Julien Buffy
AI & Data Transformation Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
AI Program Manager
EurazeoFreelance
Feb 2026 - Present
9 months
Paris, France
Driving the AI transformation across strategy, operating model, governance, AI product portfolio and solutions adoption
AI Experts
BpifranceFreelance
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Help French SME and mid-market executives turn AI & Data opportunities into prioritized use cases and actionable transformation roadmaps.
AI Program Lead
ChanelFreelance
Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
2 years 1 month
Paris, France
Mission: Transform 5 business ideas post-it into framed, PoCed & de-risked AI project ready to scale (when killing 5 others ideas) Strategy and achievements: - Design & deploy an AI Product Management organization to accelerate innovation Go-to-market - Ideate with Business team to prioritize and enrich use cases to adress - Qualify & Business-case ideas - Frame PoC & Build phases and select the right Tech provider Results: - An AI Program industrialized with profitable use case portfolio (NLP, Speech-to-text & Computer Vision), and solid Tech. partnership
Capgemini Invent
Jul 2016 - Jun 2023
7 years
Paris, France
Senior Managing Consultant - Data & AI Strategy
Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
6 months
Paris, France
+15 missions designing and managing Innovation strategies for Banking industry. e.g.: ▸Major Bank 1: Innovation Manager Designed and drove an internal incubator of +10 innovative use cases (ML, Robotics, Chatbots, No-code) with positive ROI within a year. ▸Major Bank 2: Data Science Product Manager Managed a hybrid team to develop a Machine Learning asset to reduce by 1B€ the Group's Risk-Weighted Assets. ▸ Major Bank 3: AI & Automation Factory Manager Managed a team of 15 Consultants, Data Scientists & Developers in the design of Robotics & AI projects enabling 3M€ of savings in a year
Chief of Staff to Managing Director - Financial Services
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 4 months
Paris, France
Help the Managing Director to improve the performance of the Executive Committee in a context of double-digit growth (€1B revenue).
Managing Consultant - Innovation Strategy
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
6 months
Paris, France
Senior Consultant - AI Strategy & Transformation
Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
2 years
Paris, France
Consultant - Strategy & Transformation
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
1 year 9 months
Paris, France
Apprentice
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
1 year 3 months
AI & Automation Factory Manager
Airbus
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
11 months
13700 Marignane, France
Mission: Build and manage a cost reduction program using RPA and AI Strategy and achievements: - Process audit (process mining) - Identification of use cases (design thinking) - Qualification and business case - Then, designing & managing robot production methodology (RPA) enabling the automation of time-consuming business processes - Functional scoping - Technical specification - IT development - Support and upgrades - Team management (15 consultants) and financial and commercial steering of the project Results: - Commercial development from 3 to 15 consultants (management, tech and data science) - €3M savings/year generated with 9 robots (FTE & non-FTE)
AI & Data Program Lead
BNP Paribas
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
10 months
Paris, France
Mission: Design and manage a Data & AI innovation structure to improve the Chief Risk Officer's key indicators (RWA, cost structure, etc.) Strategy and implementation: - Design the structure's organization (Target Operating Model) - Identify the use cases (Ideation/Design Thinking) - Qualify each innovation (Business case) - Manage the portfolio's deployment Results: - Identification, launch and management (operational and financial) of 8 innovative use cases (NLG/Chatbot, Machine Learning, RPA, BI, etc.).
Co-Founder
AppyFiz
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
1 year 11 months
Région de Nantes, France
Health Marketplace for diet professionals and patients
Freelance Management Consultant
crème de la crème
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
1 year 10 months
Région de Nantes, France
Self-employed consultant for shorts terms missions ● Wealth Management company - New business model strategy ● Software editor - Compensation & benefits strategy ● Energy company - People management ● Real estate company - Product management
Data Scientist
Perle Rare
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
4 months
Région de Paris, France
[4-month internship] Design of a meta-search engine for real estate data.
Education
Audencia
Double Degree in Engineering-Management, Finance and Entrepreneurship
2015 - 2017
3 years
● Grande Ecole Program ● Major in Finance and Entrepreneurship
Eseo
Master's degree in Engineering , Data Science
2013 - 2015
3 years
● Major in Data Science
Licenses & certifications
Investment Management in an Evolving and Volatile World
Issued: Jun 2021
Specialization in Investment Management with Python and Machine Learning
Issued: Jun 2021
Executive Data Science Specialization
Issued: Oct 2020
Private Equity and Venture Capital, Bocconi Università
Issued: May 2020
Two Speed IT: How Companies Can Surf the Digital Wave, a BCG Perspective
Issued: Apr 2016
Bloomberg Market Concept
Issued: Mar 2016
Statistical Thinking for Data Science and Analytics
Issued: Dec 2015
TOEIC : 890 / 990
Issued: Jul 2015
HSK 2
Issued: Jun 2014
Certification Voltaire : 752 / 1000
Issued: Apr 2014
Portfolio
Innovation Program Lead
AI Program Lead
AI & Automation Factory Manager
ML Product Manager
