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James Avill
IT
Marketing
Competencies:
Web Development
eCommerce
Software and Systems Development
IT
Business Analysis and Process Improvement
Consulting
Languages:
French = Conversational
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Bourg Saint Maurice, Savoie
Rate: 50€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
Web Developer, Analyst and IT professional with a passion for technology and problem solving. Over 20 years experience of coding, data analysis and software development projects for companies based in the UK and France.
Experience of many applications, database systems and programming languages over multiple platforms.
What type of work I prefer:
Helping businesses increase sales and productivity through process improvement, software and hardware solutions.
What I like to do outside of work:
I love exploring mountains, and sliding or rolling down them as fast as possible.
Abi Morris
Operations
Competencies:
Procurement
Negotiation
Account Management
Languages:
French = Fluent
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Chamonix, Haute Savoie
Rate: 60€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
I am a professional purchasing manager, specialising in negotiations and procurement within the travel and ski industries. With a keen approach to challenge and excellent interpersonal skills, I thrive on maintaining high profile relationships with clients. As a colloquial French speaker, I am able to communicate fluently and professionally at the highest level in both French and English. I am experienced at managing high volume, high budget projects and working to tight deadlines. My negotiation skills are well developed and my clients respect my firm but fair approach, as well as my good humor and sense of fun. I am highly self-motivated and organised with proven time and project management skills. Independent, or in a team, I bring initiative, adaptability and a flexible, friendly attitude to work.
What type of work I prefer:
Sourcing, securing and procuring new product for clients. Matching clients needs by connecting clients and suppliers across the Alps. Combining my passions for meeting new people and seeing new places in both a personal and professional capacity.
What I like to do outside of work:
Being the best Mum I can and doing activities with my boys and my friends. Trail Running, Hiking, Climbing, skiing and snowboarding are among my passions which I am fortunate enough to be able to do right outside my front door.
Eric Bellaiche
Finance
HR
IT
Legal
Management
Marketing
Operations
Competencies:
English/French and French/English Translations – Interpreting – Proofreading
1) Business translation, proofreading of documents (contracts, marketing, sales brochures, research papers, articles, …) and interpretation by experienced English/French and French/English bilingual translator, with extensive international expertise in:
– Legal 📜📑
– Finance 🏦📈
– Technology 💻📡
– Science 🧬🔬
– Tourism 🗼🏢
– Business 📊📄
2) Certified translations of official documents (official court translator, traducteur-expert)
References: many … but I am especially proud to have assisted in translating elements.biz contracts and charter!
Languages:
French = Mother-Tongue
English = Fluent
Based: Chamonix, Haute-Savoie
Rate: 75€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
– High level scientific education (Ecole Polytechnique Paris, Ecole des Mines de Paris): Masters in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computing, Economics
– Business education (MBA, Columbia Business School, NYC): Finance
– Strong hands-on and management experience in Banking (17 years, SocGen Senior Management) and Technology (7 years, Philips)
– French national, with a strong international experience as an expat in Sweden, Canada, the US, Japan, and Israel
– Since 2009, Freelance Translator and French, Maths/Physics/Computing Professor
Please read my profile on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/ericbellaiche for more details on my background.
What type of work I prefer:
I prefer to work on complex, value-added, challenging translations. I work fast and well. I am reliable and can work on confidential matters.
What I like to do outside of work:
– Practicing many different sports (my wife and I have elected to live in Chamonix since 2016!)
– Technology
– Finance
– Cooking
– Music and Litterature
Karen Broom Smith
Finance
HR
Management
Operations
Competencies:
Operations: Operational administration, procurement including property sourcing and contracting, transport management, operational audit, property audit.
Management: Executive assistance, business health-check/trouble-shooting, business analysis and development, KPI management, strategic planning.
HR: Recruitment, training, policies and charters.
Finance: Accounts administration, accounts management, financial advice including cost accounting, budget setting.
Languages:
French = Fluent
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Les Allues, Savoie
Rate: 80€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
22 years-hospitality as owner, MD & Ops Director of luxury ski chalet business, taking it from turnover (& commensurate profits) of €300k to over €3,500k, establishing and maintaining extremely high standards of service delivery and an excellent reputation in the industry.
Co-founder of industry lobby group SBIT, led in French lobbying and established its strong engagement with local and national authorities.
7 years-Director / GM at Dell and Heinz internal audit and risk management helping identify actual/potential trouble spots, drive improved efficiency and effectiveness in all aspects of business operations.
