Simon Dabadie
Operations, P&L & Data Analysis
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Freelance with 10+ years driving data insights, P&L growth and operational excellence across scale-ups and corporates. Led 60-person teams across Europe, delivered new service launches, post-acquisition integrations, and data-driven transformations. Specialized in operations restructuring, team leadership, and data analysis —delivering measurable impact from strategy to execution.
Work experience
Heetch
Nov 2022 - Present
4 years
Paris, France
General Manager Europe (France&Belgium)
Oct 2023 - Present
3 years 1 month
Paris, France
□ Main responsibilities • Directed the P&L, including forecasting, budget allocation and headcount strategy • Managed a 60-person team (50 solid-line and 10 dotted-line) spread across 4 countries • Led Public Affairs, engaging with press, driver unions, and government ministries □ Key achievements • Launched a new innovative service from scratch • Implemented a switch to a ride-variable commission model • Restructured the 24/7 customer support operations from France to Algeria • Drove the post-acquisition integration of Zeway's assets and services
Head of Global Operations
May 2023 - Oct 2023
6 months
Paris, France
□ Main responsibilities: • Managed a team of 10 (7 solid-line and 3 dotted-line) • Scaled business analysis and process automation across 9 countries □ Key achievements: • Reduced driver CAC by optimizing lead tracking and conversion funnels • Piloted the strategic shift to an upfront payment model for drivers • Built the performance monitoring framework (KPIs & Dashboards) to track recovery rates in African markets
Head of Global Business Analysis
Nov 2022 - May 2023
7 months
Paris, France
Data & AI - Supervising Senior Consultant
Sia Partners
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
3 years 7 months
Région de Paris, France
October 2021 - 2022: Supervising Senior Consultant June 2019 - September 2021 : Senior Consultant □ Luxury conglomerate – Data Insights Manager – Managing 3 Data Analysts/Scientists • Responsible of supply chain and operations data science projects: Cartons set optimization in warehouse, price elasticity modelling, stock analyses and recommendations, detection of data quality issues • Team manager from commercial proposal to final deliverables including technical expertise • Presentations to C-level audience, technical and business stakeholders in English and French >AWS, Python, SQL □ Energy distributor, Product Manager Chatbot - Team set-up to 8 persons - 3 projects in Production • Team set-up (ways of working, types of profiles, technical solution selection) • Delivery and technical manager (collection needs, planning and financial proposal, technical solution) • Product representative (internal & external communication, internal community animation) >AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Vue.js, MongoDB □ Energy supplier, Engineering Manager (managing 2 Data Scientists) - B2B Churn prediction • Managing the development of the data pre-processing pipeline and ML algorithm to detect potential churners >Python □ Municipality – Engineering Manager (managing 2 Data Scientists and 1 Front-End developper) – Market Intelligence platform development • Managing the development of an online platform scrapping multiple web sources and enriching the scrapped news with NLP techniques (Topic detection, entity extraction) >Python, GCP □ Wine & Spirits distributor, Case Team Leader (managing 1 Data Analyst), Data Analysis on offering and price of Champagne • Provided recommendations on offering and pricing >Python, PowerBI □ Sia Partners internal • Steering the NLP lab, NLP centre of expertise (technology watch, internal benchmarks, trainings) • Active participation to Data Science commercial proposals • Member of the recruitment team
Co-founder
Aymeric et Simon
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
2 years 1 month
Région de Paris, France
□ Premium in-home tutoring in Paris • 100+ customers • 200+ teachers • « PIA » Laureate from BPI • « Rec Développement » Laureate from Rec Innovation and Adive
Digital Platform Consultant
BearingPoint
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
2 years
Région de Paris, France
□ High-level and detailed design of a Digital Ecosystem Management solution for a pan-European telecommunication organisation • Business owner of several streams and associated deliverables (Epics, Business Processes, Training Book) • Bridging the gap between customer business needs and the technical constraints with developers
Associate Intern (final year internship)
L.E.K. Consulting
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
8 months
Paris, London
□ Strategic due diligences for private equity funds □ Corporate strategy assignments
Education
ESCP Business School
Master in Management Grande Ecole
OpenClassrooms
Parcours OC, Data Scientist
The Data Scientist path is co-organized by CentraleSupelec and OpenClassRooms. Individually coached by a Senior Data Scientist, the path is a mix of online courses and 7 projects tackling the various skills needed for a Data Scientist. Skills acquired: Data Analysis, Data Cleaning, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Natural Language Processing, Machine Vision, Deep Learning
CentraleSupélec
Engineer's degree - Cursus Supélec (Gif-sur-Yvette)
Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
Classes préparatoires scientifiques aux grandes écoles : PCSI - PC**
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