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Christophe Garsaud

Director / PMO Manager | HR, HRIS & CRM

€800/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Christophe

Senior PMO consultant specializing in HR, HRIS, and Salesforce CRM transformations.

I work with large groups and multi-site organizations to define, secure, and deploy complex IT projects, from initial scoping through to RUN and operational stabilization post-deployment.
My contribution: structuring governance, aligning business, IT, and operational performance objectives, then securing field adoption.

🎯 AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Operational project management of HRIS, CRM, and organizational transformation
- Strategic scoping and operational implementation in IT systems
- Business process audit and optimization (Business Process Reengineering)
- Requirements gathering and drafting specifications, tender documents, and selection proposals
- Coordination of business and IT teams (Business Analysis / PMO / Development)
- Team management
- Testing and deployment security management
- Budget and KPI development and monitoring
- Change management and adoption support
- Facilitation of steering committees / project governance

🧩 AREAS OF INTERVENTION
- HRIS / HR / Workforce Management
- CRM (Salesforce)
- Organizational Transformation
- Business Process Optimization

🌍 SECTORS
B2B, Services, Retail & Mass Distribution, Luxury Goods, Media, Industry (Oil, Pharmaceutical), Public Administration
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Lille (up to 50km), Strasbourg (up to 50km), Reims (up to 50km)

Experience

  • TECH-WAY (Filiale de FONCIA)
    SALESFORCE Project Director
    September 2019 - March 2025 (5 years and 6 months)
    Buc, France
    Project Context:As part of the creation of a Foncia subsidiary, end-to-end PMO management of the Salesforce CRM implementation project (Clouds deployed: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Salesforce CPQ & Billing, Field Service Lightning) (growth from 12 to 150 users in Back-Office and field technicians).
    Role:Salesforce Project Director (Sponsors: General Management / Operations Management)
    - Agile operational project management (especially for the MVP phase): feature prioritization, sprint planning and management, budget and functional validation of backlogs, test phase management, validation, bug fixing, and go-live.
    - Coordination of technical workstreams (Foncia IT teams and Salesforce Development Partner): implementation of Okta SSO, migration of Group master data (Organizational structure, Accounts, Contacts, Real Estate portfolio), development of interfaces for synchronous and asynchronous data creation and sending (Foncia internal IT systems, Workday Financial Management), email-to-case, web-to-case, Stripe payment platform (for individual clients), Salesforce APIs (Conga Composer for quote, contract, and invoice creation, Conga Batch for billing, Signea for electronic signature).
    - Execution of functional testing for the entire implemented solution.
    - Solution deployment: creation of training manuals (Back-Office and technicians), conducting training sessions, hotline support.
    - Overall project management: monitoring budgets, contracts, risks, schedules, and resources; configuration and development; testing and acceptance; go-live; corrective and evolutionary maintenance.
    - Preparation and facilitation of Strategic Committees, Steering Committees, and Project Committees.
    Complex Project Management CRM PMO Project Governance Stakeholder Management Budget Management
  • ISS FRANCE (Hygiène et Prévention)
    HRIS / CMMS Project Director
    May 2018 - August 2019 (1 year and 3 months)
    Saint-Ouen, France
    Mission Context 1:HR & Performance transformation program (ERP, CRM, and HRIS) / selection and implementation of a Core HR system and a Field Service Management system for the division's 1400 employees.
    Role:HRIS Project Director (Sponsor: HR Director)
    - Operational project management.
    - Identification of business needs and drafting of the project scoping study.
    - Preparation and facilitation of the project kick-off meeting.
    - Assistance in selecting the new HRIS: facilitating business requirements gathering workshops, drafting specifications, formalizing the tender process, defining selection criteria, organizing meetings with software vendors, commercial negotiations with vendors, developing the project ROI.
    - Facilitation of Strategic Committees, Steering Committees, and Project Committees.

    Mission Context 2:Resumption of the deployment of the Twimm CMMS application.
    Role:CMMS Project Director (Sponsor: Operations Management)
    - Assessment for deployment resumption, negotiation of cashback with the vendor (license overconsumption), identification of key users and assembly of the deployment team, supervision of training manual drafting and deployment.
    Cross-functional Project Management Specifications Document HRIS PMO CMMS PMO Leadership and Team Management
  • COURTEPAILLE
    PMO Manager
    RESTAURANTS AND FOOD SERVICE
    March 2017 - March 2018 (1 year)
    Évry, France
    Mission Context 1:Workforce Management project: assistance in selecting a Time & Attendance / Skills Management system.
    Role:PMO Manager (Sponsor: CIO)
    - Operational project management.
    - Identification of business needs and drafting of the project scoping study.
    - Preparation and facilitation of the project kick-off meeting.
    - Assistance in selecting new Time & Attendance (optimized scheduling) and Skills Management systems: facilitating business requirements gathering workshops (Skills Management, Time Tracking, Activity Management, Management Control), drafting specifications, formalizing the tender process, defining selection criteria, organizing meetings with software vendors, commercial negotiations with vendors, developing the project ROI.
    - Facilitation of Strategic Committees, Steering Committees, and Project Committees.

    Mission Context 2:Organizational optimization of restaurants.
    Role:Designer of the new scheduling strategy for company-owned restaurants (Sponsor: Operations Management)
    - Strategic objective: optimization of 150,000 hours annually across the entire network.
    - Audit of operational and organizational practices in restaurants (visits to typical restaurants, schedule analysis, observation of lunch and dinner service organization).
    - Analysis of forecast and actual data from restaurant information systems (operational schedules, number of customers per 15-minute interval, number of covers per service).
    - Identification of productivity gain levers (optimization of working hours, application of new productivity benchmarks) and improvements in customer service quality.
    - Presentation of the new scheduling strategy for company-owned restaurants to the Executive Committee for validation.
    - Formalization and delivery of a training module on "Activity Forecasting and Optimized Scheduling" for all Directors of the 196 branches.
    Cross-functional Project Management Business Strategy Strategic Recommendation Workforce Management HRIS PMO

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Education

  • Business Administration BA
    Business School of Telford – University of Wolverhampton
    1997
    Business Administration BA
  • Master's Degree in Management Sciences
    IAE Nancy
    1996
    Maîtrise de Sciences de Gestion

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