Melchior du Marais
Senior Data Product Manager | Proptech & Fintech
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Lyon, London, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Data & AI Product Leader with 10 years of experience in data-driven transformations in the PropTech, FinTech, Supply Chain and energy industries. Track record in leading international cross-functional teams, drafting & executing strategic product roadmaps to drive revenue growth. Expertise in product management, with a passion for building innovative solutions that align with business goals and deliver tangible value.
Work experience
Data Product Manager
EDF Power solutions
May 2025 - Present
1 year 6 months
Paris, France
• Structured and led a unified Data and Analytics service offering across multiple EDF Power Solutions entities • Defined the end to end analytics value chain from data exploration to industrialized solutions • Designed and owned the product vision and roadmap for an enterprise DataLab built on Databricks • Established a secure cloud based sandbox to accelerate experimentation, prototyping and innovation • Enabled faster transition from concept to prototype through access to centralized and external data • Set up clear entry points and governance for advanced analytics use cases before industrialization • Scaled high value prototypes into robust, automated and cost efficient analytics solutions • Acted as a bridge between business teams, analysts, data scientists and technical platforms • Drove adoption of analytics services through clear positioning, standards and reusable assets • Ensured analytics solutions were sustainable, scalable and usable by business stakeholders
PriceHubble
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
2 years 7 months
Paris, France
Senior Data Product Manager
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
1 year 9 months
Paris, France
• Lead property database team: - Launched ESG product suite from market discovery to roll out & monitoring in 6 countries: ML algorithm, API endpoint, Front-end development, go to market & end-customer integration —> Y+1 -> 750 organisation users, 200k monthly API calls. - Set-up data catalogue API offer to support portfolio enrichment services - Define product roadmap, conduct market research & user interviews, lead agile rituals. Team management: 1 PO. Interim EM (9 months) team 2 data engineer, 1 data scientist, 1 QA.
Data Product Manager
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
11 months
Paris, France
Lead GeoInsight team (3 data engineer, 2 full stack, 1 QA) - Cadastre & socioeconomic data layer integration in 10 markets (Architecture definition, data pipeline, endpoint creation, design and front-end and roll-out) - Update, maintenance, sales team training & new products prioritization
AXA
May 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 6 months
Paris, France
Finance Data Product Manager
May 2022 - Oct 2022
6 months
Paris, France
• Centralising data collection & self service to for financial teams to create reports • Supervision of data delivery: Collection, transformation, ETL & measurement: 95% success rate •
Data Product Owner
May 2021 - May 2022
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Design central data architecture to combine 4 entities data in enterprise Azure cloud • Set-up data structure requirement for new countries and ecosystem launch
Bufab
Jun 2017 - May 2021
4 years
Lyon, France
Business Intelligence Project Manager
Jul 2019 - May 2021
1 year 11 months
Lyon, France
• Co-created the BI department, setting-up processes, recruiting team members, requirement collection, development supervision & gamification to drive product adoption • Lead data analytic applications development (team of 3 international developers)
Global Accounts / Digitalization Manager APAC
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
1 year 6 months
Shanghai, China
• Project lead for regional Key Deals: most strategic business deals worldwide (6+M RMB/project) -> Team of 7: Sales, sourcing, logistic • APAC digitalization head: (4 offices) -> Y+1: APAC 1st digital region in Group (0->40% digital orders, Shanghai 1st digital office, 0->56% digital orders) Only expat employee in the office of Bufab Shanghai
Graduate Management Trainee
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
10 months
Sweden, ME, USA
Management Trainee Program at Bufab group’s HQ in Sweden. The program is oriented around various projects in multiple departements: Sales, Purchasing, logistic, supply chain, ... - Global accounts mapping and project management towards global customers - Implementation of Bufab Supplier portal across 8 countries: -> Training of the local teams in 3 different languages -> Roll-our lead to reach the implementation target
Sales Representative Out of home
Coca-Cola European Partners
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Mission: - Promotion and development of the brand portfolio on Sacré-Coeur & Rivoli sectors: 200 clients/sector - Optimization and negotiation of the sales equipment on site - in charge of "Paris plage" - Coca-Cola partnership.
Sales (internship)
NewBase - Connected Marketing
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
7 months
Paris, France
Managing Partner
Studio Myriad
May 2012 - May 2014
2 years 1 month
Lyon, France
President
BDE IDRAC Lyon
Dec 2011 - Mar 2013
1 year 4 months
Lyon, France
President of the Student Union of IDRAC Lyon. Team of 14
Independent Entrepreneur
Local Businesses
Jan 2008 - Jan 2013
5 years 1 month
Lyon, France
Independent entrepreneur during 5 years: - TEDDY SOUND: Rental & installation of sound-lighting system for personal & business events: wedding, student graduation ceremony, corporate seminars, ... Created in 2008 and transformed in 2010 to become Flash Evenementiel - FLASH EVENEMENTIEL : Event organization for Businesses and nonprofit organizations. Created in 2010 and developed until 2013. (Hand over)
Education
IDRAC Business school
Master 2
2011 - 2016
5 years 1 month
EAE Business School
International Business
2014 - 2015
1 year 1 month
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
International Business/Trade/Commerce
2013 - 2013
1 month
Licenses & certifications
Product Focus Certified Product Manager
Issued: Nov 2023
Essencials data science
Issued: Feb 2022
Predictive Analytics Essential Training for Executives
Issued: Jan 2022
Exam Prep: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Issued: Nov 2021
Inbound Certification
Issued: Sep 2015
Portfolio
Data layer Saas & API integration
