Margot Defoort Levkov
Operations Manager with expertise in Strategy
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Entrepreneurship
Freelance consultant
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Paris, France
Freelance entrepreneur
Operations Manager
Soil.is
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
1 year
Soil.is is a spin-off from Egis focusing on carbon sequestration through soil and plants management enhancement. Soil.is is an open innovation project which aims to promote Natural Based Solutions to support private and public actors to concretize their climate and CSR strategies through carbon soil sequestration actions with social and ecological benefits. Within Soil.is, my role was: - Co-definition of the general strategy & commercial strategy and development - Lead the projects’ management and producting team - General backlog management (admin, legal, HR, cash…)
Egis
Jan 2019 - Jul 2022
3 years 7 months
Operations Manager @Soil.is
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
8 months
Innovation Co-leader
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 years
78280 Guyancourt, France
Within the Business Unit Major Structures, Water, Environment, Energy. - Lead of the innovation initiative within the business unit (partnerships, community, project management) ; - Technical support to innovative projects (business model, marketing) ; - Support to new business development in the Environment activity (carbon offseting, digital environmental services).
Project officer in charge of Innovation & Project Management
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
1 year 1 month
78280 Guyancourt, France
Within the Business Unit Major Structures, Water, Environment, Energy. - Support to project management processes and tools harmonization ; - Support to the innovation initiative (business models, marketing, communication) ; - Support to knowledge management experimentations.
Project officer in Marketing & Innovation
ENGIE Solutions France
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
1 year
92400 Courbevoie, France
Apprenticeship in Marketing and Innovation for the Engineering Department of ENGIE Axima. - Internal communication & promotion of technological innovations in the field of HVAC; - Analysis of the internal marketing strategy for technological innovations ; - Set-up of design thinking strategies within the engineering department. Master thesis on the impact of the Harmonious Progress strategy on ENGIE Axima’s activities.
Project officer in Sustainable Development & Fundraising
SLOCAT Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
6 months
Shanghai, China
Internship in the field of low carbon transport. - Fundraising planning for the Transport Decarbonization Alliance. - Fundraising strategies and corporate organizational structure assessment.
Consultant in Marketing
Comptoir des plantes
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
2 months
Région de Limoges, France
Consulting mission on the marketing and strategic positioning of Comptoir des Plantes. - Market study on the products and the strategy associated. - Review of the communication strategy of Comptoir des Plantes.
Junior project officer in Sustainable Development & Communication
EDF
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
11 months
EDF Brasil, Avenida Almirante Barroso, 52 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
One-year apprenticeship alternating studies and working with the Fundation Getulio Vargas (FGV). - In charge of the settlement of a partnership with Light's enterprise to implement a project of circular economy for a larger diffusion of electricity in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (Recicla Light). - Organization of a seminar (200 people) gathering Brazilian industrial stakeholders. - Reporting on the corporate social responsibility of EDF Norte Fluminense.
Education
Mines Paris
Advanced degree, Enginering and Environmental Management
2017 - 2018
2 years
Grade: Specialized master
Activities and societies: ISIGE Alumni - office president 2018/2019
Specialized post graduate master in the field of management & environmental engineering. Cross-disciplinary view toward issues in sustainable development, scientific understanding of the different environmental projects. - Climate change and resilience, - Renewable energy and energy storage: diagnosis of energy expenses on the territory of Fontainebleau, - Sustainable development project management : integrated waste management and circular economy, - Companies’ strategies concerning risks, environmental and societal issues, - Social business management, - Tools for decison makers: life cycle analysis and eco-design, - Urban sustainable project management and study of Dakar's resilience strategy, - Controversy analysis of a project of settlement of a gold mine in South-West of France (see publications).
Sciences Po Strasbourg
Master's degree, Corporate Strategy and Finance in Europe
2012 - 2017
6 years
Grade: Master 2
Activities and societies: Volunteer consultant for the association 180 Degrees Consulting.
2011-2013 | Bachelor with core courses in Banking and financial economy (including corporate finance), Law and History, Political and Social Sciences, Contemporary issues. 2014-2015 | One year of study abroad (Brazil) in one of the top business school in latin America (FGV). Apprenticeship with EDF Brasil. 2015-2016 | First year of Master's Degree in Business and Economics. Master thesis on the impact of complementary currencies on local economy (see publications). 2016-2017 | Master's Degree taught in English in Corporate Strategy and Finance in Europe.
FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
Exchange student, Business Administration and Management, General
2014 - 2015
2 years
Exchange program with the Brazilian School of Public and Private Administration (EBAPE) from the Getulio Vargas Fundation (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro, apprenticeship alternating studies and working for EDF Brasil. Part of the five years diploma at Sciences Po Strasbourg.
Institut catholique de Paris
Intensive Preparatory Courses - Classe préparatoire, French Language and Literature
2011 - 2012
2 years
Intensive one-year preparatory courses for the competitive entrance to French Grandes Ecoles and selective institutions.