
Youssef Horchani
Senior Data Consultant
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
I’m a Senior Data Consultant with over 4 years of experience in data and AI projects, gained while working at leading consulting firms such as Capgemini Invent. I’ve delivered projects across diverse sectors including transport, energy, retail, and luxury, combining technical expertise with strategic insights to drive value from data.
Work experience
Product Owner Data/IA
Dentsu
Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
11 months
Paris, France
• Identify, structure, and prioritize business needs into clear, value-driven use cases • Translate requirements into user stories and features, maintaining a prioritized product backlog • Own the product roadmap and ensure alignment with business objectives and ROI • Lead delivery with AI, Data, and Engineering teams, ensuring timely and high-quality execution • Make prioritization trade-offs based on business value, user impact, and technical constraints • Define and enforce product, delivery, and data governance (data ownership, quality, access, decision frameworks) • Establish and maintain agile and operating processes, ensuring consistency and cross-team alignment • Drive adoption and measure product performance, tracking KPIs, data quality, value delivered, and post-launch impact
Product Owner, GenAI Solution - Consultant
RATP
Feb 2025 - Jul 2025
6 months
Paris, France
• Identified and prioritized user needs by facilitating co-creation workshops and requirements-gathering sessions • Formalized business needs into clear documentation • Translated business requirements into concrete functional product specifications • Oversaw the entire product discovery process, roadmap development, and the creation of a GenAI demonstrator based on a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture • Collaborated closely with a data scientist, a Power Apps developer, and business teams to ensure alignment between product vision, functional needs, and technological capabilities • Led agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and planning sessions • Monitored user feedback and performance indicators to iterate on the product and maximize its added value • Designed and formalized a GenAI service offering tailored to business sectors
Product Manager, AI Compliance Platform - Consultant
ENGIEFreelance
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
6 months
Paris, France
• Led the design and rollout of an AI assessment tool adopted by 150+ users, enhancing compliance and oversight • Defined vision, strategy, and roadmap for the AI compliance platform, ensuring alignment with regulations and business goals • Secured executive sponsorship and cross-departmental adoption through proactive stakeholder engagement
Senior Data Consultant
Intermarché
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
1 year 1 month
Hybrid
IINTERMARCHÉ - Data Governance Consultant • Organized and facilitated training sessions to educate 80 employees on data governance and prepare them for their new roles as data stewards • Designed and implemented an operational data governance strategy in collaboration with the Data Office • Supported data teams in defining relevant metrics to measure and track the performance of data initiatives, such as data remediation • Strengthened understanding and application of key concepts, including business glossaries, data quality, and data security INTERMARCHÉ - Change Management Consultant • Identified and mapped all internal and external stakeholders involved in the project • Assessed critical challenges and risks related to the implementation of a new point-of-sale reference system • Developed a detailed project plan, outlining phases, milestones, required resources, and timelines • Defined key performance indicators (KPIs) and success criteria to monitor progress and impact • Established a timeline for each project phase
Data & Product Consultant
BPW
Mar 2023 - Oct 2023
8 months
Paris, France
• Led workshops with business teams to identify opportunities for data product development • Prioritized data products based on business impact and technical complexity to optimize the product roadmap • Facilitated workshops with IT teams to identify and validate required data sources for key use cases • Developed two key data products in Tableau: one for tracking service conversion rates, and another for monitoring commercial performance • Promoted data literacy by training business teams on Tableau, enhancing their autonomy and data-driven decision-making
Data Steward
DIOR
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
4 months
Paris, France
• Identified recurring data quality incidents and conducted root cause analysis • Designed and implemented a targeted action plan to sustainably address identified issues • Defined and monitored key KPIs to strengthen proactivity in detecting and remediating data problems
Product Data manager
Pernod Ricard
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
1 year
Paris, France
Within the Data Office team, responsible for data governance in the product domain: • Gathered and analyzed business needs in data quality for the France, China, UK, and US markets to propose tailored and harmonized solutions • Quantified poor-quality product data in the repository and developed a structured remediation plan • Designed and implemented data standards and naming conventions for new products, ensuring consistency and traceability • Deployed a data quality remediation process across subsidiaries, promoting local adoption and global compliance • Implemented a centralized tool for monitoring and controlling data quality incidents, contributing to a 60% reduction in inconsistencies through optimized control processes • Created and managed a product business glossary, ensuring comprehensive and shared documentation of key data
Data & Business Analyst
Picard
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
3 months
Paris, France
• Cleaned and prepared the customer database to ensure the quality and reliability of analyses • Performed exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify key trends and anomalies • Conducted detailed customer segmentation to effectively target marketing and sales actions • Developed comprehensive customer profiles and analyzed purchasing behaviors to better understand user patterns • Generated actionable business insights and formulated strategic recommendations to optimize commercial performance
Consultant Data Strategy
Nespresso
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
5 months
Paris, France
• Conducted a comprehensive audit of the Data Office to provide a clear assessment and identify levers for performance optimization • Performed an in-depth analysis of the Center of Excellence (CoE) operations to highlight areas for improving operational efficiency • Clarified the scope, missions, and positioning of the CoE, supported by a structured formalization of its services and internal organization • Delivered strategic and operational recommendations to enhance team productivity, including concrete proposals on processes, tools, skills, and overall structure
Education
Artefact School of Data
Bootcamp in Data Science
2020 - 2020
5 months
emlyon business school
Master's degree
2018 - 2020
2 years 1 month
Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
Bachelor's degree
2014 - 2017
3 years 1 month