CLAIRE LEFEVRE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
**/**** – 12/2017 Account Director – W (Havas WW) leading branding and advertising agency
• Drove development of a new capability for corporate communications within the agency. Won 5 new clients, generated 1,2 millions dollars revenue in 2017.
• Led the rebranding of Amundi, including strategic planning, internal communications, marketing plan, advertising campaign (OOH, press, digital, social) in 14 countries, meeting the tight deadline of 3 months, staying within budget Clients sectors: life sciences (Sanofi, Assurance Maladie), asset management (Amundi), oil industry (Total Marketing Services) food industry (Tereos) and beauty retail (Sephora, Parfums Christian Dior).
09/2013 – 03/2016 Senior Consultant – Little Wing, corporate communications agency
• Transformed communications processes and refreshed the communications formats for Boston Consulting Group, resulting in an increase of press coverage by 50% over 12 months, tripled Twitter audience in 4 months (organic growth) and doubled LinkedIn audience in 6 months – identified as worldwide best practice within BCG network.
• Improved brand awareness and brand image among clients for ING Direct through a 3 months online contest, resulting in a clients’ event in Paris (1 million dollars budget)
• Introduced and implemented digital transformation within the agency, with new digital tools, including Slack, Augure, Hootsuite.
Clients sectors: consulting (BCG), legal consultancy (Baker&McKenzie, Gide), banking (ING Direct, Société Générale), education
(Lycée Winston Churchill, EABJM) and retail (Unibail-Rodamco).
09/2012 – 08/2013 Junior Brand Manager – PSA Peugeot Citroen (major automobile brand)
• Conducted competitive analysis, benchmarked and analyzed surveys data to define the new positioning of the historic vehicles’ line.
• Wrote the new brand book (brand history brand strategy, visual identity) and onboarded 14 major subsidiaries.
• Coordinated worldwide brand surveys and integrated subsidiaries inputs from 14 countries (E.U, Asia, Latin America)
• Drastically improved the online customer journey on the accessories e-commerce website, solving for gaps (+225% conversion)
01/2012 – 08/2012 Intern Brand Manager – SFR (leading wireless company)
• Formalized and championed a new KPI model across teams, after identifying a lack of holistic approach to metrics across the organization. This KPI model was internally well-received and became standard within the company.
VOLUNTEER – AMA SAN DIEGO
• Selected to be the Integrated Marketing Manager for Cause Conference October 2018
• Led event experience team for Art of Marketing 2018. Recognized as volunteer of the month in June 2018.
EDUCATION
2010-13 Master Marketing & Communications - Sciences Po Paris (France) 2009-10 Exchange program – Middle Eastern Studies - Cambridge University (UK) 2007-10 Bachelor Political Sciences Cum Laude - Sciences Po Paris (France)
LANGUAGES
• French: native language
• English: bilingual
• German: reading, writing and speaking
• Spanish: reading and understanding
TECHNOLOGY
• Office suite: high proficiency
• Web development: HTML basics, development of 3 websites with CMS (weebly, wiz, wordpress)
• Design: Photoshop basics
• SEO: training UC Davis (certification) – alexa, screamfrog, Google analytics