8 years-business change and manufacturing / factory manager at Heinz and engineer at MarsGB Ltd
Certified Management Accountant
BEng Mechanical Engineering
CPC International Passenger Transport
Trained facilitator, Hay job evaluator, L4 Food Safety Mgmt
What type of work I prefer:
I’m highly task-oriented with an excellent track-record for getting things done and to a high standard, am extremely tenacious. I have no problem with relatively low level, repetitive tasks but also love intellectual challenge of problem solving and helping drive major improvement and change. I love people, enjoy working in teams but am also happy to work alone. And I can be relied upon to protect the confidentiality of any potentially sensitive information that I’m exposed to.
My aim is to find part-time work: discrete projects that I can work on remotely and at times to suit the other priorities in my life (e.g., evenings and weekends depending on what else I have going on).
Areas can be business administration, HR / recruitment, supplier management, budgeting and cost accounting, strategy development or any other.
What I like to do outside of work:
I enjoy running, swimming, (flat-ish) cycling, DIY, food (cooking and eating), watching films and spending time with my husband and son. I play the piano. Am trying to learn Italian.
We have a house in the UK and rental properties in the South of France and in Venice, Italy. The management, upkeep of these also take up time and bring a lot of enjoyment.
Adam Breen
CSR
Management
Competencies:
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Strategy
Business planning
Startup and business development
CSR strategy
Business health check
Languages:
French = Fluent
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Bozel, Savoie
Rate: 90€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
I am an English/French dual national with nearly 20 years of entrepreneurial experience behind me and many more in front of me. I have started, partnered, bought and sold businesses and take pride in being an active member of my local and business communities. I teach, mentor and coach entrepreneurship and innovation in Business Schools, incubators and private companies.
I am the founder of elements.biz and have completed Executive MBA from EM Lyon Business school specialising in Entrepreneurship and Business for Impact.
What type of work I prefer:
I enjoy helping people to get a new perspective on their situation or environment – using appropriate tools to give them a new perspective on their goals or concerns and identifying the skills and resources that they already have before proposing new ones. I can work in English or French and enjoy a hybrid of in-person and online interactions. I have a strong affinity for GreenTech and decarbonisation projects. I am happy to travel but prefer to take the train wherever possible.
What I like to do outside of work:
I love the mountains around my home and try to enjoy them in as many ways as possible. I have an energetic young family with whom I spend as much time as I can. As a naturalised Frenchman I consider that furthering my knowledge of the French language and culture is a never ending journey and I enjoy this process. I have a passion for diversity in all of its forms – it enriches my experiences, challenges my worldview and sharpens my perspective.
Andrew Davies
IT
Marketing
Competencies:
Web Design
Web Development
Highly efficient, low carbon websites
Website Audits
Eco friendly web hosting
Languages:
French = Conversational
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Villarlurin, Savoie
Rate: 60€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
Former chalet business owner turned low carbon website builder and digital sustainability specialist.
I build bespoke, high speed, highly efficient Wordpress sites. My sites help businesses and organisations increase conversion rates while reducing their digital carbon footprint.
What type of work I prefer:
I work with purpose driven, sustainability focussed organisations and businesses.
I can do this by:
Performing website audits. These give advice on improving site speed, SEO, UX, conversions and lowering carbon footprints.
Building bespoke Wordpress websites. My sites are personalised for both the site owner and end users. I build them using efficient, accessible coding and digital sustainability best practices. My sites are high performance while providing a reduced environmental impact.
Embedding with marketing and digital teams within organisations. I work with teams to improve existing sites and develop new ones.
What I like to do outside of work:
I love trail running, hiking, mountain biking, camping, snowboarding and cooking. I will generally be doing one of other of these activities with my wife, son, dog or friends (though not always with everyone at the same time).
Anne-Lise Simond
Marketing
Competencies:
English-French oral and written translation
Marketing
Communication
Content writing
Customer relations
Languages:
French = Mother-Tongue
English = Fluent
Based: Les-Houches, Haute-Savoie
Rate: 50€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
I help companies to communicate their identities and values above and beyond the boundries of direct translation with the use of catchy and captivating French copy. I thoroughly research each new client and their sector to ensure I fully understand and convey their message coherently. My organisational skills, attention to detail and empathetic nature make me a reliable and trustworthy collaborator. I have been an English to French translator for over 10 years and live in the Chamonix valley, where I grew up. I have both travelled and worked in New Zealand, Ireland and Canada.
What type of work I prefer:
Translating (ideally editorial) texts from English to French. Continuously striving and searching for the right words to bring the best value to the text. Telling compelling stories. Being helpful and collaborative.
