Charlig LESSARD

Head of Commercial Operations France / Strategic Account Sales Manager

France

About

Pragmatic, team player and problem-solver,I’m holding more than 10years of experience mixed between operational positions, corporate strategy consulting and entrepreneurship mainly working in digital and industrial sectors.

Experience

  • DS Smith ()
    • Head of Commercial Operations France/ Strategic Account Sales Manager
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

      Hybrid position for DS Smith French activities (approx. 1 B€) : - Head of Commercial Operations including pricing strategy & margin improvement - Key Account Sales Manager

    • Chief Of Staff
      Nov 2021 - Oct 2024 · 3 yrs

      CoS to the General Manager France (approx. 1 B€ turn./ 4000 employees) and strategic project manager (strategic planning, business turnaround, M&A, profitability improvement)

  • Strategy& (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Senior Manager - Corporate strategy & operations
      Jul 2021 - Nov 2021 · 5 mos

    • Manager - Corporate strategy & operations
      Mar 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      - Main projects: Strategic plan, industrial scale-up, industrial turnaround (incl. operations efficiency and product redesign), digital & Industry 4.0 roadmap, digital due diligence - Industry focus: Wind turbine, Railway, High voltage equipment, Cables, Insulation, etc.

  • Co-Founder at IoWell
    Feb 2018 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

    - In parallel of my day to day job, my partner and myself built an end to end solution to monitor oil & gas well performance using IoT (LoRaWAN technology) - I led the technical conception, technological partnerships as well as business model definition

  • Senior Consultant - Corporate strategy & operations at EY-Parthenon
    Jun 2016 - Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Fromer EY strategy (now EY-Parthenon) - Main projects: strategic plan, portfolio screening, target operating model, industrial investment, operations improvement - Industry focus: Mining, Oil&Gas, Food, Cosmetic - Projects in France, Democratic Republic of Congo and Poland

  • Schlumberger (2 yrs 2 mos)
    • Project manager (graduate program)
      Jan 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Manage and monitor upstream supply chain (from sourcing to manufacturing) for customized and fast track projects (20m€ revenue/year)

    • Sourcing Specialist (graduate program)
      May 2014 - Jan 2015 · 9 mos

      Contribute to the catalog product improvement regarding the Quality, Cost & Delivery