
Ludwig Le Coq
Senior Talent Acquisition Manager | Executive Search
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Executive Search specialist with 12+ years expertise in talent acquisition strategy for tech, fintech, and deep tech companies. Successfully filled C-level and director positions at companies like S3NS (Google x Thales), Nuxeo, and Qevlar AI. Specialize in building management & engineering teams with hacking mindset to accelerate growth.
Work experience
Talent Acquisition Manager
Qevlar AI
Apr 2025 - Present
1 year 7 months
London, UK
Give Your SOC Superpowers! Prioritise and remediate threats faster with autonomous alert investigation. Conclusive Investigations. Actionable Insights. We're hiring: - Head of Marketing - Senior Product Marketing Manager (USA or UK) - Senior Product Manager - SOC Subject Mater Expert - Full Stack Engineers - Senior DevOps SRE - AI Engineers across API, Investigation and Data Architecture - Account Executive UK & Nordics - Pre-sales Engineer - Business Development Representatives https://www.qevlar.com/
Talent Acquisition Manager
Chez Tonton LudoFreelance
Jan 2016 - Present
10 years 10 months
London | Paris | Tokyo · Hybrid
Investor | Consulting for Tech, FinTech, MedTech & DeepTech Coaching VC backed startups on talent attraction/retention strategy Chez Tonton Ludo, obviously.®™ Tonton Ludo, le Recruteur qui te veut du bien, a également 2 autres missions : libérer les recruteurs et rétablir les relations candidat/recruteur. Des actions simples : Zéro BS, totale transparence, l'histoire vraie, une expérience unique et du bon sens, beaucoup de bon sens! ---- I advise companies looking to improve their efficiency, time to market & mindset. I bring a 12+ years expertise in Talent Acquisition strategy combined with a hacking mindset to help you attract & retain the right talent for your organisation. I offer: - Executive Search services for your directors and C-level; - Specialist headhunting services for your senior individuals and managers; - In-residence/Embedded & Interim Management services to support you in your scaling phase. Typical projects include: - Co-Founder/Late Founder - FinTech/CIB - Managing Director - Consulting/Big5 - Engineering Founder - FinTech/Payment - Engineering Manager - Asset Management - eCommerce Architect - Retail - Retail Project Manager - Retail - Product Manager - Fashion - Coach Agile / SAFe - Consulting - Machine Learning/Computer Vision - FinTech/MedTech - Machine Learning/Cryptography - LegalTech - Robotics Engineer - Embedded Software Engineer - Data Engineer/Cryptography - Enterprise Architect - FinTech - SRE/Cloud Engineer - Cloud Architect - Ride-sharing - VP PLM Business Unit - Aerospace & Defence Ils me font confiance : S3NS (Google x Thalès), Nuxeo, Qevlar AI, Kapten, OVH, Galeries Lafayette, Stanley Robotics, Aldebaran, Owkin, Comet, Capgemini, BCG Digital, SG & SGCIB, LV, Microsoft, BAE Applied Systems, Accenture, Hybris/SAP, Santander, Barclays... Tu me connais, je ne présenterai jamais un candidat dans une société où je n'irais pas moi-même :) Tendresse & Chocolat. 🐻 💙 🍫 🥃
Director Talent Acquisition
Reacteev
Jan 2020 - Mar 2025
5 years 3 months
Paris | London
Reacteev advise companies willing to improve the efficiency, time to market & innovation mindset of their teams. We bring a strong expertise with Agile methodologies such as Xtrem Programming, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe combined with Lean Startup & hacking mindset to foster business partnership & maximise value creation. We can help you with deploying Agile, DevOps or Lean Startup. They trust us and we love them for it: S3NS (Google x Thalès), Nuxeo, Kapten, Synaxe, ContentSquare, Lacoste, Louis Vuitton, Dior, Goyard, Richemont, BNP Securities Services, BNP Asset Management, Airbus, Disney, Société Générale/SGCIB...
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
S3NS
Apr 2023 - May 2024
1 year 2 months
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region · On-site
An alliance between Thales, French leader in cybersecurity, and Google, world leader in Cloud services, to build a "French Sovereign Cloud" offering, aligned with the French Government new label of SecNumCloud. The company launched in September 2022 and I joined on an RPO contract in April 2023 (on-site in the Paris office two weeks per month). Positions filled: Director Programme Management, IT Director, Cybersecurity Director, Senior Manager SOC, Senior Compliance Manager, Senior System Architect, Senior Site Reliability Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Customer Engineers, Software Engineers, Cloud Support Engineers. Technical stack: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Go, kubernetes, docker, terraform, ansible, git, Linux/UNIX... As the company was early-stage, my role was to: - Support the HR Business Partner and the Executive team in designing and executing an efficient talent acquisition strategy; - Mentor the Talent Acquisition team; - Focus on headhunting senior individuals to fill business critical positions; - Provide organisational change advice to the Executive team in a rapidly scaling context to reshape the organisation through the growth; - Create and implement a "tech first" company culture and act as an ambassador for people care; - Build the dashboard and reports for the Executive team and financial tracking; - Organise the karaoke nights (my favourite task :)
Talent Acquisition Manager
Nuxeo
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
8 months
Paris, France
I was responsible for overseeing the global Talent Acquisition function for Paris, London, Lisbon and San Diego. - Lead the global Talent Acquisition function; - Support the Senior Management team as a subject matter expert, for the development and maintenance of technical, leadership and professional skills and capabilities, employee engagement & culture, organisational change & processes, employee and employment regulations and talent management; - Lead the Talent Acquisition team; - Coach the Senior Management team on how to drive positive organisational behaviours and embed employee engagement across the business; - Ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements.
