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Part-time, 4 days per week
Location and workplace preferences
- Location
- Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
- Can work onsite in your office in
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- around Amsterdam and 50km
- Around Rotterdam and 30km
- Around Brussels and 30km
- Around Antwerp and 30km
- Around Utrecht and 20km
Preferences
- Project length
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- Between 1-3 months
- Between 3-6 months
- ≥ 6 months
- Business sector
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- Consulting & Audits
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Health & Wellness
- Fashion & Cosmetics
- Hospitality
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- Company size
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- 50 - 249 people
- 250 - 999 people
- 1000 - 4999 people
- ≥ 5000 people
Verifications
Freelancer code of conduct signed
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Languages
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French
Native or bilingual
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English
Native or bilingual
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Dutch
Native or bilingual
Categories
Skills (7)
Marie-Laure in a few words
Over 13 years work experience in strategy, M&A and business development for large blue chip companies such as Danone & Philips, combined with a solid entrepreneurial skillset (last 3y spent managing my own company). Ambition to leverage personal background & track record to help companies address their strategic challenges while keeping on making a difference in people's life.
Experience
MLH consulting
Consulting & Audits
Founder & CEO
- Define the 2024 strategic plan (incl. internationalization strategy) for a leading food services player active a.o. in hospitals
- Define a market entry strategy into a new segment for one the world's leading food companies & conduct a deep-dive (i.e. market sizing, competitive landscape, consumer insights, and go-to-market strategy incl. country priorization, target product portfolio, opportunity sizing, etc.) on the most appealing strategic opportunity identified in phase 1
- Redesign the international strategy of a market leader in healthy snacks active in 40+ countries
- Coach an entrepreneur willing to launch a healthy snacks range for people suffering from diabetes
- Review investor pitches for (tech) start-ups
Yoganida
Sports
Founder & CEO
- Offering yoga classes, workshops & special events and Yoga Alliance certified teacher trainings at the studio
- Organizing & leading yoga retreats across Europe, and other special events for individuals & companies
- Managing all aspects of Yoganida: marketing & sales, communication, administration & finance, operations (incl. teaching), HR, etc.
- Running a 7-days a week yoga studio (more than 40 classes a week, and counting)
- Leading a team of 20+ freelancers
DANONE - Danone
Agriculture
Global Head of Strategy, Business Development & M&A - Infant nutrition division
• Drove various strategic projects (greenfield or brownfield market entries, divestments, etc.) for a EUR ~5bn division, e.g.
- Definition of key strategic guidelines of Danone Group 2020 strategy (Paris-based)
- Takeover of infant nutrition players in both mature & emerging countries
- Strategic review of countries portfolio & clusterization
- Design of greenfield market entry strategies and/or strategy redefinition
- Disposal of non-strategic businesses & assets
- Wargaming exercises in various regions
• Prepared the presentations of the CEO (e.g. investors seminars, board meetings and Danone Group General Managers Meeting)
• Drove cross-functional competitive intelligence initiatives (company profiles, worldwide market sizes & market shares database management, wargaming, etc.)
• Managed a team of up to 8 people (1 direct report)
Roland Berger GmbH
Consulting & Audits
Strategy Consultant
• Multi-channel international expansion strategy for a leading clothing retailer
• Market potential assessment in EU market for luggage and leather goods
• Go-to-market strategy of the new product of a leading insurer in four EU countries
• New business segment market entry for a Real Estate property manager
• International strategy definition for an IT services provider
• Strategic due diligence in the automotive industry
• Restructuring of a major European magazines publisher
Philips - Philips Healthcare
Medical
Strategy Director
- Supported Philips Vision 2025 strategic plan, focusing on future value pools & relevant healthcare trends, and led the PMO of the project
- Drove Philips portfolio strategy review & made recommendations to the ExCo on the role to assign to every market & business Philips is active in
- Created growth strategy for Health Experience Solutions business including new solutions & investments in Patient Experience analytics; secured corporate funds for prototype
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Education
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BSc Business Engineering
Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management
2006 -
MSc Business Engineering
Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management
2008 -
Executive Education - Mastering Design Thinking
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021 "Design thinking is a powerful process of problem solving that begins with understanding unmet customer needs. From that insight emerges a process for innovation that encompasses concept development, applied creativity, prototyping, and experimentation. When design thinking approaches are applied to business, the success rate for innovation improves substantially."