Cedric Blanchard
Product Leader / Product Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Lead Product Manager with 10+ years driving product strategy from startups to enterprise. Expert in healthtech and e-commerce with proven success in cross-functional leadership, OKRs, and A/B testing. Host of Le French Product podcast. Ready to transform your product vision into market-winning solutions through data-driven innovation.
Work experience
Lead Product Manager
Manutan GroupFreelance
Jul 2023 - Present
3 years 4 months
Paris, France
Leading the team that rebuilt a billion-dollar e-commerce from scratch. Currently deploying first sister company. My missions : • Roadmapping : build and hold the roadmap to build the new website from the ground up, making sure that a Core model is developed (taking the needs of 27 different sister companies and streamlining the tools whilst improving experience). • Team Management & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Manage multidisciplinary teams & foster a product culture to make sure that the company switches from an output mindset (project) to an outcome mindset (product). • Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborated with C-level executives, IT teams, and leaders across all sister companies to define project goals, align business priorities, and ensure seamless integration of technology and business needs.
Co-Founder
Stealth
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
2 years 7 months
Paris, France
Built, launched and scaled my own SaaS product in the crypto space. Sold to a competitor - under NDA.
Head of Product
Digilityx
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
11 months
Paris, France
Led a team of 7 people and helping clients implement a product organization. • Advised 2 clients (loyalty program in the luxury field / e- commerce) on their transformation strategy (processes, tooling, people) • Operated cold messaging campaigns for recruitment and sales • Counseled clients on their data strategy and how to be business oriented through product development • Led the communication strategy to generate visibility in the Product Management market • Improved the team's recruitment process with scorecards • Planned two events with partners to generate sales & recruitment leads
Servier
Apr 2018 - Oct 2022
4 years 7 months
Paris, France
Product Manager
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 10 months
Paris, France
• Managed Feature Team (internal and external) who imagined & built a content platform for patients, to be implemented in 54 countries, an OTC website under implementation in 18 countries and a Healthcare professional platform, representing the first stepping stone to the global Omnichannel strategy • Built a product portfolio in line with the Group's strategy and managed to get subsidiary buy-in through stakeholder management • Applied agile methodologies and new WoW to enable product discovery phase, going from non-functioning prototypes to viable product with positive customer feedback • Introduced new growth stack to foster piloting through business value thanks to customer behaviour, analytics, A/B testing… • Designed a strategic roadmap with Digital Marketing and Data Factory. Implemented OKRs to align product features with concrete performance & conversion tracking.
Innovation Enabler
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
2 years 10 months
Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Working for Servier's brazilian affiliate, I was in charge of rationalising the digital asset pool, evangelizing about innovation and scouting solutions to improve our innovation capacities. • Launched an Open Innovation initiative, branded and organised the event. Created partnerships with local startups (4 prospects added to Global pipeline) • Helped initiate the partnership with Healthcare startup (Elfie), create the link with local team & share market insights for local development • Developed the new corporate website (servier.com.br), generating +20% visits
Product Owner
EDDO / Freelance
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 years
Paris Area, France
Eddo (now LineUp7) specializes in optimizing web performance by focusing on UX capabilities and driving traffic through data-driven insights. • Led teams of designers, UX, data/performance consultants to help clients optimise their web performance (ex: social housing website went from 0% to 24% of allocations online) • Advised customers and co-constructed digital strategy through web optimisations • Led the development of the biggest contract of the year (700K$), a content website generating a new community of users for the brand
Product Owner
NETCO SPORTS
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
2 years
Paris Area, France
Netco Sports (now Origins Digital) offers cutting-edge digital solutions to sports federations and event organisers. • Helped orchestrate development process with outsourced team (Belarus) • Worked with design and development teams (back/front/platform) to bring 8 simultaneous projects (1M$ budget for ≈2M users) to fruition : Dakar 2017/Vendée Globe/FFF/LeTrot/RC Toulon/U Arena/FFJudo/AS Monaco
Business Development Consultant
Freelance
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
1 year
Montreal, Canada Area
Marketing Assistant
Erasteel
Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
2 years
Paris Area, France
Marketing Officer
Scuba San Diego, Inc.
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
1 year
San Diego, CA, USA
Project Officer
Eramet International (Milan, Italy)
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
1 year
Milan Area, Italy
Education
The International School of Management (ISM)
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2013 - 2014
2 years
St. John's University
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2013 - 2014
2 years
ISEG
Master's degree
2009 - 2014
6 years
California International Business University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
2011 - 2012
2 years
Licenses & certifications
Crash Course on Python
Issued: Nov 2025
Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning
Issued: Nov 2025
Advanced Learning Algorithms
Issued: Nov 2025
AI Agents Certified PM
Issued: Nov 2025
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
Issued: Nov 2025
LLM Foundations Certified PM
Issued: Nov 2025
Google Prompting Essentials Specialization
Issued: Nov 2025
Google AI Essentials Specialization
Issued: Nov 2025
Product-led Certification
Issued: Jan 2023
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Issued: Sep 2021
LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator
Issued: Feb 2020