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Description

🚀 Program Director & IT Transition Manager

How I can help you:

I manage and secure your critical projects, providing rigorous cost, quality, and deadline management. I stop the bleeding, cauterize, and revive projects that are off track. But that's not all...

SMEs, Mid-caps: I bring your IT system back under control through adapted transition management.

For over 10 years, I have been working as a freelancer for SMEs, mid-caps, and large corporations to turn around, structure, and secure high-stakes programs as well as struggling IT systems. I step in where the stakes are high: strategic programs, complex transformations, multi-stakeholder, multi-country, or multi-ERP contexts.

Significant references:

Roquette Frère: took over the €6M Salesforce program which was already over budget in the first year.
Assurpeople.com: transition management following the IT Director's burnout (15 resources)
La Méta (GIE): took over the management of the IT system creation (€1.5M)
Thales: coaching the project manager to get a Third-Party Maintenance (TPM) back on track
Auchan: transition management of the textile purchasing domain (Oracle ERP, WMS, TXT), €2 billion in revenue

Personality test available upon request

My main activities:

➡️ Project Audits: in case of weak signals on a project/program, fixed-fee audit with report and action plan (1 week to 1 month, part-time)

➡️ IT Service Audits / Team Coaching: for an unproductive or poorly performing team, fixed-fee audit, management support, team takeover, 1 to 3 month part-time service

➡️ Transition Management: to temporarily replace a manager (1 to 6 months)

➡️ Program Management

➡️ Scoping studies, RFPs, integrator selection, team recruitment

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Lille (up to 50km), Paris (up to 50km), Lyon (up to 50km), Toulouse (up to 50km), Montpellier (up to 50km)

Z-CONSULT
Project Director / Transition Manager
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
April 2018 - Today (8 years and 2 months)
Lille, France
Missions carried out as a freelancer since 2018 for large corporations and public entities in program management, transition management, and IT system audits.

Management of complex IT programs in direct liaison with general management (scoping, budgets, risks, governance)
Transition management for IT functions (CIO / domain managers) with scope takeover and organizational structuring
Performance of IT audits (architecture, organization, delivery) with operational recommendations and IT roadmap definition
Management of multi-domain service providers (architecture, infrastructure, development, security, BI, TPM) and contract management
Facilitation of governance bodies (project committees, steering committees, arbitration committees) and support for business units in defining needs

**Key Intervention Examples**:
GIE La Méta: program management for building a complete IT system from scratch
IDKIDS: IT system architecture audit and APIfication recommendations + organizational support
CCI Lille / ASTAV / Centre l’Espoir / Kaefer Wanner: CIO audits (development methodology, SaaS outsourcing, team organization, IT roadmap)
Groupe Situaction: organizational audit and repositioning of IT in a product-centric approach

**Skills**: Program Management, IT Architecture, Infrastructure, CISO, Pentests, TPM, BI, Budget Management, Transition Management
IT Strategy coaching d'équipe Digital Transformation Management de transition IT Project Management
Roquette
Transverse Project Director
AGRICULTURE
September 2022 - December 2025 (3 years and 3 months)
Lestrem, France
Mission for Roquette (agri-food industry), in liaison with the Commercial Transformation Director, in a multi-ERP and Salesforce integration context (600 users, €6M budget over 4 years).

ARTEMIS PROGRAM - SALESFORCE INTEGRATION
Took over the management of the Artemis program for Salesforce integration in Sales & Marketing (Service Cloud, Sales Cloud)
Following the acquisition of IFF by Roquette, scoping of the integration program (quotation, pricing, product lifecycle management, customer lifecycle management, sales funnel, service processes)
RFP for integrator and CPQ solution selection, including managing the "quotation" project, defining the roadmap, and coordinating 2 service centers (business analysts, test leads, integrators, change manager, AMOA)
Management of the €6M Salesforce program over 4 years, including taking over and finalizing the 3-year roadmap, managing budget/commitments, and overseeing the integrator/project team
Facilitation of steering bodies (SteerCO, SponsorCO, weekly meetings) with capacity planning and budget/resource management

TRANSVERSE PROJECTS
Management of the supply chain project, providing driver/customer files (SAP flow and NUXEO DMS processing)
Management of the YARD program for automation and digitalization of truck routes at a pilot site (2 years)
Scoping and management of the electronic invoicing project for 5 countries (PDP: EDICOM)
Management of the NUXEO document management tool upgrade + related projects
Management of costs/quality/deadlines with various feasibility studies

RESULTS ACHIEVED
600 Salesforce users deployed | Roadmap taken over and finalized for 3 years | €6M budget managed effectively | Successful post-acquisition integration of IFF | Supply chain automation and digitalization

**Skills**: Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Pardot), CPQ, SAP, EDICOM (electronic invoicing), NUXEO, Multi-ERP, Document Management
ERP Integration with External Systems ERP System Customization IT Strategy Pilotage de projets transverses Pilotage de projets complexes
La Méta
Project Director
CIVIL ENGINEERING
April 2020 - July 2022 (2 years and 3 months)
Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
In direct liaison with the General Management of GIE La Méta (public sector – social housing providers) for the construction of an IT system from scratch.

Definition of the IT strategy (scoping, master plan, governance) with budget scoping and risk management
Full management of the IT system construction program with coordination of multi-domain service providers (UX, development, infrastructure, security, BI, testing, TPM)
Structuring and management of calls for tender in conjunction with legal services, including offer analysis and contract/amendment negotiation
Facilitation of governance bodies (steering committees, arbitration committees) with stakeholder alignment (La Méta / housing providers)
Management of change management in coordination with business and domain managers

**Skills**: IT Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, BI, TPM, IT Governance
IT Strategy Pilotage de programme Direction de programme Pilotage de projets complexes Management de transition