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Walid K.WK

Walid K.

Digital Strategy & Transformation | Product Leader

$990/day
Dubai City, AE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Walid

▪️Strategic and hands-on product leader and digital consultant with 12+ years of experience leading enterprise platforms across government and financial services.

▪️Specialized in workflow automation, customer engagement, and end-to-end product lifecycle management for large organizations.

▪️Proven ability to align platform strategy with business goals, manage complex API-driven integrations, and lead cross-functional teams across IT, UX, business and operations.

▪️Recognized for delivering scalable, compliant digital solutions that increase adoption, streamline governance, and enhance collaboration.
  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Dubai City (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Freelance
    Digital Consultant
    DIGITAL AND IT
    September 2024 - Today (1 year and 9 months)
    Dubai City, United Arab Emirates
    Product Management (Insurance, 9 months): Continued to lead CRM development at Groupama, delivering new digital features and expanding platform adoption to 300 agents, enhancing user engagement and operational efficiency.
  • TNP CONSULTANTS
    Senior Manager | Head of Digital CoE
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2019 - August 2024 (5 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    ▪️CoE & Team Development: Built and directed a 10-person Digital Center of Excellence specializing in product innovation, CRM, and automation; drove €1.5M in annual revenue and managed 5+ key vendor partnerships.

    ▪️Product Strategy & Delivery (Insurance, 3 years): Led the end-to-end development of Groupama’s CRM covering sales, marketing, and customer service; delivered a 20% increase in commercial performance through intelligent workflows, personalized processes, and cross-channel orchestration.

    ▪️Cross-functional Leadership: Orchestrated 5 departments (IT, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Compliance) from discovery to go-live, and guided a 40-person team to ensure strategic alignment, timely delivery, and high-quality execution.

    ▪️Product Ownership (Government, 1.5 years): Owned full lifecycle of a €2.1B housing grant platform serving over 1M+ beneficiaries; defined acceptance criteria, prioritized backlog of 3,000+ items, and facilitated 50+ workshops aligning business and IT teams.
  • CGI (CH)
    Engagement Manager | Solutions Architect
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    January 2013 - May 2019 (6 years and 4 months)
    Paris, France
    ▪️Process Digitization (Banking, 2 years): Digitized onboarding, offboarding and KYC business processes at Société Générale, increasing efficiency across 25,000+ users and cutting SLA violations by 30%.

    ▪️Business Analysis & Agile Delivery (Banking, 1 year): Delivered 3 digital initiatives at LCL (workflow automation, e-signature, document capture) on time and on budget; led analysis and delivery coordination for BForBank mobile app.

    ▪️Solutions Architecture (Insurance, 2 years): Built API-first architectures and automated processes for subscription, fund payment, and transfer at AXA Wealth, reducing manual workload by 30%.

    ▪️Full-Stack Development (Public Banking, 1.5 years): Built 3 internal web applications for La Banque Postale to support government and public financing workflows (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL).

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Education

  • Master's Degree in Engineering
    Télécom SudParis - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
    2012
    Information System Integration and Deployment

Certifications

  • Pega Lead System Architect (CLSA)
    Pega

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