Technology Recruitment
Parallel Consulting
Sep 2016 - May 2019
2 years 9 months
London, UK
Parallel Consulting is a multi award winning, Analytics, Tech and Digital recruitment agency assisting clients & candidates across Europe, Australia and the USA. We've developed very successful expert recruitment teams covering Analytics, Big Data, Tech & Digital who are trustworthy and a joy to work with! In charge of the French market I specialise in Senior level appointments across Technology & Digital Transformation working with VC backed Startups & Scale-ups and Software companies leading the digital transformation scene in France. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Passionné par les problématiques de transformation et de conduite du changement, j'ai rejoint Parallel Consulting afin de créer et développer leur bureau dédié au marché Français. Ceux qui me connaissent savent que j'aime parler du marché, des nouvelles tendances, de la conduite du changement & transformation, de FrenchTech, FinTech, financement, positionnement de la France au sein de l'eco-système startups Mondial...et surtout de recrutement & expérience candidat/client. Active roles in Paris include: - CEO (Acquisition) - SaaS - CTO/Late-founder - SaaS - VP Engineering - Digital Services - Robotics Architect - Robotics - Machine Learning Engineer (Python/PyTorch) - MedTech - Data/Bio Engineer - MedTech - Front-End/Design (html/css/javascript/react) - Blockchain platform - SAP Solution Architect - Aerospace & Defence Consulting - Paris - VP PLM Business Unit - Aerospace & Defence Consulting - Paris - Head of Aerospace division - Aerospace Consulting - Paris/Bordeaux/Toulouse - Senior Consultant PLM - Software - Paris/Bordeaux/Toulouse
Technology Recruitment
Hanson Search
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
10 months
London, UK
Hanson Search is a long established Executive Search firm based in London. The most important thing for us, is to act as an ambassador for our clients and have a real understanding of their business, representing their values and assessing the right people for them. I specialise in Senior level appointments across Digital, Technology & FinTech working with Start-ups, Digital Agencies and Management Consultancies looking to transform their organisation or disrupt the market. I provide specialist recruitment services across: Tech & FinTech: Payments, Lending, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Mobile Digital : Transformation, Performance, Analytics
Technology Recruitment
Anson McCade
Feb 2014 - Dec 2015
1 year 11 months
London, UK
Anson McCade Ltd is a long established consultancy based in the City of London, UK, providing both contingency and search and selection services to high end Clients, often on a global basis. Our success has been achieved by applying a straightforward, active approach to the recruitment of high calibre individuals who, ultimately, will make a real difference to the organisations they join. I aim at recruiting talented Senior Technology individuals in Digital/eCommerce Transformation and IT Transformation within FS. I also built a new desk dedicated to Product Lifecycle Management roles across Europe, supporting the growth of both PLM Software companies and PLM Consulting Business Units of Consulting firms.
The Adecco Group
Sep 2012 - Dec 2013
1 year 4 months
Seoul, South Korea
Information Technology Recruitment Manager
Apr 2013 - Dec 2013
9 months
Seoul, South Korea
I was tasked by Adecco Group to launch their new brand, Spring Professional in South Korea. Spring Professional is the Professional Recruitment arm of Adecco Group in Asia, specialising in Technology and Engineering recruitment for Middle to Senior level individuals across the Asia-Pacific region, with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Taiwan and Bangkok. As Manager of the Technology practice and co-Manager of the local branch, I am in charge of setting up our Seoul office, building our Technology offering, growing our Technology team, identifying talented English speaking technology individuals in Korea, setting up long-term relationship with local and global companies along with continuously analysing the market and understanding the cultural differences. Korea is an exceptionally unique country, fast developing, world leading yet requiring a strong market and cultural understanding.
Information Technology Recruitment Manager
Sep 2012 - May 2013
9 months
Paris Area, France
Spring Professional France, a subsidiary of Adecco France is the expert at recruiting skilled professionals in France. Spring is the largest recruitment company in France with 35 offices, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments across: IT & Telecom, Banking & Finance, Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Medical & Life Science. As a Senior Consultant, I aim at recruiting IT Infrastructure & Telecom Engineers and Managers in permanent and temporary positions from mid-to-senior level.
