Consulting in Organization for Startup, small and medium size companies
About me
Experience
15 years including 10 years on administrative management positions (Executive Assistant and Office
Management) in France, Ireland, Australia and Canada.
Langue
English : Full professional capacity
My professional background has been dotted with diverse and varied experiences. I have worked in
Startup, very small to medium size companies, in France and abroad, in very different sectors:
Associative, Automobile, Law Firm, Tourism Industry, Investment Funds, Biotechnologies, etc…
The common denominator to all these experiences: reorganization.
It turns out that throughout my career, whether for teams, departments or companies, I have improved and created new procedures to optimize their operational management. My goal has always been to improve the happiness and productivity of employees by facilitating their daily lives but also the profitability of their company. Once that goal was achieved, I headed for new companies and new challenges.
My main strengths are my ability to observe and analyze organizations and the implementation of
new procedures and strategies, optimized and unique for each company.
In addition, my professional background has allowed me to develop an extensive expertise in the
following areas:
- Finance, Accounting
- Human resources
- Marketing, Sales administration
- Digital
- Office management, General Services.
Given these years of experience and the consolidation of my expertise, becoming a Freelance Consultant in Organization has become very clear to me.
Why did I choose to become a Freelance ?
First : because it fits perfectly to my expertise
Second : because I’m not limited by sector or specialty
Third : because I’m mobile in France and abroad.
Last but not least, it meets a real need on the market. During my career, I have observed many CEOs who, due to a lack of budget and time, devoted themselves to their administrative and legal obligations instead of devoting themselves to the development of their business. I have also been able to observe teams losing an incredible amount of time daily because the procedures governing their work were vague or even non-existent.
I therefore wish to help and support companies at the right moment, when they need someone outside the company who can bring them optimization, organization, ease and profitability.
I therefore want to help and support companies during a mission, at the right moment, when they need someone external who can bring them optimization, organization, ease and profitability.
Service offering
As an organizational consultant, I would like to provide my services :
To Startups, small and medium size companies
In all sectors
In France and abroad (company based in the Paris area)
During medium to long-term missions from one to several days per week at the customer’s premises
and / or remotely.
In order to help them in the organization and structuring of their services to optimize the processes
and improve the profitability of their business.
Your business has been around for a few years
You have created your company for several years, you have developed and have created additional services along the way such as HR, Finance, etc. Today, you would like to work with someone with an outside perspective to give you an opinion, advices, help to optimize these services and your various procedures in order to increase the profitability of your company ?
You have just started your business
You have just created your company, you are on all fronts to develop it, find customers, funds, etc. and you need a person to manage all the administrative part, the logistics, the day to day business, to create and implement solid processes and when the time comes, to recruit admin staff ?
If this is your case or if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me, I would be happy to talk to you !
My achievements
In each of my experiences, while accomplishing all the missions for which I had been hired, I also reorganized services, teams or even companies in their entirety, here are three examples.
Organization of administrative procedures
In a Service provider company created several years ago, the administration being mostly managed by the CEO.
- Lack of sales administration (no monitoring of payments or billing)
- Labor code not respected
- Recurring errors on pay slips
- Absence of documents classification
- Lack of real corporate culture
- Creation of General Conditions of Sale
- ERP Management
- Recovery of outstanding payments over 5 years
- Supervision of the accounting firm
- Implementation of an HR strategy
- Reorganization of the office
- Centralization of administrative tasks
- Determination of specific roles
- Organization of team building events
- Optimized cash management: clearer view of inputs and outputs
- Financial stabilization
- Unpaid: more than 50 000 € recovered
- The following year: significant increase in the turnover and profit of the company
- Clear strategy: company and employees protected (respect of labor law)
- Optimization of procedures: saving time for teams = more productivity
- “Family” corporate culture reinforced
Organization of a store
Company in the tourism industry created in 1982 with a gift shop.
- Lack of visibility on margins, on what sells best
- No promotional sales
- No dedicated employee to manage the store
- Lack of supplier list
- Lack of purchase price and sale price list of the goods
- No specific item / price in the sales system
- Lack of price tag on certain items in store
- The room used for storage of goods is also a room used for the storage of maintenance parts, unused furniture, etc..
- Items not sold put back on sale at a reduced price
- Determination of margins and sale price
- Merchandising
- Creation of a list of suppliers and meeting with them
- Creation of list of items (purchase price / description / margin / sale price)
- List of sale prices available to all employees
- Creation of the list of articles with associated price in the sales system
- Inventory organization
- Reorganization of the storage room
- Sales increase
- Profits Increase (determined margin)
- Reduction of losses
- Clear and precise accounting
- Dedicated person responsible for the store
- Time saved for booking agents = more productivity
- Optimized inventory management
- Shelving and storage managed by booking agents
Creation and implementation of an environmental policy
Company of 40 people who raises public awareness about environmental issues with coffee corner where customers can
drink beverages for free.
- Use of disposable cutlery
- Use of individual sugar sachets
- Use of a large amount of paper
- Use of disposable household products
- Deliveries: lots of plastic packaging
- Purchase of stainless steel cutlery
- Purchase of wholesale powdered sugar
- Purchase of household product refills
- Paper already used re-used in draft
- Reduced impressions
- Use of recycled paper towels
- Reorganization of the recycling system and the room dedicated for it
- Negotiation with suppliers to limit plastic packaging
- Meetings and creation of partnerships with environmental organizations
- Organization of beach cleanups with the team and tourist’s awareness
- Optimized waste management
- Savings
- Visibility on social networks increased
- Increase in partnerships
- "Green business" prize won - high visibility in the industry
- Collective momentum: it is no longer the work of one person but of a team
- Direct link created between the core business of the company and its daily practices