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Daniela Plassard

— Career Profile —

Experienced insights, strategy, forecast and brand specialist looking for a new challenge. Passionate storyteller, always client-centric, happy to translate data into actionable insights and recommendations. 10 years management experience with teams from different backgrounds. Hands-on daily experience with Q.

— My Journey —

Tgarage

Sydney, NSW Octobre 2022 - December 2023

Associate Director

  • Work on actionable ad hoc and strategic projects for major FMCG clients, projects pipeline management and profitabillity reports. Quant and qual work.
  • Daily hands-on work proposals, project deliveries. In charge of account plan.
  • Ad hoc projects and building of online communities. Daily use of Excel and Q.
  • Management and leadership, two direct reports.
  • Full responsibility of a large U&A, segmentation, online and face to face presentations to different stakeholders. Brand deep dives.

French a la Carte

St Ives, NSW January 2021 - Septembre 2022

French Teacher

  • A la carte French lessons for a high-profile senior public on the Northern Beaches: French vocabulary and grammer mixed with culture, general French and conversation classes, weekly update on French news, politics etc.
  • Two 4-days, only French immersions in the Hunter Valley, full client servicing to intermediate and advanced students in a Covid-safe envioronment.

Killarney Heights Public School

Killarney Heights, NSW 2020 -2021

Volunteering: Ethics Teacher

  • Delivering the Ethics curriculum to Year 3 and Year 2 students.

Ontario Francophone Schools

Ontario, Canada 2017 - 2018

Supply Teacher

  • Supply teacher across all primary school age ranges in Ontario, Canada

Toronto Accueil

Toronto, Canada 2014 - 2017

Volunteering: Vice President

Toronto Accueil is an organisation run by volunteers, under the FIAFE/ French expats umbrella, that provides services and activities to expatriate communities, predominatly from France and Belgium.

  • Completed contact with members and a number of key stakeholders including the French Consulate, French Schools and relevant associations and groups.

Gfk

Paris, France 2012 - 2013

Market Research Director

  • Directly in charge of several FMCG clients and one luxury client. Daily work with a global market leader in the food industry, supplying both daily breakfast products and highly seasonal treats to different targets.
  • Detailed work on innovation funnel, and media reach of seasonal or non-seasonal treats to different targets.
  • Supervision of quant packaged or ad-hoc research from client brief to full results presentation, in-person presentations involving key decision makers. Combined quant and qual projects for some clients
  • Managed a team of 6 Research Analysts and Group Managers.
  • Completed business developement activities: prospection, proposal writing, online packaged products presentation. Daily use of Salesforce.
  • Completed a broad range of client projects including scoping, analysis, benchmarking, reporting, recommendations, presentations and post implementation reviews.

Ipsos

France 2007 - 2012

Market Research

  • Directly in charge of 2 major FMCG Key Account clients, one in the food catagory and one in beauty. Supervision of quant packaged or ad-hoc research from client brief to full results presentation, in-person presentations in several countries. Mostly multi-country projects, involving one or several project managers.
  • Combined quant and qual research for high-end positioned global brands.
  • Managed a team of 4 Research Analysts.

Nielsen IQ (BASES)

Belgium 2005 - 2007

Senior Analyst

  • Extensive market research for multiple international clients including volumetric forecasts.
  • Daily analyse on Nielsen sales and panel data.

Skills

Consumer Insights

Quantitive Research

Client Presention

Management

Negotiation

Leadership

Qualitative Research

Consumer Behaviour

Education

Masters Diploma in International Marketing from the University of Marne La Vallee in France. Diploma officialy recognized by the University of Toronto, Canada.

Business School: Institut Europeen des Affaires, Paris, France

Languages

English - full professional proficiency

French - full professional proficiency

Czech - native speaker

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plassardd@yahoo.com

0400 623 976

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