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Sophie SACHET

VANCOUVER

En résumé

Summary:

- 14+ years experience in DW and Business Intelligence
- Worldwide support experience as strategic and tactical advisor
- 5+ years experience as pre-sales for US software companies in highly competitive markets
- Extensive experience as Project Manager in new technologies and Data Warehousing
- Strong relationship building skills
- Proven analytical, time-management and problem solving skills
- Ability to articulate value-based proposition of products
- Record of successful tactical wins against competitors
- Ability to research, synthesize and restitute information to appropriate parties
- Culturally aware and keen to learn
- Fluent in French and English - (Rated 920 out of 990 at the Test of English for International Communication - June 2007)

Specialties:

- Strong knowledge of the Business Intelligence & Performance Management market
- Worldwide experience as a member of Hyperion Competitive Intelligence Team, responsible for ensuring Hyperion's success against Microsoft BI, Cognos, MicroStrategy and Information Builders

Entreprises

  • ELASTIC PATH SOFTWARE - Senior Market Researcher

    2010 - maintenant
  • Sabbatical year - Relocation to Vancouver, Canada

    2009 - maintenant
  • HYPERION SOLUTIONS now ORACLE - Senior Product Marketing Manager - Competitive Intelligence

    2006 - 2008 I am responsible for gathering, analyzing and communicating competitive information for internal customers and Hyperion’s worldwide Sales staff, with a particular focus on the Business Intelligence market and especially Cognos, Microsoft, MicroStrategy and Information Builders solutions.

    My responsibilities are to :
    1- Monitor and synthesize key competitive information including Financial strength, market growth, share, strategies, plans, mergers & alliance, Product offering, technological developments, pricing

    2 - Act as strategic and tactical advisor by synthesizing data into actionable insights and information for several customers in the company including Sales, Product Marketing, Corporate Communications and Development

    3 - Provide a Worldwide Sales Support :on-going training for Sales and Sales Consultants, respond to all competitive inquiries from Sales and Sales Consultants by providing competitive intelligence and insight to help close sales opportunities.
  • HYPERION SOLUTIONS now ORACLE - Solutions Consultant - EPM

    2005 - 2006 I worked as a Solutions Consultant, providing sales support to the French team in the Business Intelligence & Enterprise Performance Management market, responsible for ensuring Hyperion's success in product evaluations.

    Responsibilities :
    - Partner with Sales organisation by providing the necessary support to compete effectively in the marketplace
    - Present and demonstrate solutions to prospective customers based on customer requirements
    - Provide necessary input into RFI and RFP
    - Act as an integral member of the sales team contributing to the formulation of strategies and technical approaches
    - Maintain competitive knowledge on industries and products to leverage in the sales cycle
  • Osis now BULL Services - Project Manager

    2001 - 2005 Several consulting and implementation projects in various business activities.

    -Functional and technical assistance on several projects, from the user needs definition to the project management : workplan, planning, risk management.

    - Implementation of Data Warehouses and various built-in-house applications: relational database modeling (Oracle), project management, object oriented development

    - Use of Query and Reporting tools (Business Objects) on top of the Oracle Data Warehouse.

    - MicroStrategy Partner Gold Certification
  • MicroStrategy - Senior Presales Consultant - Business Intelligence

    Courbevoie 2001 - 2005 - Sales team support, providing best-in-class presentations and demonstrations, ongoing follow-up with customers to identify new needs
    - Verbal and written presentations of the entire MicroStrategy BI platform
    - Responsible for many RFI/RFP leading to major sales cycle
    - Delivery of various prototypes, mostly based on Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
    - Involved in most of MicroStrategy seminars
  • ANDERSEN CONSULTING now ACCENTURE - Consultant

    1992 - 1995 - Several projects as a consultant for Accenture for 3 years, mainly for the delivery of an HR application for the French Defense Department. (more than 2 years)
    Key metrics : biggest European project at that time, 200 consultants, 100 000 man working days
    - I was responsible for providing customers with functional and technical analysis, covering different areas of the HR function : recruitment, notation, promotion, ....., of the military staff.

    - Takeaways : rigor, organization, sense of customer service, great experience of huge project

Formations

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