jean-marc louward

Partner - Founder at LC&C

Bio Summary

• 30 years of experience in implementing complex programs and leading Operations

- Top tier Consulting firms experience (BCG, Kearney, McKinsey) with growth & transformation focus: strategy, business planning, acquisitions - merger integrations, new products launch and go-to-market, Operating Model and processes upgrade, virtual platforms

- COO: fast teams build up (e.g., from 7 to 150 p. in 4 years) and daily operations responsibility (P&L up to 800p. / 220MEu) - Marketing and client development - Bottom line optimization - M&A / Joint Ventures negotiations

• Main sectors: Distribution of Products and Services, Telecommunications

• Lived and worked in the US, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, France, Belgium, Germany

• Fluent English, French, Dutch, conversational Italian

Employment History

Partner - Founder

LC&C

2005 - present

Sells and implements growth and transformation programs, combining the strategy consulting toolbox with hands-on interim management and Executive teams coaching.

Finance Process Transformation Manager

October 2015 - November 2021

IDEMIA: EPM & Finance Process Transformation Project Manager (Team: 2 consultants and 3 trainees) - Ensure continuous improvement of financial tools - Repository implementation to save and consolidate all group data (financial data, purchase and costs, billing data, accounting & payroll, etc) - Feed and update data in real time - Design and creation financial reporting (P&l, balance sheet, cash flow, GM, payroll, etc.) - Prepare monthly Project Actuals Vs Budgets - Steer projects to success - Managing the entire implementation lifecycle from initiation to delivery - Invoicing of professional services and insuring on-time payments - Managing multiple simultaneous projects with different clients - Performing all project management activities for several projects - Creating and managing complex project plans - Allocating and managing project resource - Understand existing business processes - Understand information and technical architecture - Training and coaching team members in project ; while monitoring team performance and taking corrective actions if needed - Understand information and technical architecture - Help to define and enhance the delivery methodology Hermès: Enterprise Performance Management Manager - Stock reporting allows the analysis of stock photos and associated movements in quantity and value on finished products (Team: 3 consultants and 1 trainee) - Lead of workshops and identification of the needs - Validation and supervising the project (Scoping, Project costing and budget follow-up) - Definition and compose detailed functional and technical specifications - Design and configuration of the report - Feed and update data each month, the trigger event is the generation of photo stock BI - Assistance of key users and manage the resolution of bugs - Deployment of the solution for all Hermes BU (Hermes Men, Hermes Women, Hermes jewelry, Hermes silk, Hermes group services ) AYMING: Finance Process Transformation Project Manager (Team: 1 consultant) - Management of workshops to define needs, planning and follow up actions - Creation and sharing of communication deliveries as user guides, KPI monthly reports and POCs - Analysis of reports based on KPI's, and calculation rules defined with financial team - Creation and configuration of financial reports - Accompanied in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting period SANOFI: Finance Process Transformation Senior Consultant - Implementation and deployment of financial core model - Optimization, implementation of the core model and deployment of new features - Lead of workshops and identification of the needs - Assistance of key users and manage the resolution of bugs - Organization and accompaniment of user acceptance testing (50 users) MNT: BI/Enterprise Performance Management Senior Consultant - Cost accounting - redesign project as part of the implementation of performance management - Implementation of different types of reporting that make it possible to determine strategic indicators to manage performance - Definition and compose detailed functional and technical specifications of all structures: P&L, overheads, CAPEX, Gross Margin, Balance sheet, Cash flow and payroll - Data analysis and definition of KPI's - Optimization and define distribution keys by type of affectation and repartition - Present insights and recommendations to management for decision making and strategic planning LUDENDO: Enterprise Performance Management Confirmed Consultant - Budgeting/Forecasting and consolidation - Assistance of financial team in developing financial strategic planning as the 5-Y Plan - Definition and compose detailed functional and technical specifications - Design and configuration the application - Data analysis and manage the resolution of bugs

Finance Project Manager Assistant

March 2015 - September 2015

Project 1: Budgeting/Forecasting and Simulation of payroll - Assistance of financial controllers with the transformation of the budgeting process - Assistance of financial team in developing financial strategic planning as ...see more

EMEA Retail Lead

McKinsey & Company

September 2015 - May 2017

Brussels, Belgium

Implemented new market entry in EMEA for Periscope - the technology backbone of McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales Practice. It combines world-leading Intellectual Property, prescriptive analytics and cloud-based tools, with exp ...see more

Director of Commercial Services Development

Carrefour

2002 - 2005

Principal

Kearney

April 1998 - September 2000

Paris, France

Telecoms and Retail practices

Vice-President International Operations

Swisscom

October 1993 - October 1998

Built new team and the organization governance to secure 1.3 BUS$ invested in a portfolio of Joint Ventures: emerging markets operators in India, Malaysia and Czech Republic • Negotiated 125 MUS$ contract with local JV for ...see more

Consultant TMT and Retail

Boston Consulting Group - BCG

October 1991 - October 1992

Paris, France

Implemented strategy projects in telecoms and retail, e.g. • Brand and channels strategy development for the launch of new B2C products and services • Time based Competition: process reengineering in R&D and in marketin ...see more

Operations Manager

UScellular

1986 - 1989

Build up and optimization of new Telco Client operations (activation, billing, customer care…)

Education

Master's in International Business

INSEAD

1990

Master's in Chemical Engineering

Brussels University - Solvay School

1985

Financial and Tax Engineering, ESCP

ESCP Business school

2021

masters in Database and Artificial Intelligence

University of Burgundy

2015

Language Skills

English Arabic French

Skills

Business

Business Unit Strategy,

Corporate Development,

Corporate Strategy,

Feasability Studies,

Growth Strategy,

Innovation Strategy,

New Business Build,

Operating Model,

Trends & Global Forces,

Transformation Management Office,

Joint Ventures & Alliances,

Merger & Acquisitions,

Operational Due Diligence,

Post Merger Integration,

Target Search,

Valuation

Finance

Portfolio Management

Education and Training

Program Management