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Matthieu Woods

Matthieu Woods

Freelance Management Consultant

I help deliver your strategy, management and human resources projects

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About

With over five years of professional experience across diverse fields (strategy consulting, human resources, marketing, production), I now work freelance to offer you convenience and flexibility.

Significant Projects

Staff planning modeling

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Freelance (1 month) • 2026

Creation of a model to forecast staff and employee costs for 250 stores and +10k employees

Staff planning discrepancies audit

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Freelance (2 months) • 2026

Audit of the staff planning of grocery stores country-wide after total employee cost gaps

Mobile apps product owner

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Personal project (3 months) • 2026

Developed mobile applications to be shared on application marketplaces

People analytics tool implementation design

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Akoya Consulting for client (2 months) • 2025

Scoped the deployment of a People Analytics tool for all employees of a global energy company

Data & AI maturity benchmark

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Akoya Consulting for client (3 months) • 2025

Prepared and conducted interviews with HR data leaders from major French corporations to create an HR data maturity benchmark

Career paths design

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Akoya Consulting for client (6 months) • 2024

Designed career paths worldwide for top high-jewelry sales professionals at a global luxury leader

Transformation projects impacts monitoring

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Akoya Consulting for client (6 months) • 2024

Oversaw the impact management of a global transformation project for a leading pharmaceutical company

Strategic Workforce Planning lead support

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Akoya Consulting for client (7 months) • 2023

Led Strategic Workforce Planning across all divisions of a global pharmaceutical company, based on the group’s strategic assumptions

Returns global project manager

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Emma Sleep (4 months) • 2022

Led global returns management improvement projects, including customer service enhancements and second-life product marketing

France marketing manager

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Emma Sleep (3 months) • 2022

Owned CRM for the French market, improving emailing campaigns through A/B testing and new acquisition ideas

New daily reporting tool creation

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Fleury Michon (1 month) • 2021

Developed an automated collaborative reporting tool for production managers across scopes and shifts

Regulatory project coordinator

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HSBC France (4 months) • 2020

Oversaw the implementation of automated monthly reporting for the French Central Bank on mortgage loans

Recommendations

Tom Spinetta

Senior Manager - Akoya Consulting

« L’ayant accompagné personnellement en tant que manager pendant ces deux ans, c’est une grande perte pour notre cabinet. Nous n'avons aucun doute qu'il serait un excellent élément dans une nouvelle équipe. »

Dennis Schmoltzi

CEO - Emma Sleep

« His intercultural competency, in our international company, allowed him to easily fit in the teams he worked with. Matthieu has been a solid thought leader, using his logical skills to solve problems, while he also is a creative person, capable of thinking outside the box. »

Samuel Combaud

Responsable de Service - Fleury Michon

« Il a donné entière satisfaction dans les équipes. Nous étions satisfaits de sa prestation et de son positionnement. Il a su s’investir rapidement, faire preuve d’organisation et de sérieux dans son travail. »

Elisabeth Rajaona

Head of Business Finance Change - HSBC France

« Il a fait preuve d’une grande compétence. Autonome, efficace, il ne manque pas de prendre des initiatives. Sa maturité et son professionnalisme nous ont dès lors permis de progresser, collectivement, dans le design des reportings règlementaires dans les délais impartis. »

Philippe Cogneau

Associate Professor Bank & Finance - IÉSEG School of Management

« I have only good things to say about his work. He was a very conscientious student, always attentive to the remarks I provided him during the redaction of his thesis. He proved he had a very good understanding of his topic. »

Full recommendation letters and contact details are available upon request

Professional Experience

Freelance

France flag Paris, France

Senior Consultant

April 2026 - Today


Helping deliver strategy, management and human resources projects

Akoya Consulting

France flag Paris, France

Senior Consultant

April 2025 - October 2025

Consultant

May 2023 - March 2025


Strategy consulting focused on people topics, working for leading French multinational companies

Emma Sleep

Germany flag Frankfurt (Main), Germany

Entrepreneur in Residence

February 2022 - February 2023


Graduate program in one of Europe's fastest growing scale-ups

Fleury Michon

France flag Chantonnay, France

Shift Leader

July 2021 - December 2021

Project Manager

January 2021 - June 2021


Managing the production over 6 production lines and 40 people, after an end-of-study internship

HSBC France

France flag Paris La Défense, France

Assistant Project Manager

January 2020 - June 2020

Leifheit

Germany flag Nassau (Lahn), Germany

Purchasing Assistant

April 2018 - August 2018

Bouygues Telecom

France flag Lille, France

Salesperson

June 2017 - July 2017

Herby

France flag La Loupe, France

Factory Worker

June 2016

Education

École 42

France flag Paris, France

Piscine

2026

1-month programming bootcamp, passed all 4 weekly exams

IÉSEG School of Management

France flag Lille, France

Master of Science in Management

2015 - 2021

Top 5% of students, included in the dean's list, results of 77% overall

Queensland University of Technology

Australia flag Brisbane, Australia

Master of Business in Applied Finance

2019

Double degree program, graduated with high distinction, results of 83% overall

Renmin University of China

China flag Beijing, China

University exchange program

2016 - 2017

Key Capabilities

Hard skills


Soft skills


Languages


Technology


Software experience

Personal Life

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