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Nicolas Canteau

Product Owner / Product Manager

€550/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Nicolas

ROLES AND MISSIONS:

- IT Product Owner / IT Product Manager: Definition of web/mobile/SaaS product roadmaps, backlog management, multidisciplinary team coordination, performance indicator monitoring.
- Product Marketing & Analysis: Market research, software solution launches, digital campaigns and technical content, Analyst Relations (Gartner, Forrester…)
- Digital Transformation: Implementation of IT systems, ERP, SaaS, digitalization of business processes, and risk management solutions.
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance: Risk management, internal control, audits, ISO 9001 quality, business continuity.
- Sustainable Development: QHSE approaches, extra-financial reporting.
- Strategic Consulting & Change Management: Change management, workshop facilitation, training engineering, international coordination, and partnership management.
- Consulting: Development of offerings and strategic product support for large companies.
- Business Creation & Management: Market analysis, business plan, monetization, legal, finance, recruitment, team management, marketing, investor relations, Scrum management, testing.

SECTORS, COMPANIES, AND CLIENTS:

- CONSULTING: Grant Thornton, CGI, ANTAES consulting
- INDUSTRY: Nokia, L’Oréal, Richemont, Air France, Sanofi, Baxter, Eymin Leydier, MSA, Bayer MS, SNCF, RFF, Sonepar, Naval Group, Sitaonair, LendLease, Sherwin Williams, Lactalis, Petrofac, SBM Offshore
- SAAS: Enablon, MEGA international,
- SERVICE: 3 accounting firms
- PARITY: AG2R, IRP auto, Reunica, Prévoyance Ré, Gras Savoye
- PUBLIC: Unedic, Caisse des dépôts, France Travail, City of Lausanne, Météo France, AFPA, DGA, DGFP, Hospice général, Lausanne Industrial Services
- NGO: International Union for Conservation of Nature
- STARTUPS: Linkydog

COUNTRIES:

- FRANCE (Paris, Bordeaux, Annecy)
- USA (Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh)
- SWITZERLAND (Geneva, Lausanne)
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

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

Experience

  • Office cantonal des services informatiques et du Numérique
    Program Manager and Product Owner
    PUBLIC SECTOR
    May 2025 - September 2025 (4 months)
    Nyon, VD, Switzerland
    Digitization of business processes within agile transformation framework for the Office for Building Permits (Department of Territory).
    Agile Methodology Team Management
  • Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la nature
    Senior Product Manager
    September 2022 - November 2023 (1 year and 2 months)
    Gland, VD, Switzerland
    Improvement and extension of the international grant management portal
    • Project scoping, existing analysis
    • Implementation of management and monitoring tools (Planning, budget, quality, risks)
    • International stakeholder interviews (Users, clients, decision-makers)
    • Monitoring developments in collaboration with Indian developers
    • Project progress meeting with the external provider 3 times a week
    • Weekly internal reporting on product progress

    Technologies: Redmine, Confluence
    Team Management Quality Management Product Management
  • Services Industriels de la Ville de Lausanne
    Senior Consultant
    March 2018 - March 2022 (4 years)
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    Subject: Evolution of the SAP billing process for a new energy contracting activity
    • Project scoping, existing analysis, stakeholder interviews
    • Implementation of management and monitoring tools (Planning, budget, quality, risks)
    • Development monitoring using JIRA
    • Project progress meeting with the external provider for SILs
    • Drafting Hermès project documents, client reporting

    Technologies: JIRA, SAP, TestFLo

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Education

  • MBA
    DUQUESNE University
    2010
    MBA
  • MASTER Management
    KEDGE Business School
    2002
    MASTER Management

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner Level I
    SCRUM
    2024
  • Hermes 5.1 (IT Project Management)
    Hermès
    2020

Skill set

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