery Prioritization (RICE, MoSCoW, ...) Workshop facilitation
  • Groupe Renault
    Product Owner
    AUTOMOBILE
    March 2022 - March 2024 (2 years and 1 month)
    92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France

    Context

    Large international automotive group. Development and deployment of an internal digital product aimed at **automating the calculation and payment of commercial incentives**.

    Role & Scope

    Product Owner responsible for the framing, design, and management of the product, in liaison with IT, business teams, and external partners, within an Agile framework.

    Achievements & Responsibilities

    • Gathering business requirements (Sales, Finance, Product)
    • Defining the roadmap and MVP
    • Backlog management, writing user stories
    • Managing development in Agile SCRUM / SAFe
    • Coordination of IT, IT architecture, and international teams

    Results / Impacts

    • Delivery of the MVP and 80% of the solution in 3 releases
    • Distributed team (Paris / Prague)
    • B2B then B2C go-live

    Environment / Teams

    Agile (Scrum), Jira, Confluence, Teams – multidisciplinary team (~12 people)
    Backlog management Agile project management Cross-functional coordination KPI Product Discovery

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Education

  • Master of Science
    INSEEC MSc & MBA
    2016
    MSc 2 Marketing Digital & e-Business
  • Exchange Year in MSc Strategy & Organisation Consulting
    EDHEC Business School
    2015

Certifications

  • Pragmatic Marketing Certified - Level Two (PMC-II)
    Pragmatic Institute
    2018
    Product Management Product Marketing
  • Agile Project Manager PSPO Scrum Product Owner
    CERTyou
    2023

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