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Freda Azul

PE GrowthManager / ex-COO / ex-Strategy Consultant

€700/day
Paris 7e Arrondissement, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Freda

Consultant en stratégie et croissance | Ex-fondateur SaaS et COO | Expert Go-To-Market et Scale-up B2B

Ancien consultant en stratégie (Emerton), j’ai cofondé PayBack, une HR Tech/FinTech SaaS (1,2 M€ levés, 1 000 utilisateurs, 30 clients), avant de piloter la stratégie et la croissance du portefeuille France & Espagne d’un fonds de Private Equity (zvoove Group).

J’accompagne les dirigeants et équipes commerciales dans la conception et l’exécution de plans de croissance mesurables, autour de :
• Stratégie et organisation commerciale (CRM, process, playbooks, dashboards)
• Génération de leads et campagnes multi-canales (LinkedIn, automatisation, ICP ciblé)
• Positionnement produit et stratégie Go-to-Market
• Structuration des équipes Sales, Customer Success et Onboarding
• Pilotage d’indicateurs de performance (ARR, pipeline, churn, etc.)

Missions types : audit Go-to-Market, plan de croissance B2B, structuration commerciale, refonte de l’organisation Sales/CS, accompagnement de COO ou fondateur.

Langues : français, anglais et espagnol courants.
Outils : Salesforce, Hubspot, Notion, Linear, Figma, Zendesk, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Lusha, Lemlist, etc.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris 7e Arrondissement (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Zvoove (Private Equity Fund, France & Spain portfolio companies)
    Portfolio Strategy & Growth Manager
    May 2025 - October 2025 (5 months)
    • Defined and executed the 2025–2028 growth strategy for France & Spain portfolio companies, directly supporting CEOs and the PE fund to strengthen go-to-market positioning. Objective: double ARR from €5M to €10M.
    • Redesigned commercial acquisition strategy following portfolio audit: prioritized lead generation as key growth lever, with a target of 350 qualified leads per month. Led full website revamp, implemented prospecting tools and launched weekly automated multi-channel campaigns.
    • Rebuilt sales department visibility & processes: implemented Salesforce CRM, redefined lead status & touchpoints, designed new tracking dashboards, and recruited +1 Sales headcount. Supervised LatAm BU reporting, aligning pipeline visibility across regions.
    • Refined product positioning & GTM strategy through mystery shopping & competitor analysis (8 players, €2B TAM), leading to clearer value proposition and consistent sales messaging.
    • Restructured the Customer Success & Onboarding department: full audit + implementation of Zendesk, e learning platform, automated flows, reducing support ticket volume and freeing consultants for onboarding.
  • PayBack (HR Tech/FinTech SaaS,
    Co-Founder & COO
    January 2022 - January 2025 (3 years)
    France
    Co-founded PayBack, an HR SaaS platform reinventing employee benefits via a tax-optimized digital wallet, allowing employees to pay with their own credit card and get automatically reimbursed for eligible expenses. Objective: help SMEs and industrial sectors reduce turnover and simplify HR administration
    • Led the company's structuring and scale-up: built and managed a 22-person team (€45k monthly payroll), set up ops (finance, HR, sales), and defined a GTM strategy mixing outbound and inbound acquisition. Scaled from 0 to 30 clients (largest 130 employees) and 1,000 active users.
    • Directed product & tech roadmap: launched 4 interconnected products, designed core features (expense detection, OCR scan, auto reimbursements, invoice generation) with AMF-compliant Stripe Issuing.
    • Managed fundraising & investor relations: raised €1.2M, built all investment materials (pitch decks, BP, datarooms), and delivered quarterly KPI reports to shareholders.
    • Structured Sales Department: implemented roles, functions, softwares to use, workflows and playbooks
    • Built a scalable Customer Success & Onboarding framework capable of handling large enterprise rollouts, with ticketing automation, chatbot & Intercom flows, KPI dashboards and escalation processes. Prepared integrations for major prospects (City of Roubaix (3k employees) and Inli (8k employees))
  • Emerton
    Strategy Consultant
    January 2021 - January 2022 (1 year)
    France
    • Completed 8 strategy projects in M&A, pricing, and market entry for private equity and industrial clients
    • Growth and Pricing strategies for software and industrial companies (GTM design, value-based pricing).
    • Designed strategic roadmaps and recommendations presented to C-level and investment committees.

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