RGM & TPM deployment integrity. Commercial finance. The gap between strategy and what the systems actually do.
Twenty years in CPG commercial finance and operations, then the platforms that now run those functions. I ran promotions, accruals, and full merchandise cycles before the software existed — which is why I can tell you which design decision will corrupt your settlement process before it does.
Each one is the same skill — catching where commercial logic and system behavior disagree — pointed at a different buyer.
For teams mid-implementation or post-go-live: design validation, SIT/UAT quality, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization of deployments that are technically live but commercially broken. I translate between Finance, Sales, IT, and the platform — functions that use the same words and mean different things.
For investors and buyers evaluating or selecting RGM/TPM platforms — as investment assets or for commercial use: product reality vs. pitch deck, stickiness and switching costs, deployment risk, commercial model viability. Advisory board experience on live PE processes.
University-level teaching (600+ hours, undergraduate and graduate) and executive education in commercial planning, RGM, and FP&A — including Redline, a simulation tool that lets teams practice financial decisions before those decisions become real.
Field experience spans L'Oréal, Nestlé, Mars, Haleon, and Deoleo across 24 markets in EMEA and North America. Clients include Big Four professional services, private equity, Tier 1–2 CPGs, and higher education institutions. As Finance Director at L'Oréal SalonCentric, I owned promotional finance end-to-end for a $394M business unit and built the team that became its compliance function.
Full timeline in the Experience Archive · Tools and prototypes in the Build Studio.
If the problem involves commercial execution, trade spend, ERP behavior, RGM / TPM systems, financial reporting, governance, or outcomes that no one can quite reconcile — send the note.
If the problem involves commercial execution, trade spend, ERP behavior, RGM / TPM systems, financial reporting, governance, or outcomes that no one can quite reconcile — send the note.
Lyon, France · joshua@doppleredward.com · LinkedIn