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Debaerdemacker GregoryDG

Debaerdemacker Gregory

IT & OT Project Director - ERP - Retail & Industry

€940/day
Lille, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Debaerdemacker

IT/OT Leader with 25 years of experience in critical environments (Energy, Industry, Retail, Public Sector), I support organizations in their IT/OT convergence and ERP implementation transformation programs, particularly in post-acquisition integration (carve-in / carve-out) and complex IT system recovery scenarios.

My key expertise:
• ERP - IT/OT Convergence (ATG, SCADA, TMS, CMS, oil terminal environments)
• Profit center management in IT service companies and offshore team management
• IT Governance & Target Architecture, strategic alignment with business
• Application and technical modernization, roadmap definition
• Organizational structuring and operational model evolution
• Transformation of delivery models (Build/Run, pooling, offshore, reversibility)
• Operational crisis exit and economic recovery
• Management of complex multi-country contracts
• IT & OT Risk Management and critical environment security

Accustomed to industrial and energy environments, I combine strategic vision (scoping, arbitration, governance, financial management) with hands-on immersion (industrial audit, critical flow security, operational performance, change management).

I liaise with General Management, CIOs, and COOs, structuring projects and organizations to make them robust, efficient, and sustainable, facilitating alignment between IT, operations, and business lines.

Available for transformation, IT/OT governance, post-M&A integration, and critical systems modernization missions. Fluent in English, international mobility.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Lille (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km), Bordeaux (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Oryx Energies
    Project Director
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    September 2025 - February 2026 (5 months)
    Geneva, Switzerland
    Scoping mission for Downstream applications and projects aimed at improving communication and interaction between IT, Operations & OT, and Trading departments.

    oScoping study for a "Trading – Operations" Interface: Las Palmas Terminal – 230,000 m³ storage.
    Study to replace a critical application managing supply and cargo operations for an oil terminal (securing flows, data reliability, Trading–Operations interface).
    10-day immersion at the Las Palmas oil terminal: Audit, interviews, functional & technical analysis, and similarly with the "Bunkering Operators" team.
    Integration of the target solution into the existing application ecosystem (Nova  Ignite) to ensure continuity of Trading–Operations flows, stock reliability, and commercial data consistency.
    Service provider selection in Morocco.

    oOrganization of a mass deployment in Africa: "Truck Loading" security interface.
    480 trucks/day – 90% ATEX sites – 53 depots in West and East Africa: Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Togo, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, and Uganda.
    Application designed to establish 60 control points during truck loading at depots (Fuel, Gas, lubricants).
    Consulting Interim CIO Business Analysis Project Management
  • Impala / Trafigura
    Consultant & ERP Solution Architect
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    April 2024 - May 2025 (1 year and 1 month)
    Rotterdam, Netherlands
    --> Transition Management Mission via Nim Europe Switzerland.

    Post-acquisition integration of the Hartel oil terminal and harmonization of OT/IT systems and processes with group standards. 55 tanks, 1.3 million m³ – 90 km of pipelines – 25 loading arms – 14 loading points.

    oFeasibility study for the implementation of the Fuel-FACS ERP.
    Organizational diagnosis and mapping of OT environments: DCS, Tank Master, TAS…
    Collaborative work and workshop facilitation with Athénium and local teams (Sinko / Operations).
    Definition of a target architecture covering 15 key business processes for Marine activities (Tank-to-Ship..).
    RFP process for the ERP tender and implementation of a new TMS / CMS, and selection of Implico and Descartes providers.
    Active participation in workshops until contractualization (SOW).
    - Responsible for facilitating DCS – TOS & Tank Master – TOS workshops.
    Solution Architect ERP Business Analysis Digital Transformation Change Management
  • Inetum
    Infrastructure Director BU North
    DIGITAL AND IT
    November 2022 - April 2024 (1 year and 5 months)
    Lille, France
    Budget of €20M, management of 155 employees, management of a BU in recovery phase with transformation programs for public and private clients: ADEO, Auchan, SNCF, AG2R, Decathlon, Nexity, IN Group.

    oEconomic and organizational reconstruction of the BU (team without management): return to profitability, quality improvement, HR optimization and supplier management, restoration of client satisfaction, recruitment, Lean and Quality.

    oContract renewal / Crisis exit.

    SNCF: Direct management of transformation | €48M / 6 years | Network scope: 4,000 equipment / Routers, switches, firewalls, Wi-Fi access points, 1,000 changes/month, 67 applications, and 95 people.
    Functional, organizational, and technical transformation: scoping study and scope takeover.
    Recruitment and management of a 5-person Transformation team: Lean, Processes, Quality, Development.
    Lean management: Analysis of the existing situation through mapping of technical and application flows, processes, organization...
    Analysis and formalization of 17 business and functional processes (operating permits, tooling, …)
    Project management in Agile mode then takeover of activities in RUN mode (84 people).
    Successful validation of VABF criteria: 7 criteria in total & VSR over one year with KPI adaptation.

    ADEO: Crisis exit following profitability issues - Transformation of the service to an AT model.
    CD59: €5M / 3 years: RFP won (Technical Supervision L1 – L3) with transformation to a pooled team.
    Organizational Transformation

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Education

  • Executive Master
    SKEMA
    2015
    Exécutive Master
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    Ecole de la bourse
    2012

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