You're seeing this page as if you were . The main menu is still yours, though. Exit from immersion
Fabienne Z.FZ

Fabienne Z.

IT Purchasing & Transformation Consultant

€995/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original language

About Fabienne

For 20 years in IT purchasing (hardware, software, services), trilingual in English and Spanish, mobile internationally. I have successfully evolved in demanding international environments such as consulting, retail, telecommunications, transport, and pharmaceuticals. Within renowned groups like SFR, Geodis, and Sanofi Aventis, I have managed IT tenders, led strategic negotiations, and managed global contracts such as Microsoft.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Tereos
    IT Purchasing
    AGRICULTURE
    May 2025 - June 2026 (1 year and 1 month)
    •Purchasing Performance Plan of €5M/year:
    • Renegotiations of all expiring contracts with a target gain of 15%
    • Resolution: Weekly committee to present the negotiation strategy to achieve a 15% cost optimization

    •System, LAN, and Wi-Fi Run – Computacenter – €1.8M/year – €1M gain:
    • Scope: 900 virtual machines, 700 switches, 580 Wi-Fi access points
    • Resolution: Change of service provider to Experis, the Group's historical provider for the Helpdesk scope
    • + Hardware purchase – €1.1M negotiated down to €655k – €445k gain, or 40% (88% discount on public price):

    •Firewall - IT Service – €112k negotiated down to €107k – €5k gain or 4%:
    • RFP for a new Firewall requirement: managed Firewall service (governance, supervision, incident resolution, and change requests)
    • Resolution: Choice of Nomios, a new provider for the Group, with a performance commitment including penalties for contract termination if 3 P1 incidents in 3 months do not meet SLAs
    • + Hardware purchase – €880k negotiated down to €172k – €708k gain, or 80%


    •SAP Perpetual License Maintenance - Rimini - €2M negotiated down to €750k/year – €1.2M gain, or 62%:
    • RFP to select the best maintenance partner for SAP perpetual licenses before migration to S/4HANA
    • Resolution: Choice of Rimini with a 3-year commitment

    •SAP BW & GCR-TCS- €8M over 3 years negotiated down to €4M – €4M gain:
    • Context: RFP to challenge the historical provider Infosys (simplify IT governance, secure critical applications, and improve user experience for SAP, BW, and GCR scope)
    • Resolution: Choice of TCS
    Deliver Quick Wins Lead Purchasing Transformation Operate in a Corporate, Multicultural, and Critical Environment
  • Auchan
    IT Buyer
    RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
    May 2024 - April 2025 (11 months)
    Lille, France

    Purchasing Performance Plan (€145M/year across 500 software contracts):


    Renegotiations of external software contracts using a top-down approach to optimize non-HR contract spending on a consolidated volume

    • Flooid - €80k/year - €80k gain
    • Flooid is a unified commerce platform editor for optimizing customer engagement and sales at every touchpoint.
    • Resolution: I sent a termination letter based on our phone conversation. The publisher did not contest this termination.
    • Blueyonder - €287.7k/year - €287.7k gain:
    • Blueyonder is an end-to-end scalable platform editor built on a common data cloud with integrated AI to increase customer satisfaction while creating a more sustainable supply chain.
    • Resolution: The publisher contested this termination, but I sent a second letter with the legal department to highlight the publisher's technical failure in incident resolution with supporting evidence.
    • Adobe - €394.3k/year:
    • Adobe added AI to its product, increasing its cost by 30%. We did not need the AI and wanted to maintain the same price.
    • Resolution: We did not succeed and signed the 3-year renewal due to user needs.

    • Salesforce - €14.8M over 2 years (negotiation in finalization):
    • Renewal of Service Cloud and Marketing Cloud products.
    • Resolution: Volumes adjusted downwards + contractual increase halved.

    • Generix - €400k/year negotiated down to €269k/year - €131k/year gain, or 33%:
    • Management of the warehouse in Russia with the need to migrate to an on-premise model versus SaaS due to the political context.
    • Resolution: Request for reactivation of our perpetual licenses dating from 2016 for €80k. Negotiation for a one-year duration with annual fees without SaaS at €269k.
    Complex and Strategic Negotiation
  • Carrefour
    Global IT Services Buyer
    RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
    December 2023 - April 2024 (4 months)
    •ATOS SALESFORCE – CRM €3.3M, 25% gain or €0.8k)
    • Context: RFP Integration France (Atos, IBM, Capgemini, Accenture)
    • Issues: Obtain the best quality/price ratio
    • Resolution: Adherence to the schedule

    •BEYOND CADRAGE – €500k, 15% gain or €75k)
    • Context: The former CIO and the historical provider had drifted towards a too heavily customized tool (very high run cost). The new CIO wanted to start with a clean slate and proceed with a new scoping to replace the historical tool.
    • Issues: Remain as native as possible.
    • Resolution: Adherence to schedule and budget.

    •Supplier Performance Evaluation
    • Context: Evaluate the performance of major suppliers within the Global IT Services scope (Accenture, Capgemini, CGI).
    • Issues: Collect the position of each country concerned by the suppliers to be evaluated.
    • Resolution: Action plan presented by suppliers to improve service continuity and client satisfaction at Carrefour.


    •Catalog Orders
    • Context: Implement catalog orders (CGI, Capgemini).
    • Issues: Automate order creation.
    • Resolution: Uploading negotiated price files to SAP.

Recommendations

Be the first to recommend Fabienne

Help this freelancer shine by sharing your experience working together.

These freelancer profiles also match your criteria

AgathaA

Agatha Frydrych

Backend Java Software Engineer

4.7

(3)

2

BaptisteB

Baptiste Duhen

Fullstack developer

4.6

(4)

5

AmedA

Amed Hamou

Senior Lead Developer

4

(2)

7

AudreyA

Audrey Champion

Web developer

4.3

(3)

4

Skill set

Categories