What I like to do outside of work:
Tom Fortune
Marketing
Competencies:
Content writing
Languages:
French = Basic
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Morzine
Rate: 50€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
I create quality website content for all kinds of businesses to educate their audience and attract traffic. I specialise in mountain life and mountain sports, but I’ve also written content based on business, health, fitness, mobility, cycling, and many other subjects.
I have lived in the French Alps for over 7 years, working in various positions. So, I understand the lifestyle and the needs of visitors to the mountain.
The content I create is thoroughly researched and written in your chosen style. All content is SEO friendly to make it as visible as possible in search engines. I can work as a guest or ghostwriter; the choice is yours.
I can provide links to my published work from many satisfied customers who have published my work under my name or theirs.
What type of work I prefer:
Helping businesses build their blog pages, educating, entertaining, and informing their website visitors.
What I like to do outside of work:
I am a keen snowboarder, and have been since the 1990s. But, I’ve really got into exploring my local area on my splitboard over the past few years. When there is no snow, I spend a lot of time mountain biking and hiking.
Heather Davies
CSR
Marketing
Competencies:
Communicating sustainability
Content marketing
Copy writing
Marketing strategy
Website SEO
LinkedIn training
Greenwashing training (how not to)
Languages:
French = Fluent
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Brides-les-Bains, Savoie
Rate: 60€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
Hi, I’m a sustainability focused content creator. I work with organisations to communicate their sustainability journey, generate trust, grow their brand and engage their teams, customers and future customers without greenwashing.
If your business or organisation is starting to do things differently, it can be tough to effectively communicate the changes you’re making to get your stakeholders on board. That’s where I come in. I will help you articulate your business case for sustainability and work with you to build a communications strategy and create content to engage your employees, shareholders, customers and wider audience.
I have marketing experience from a big 4 accountancy firm, a growing medium sized business and run my own business.
I hold a certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge (CISL).
What type of work I prefer:
Helping businesses bring their key stakeholders (employees, shareholders and customers) on their sustainability journey through empowering and compelling content.
* copywriting
* communications strategy
* proof-reading (English)
* sustainability strategy communication (without greenwashing)
* training – how to communicate without greenwashing
What I like to do outside of work:
Adventuring in the mountains, on foot, on my snowboard or by bike.
daphnée vandenhende
Management
Operations
Competencies:
Translation service ENGFR
Admin support
Languages:
French = Mother-Tongue
English = Fluent
Based: Bozel
Rate: 30€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
I have been immersed in a multi cultural environment for 15 years, this has given me the opportunity to develop great communication skills.
I am native french, i know how difficult french administration can be and i can help you with those tasks.
I have recently been translating website in hospitality and tourism industry but also some diverse personal documents.
I have also been the personal assistant of a restaurant, dealing with emails, reservations and any request.
What type of work I prefer:
I like being versatile and having differents tasks and goals.
What I like to do outside of work:
We are living in such a beautiful place that i spent most of my free time out there discover the area with my family. Snowboarding in the winter, mountain biking in the summer, making the most with what our mountains have to offer.
Justine Robinson
Finance
HR
Management
Operations
Competencies:
Admin
Data entry
Excel
Word
Logging and organising expenses / basic bookkeeping
Communications
Customer service
Languages:
French = Basic
English = Fluent
Based: Bozel, Savoie
Rate: 30€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
13 Years hospitality experience in private chalets, yachts and households. Looking after high net worth individuals and communicating with their family offices, pa’s, monitoring and logging chalet/yacht expenditure. 10 years office experience in the clothing import industry and part time landlady to a small portfolio of rental properties. Eye for detail, excellent communication, organisational and problem solving skills. Excellent multi tasker. I’ve only been living in the mountains full time since 2020 and really enjoying the switch to full time mountain life.
What type of work I prefer:
Administrative tasks, customer service, basic bookkeeping.
What I like to do outside of work:
Hiking, yoga, swimming, crafts, upcycling furniture, sewing and travelling.
Sharon Gavin
HR
Management
Marketing
Operations
Competencies:
Excellent oral & written communication skills.
Extensive organisational skills.
Account/ client management.
Basic book keeping.
Sales.
A knowledge of standard software packages and the ability to learn company-specific software if required.
Fluent French speaker
Discretion & trustworthiness.
Languages:
French = Fluent
English = Mother-Tongue
Based: Servoz, France
Rate: 40€/hr
Qualifications and experience:
For the last 5 years I have worked as an estate agent for an agency in Chamonix.
Previous to that, I worked as a receptionist in a small but busy hotel in the centre of Chamonix for approximately 10 years.
What type of work I prefer:
Personal assistant
Admin roles
Interpreter
Customer service
What I like to do outside of work:
Family
Friends
Spending time in the mountains
Travel
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