
Laurent Jary
Senior Operations & Program Management Leader
Salary / Daily rate
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Strategic Operations Executive with 20+ years of experience driving global operational excellence at Fortune 500 companies and tech giants. Currently leading Trust Operations at Airbnb, with proven track record of $50M+ cost optimization and 10+ successful strategic site implementations. Expertise in BPO strategy, operational efficiency, and building high-performing global teams with 90%+ satisfaction rates.
Work experience
Airbnb
Mar 2020 - Present
6 years 8 months
Singapore · Hybrid
Global Head of Trust Operation Strategic Projects and BPO
Dec 2022 - Present
3 years 11 months
Singapore · Hybrid
Tools Support expertise Product Operations Management Cost/Efficiencies strategy and delivery End-to-end program management
Global Head of Partner Operations Strategy - Trust Operations
Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
2 years 4 months
Singapore
Responsible for driving / managing the following across Trust Operations globally by leading: 1. New partners onboarding decision and implementation 2. Operational Rigor across all Partner Sites and all functions 3. Partner location strategy to enable a world class scalable operations at the most optimized cost. 4. Cost Control and optimisation 5. Trust Operations Partner Budget vs Spend globally and driving Cost optimization initiatives 6- Innovation strategy
Senior Partner Strategy Manager
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
10 months
Singapore
Drive global partner strategy for Trust Ops organization Selected on going realizations: • Ensure a 100% Business Continuity Plan for all workflows at partner sites • Own the global partner budget – control invoices/budget – and cost optimization initiatives • Decide site allocation of existing and new workflows • Initiate initiatives to improve partners relationship (customer survey) and execution (productivity)
Dell Inc
Nov 2002 - Mar 2020
17 years 5 months
Singapore
APJ Programs & Service Delivery Director
Jan 2015 - Mar 2020
5 years 3 months
Singapore
Develop a robust ecosystem for the commercial support team in the region to improve Customer experience through escalation management, digitalization initiatives implementation, operational execution and network flexibility enhancement. Selected achievements: - Created and drove Client escalation team (40 team members across APJ), improving SLA by 30% and internal sales satisfaction by 20% - Pioneered in implementing Social media (WeChat) for Chinese customer. Increased traffic by 100% monthly - Led new partner sites implementation in India, China and Japan, reducing opex by 20% - Maintain and exceed operational performances in customer experience (90%+) and warranty cost
APJ Strategy & Sustaining Director
Aug 2011 - Dec 2014
3 years 5 months
George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Helped the APJ Technical Support organization gaining in structure optimization, cost control, operational execution and standardization. Selected achievements: - Doubled up the partners/vendors volume to provide more flexibility with our business network - Governed the resources planning vs forecast to ensure cost control (opex and capex) - Managed chief of staff role, handling executive presentation preparation for the entire region - Drove technical support partners/vendors key performances indicators for all APJ Client business - Built and led the sustaining and quality teams : successfully passed ISO audits, increased 6-sigma projects realizations, increased enterprise agents certifications by 200% in 18 months
Casablanca Technical Support Director
Dec 2008 - Jul 2011
2 years 8 months
Led the entire Technical Support organization for French speaking customers (400+ team members). Represented the support organization at the board of directors in Casablanca site. Established a winning culture for all the organization. Selected achievements: - Reduced yearly attrition from 34% to 11%, through direct, inspiring and transparent communication - Improved and then exceeded operational business indicators: Customer Experience (from 82% to 91% - Increased point of need revenue through ad-hoc offerings (700k$/Q) - Led 6-sigma culture for the entire organization: 2 team members selected for the WW Quality day in HQ
EMEA Program Director
Oct 2007 - Dec 2008
1 year 3 months
Supported EMEA Customer services organization by leading the implementation project team. Bridged the relationship between the global design team and the operational regional/country teams. Selected achievements: - Built a team of 10 project managers across EMEA - Implemented global projects end-to-end processes: actively participated to the design phase, engaged the operational teams by raising their feedbacks, validated key success factors through post-implemented checks (30-60-90 days) - Projects implemented: Global Support Services offerings, Queue structure harmonization, Revenue generation (from 5M$ to 25M$ in 18 months)
South EMEA Program Manager
Nov 2002 - Oct 2007
5 years
Montpellier, France
Worked as program and quality manager for South-EMEA. Worked on country and regional projects for the support organization and the entire site. Key achievements: - Built a 40 team member organization between the Montpellier and Casablanca sites - Improved customer experience from 56% to 86% in 3 years thanks to programs developed around technical & behaviour skills, kept best regional performances 4 years in row - Developed Point Of Need (PON) revenue for EMEA from 14M$ to 24M$ in 1 year - Awarded for being the first region certified ISO9001 in support teams, then built the team to engage and entertain the regular audits processes - Led the new Casablanca Dell site implementation project: 200 team members taking calls in 6 months - Certified Advanced Green Belt, trained black belt, exceeded target of 2.5M$ savings yearly - Developed the entire forecast/capacity planning governance for South-EMEA support teams.
Information Technology Consultant
ALTRAN
Mar 2002 - Oct 2002
8 months
Paris, France
TotalFinaElf Combustibles : Audit structure in order to implement a NTIC tool for Gas distribution (4 months) CNP : Coordinate test phase to set up a data warehouse (3 months)
CRM/SIEBEL Consultant
AXA
Jun 2001 - Mar 2002
10 months
Paris, France
AXA France : Manage all UAT tests for CRM implementation (Siebel software) Creation of a Siebel user guide for all AXA France employee AXA Consulting : Support to the writing of the business requirement document. Manage gap analysis with most decisions makers et Siebel teams
CRM Project Manager
Schneider Electric
Oct 1999 - May 2001
1 year 8 months
İstanbul, Türkiye
Implement a Sales Force CRM tool for all Turkey (400k$ budget) Gap analysis, collection of the business requirements and technical adaptation of the tool Roll out the tool in Istanbul, then to all 7 Sales force locations Set up of a user guide and training to the 90 fields sales engineers across Turkey
Education
HEC Paris
EMBA
2008 - 2009
1 year 2 months
ESTP - Grande école d'ingénieurs de la construction
Engineer's degree
1997 - 1999
2 years 2 months