
Gabriele Merlin
Data Tracking & Analytics Consultant | Google Analytics | GTM | Looker studio | GDPR | CRO | À l'écoute d'opportunités Web Analytics | Curieux et Innovant 🚀
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
✏️ Data Tracking & Analytics Consultant @Making Science France, a marketing and technology consulting firm that helps companies in their digital growth and development process. 👨🏽💻 Data Analytics & Data Analysis passionate. Deeply interested in finding insights from qualitative and quantitative data to help increase Conversion, thanks to data-driven decisions. 🏀 Passionate about sports (🏀 basketball, ⛷️ ski, 🎾 tennis, 🏐 volleyball, 🏃♂️ running) and passionate about cooking. 👉🏼 Passionate about innovation and how it shapes daily life, and I am a strong believer of collaboration and team-working. 🌱 Deeply interested in everything that concerns sustainability. 🏠 Born and raised in Torino, currently living in Paris. Always seeking new challenges and experiences.
Work experience
Member
Data Circle
Oct 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Associate Product Analyst
Henkan & Partners
Jun 2025 - Present
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
📊 Associate Product Analyst ✧ Data Collection ✓ Build and manage Tagging Plan to support tracking implementation by developers. ✓ Conduct accurate QA on tracking deployment projects. ✓ Configure and manage Tag Managers to ensure consistent data collection. ✓ Deploy third-party tags (media pixels) via GTM, including server-side migration for 15+ partners ✓ Configure cookie banners with CMPs (One Trust, Didomi), categorize cookies, and customize banners with CSS. ✧ User Behavior Analysis ✓ Analyze customer journeys using analytics tools and digital experience platforms (Contentsquare, Air360). ✓ Identify key insights and provide actionable recommendations to enhance user experience. ✓ Create dashboards with Looker Studio and Tableau to monitor KPIs. ✓ Design surveys and dashboards to collect and analyze user feedback. ✧ User Journey Optimization ✓ Conduct CRO audits, implemented A/B Testing strategies (with AB Tasty) to identify high-impact user paths, focusing on top landing pages, traffic sources, user flows, and interactions, with emphasis on optimizing Average Order Value (AOV). ✓ Collaborate with UX Designers to provide data-driven insights for product optimization.
Tracking Specialist
showroomprive.com
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
4 months
Paris, France
📊 Tracking Specialist ✧ Strategic Tracking Management ✓ Directed and enhanced the tracking roadmap for web platforms, ensuring robust implementation through GTM (Client-Side & Server-Side), integration of native SDKs, and design of custom Data Layers for multi-channel data collection. ✧ Data Quality and Compliance ✓ Developed detailed Tagging Plans and implemented rigorous validation processes (using testing and debugging tools) to ensure data completeness and reliability. Managed consent management tool configurations to guarantee GDPR compliance across all markets. ✧ Technical Expertise and Troubleshooting ✓ Led implementation, migration, and proactive resolution of complex tracking issues across key analytics tools such as GA4, Piwik Pro, Contentsquare, and other partner platforms, ensuring uninterrupted service for business teams. ✧ Web Analytics ✓ Skilled in configuring and managing alternative analytics platforms such as Piwik Pro to ensure data sovereignty and quality.
Making Science
May 2023 - Mar 2025
1 year 11 months
Paris, France
Data Tracking & Analytics Consultant
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
1 year 5 months
Paris, France
Data Tracking & Analytics Junior Consultant
May 2023 - Oct 2023
6 months
Paris, France
📊 Data Tracking & Analytics Consultant ✧ Tracking Activities ✓ Collecting, cleaning, and analysing data from various business sources to provide actionable insights. ✓ Set up Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Server-Side GTM. ✓ Implemented Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to collect and analyse user data. ✧ Marketing Tool Integration ✓ Implemented Facebook Conversions API (CAPI) to enhance conversion tracking and campaign effectiveness. ✓ Integrated Google Ads and other platforms to optimise advertising campaigns. ✧ Monitoring & Analysis ✓ Designing and implementing tracking strategies to ensure accurate and comprehensive user data collection across digital channels. ✓ Monitored data through GTM debug view and analytics tools to ensure accurate data collection. ✓ Created and managed interactive reports and customised dashboards using Looker Studio to analyse complex data and provide strategic insights. ✧ Tracking, Audit & Optimization ✓ Identifying opportunities to improve tracking processes and implementing technical solutions to optimise data collection. ✓ Participated in tender offers to understand client needs. ✓ Developed customised tracking plans by defining goals and KPIs to collect data comprehensively and accurately, and to analyse user behavior. ✧ Compliance & Data Security ✓ Ensuring all data collection and analysis activities comply with current regulations (e.g., GDPR) and company data security policies. ✓ Worked and was involved in CMPs configuration such as Cookiebot, OneTrust, Didomi, Axeptio ecc. ✧ Projects ✓ Involved in Retail, Insurance, Banking, E-Commerce, Technology & IT
Artemis Data Consulting
Jul 2021 - May 2023
1 year 11 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Analytics Consultant
Jan 2022 - May 2023
1 year 5 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Analytics Intern
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
6 months
Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
Reviewing data to discover insights and offering expertise in data management through analysis to make predictions and help guide business strategy and decision-making thanks to the use of various software for data analysis. - Monitoring the data flow depending on the tracking plan configured in the website. Posting senior management and other teams on relevant data collection. - Significant exposure to a wide range of tasks, including: communicating with the client, coordinating different teams and work as PM of projects. - Developing analytics using Google properties such as Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager in order to better understand data flows generating intelligence from data to make data driven decisions. Led the project to automate daily reporting for my team. - Producing documentation and ad-hoc analysis (e.g. customised dashboarding, audit of client’s need) to be discussed in the weekly meeting with the head of Analytics. - Meeting with clients in order to keep them constantly updated about project’s steps. - Cognitive meeting with clients with the purpose of identifying KPIs related to their need and understanding which decision-making process suits best.
Assistant Men Basketball Coach
Pallacanestro Moncalieri Freelance
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
5 years 2 months
10024 Moncalieri, Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy
I sarted as an assistant coach when I was 19. I took the license at 22 and started following my own team of 10 and 11 years old.
Education
Università degli Studi di Torino
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
2016 - 2020
4 years 4 months
I.I.S. Liceo Scientifico Niccolo Copernico
Diploma, Liceo Scientifico
2011 - 2016
6 years
Licenses & certifications
Contentsquare Certified
Issued: May 2025
Contentsquare Ambassador
Issued: May 2025
Google Tag Manager Certification
Issued: Aug 2023
Google Analytics Individual Qualification
Issued: Feb 2023
Google Analytics Certification
Issued: Feb 2023
Google Tag Manager
Issued: Jan 2022
Google Analytics Beginners
Issued: Jan 2022
Google Analytics Power Users
Issued: Jan 2022
Google Analytics GA360
Issued: Jan 2022
Google Analytics Advanced
Issued: Jan 2022