Catherine Ferrary Simon Email & Phone Number

Basel, Ch

Group CPO @Vector8 supporting organizational health and company culture to sustain ambitious growth targets. Leadership, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion, Employee Development

Paris, Ile-De-France, Fr

After three years of hyper-growth a leading French cloud provider, Scaleway, I spent six months creating People Consulting Offers for Reacteev, joining a team of business agility experts to create transformation for Fortune500 (CAC50) clients.HR Strategy ConsultingLeadership EmpowermentExecutive Team Coaching and AlignmentCollaboration trainingNonviolent CommunicationLumina Learning

Paris, Paris, Fr

Member of the executive committee and board at leading European cloud provider, Scaleway, subsidiary of the Iliad Group (Free). Drove hyper-scale growth from 250 to 600 employees in under 3 years with an average of 2.5% turnover (monthly exit rate) with 400+ recruitmentsGrew the People Department from 12 to 30 in two years.Developed international recruitment planManaged six departments: People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Work Experience, Payroll & Legal Lead change management initiative to prepare for hyper-growth while maintaining an average of 4.7 rating on GlassdoorDigital transformation of HR work to support asynchronous work through documentation and project management. Full remote policy designIntroduced psychometric personality testing to improve collaborative resultsImplemented OKR for performance managementIntroduced the Scaleway Manager Academy to upskill managers’ skillsFounded Cloud Builder Academy to promote junior profiles and more diversityHighest scoring on the Cultural Barometer in the Iliad group (12 subsidiaries and 16K employees total).

Paris, Lille, London, France, Uk, Fr

Building the talent and culture at Critizr by prioritizing the candidate experience, the employee journey and lots of community and fun at work.

AKA: Unit Manager, "Direktorka" and Head of Belgrade office.Start-up. Opened Swiss digital agency in Belgrade, Serbia. Talent acquisition. Recruitment of 60 engineers (front-end, back-end, mobile) over two yearsHuman Resources. Corporate culture: establishing best practices for recruitment and hiringEmployer branding. Strategy and events, public relationsPeople. Employee happiness and retention

Rock Star VA was born out of the need to support my family when I lost my job in 2014 with three young children to feed and living in one of the worst economies in the world. With few concrete professional prospects in Belgrade, Serbia, I delved into the online world to find remote work possibilities with US-based companies. One by one clients started to come and I had succeeded and not drowned in the panic and scary situation that could have been. I started to tell my story and to train other women to have the skills to leave jobs they were unfulfilled with and start making a decent income in less time, with more time for themselves and their families.I've moved on to new challenges now, but my students are now the teachers and the mission lives on through them with the goal of keeping the ripple effect moving.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Created and maintains company intranet in Confluence, including design and authoring of all pages• Conducts employee on-boarding and systems training• Analyzes business processes and designed and implemented improvements• Implemented resource planning procedures and time tracking system in Unanet• Works with Department Manager to allocate resources for all client projects• Works with Systems Administrator to design permissions scheme for applications• Project management on internal and client projects

New York, Ny, Us

Versicon Consulting provides project management and IT management consulting services.Client: Amplify http://www.amplify.com/Department: New Curriculum, Special Projects• Project Manager for the development of a Digital Asset Management system• Captured, analyzed and documented project requirements• Supported the communication and delivery of requirements• Liaised with offshore technical leads and developers, located in Serbia• Conducted Confluence training and provided sollutions to employees• Created procedure and business process pages in Confluence• Designed and presented Visio diagrams to depict work flow• Created user test cases for application; supervised testing with team• Created and presented reports in MS Access

Roma, Roma, It

• Managed all aspects of the New York branch of top international Italian law firm• Responsible for office accounting and budgeting (including payroll), negotiatingcontracts, liaising with building management and top corporate clients• Executive Assistant to the managing partner: travel arrangements, liaising with toppartners and management of Italian branches in Rome and Milan• Managed marketing initiatives; provides light IT support to attorneys• Strategized to cut office costs and effectively saved the firm 30% on overhead• Initiated student-intern program with local colleges, recruited, hired and trained interns

Roma, It

• Television program production including budgeting, logistics and language assistance• Provide bilingual administrative support to Head of Client Services and journalists• Heavy travel and logistics management for department and clients from Rome

Reggio Emilia, Re, It

• Assisted Senior buyer and Head of Merchandising in executing buys for 7 lines of MaxMara women’s wear for 17 company owned stores • Managed orders and open to buy for Sunglasses and Perfume lines for all stores• Initiated new procedures for order-checking that saved 90% of the time and 1/3 the manpower previously used for the task, freeing up executives for higher level tasks• Attended collection presentations at headquarters in Italy to execute the buys• Executed transfers of merchandise to optimize sell-thrus throughout territory

Boston, Ma, Us

• Right-hand to the President & VP of high-paced start-up apparel division of Nike owned Converse• Liaised with HR at Headquarters and partnered with recruiters to grow company, created/managed company organizational charts and confidential HR files• Developed new office procedures; compose memos; aids in PowerPoint presentations • Compiled weekly divisional report for the CEO at corporate HQ

Milano, Mi, It

• Created selling report for the US stores and shop-in-shops as a PowerPoint presentation for quarterly sales and marketing meeting in Milan with Mr. Armani• Translated marketing reports and presentations from English to Italian• Coordinated marketing calendar, scheduled client events, dinners, meetings, etc.

Ba, Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Master, Fashion Buying

Study Abroad, Italian, French And Management

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