Senior Manager
Projixi-Europe
Apr 2011 - Jul 2012
1 year 4 months
Paris Area, France
Acting as both Sales Manager and Programme Manager to provide IS/IT Services to key accounts in various industries (Oil&Gas, Banking/Finance, Insurance, Telecom, Pharmaceutical...) on an international scale. Clients include: Total, Société Générale, Unibail-Rodamco, NTT, Sanofi-Aventis, AllianZ, TelIndus, Groupama... As a Sales Manager, providing Information Technology Outsourcing (Infrastructure Management and IS/IT Management): - Market knowledge, industry trends, product capabilities and customer requirements - Full Sales lifecycle on long sales processes - Executive level, long term customer relationship - Recruitment & Talent Management - Vendor Management As Programme Manager/Enterprise Architect for Société Générale (SG & SGCIB), lead the redesign and implementation of the Global People Identification and Authentication programme: - Group-wide programme: IT&Telecom, HR, Legal, Banking, Corporate Security - Process & Systems audit - Data, Process & System Mapping - Data & Process design - Stakeholder Management - CxO reporting
Senior Project Manager
Technicis
Oct 2009 - May 2011
1 year 8 months
Paris | Chennai | Tokyo
Create/Manage the Vendor Management department for Technicis SAS: - Set up the Vendor Management department; - Define Outsourcing Strategy: targeting New Developing Countries; - Identify missing resources and recruit new vendors in compliance with company's development strategy regarding languages, expertise and services to offer; - Negotiate Outsourcing costs on a project/monthly/annual basis depending on the Vendor's profile and in compliance with company's strategy; - Audit and rate vendors; - Identify Top Vendors to publish yearly performance rankings to strengthen long-term partnership & commitment; - Liaise with Top Partners (Europe, USA, Japan); - Support the Quality Department in obtaining ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Systems Quality Management. Senior Project Manager for Key Accounts (Technology & Engineering): - Define roles and responsibilities of selected vendors per projects; - Negotiate outsourcing costs according to targeted profitability; - Ensure delivered projects meet client expectations and quality standards; - Provide premium clients with 24/7 availability and dedicated services.
Programme Manager Performance & Processes, Vehicle Engineering
Renault
Jun 2005 - Oct 2010
5 years 5 months
Paris | Chennai | Tokyo · Hybrid
Renault Technocentre and Renault-Nissan Headquarters, Paris/Tokyo: - Management of Synergy Projects for Renault Vehicles Engineering Division; - Identify partners in New Developing Countries according to Renault-Nissan plants locations; - Accompany new Alliance Vehicles Engineering Programmes launch by setting up work-group composed of Renault and Nissan Engineers along with automotive industry experts; - Vice-Director for the Renault-Nissan Vehicles Engineering Policy work-group in association with French Ministry of Industry and Economy; - Weekly travels to plants & engineering centres to monitor ongoing projects (internal customers & partners) and promote synergy: India (Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai), Japan (Tokyo) and Europe. Renault-Nissan Alliance expatriation in Tokyo, Japan Electric Vehicles Engineering road-map and alliance synergy (/*confidential*/) Renault-Nissan Technology & Business Centre, expatriation in Chennai, India Head of the Outsourcing Services Department for Renault-Nissan Technology & Business Centre India (RNTBCI): - Build an outsourcing services dedicated to Renault and Nissan vehicle engineering - Recruit and Train Specialists: vehicle engineering, Computer-Assisted Translation tools, project management, quality management - Team Management - Delivery Management, liaising with stake-holders - Annual budgeting process and responsible for driving team budget performance - 20% yearly cost reduction
Software Engineer
GE Healthcare
Jan 2005 - May 2005
5 months
Paris | Houston · On-site
Acting as Lead Engineer in X-Ray Generators Software Implementation Develop new software for X-Ray Generators equipped medical imaging systems as part of the global roll-out of new machines. I was part of a small team of developers based in Paris, building the client-side auto-update feature, allowing medical staff not to manually have to run updates anymore. The project was picked up internally and replicated at HQ.
Business Intelligence Consultant
CGG
Mar 2004 - Jul 2004
5 months
Paris Area, France
Acting as Business Intelligence Consultant for the the global data warehousing project. This role implied working with the top management and executives, business sponsors and IT department. I was involved from inception to implementation and delivered high quality solutions in a timely manner meeting and exceeding the business requirements: - Information architecture definition - Multi-dimensional data models design - Business Intelligence delivery solutions - Data analysis, data mapping along with defining the meta data repository Technologies: ERP, ETL, Data-warehouse, Hummingbird Business Intelligence, Oracle, Hyperion, Cleverpath
Education
Université Paris Cité
Bachelor's degree
2005 - 2006
1 year 1 month
Université Paris Cité
Bachelor's degree
2005 - 2006
1 year 1 month
Massy Parc de Vilgenis
Bachelor's degree
2003 - 2005
2 years 1 month