Astrid de Lafforest

Managing Consultant at Suricats Consulting | Business & Marketing strategy | Hands-on & Result-oriented | New ventures, startups & marketplaces | Aspiring sailor ready for an ambitious adventure

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyProduct MarketingStrategy & ConsultingMarketing StrategyCustomer CareSales StrategyCRMUser Research

Languages

EnglishFrench

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Work experience

Managing Consultant

Suricats Consulting

Jun 2020 - Jan 2023

2 years 8 months

Paris, France

- Strategy consulting projects for big companies (C-level executives): • Business strategy & Marketing: business opportunity studies, organisation and launch strategy, digital projects roadmaps, go to market, marketing project management • Digital transformation & organisation: audit, benchmark, design thinking methodology, workshops animation, acculturation, recommendations about digital tools - Industries: retailers, services providers, insurance - Internal projects: recruitment, sales, B-Corp assessment, lectures in a business school - Management of junior and intern consultants --- Some relevant projects: * Business strategy & Marketing: - Framework of the organisation and launch strategy of a C2C marketplace for donations between individuals (retailer). - Opportunity study for the implementation of a marketplace for independent retailers (public services). - Support for the go to market of a new digital product, business plan, marketing, roadmap (service provider). - Retail media project manager, run management, contribution to the development of the service offer, audit of the organisation, team management (retailer). * Digital transformation: - Design of a methodology based on design thinking for salespeople, aimed at bringing out innovative platform-type projects, coaching of project managers and change management (retailer). - Acculturation of SMEs: how to sell online? marketplaces & direct sales (producer association) * Organisation: - Marketing organisation audit in a merger context (insurance)

Senior Consultant

kalane consulting

Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

7 months

Digital marketing: - CRM project management - Acquisition and retention of newsletter subscribers - Product evolutions with technical and editorial teams - Design of new relational campaigns, roadmap for a unified relational programme - Audit and recommendations about the CRM team organisation

Country Opener France & Corporate strategy analyst

Bsit | Babysitting App

May 2016 - Feb 2019

2 years 10 months

Région de Paris, France

Bsit (digital start-up, in-house tech development) is a collaborative childcare platform/marketplace which raised 1.4M€ in February 2018 and 3M€ in July 2019. Led strategic projects for the CEO and the Board in particular in the context of fundraisings - Business model elaboration, projects on specific platforms challenges (openness, trust) - Conducted international watch - Produced synthetic recommendations - Drafted investor presentations Headed the French market opening (June 2016), defined and implemented the go to market strategy (+ 150 000 users in France): - Operated market analysis: adapted marketing, refined product and added new features - Monitored daily operations: recruited 100,000 babysitters, improved the matching quality - Led business development: business and marketing partnerships (traditional agencies, schools, bloggers) Supported the French B2B sales team (14 B2B clients in France including Decathlon, Axa, Vinci, Safran) - Designed the B2B offer, implemented specific strategic partnerships, produced sales argumentation - Handled call for tenders (Decathlon, RATP…) - Managed B2B customer relationship management

Member - Fédération des plateformes collaboratives (PRO BONO)

Fédération des Plateformes Collaboratives

May 2016 - Jun 2018

2 years 2 months

Paris Area, France

The “Fédération des plateformes collaboratives” (professional federation merged within “France Digitale” in 2018) brings together actors of the collaborative economy (Airbnb, Heetch, Videdressing, Wingly...). Its purpose is to promote the collaborative economy and to co-construct an economic and social environment that is favorable to its development. • Contributed to thinking about the regulatory environment: met decision-makers, wrote proposals • Participated in round tables with stakeholders (companies, representatives), for example “New forms of entrepreneurship, what social protection?” at the “Institut de la protection sociale” • Best practices sharing between platforms: French obligations for digital platforms, implementation of the GDPR

Head of patrons and partnerships

Honoré Visconti

May 2014 - Dec 2016

2 years 8 months

Paris Area, France

Honoré Visconti (non profit organisation) is an artistic label directed by Laure Flammarion. Honoré Visconti’s ambition is to democratize contemporary art by creating exhibitions, generating meetings and encouraging first acquisitions. • Built our young circle patrons (30 patrons), deployed a dedicated cultural program and exclusive advantages • Managed partnerships, prospected, negotiated and followed relationships (20 partners including Groslch, Aésop…) • Coordinated public relations and communication

Assistant to the President

Fonds de dotation Maison Bernard

Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

6 months

Région de Paris, France · On-site

The Maison Bernard Endowment Fund’s purpose is the protection of Antti Lovag’s architectural work with Pierre Bernard in Theoule sur Mer throughout the 1970s. • Delivered legal advices • Constructed public relations and communication strategy • Conducted art history researches on Antti Lovag’s work

Exhibition Manager

Interiman

May 2013 - May 2015

2 years 1 month

Région de Genève, Suisse

Help during set up, exhibitions and auctions, important watches - magnificient jewels (May & November 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)


Education

Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)

Master of Laws / Master 2, Business Law

2013 - 2015

2 years

Activities and societies: DFMA Collection (Association des élèves du Master 2 Droit et fiscalité du Marché de l'art)

Speciality in Law and Taxation in the Art market

Université Jean Moulin (Lyon III)

DU - University degree (additional courses) – Art market – Jean Moulin, Lyon IIII, Art market

2013 - 2015

2 years

Marketing, Accounting, Art market press review, Social and economic approach of the art market… Diplôme Universitaire Professions du Marché de l’Art - niveau master 2 Enseignements, Conférences de méthode, Entretiens avec des professionnels du marché de l’art.

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