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Description

Strategic IT Program Director | 20 years of experience | Carve-out, Transformations, Architecture | Key Accounts

Direction of strategic IT programs in highly complex environments: multiple stakeholders (20-50+), CAPEX/OPEX budget constraints, critical business stakes, cross-functional coordination between IT, business units, integrators, and software vendors.

My added value: orchestrating technical, organizational, and human complexity to transform strategic ambitions into operational reality, with the necessary governance and transparency for executive committees.

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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

→ IT Carve-out & M&A Operations

• Post-divestiture IT separations and application spin-offs (TechnipFMC, Clariane)

• Post-acquisition integrations (Raja/L'Equipier: 52,000 customers)

• Migration strategies: Clone & Cleanse, Rebuild & Migrate

• Technical due diligence, cost estimation, team orchestration

→ IT Transformations & Architecture

• Application and data architecture redesign

• Technological migrations: ERP, Cloud (Azure), Big Data, MDM, PIM

• Legacy IT modernization and technical debt reduction

• Complex interfacing and heterogeneous system integration

→ Strategic Business Programs

• Retail & Omnichannel IT: pricing, supply chain, merchandising, digital

• Finance Solutions: budgeting, accounting, real estate, management control

• Operational IT: purchasing, production, logistics, services

• Digital & Customer Experience: e-commerce, CRM, marketing automation, mobile

→ Program Management & Governance

• Steering multi-project programs (10+ simultaneous workstreams)

• Executive Committee governance and top management reporting

• CAPEX/OPEX budget development and monitoring

• Project team management and coordination of 20 to 50+ stakeholders

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Fluent
Spanish
Fluent
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Rouen (up to 100km), Lyon (up to 0km), Marseille (up to 10km)

Clariane
Group Program Manager Real Estate IT - Senior Project Manager IT Group
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
September 2022 - Today (3 years and 9 months)
Paris, France
Implementation of Group Solution for Carbon Footprint Calculation and Trajectory
• Definition of the solution architecture: Source applications (iValua, Take A Waste) – Foundry/Palantir – Traace
• Definition of the DATA architecture
• Management of the entire program: budget, deadlines, deliverables, committees, communication, reporting

IT Carve Out Manager
• Inventory of all applications and ERPs used by divested subsidiaries
• Strategy and cost estimation for the migration of these applications [Clone & Cleanse – Rebuild and migration]
• Organization of responses to Due Diligence
• Management of project managers and directors for the various migration workstreams
• Participation in management meetings

Implementation and Rollout of the Group Real Estate IT Roadmap (France – Germany – Belgium – Netherlands – Italy – Spain – UK

Implementation of the Group Real Estate roadmap: Real Estate Referential, Budget & Planning, Business Intelligence, BIM, Document Management, Lease Management, Technical Management, CMMS, Development, CAPEX, Energy Management, Accounting

Management of the European Real Estate Development and Construction Program (Primpromo)

• Development and management of the project's CAPEX and OPEX budget
• Establishment of governance bodies and project planning (Core Model + Rollout)
• Functional areas: Budget Management – study budgets – third-party management – legal management – tenders and works – Other expenses - operations planning – Dashboard – BI
• Management of interface implementation: P2P (iValua), Budget Solution (KDEV), Oracle Fusion
Carve-out Project Management Palantir Foundry Carbon Footprint Real Estate
LES MOUSQUETAIRES
Senior IT Project Manager
RETAIL (SMALL BUSINESS)
June 2020 - August 2022 (2 years and 2 months)
Châtillon, France
Implementation of a Customer IT System for the Netto brand and a customer mobile application

€6M - Mobile application providing access to a dematerialized loyalty card, dematerialized vouchers, dematerialized receipts, and games - "From scratch" implementation of a Customer IT System including: Unique Customer Referential (MDM Informatica) – Digital account and SSO management – Loyalty Engine (Animco Wordline) – Marketing Automation (Salesforce Marketing Cloud) – Customer Relationship (Salesforce Service Cloud) – Financial Flows – KPIs/Data (Data Hub Azure – Power BI)
Architecture and urban planning
Feasibility study
Development of the Architecture Orientation Document
Development of the CAPEX + OPEX budget over 5 years
Development of the Program schedule
Stakeholder identification (over fifty – complex environment)
Workshop management

Implementation of Cloud Big Data SaaS Pricing Solutions for pricing and point-of-sale services

€4M – complex environment – cross-functional management of 50 people – Bricomarché, BricoCash, Bricorama: 750 stores – Intermarché, Netto 2200 stores – adherence and dependencies with various programs in the scoping/design/deployment phases (SAP, IAM, Gold etc.).
Parallel management of two strategic point-of-sale pricing projects for the Les Mousquetaires group as part of the implementation and deployment of SAP for the Central Office and Bricomarché, BricoCash, and Bricorama points of sale, as well as the scoping phase of the GOLD ERP for Intermarché and Netto points of sale. Interfacing between Legacy and Pricing solutions (Here For Retail – ActiveViam) hosted on Azure Cloud.

Environment: SAP (deployment phase), DATAHUB, HIP (iPaaS Dell Boomi, MoM Solas, API Gateway), IBM WTX, Mainframes, Cloud AZURE (AKS, Blob Storage, KeyCloak etc.), GOLD ERP (scoping phase), Crawler Optimix, IAM
Retail ERP Pricing Strategy Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
TechnipFMC
Project Manager Spin Off - Clone & Cleanse Applications
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
October 2019 - January 2020 (3 months)
Paris, France
Spin Off – Applications Clone & Cleanse

Following the merger of Technip and FMC in 2017, the new company decided to spin off, resulting in two distinct entities: TechnipFMC based in Houston and Technip Energies based in Paris. The mission involved cloning and cleansing approximately one hundred applications (Engineering, QHSE, HR, Finance, Project Management) intended for use by both new entities.
Application validation
Classification (local / Global – Priority – WEB / Desktop / Client Server, architecture etc.)
Determination of global stakeholders
High Level Design
Build
SIT
UAT
Deployment
Mergers & Acquisitions Project Management Energy