// Senior Data Product Manager · Data Strategy & Transformation Programs · Freelance · Remote

Julien
Fabre

I help large organizations build the data foundations they actually need — structured, reliable, and reusable. 19+ years bridging business strategy and technical delivery.

On mission · Next slot: on request

Remote · Worldwide

19+
Years of experience
7+
Years @ Pernod Ricard
1st
Group CSRD report delivered
3
Major international groups

// About

With 19+ years in complex international organizations, my role sits at the intersection of business and tech: I translate complex requirements into data strategies, coordinate architects and engineers, align stakeholders, and ship data products that create real value — dashboards, platforms, data models, regulatory reports.

I bridge business and technical teams in both directions: translating complex business needs into actionable technical specs, and surfacing technical constraints and trade-offs back to stakeholders. I don't write the code — I make sure the right things get built, in the right order, for the right people.

What characterizes my career is sustained depth of engagement: 7+ years continuously with Pernod Ricard across five successive programs, and multi-year tenures at Total and AXA. Clients keep calling back — not because I'm embedded, but because the foundations I build hold up over time.

Curious by nature, I also experiment with AI-assisted development to prototype tools and explore what's possible when business intuition meets modern AI.

CSRD Data Lead — Pernod Ricard Led the Group's first CSRD-compliant sustainability report — integrating many business domains (HR, Finance, Procurement, H&S) across all Group entities.
S&R Cockpit Designed and shipped a suite of business dashboards exposing Group-wide sustainability metrics and tracking CSRD consolidation progress in real time.
Data Hub PO — Snowflake Owned and industrialized Data Hub products enabling data reuse across many business applications and BI dashboards at Pernod Ricard Group.
Enterprise at scale — Total & AXA Managed large-scale IT programs (€27m budget, 80,000 users, 25-country rollout) at Total and AXA.

Nov 2025 — Present

Pernod Ricard

Freelance · Remote

7+ yrs total

Finance Data Program Manager

Leading the Finance Data Convergence program — deploying Group-level finance dashboards to replace local reporting tools across entities. Goal: harmonize KPIs, rationalize 1,000+ BI reports, and standardize global finance analytics.

  • Defined rollout strategy and adoption plan across Group entities; drove activation tracking across markets — Europe, APAC, LATAM
  • Led global vs local data model convergence, integrating local hierarchies and business-specific requirements
  • Coordinated delivery between Finance business teams, data engineers, and BI consumers; supported rollout of global Power BI dashboards and Data Portal certification processes

Jan 2024 — Present

Pernod Ricard

Freelance · Remote

CSRD Data Lead — S&R Data Analyst

Acted as Proxy Product Owner for global S&R data products — leading the full CSRD data stream from strategy and architecture to delivery and adoption.

  • Designed the S&R Data Product architecture: unified data model consolidating CSRD reporting and ESG KPIs across multiple platforms
  • Integrated 10+ business data sources (HR, Finance, Procurement, H&S, Operations, EHS systems, carbon tracking) into a consolidated, audit-ready model
  • Delivered the Group's first CSRD-compliant sustainability report (published, legally binding) — View URD 2024/25 →
  • Shipped the S&R Cockpit: business dashboards tracking Group-wide sustainability metrics and CSRD consolidation progress
  • Defined and governed global KPI frameworks and glossary — calculation logic consistency across source systems, finance consolidation platform, and data repository layers
  • Led design and validation of complex entity hierarchies (Legal Entity, Site, Management Unit) and managed alignment between heterogeneous source systems to standardize taxonomy
  • Defined data integration strategies (API vs flat files vs data products); implemented data quality controls and validation processes across ingestion layers
  • Organized Data Domain Council governance workshops to define data standards, architecture decisions, and roadmap priorities
  • Led end-to-end backlog management and prioritization across Tech, Finance, and Sustainability stakeholders; coordinated cross-functional squads across multiple workstreams

Oct 2022 — Feb 2024

Pernod Ricard

Freelance · Remote

Data Hub Product Owner & PMO

Designed and owned Data Hub products on Snowflake to consolidate Group business data and make it reusable across the organization.

  • Defined product vision, data models, and integration patterns for each Hub (HR, Finance, Commercial, Operations)
  • Enabled 10+ business applications and BI dashboards to connect to structured, reliable data — reducing silos and enabling self-service analytics
  • Piloted end-to-end adoption: onboarding of business teams, KPI tracking, usage monitoring across connected applications

Sep 2020 — Oct 2022

Pernod Ricard

Freelance · Remote

MDM Roll-Out, Change & Adoption Lead

Led the global rollout of the Master Data Management solution (Semarchy) across Pernod Ricard Group.

  • Coordinated rollout across business units and geographies, managing dependencies between technical teams and business stakeholders
  • Defined and executed the change & adoption strategy: training programs, KPI dashboards tracking activation rates, feedback loops
  • Acted as bridge between the MDM product team and operational business teams to ensure fit-to-use delivery

Mar 2019 — Sep 2020

Pernod Ricard

Freelance · Remote

Roll-out Project Manager & Data Analyst

Roll-out PM and Data Analyst on the VISTA program (global data platform initiative).

  • Coordinated rollout activities across markets and teams
  • Produced data analysis to support decision-making and track program progress
  • Contributed to adoption tracking and reporting to senior stakeholders

Aug 2016 — Oct 2017

Total

Brussels · Belgium

4+ yrs total

Enterprise Mobility Program Manager

Launched and led the Total Industrial Mobility (TIM) program — a cross-company initiative to build mobile apps for worldwide industrial teams.

  • Built an Apps Factory from scratch in under 3 months (Agile methodology, Microsoft & Capgemini, 10 consultants)
  • Designed the Enterprise Mobile Management platform (devices + infrastructure)
  • Managed rollout to 10,000 end-users across industrial sites worldwide
  • Drove adoption strategy: defined usage KPIs, coordinated training and change management with local teams
Budget: €5m

Jan 2013 — Jul 2016

Total

Paris / Brussels

Enterprise Social Network & Intranet Project Manager

Led the worldwide deployment of Total's social intranet (Microsoft) — one of the largest enterprise social network rollouts in the energy sector.

  • Coordinated a team of 15 external consultants and multiple technical task-forces
  • Rolled out in 25 countries in under a year — achieving 90% profile activation, a benchmark result for enterprise social adoption
  • Defined and industrialized local rollout strategies across markets
Budget: €27m · 80,000 users

Feb 2007 — Dec 2012

AXA Technology Services

Paris La Défense

6 yrs

IT Project Manager

Delivered multiple large-scale IT projects (applications, infrastructure, Disaster Recovery) within AXA's global tech division — each project representing 1,000+ person-days.

// Skills & Expertise

Data & Product

Data Product Management Data Strategy Data Architecture Snowflake Data Hubs MDM (Semarchy) BI & Dashboards CSRD / ESG Data

Program & Project Management

IT Program Management PMO Agile / Scrum PSPO I Stakeholder Alignment Budget Management International Rollouts

Change & Adoption

Change Management Adoption Strategy Training Programs KPI Frameworks Business–Tech Bridge AI-assisted prototyping

Tools & Platforms

Microsoft 365 Microsoft Copilot Claude AI JIRA Confluence ServiceNow Snowflake Semarchy Power BI SharePoint
2004 — 2007

Master's — Management de Projets Innovants

Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)

2002 — 2004

Bachelor's — Generalist & Science

Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)

Oct 2022

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

Scrum.org

// Contact

Interested in working together? I'm open to new freelance missions.

fabre.julien@gmail.com

Based in Bordeaux, France · Working remotely worldwide