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Description

Do you need to bring an IT department under control, secure a critical program, or realign IT with business and operational challenges?

I have over 20 years of experience working with national and international groups in transformation, growth, reorganization, or high-pressure environments.

Specializing in the transformation of information systems and organizations, I support general management and IT management on issues related to:

_ IT department transformation and structuring

_ IT governance and program management

_ Operational control recovery

_ Delivery security

_ Cost and supplier rationalization

_ Infrastructure, cloud, and cybersecurity

_ ERP, CRM, HRIS, TMS, and business applications

Accustomed to complex environments requiring arbitration, prioritization, rapid decision-making, and execution with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach aligned with business/IT/finance.

I regularly address issues such as:

_ IT departments to be restructured

_ Projects in difficulty

_ Degraded delivery

_ Uncontrolled IT costs

_ Excessive reliance on service providers or key individuals

_ IT organizations no longer meeting business needs

_ High-stakes transformation contexts in growth, reorganization, or private equity-backed operations

Capable of intervening on both strategic and highly operational topics to quickly get teams, projects, and the organization moving again.

Non-exhaustive environments covered (refer to CV): ERP, CRM, TMS, HRIS, DATA, infrastructure & cloud, cybersecurity.

And recently a Global Executive MBA – IAE Paris Sorbonne to strengthen skills in finance, management control, and performance management.

Mobility

National and international, available to discuss your IT, transformation, or interim management challenges.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
German
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 100km), Lille (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km)

Groupe métallurgie
IT PROGRAM DIRECTOR
RAW MATERIALS INDUSTRY
March 2024 - April 2026 (2 years and 1 month)
● Group ERP Transformation (SAP 4.6C / AS400 to IFS Cloud)
- Led a structuring group ERP program in a complex, multi-site industrial environment
- Realigned the program and secured delivery for a critical scope
- Implemented project governance and global management (planning, prioritization, arbitration)
- Managed key phases: data migration, go-live, change management
- Supervised the integrator and managed contracts and budget
- Coordinated business, IT, and partner teams with reporting to general management
SAP ECC IFS Project Management IT Transformation
FOODEX
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
IMPORT AND EXPORT
June 2023 - March 2024 (9 months)
Paris, France
● Took over an IT department misaligned with the group's strategy and operational challenges.
- Audit of the information system, teams, and IT department organization.
- Identification of uses, risks, and opportunities in anticipation of the group's evolution.
- Presentation of findings, conclusions, and quantified remediation proposals to management.
● Managed major IT department programs
- Refocused the ERP migration project from Navision on-premise to M3 cloud.
- Managed the group HRIS (Lucca) project across Europe.
- Redesigned the group's IT infrastructure architecture.
- Group O365 migration.
- Industrialized internal and client IT solutions.
● Management and organization
- Took over teams in a delicate human context.
- Structured IT teams, improved operational performance, and strengthened the IT department's organization (structuring and recruitment).
- Coordinated and expanded the service internationally.
- Implemented regular workshops with business teams.
● Governance, budget, and service providers
- Developed and implemented an IT budget tracking system.
- Created an IT outsourcing policy, reviewed external contracts, and regularized them.
- Ensured business continuity.
- Realigned the IT roadmap with strategy and operations.
- Regular collaboration and reporting of the IT department to other departments and company management.
Interim CIO Team Management ERP Digital Transformation Carve-out
SAVOYE GROUP
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
June 2021 - June 2023 (2 years)
Dijon, France
● Complete structuring of the group's IT organization
- Structured an international IT department of 58 people within a group transformation context.
- Assessed the existing organization, current capabilities, and areas for improvement.
- Implemented a transformation roadmap aligned with group priorities.
● Definition and management of the roadmap
- Developed the IT master plan and managed its execution in line with strategic and budgetary orientations.
- Managed major transformations: ERP, cloud, security, subsidiary convergence, and solution industrialization.
- Structured and managed the Azure cloud transformation.
● Bringing IT operations under control
- Structured the IT department organization, management levels, and operating methods.
- Resized teams, developed recruitment and training plans, and structured reporting.
- Brought budgets, commitments, and service providers under control.
● Contribution to operational performance
- Aligned the organization and systems with execution, planning, and performance objectives.
- Improved process reliability, enhanced management, and secured strategic group projects.
- Regular reporting to management and business units.
ERP Program Management IFS Performance Management Business Strategy