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Digital Advisor

SGS is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity.

My professional objective is to guide companies in their transformation journey, being perceived as an enabler on their digital transformation by bringing innovation and further developing effectiveness and efficiency gain. I built my professional experience up to CIO level with international companies across multiples sectors such as bank, industry and services covering all IT aspects from infrastructure to application, from pure IT task up to business development and back-office optimization. I have demonstrated my leadership in delivering an IT vision, in driving and transforming successfully the IT delivery with proper program management to support business transformation. I consider business relationship, enterprise digital architecture, IT governance and finance management as key elements of a successful IT strategy. Key competencies: Management of "IT business unit": +15 years of experience in building long term vision through key applications such as ERP, CRM, HRIS, LIMS, integration platform, supporting the growth and margin company’s objectives. Finance expertise on functional IT P&L, IT spend management and procurement, budget management , IT benchmark (effectiveness and efficiency)... Digital transformation and innovation: +10 years of ERP experience in design, wide rollout, supporting business transformation, function’s optimization, enabling shared services capabilities and providing innovative solutions to support business growth... IT strategy and enterprise digital architecture: +15 years of experience with leadership in defining, modeling IT strategy and IT architecture driven by a long term vision, the business evolution and the ongoing enterprise digital architecture... Program management Expertise in leading and sponsoring wide international programs such as complex ERP rollout, CRM, LIMS (>400 laboratories), communication and collaboration, with a special focus on program structure, change management and risk management...