Florent Edouard

CEO

Paris, Île-de-France, France34 yrs 3 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led digital transformation initiatives in global pharmaceutical companies.
  • Achieved over 100M in cost synergies through commercial restructuring.
  • Innovated AI solutions to enhance therapy discovery processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Pharmaceutical Digital Transformation and Commercial Excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

Digital TransformationAiCommercial ExcellenceAnalyticsStrategySales & MarketingCross-functional Team Leadership

Other Skills

AgileProduct ManagementDigital TechnologiesLeadershipCustomer ExperienceOmnichannelCommercial OperationsData ScienceMarket InsightsSales ForecastingProduct LaunchPharmaInformation TechnologyCommercialBusiness Analysis

About

Florent is a recognized Team leader & expert in Pharmaceutical products commercialisation, who has led successfully multiple enterprise wide transformations, delivering significant revenue and profit uplifts through product launches and growth, but also implementation of Omnichannel, Key Account Excellence, Customer Experience and AI, demonstrated both in global and local functions, and across many geographies and cultures. Florent shows a rare combination of business and technological expertises, allowing him to use technology to innovate at scale by building capabilities and engaging teams on the path to change, and this across functions and therapeutic areas.

Experience

34 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
8 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Sanofi

Global Head of the Digital Accelerator

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · On-site

  • Leading the Digital team of teams that creates, builds and deploys the AI based solutions enabling Sanofi to massively reduce time between discovery and therapy. Through usage of Agile at scale, a focus on Product rather than projects, by pushing for innovation every day, and by fully empowering the teams, we craft and exploit all the Digital and AI technologies necessary to build first in industry solutions, resulting in a massively positive impact on our performance.
Digital TransformationAIAgileProduct Management

Grünenthal group

SVP, Global Head of Commercial Excellence

Dec 2017Sep 2024 · 6 yrs 9 mos

  • Member of Grunenthal Senior Management Team, reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer
  • Leading Grunenthal Commercial & Digital restructuring toward a Customer Experience driven Omnichannel model, delivered over 100M cost synergies and increase in Ebitda over 100M.
  • Accountable for Global Commercial Operations and Excellence (SFE, Marketing & launch Excellence, Commercial Training, Omnichannel, Digital, Analytics and insights, CRM, Commercial AI)
  • Member of the Partnership and Acquisitions board, supporting business cases evaluation through insights and forecast provisions
  • Driver of major company innovations like Omnichannel, Customer Experience, Marketing Mix Modeling, controlled dissemination of Artificial Intelligence in Commercial functions.
LeadershipDigital TransformationCustomer ExperienceCommercial Excellence

Astrazeneca

4 roles

VP, Global Head of Analytics and Intelligence, Respiratory

May 2017Dec 2017 · 7 mos

  • In charge of Global Analytics and intelligence teams (12 FTEs), accountable for Respiratory portfolio strategy, including sales forecast, market insights and competitive intelligence, and being the Commercial voice in R&D planning
  • Member of Therapeutic Area Leadership team, in charge of monitoring portfolio performance across all Markets, delivering incremental sales for inline brands and ensuring launch readiness for new brands
StrategyAnalyticsData Science

VP Marketing Gastro and Respiratory

Promoted

Aug 2013May 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Member of AZ Japan Senior Management & Global COMEX Teams
  • Leader of AZ Japan Gastro and Respiratory Franchise, defining long term strategies, and delivering operational team performance, to achieve a two digit growth across the1 billion USD portfolio. Successful launch or respiratory Biologics Fasenra
  • Led the affiliate restructuring, from traditional to BU based, resulting in cost saving and efficiency gains on a team of more than 1500 FTEs
  • Commercial Excellence VP (Digital, BI, SFE, CRM, training) strategy and teams (over 25 FTEs) led the affiliate Digital transformation and contributed to the successful launch of Forxiga (Diabetes) and Tagrisso (Oncology) by implementing an Omnichannel Commercialization approach including usage of AI and Next Best Action for sales Teams.
Sales & MarketingCross-functional Team Leadership

Global Head of CRM

Promoted

Feb 2008Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Accountable to define and implement the strategy, platforms and processes to support AstraZeneca new commercial model, based on multi channel organization supported by Commercial Excellence.
  • Leading a team of 90 people, located across Europe and the US, composed of internal and consulting resources. Overall budget of 100$M to define and execute the strategies.

SFE Director

Sep 2005Feb 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Accountable for the Commercial Performance setup and monitoring.
  • Accountable for embedding and measuring Sales Force Effectiveness in AZ, from Guidelines creation to impact measurements.

Areks - ims health

Partner and CIO

Jun 2000Aug 2005 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Areks was an international company helping pharmaceutical companies enhance their sales and marketing effectiveness through consulting, training and automated planning tools. Joining the company during its first months, I participated to the holding creation, the staff recruitment and organization, the product offer definition and creation and managed both sales and delivery of key projects. Additionally, I leaded strategic partnerships negotiation (Dendrite, IMS, Cegedim) and had an active role in the negotiation to sell Areks to IMS Health in 2005.
  • Partner, was involved in all management decisions regarding the company
  • Key Account Manager for Novartis, generated more than 4M€ annual sales, with a CAGR of 20% over 5 years
  • CIO, managed the IS Department (20 people) over 3 offices (Paris, Kobe, New York)
  • Product manager of Decision Aid tools and training simulation, in charge of conception, positioning and pricing
  • Senior consultant, managed key sales projects for pharmaceutical companies (Novartis, Eli Lilly, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim)

Caisse des dépôts et consignations

Business Director

Dec 1991Jun 2000 · 8 yrs 6 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation (http://www.caissedesdepots.fr) is a major French financial institution ( more than 30 000 people). I had numerous roles in the organization, from Project Manager to Business Coordinator on strategic projects for the Front Office department.
  • July 97 / June 2000: Business Director
  • Managed consultants teams (5 people)
  • Designed and leaded implementation of Decision Aid system (Front Office , Pension Funds …)
  • May 94 / June 97: Senior Consultant
  • Defined and implemented Internet and Intranet strategies for the group
  • Adapted and implemented IS methods (Merise, UML, RAD, Value analysis, tests)
  • Dec 91 / May 94: Project Manager
  • Definition and implementation of IS/IT projects

Education

MIT Sloan School of Management

Executive Certificate — Strategy and Innovation

Jan 2019Jan 2020

MIT Sloan School of Management

Enterprise Transformation Leadership

Jan 2015Jan 2015

IAE Bordeaux

Master of Business Administration — Business administration

Jan 1991Jan 1992

Université de Bordeaux

Master — Computer and Information Sciences

Jan 1989Jan 1991

Université de Bordeaux

Bachelor's degree — Mathematics

Jan 1985Jan 1989

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