
Julien Fabre
Senior Product Manager · Product Owner
Salary / Daily rate
Bordeaux, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
19+ years turning complex, multi-team challenges in international environments into products people really use: Pernod Ricard's first CSRD report on a legal deadline, a social intranet for 80,000 TotalEnergies employees in 25 countries, an apps factory built in under 3 months. Discovery first, adoption as the success metric. From idea to working prototype with AI, then to a product people actually use. Available from January 2027, freelance or full-time, remote. julienfabre.com
Work experience
Pernod RicardFreelance
Sep 2018 - Present
8 years 2 months
Product Owner - Finance Data Convergence
Nov 2025 - Present
1 year
• One Group finance dashboard for 10 business units, replacing local reports. • Ran discovery workshops with finance teams and built a catalogue of existing reports. • Merged local reports into one Group dashboard. The call: standardise first, customise second. • 8 of 10 business units live across Europe, APAC and LATAM; 250 users, 1,000+ views per month; old local dashboards decommissioned as adoption grows. • Team of 10+ (data engineering, BI).
Product Owner - CSRD reporting
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
- The Group's first report under the new EU sustainability law, on a legal deadline. - Scoped the product, prepared the call for tenders; integrated 10+ data sources (HR, Finance, Procurement, Health & Safety...) into one audit-ready model. - Built quality checks into the product, so errors are fixed at source, not in the report. It feeds the Group's consolidation and reporting tools. - Set up sustainability data governance (councils on standards and priorities) and a sustainability dashboard. - Published on time, audited, and built to be rerun every year.
Product Owner - Data Hubs
Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
1 year 5 months
• A reliable data layer for 10+ apps and dashboards. • Launched the first data hub for business and transactional data and agreed its place in the architecture with the data architects. • Standardised the integration patterns, then turned it into a repeatable recipe (Finance, Commercial, Operations): 10+ apps and dashboards plugged in. • Onboarded business teams and tracked usage across connected applications.
Roll-out, Change & Adoption Lead — Master Data Hub (MDM)
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
2 years 2 months
• Getting 80 subsidiaries to speak the same language. • Got 80 subsidiaries using the same taxonomy for products, customers and entities in the Group's Master Data Management (MDM) tool, so figures add up locally and at Group level. • Rolled out market by market; named data owners locally and globally; data-quality controls, training and usage tracking. • Became the base for the Data Hubs.
Roll-out Lead — VISTA (Revenue Growth Management)
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
1 year 7 months
• Making promotions pay, market by market. • Promotions were often planned out of habit. VISTA shows which past promotions actually paid off. • Set up its first version, the analysis of past promotions, and rolled it out to 15 pilot subsidiaries worldwide, with on-site training. • Users' feedback shaped the next releases. The Group's teams later built machine-learning modules on top. • The pilots opened the way: the tool now runs in 60+ markets, where each euro of promotion returns €1.50+ in sales.
Product Manager - World's Best Bars
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
2 years 1 month
Worldwide
- Consumer web platform: worldsbestbars.com. - Platform and content roadmap: ~8,000 bars, 200 cities, 120k visitors per month. - Steered the editorial & SEO agency; shipped 360° virtual bar visits.
Product Manager - Total Industrial Mobility (TIM)
TotalEnergies
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 3 months
Brussels, Belgium
• Apps factory built from zero. • Launched an intrapreneurial mobile programme and built the apps factory in under 3 months (Agile, Lean): agile team of 10, €5m budget. • Set up the Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform and shipped the first apps, including MySafety (digital safety inspections replacing paper). • 36 sites, ~2,000 users within a year of launch.
Product Manager - Working At Total (WAT)
TotalEnergies
Jan 2013 - Jul 2016
3 years 7 months
Paris, France
- One social intranet for 80,000 employees. - Prepared the call for tenders; steered the integrator (Microsoft) on priorities, technical challenges, quality and performance. - Ran user interviews with communication teams; merged 300 legacy intranets with local teams into one platform, built around an enterprise social network, new at the time. - Country-by-country launch playbook: 25 countries in under a year, 90% profile activation. - 15 consultants, €27m budget.
IT Project Manager
AXA Technology Services
Feb 2007 - Dec 2012
5 years 11 months
Paris, France
- Large-scale applications, infrastructure and disaster-recovery projects, each 1,000+ person-days: planning, vendors, delivery discipline. - Prepared, ran and debriefed a disaster-recovery exercise on critical business applications: a one-day test in real conditions, coordinating business, application and infrastructure teams and the communication, then wrote up the results and an action plan.
Developer
Webformance
Aug 2005 - Feb 2006
7 months
Paris, France
- Development of SEO tools (HTTP / PHP / MySQL)
Education
Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)
Master of Engineering (Diplôme d'ingénieur), Computer Science, Innovative Project Management
2002 - 2007
5 years 1 month
Grade: Master's level, incl. 2-year integrated foundation
- Diplôme d'ingénieur in Computer Science, specialisation in Innovative Project Management (MPI). 2002–2007, including a 2-year integrated foundation.
Lycée Christophe Colomb, Sucy-en-Brie
High school diploma, Scientific option with honors, Physical Sciences
1998 - 2002
4 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
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Méthode Agile : Scrum Product Owner
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