Marie-Lou Picherit

Step Change Senior Program Manager, Americas Generation

Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States

About

Experience

  • Ørsted (Full-time · 4 yrs 11 mos)
    • StepChange Senior Program Manager
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Americas Product Program Manager, Operations Digital & Innovation
      Oct 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    • Innovation & Venture Hub Manager; R&D Market Representative for the US
      Aug 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • UK Solution Manager at Dreev
    Feb 2019 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Oversaw the development of highly complex and innovative solutions for Vehicle to Grid (V2G) and smart charging, within the competitive UK Market. Interfaced with JV management in a multi country development to ensure product performances in each country. • Employed wide ranging skills to adapt the product to the UK market. • Provided smart charging and V2G solutions after successfully identifying various opportunities and barriers that affect the success of the startup project. • Ensured business continuity and performance of the operated vehicles fleets. • Acquired fundamental skills to work in a start-up organization.

  • Sr Project Manager, (Flexible Energy Systems & Energy Efficiency) at EDF Energy
    Oct 2015 - Sep 2019 · 4 yrs

    Forecasted and administered the creation of groundbreaking services and commercial opportunities by developing customer targeting tools, assessing prospects and market designs, generating business models, and creating technology roadmaps. • Created, tendered, and managed all aspects of the project lifecycle for several multimillion-dollar UK National innovation projects such as V2GO (Vehicle to Grid demonstrator (~$5M), V2Street (~$2M), and GridIMP (non-domestic DSR demonstrator). • Supported the development of an offshore wind project in Scotland (grid, local content, etc.) • Managed multidisciplinary teams; testing benchmarks, executing market analysis, developing digital tools and ensuring new projects growth. • Carried out energy audits in various industrial facilities • Supported many acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and JVs by reinforcing EDF Business and BlueLab (EDF start-up incubator and EDF Energy innovation accelerator). Assessed technical and commercial maturity of international start-ups.

  • EDF (Fontainebleau)
    • R&D Project Manager (Energy efficiency)
      Jul 2013 - Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Directed a team that focused on “Charging solutions” across diverse innovative projects: • Served as an EDF R&D spokesperson for electric mobility; intensified support by executing radio interviews as well as collaborating with EDF subsidiaries -IZIVIA, Enedis, EDF Energy-, R&D groups, academic teams, and various US, UK, Italian, and French business units. • Employed various skills and software, such as GIS, to design web applications that were used to construct a European electric fast-charging network

    • R&D Engineer (Electric mobility)
      Sep 2010 - Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      ▪ Tool development, modelling, launched GIS activities in the department ▪ Collaborated with major companies in demonstrator projects (Renault, Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Schneider, etc.) ▪ Participated in European and French think tanks and demonstrator projects

    • PhD “Electric Vehicle and Environmental Assessment”
      Nov 2007 - Aug 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      ▪ Designed and managed field and lab trials, developed specific tools ▪ Published and communicated in international congresses

  • Technical Support Engineer - Ondeo IS at SUEZ France
    2007 - 2007 · Less than a year

    Audited various industrial water plants, managed customers’ portfolio Quoted and followed construction phases