Constance Chalchat’s passion for learning and transformation has seen her taking varied roles, from strategist for global consumer brands to head of company engagement for Corporate and Institutional Banking at BNP Paribas. She told Efma’s Boris Plantier about her life and work.
Tell me a little about your background.
After graduating from the HEC Paris business school with an MBA in finance, I really wanted to learn more by working outside of my comfort zone. I moved to New York, where I started working for the Danone Company, more specifically on their different strategies tailored to the different regions of the US. I then went on to manage the group’s Danone Light brand – a fantastic opportunity to test and learn cross-functional working methods to accelerate innovation and product development. This came as a revelation, and I continued looking at how to bring innovative ways of working to companies across various sectors, including Nike, Deloitte and PPR (now Kering), for which we developed one of the first multi-entity data lakes in France.
I joined BNP Paribas in 2001 and I have held various positions in marketing, communications, change management and corporate social responsibility. I’m currently head of the company engagement department in our Corporate and Institutional Banking division.
