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Firath Jesuthasan FrancisFJ

Firath Jesuthasan Francis

Product Manager & Digital Program Director

€780/day
7 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Firath

Solving problems with SaaS solutions is what I'm passionate about every day. I provide maintained expertise, a sense of responsibility and decision-making, and a willingness to collaborate to solve your problems!

I rely on 5 fundamentals for this:
➛ Strategic vision focused on listening to end users and operations
➛ Product management at scale (agile), from understanding the problem (Discovery) to Go-to-Market
➛ Alignment of stakeholders & parties involved (governance, influence, alignment)
➛ Strong sense of execution through method excellence (Agile, Agile at scale, V-Cycle) and continuous iteration (MVP, pivot)
➛ Recruitment and Coaching of engaged teams (continuous listening & feedback, co-constructed OKRs)

Looking forward to discussing with you.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Tamil

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 20km)

Experience

  • ACCOR
    Vice President - HR Digital Shared Services
    HOSPITALITY
    September 2023 - Today (2 years and 9 months)
    Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
    • Complete management of the HR Shared Services P&L: €8m in revenue, revenues +40% since taking office, run cost -30% (automation, offshoring, optimization), revenue per client increasing.
    • Management of a team of 25 talents, 7 talents in direct report. Coaching approach, support on skills development.
    • Complete management of the product cycle for HR Talent business issues: Attraction, Recruitment, Talent Development (Talent Management), Training.
    • "Product" approach to HR, focused on needs, agile and continuous iteration, return on investment via KPI measurement.
    • Hybrid digital ecosystem: best-of-breed SaaS (Smartrecruiters, Docebo, Peakon, AssessFirst, Oracle, SAP) but also custom applications developed internally, with a real product life cycle.
    Strategic planning HRIS Team management Program management
  • ACCOR
    HR Program Director
    HOSPITALITY
    October 2021 - Today (4 years and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    Executive Leader whose mission is to solve the operational challenges of the Accor group's 5500 hotels in terms of Human Resources, in a market heavily affected by the talent shortage:
    - Execution of the asset-light model with management of an HR P&L (+€15m) topline & bottom-line: revenue lever, cost control
    - Recruitment, Management & Coaching of a team of 15: Product Owners, Dev Squad, Customer Success Manager, Customer Care, Change Management. Onshore / Offshore.
    - Definition of the product strategy centered on operations (Vision, OKRs, Backlog)
    - Management of a portfolio of integrated products at scale (SCRUM & SaFe agile method): best of breed & In-House SaaS model with centralized management of employee identity
    - Collection, qualification and solutions (SaaS, In-house, Evolutive, Processes) to various HR issues: Attraction & Acquisition (CMS, ATS, CRM), Retention & Engagement (Mood Check, Pulse, HCM) and Training (LMS, TMS, LCMS, LXP, LRS)
    - Managerial, technical & functional stack
    Product management Agile SAFe Team management Budget Business strategy
  • Accor
    HR Global Product Owner
    HOSPITALITY
    March 2021 - Today (5 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Main missions:

    - Strategize a P&L approach (Asset-Light model) on the T&C Services to Hotels scope: Recruiting (Taleo, PhenomPeople), Talent Management (HCM), Learning & Development (HCM), Internal HR Portal My Heartist Portal (PaaS Oracle)

    - Define the strategy of the internal HR portal My Heartist Portal (300k users)

    - Implementation and maintenance of measurement KPIs at scale (NPS, Product performance, Delivery Rate, etc.)

    - Stakeholders Management: C-Level, Operations, Middle Management. Maintain clear communication between business needs and the technical framework

    - Definition of a product roadmap on a "Globally consistent & Locally relevant" cursor in an international context: internal contacts (C-Level, Directors and operations) spread over 8 local hubs and 110 countries

    - Implementation and execution of Agile SCRUM & SaFe methods

    - Management of a team of 6 people: 3 POs, 2 CSMs and 1 Change Manager.
    Agile method product owner Product management

Reviews

5.0

Out of 4 ratings

R

Romain

Accor - T&C

Reviewed on 12/22/2020

Firath successfully launched our new recruitment site and he did a remarkable and noticed job as Product Owner. Firath is reliable, rigorous and full of initiative. He is also a healthy person with whom it is pleasant to exchange. I highly recommend Firath!
F

Fabrice

Accor - T&C

Reviewed on 12/30/2021

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Education

  • Master 2 : Management et Marketing
    IAE Gustave Eiffel
    2017

Certifications

  • PSPO 1
    SCRUM
    2020
    Agile method Scrum
  • Train the trainers
    IFS Certification
    2019
    Team management Training

Skill set

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