Celonis continues European expansion with new office in Paris, France

November 9, 2020 – Paris, France – Celonis, the global leader in Execution Management Systems (EMS), today announced the opening of a new office in Paris moves closer to its French-speaking customers. Celonis has appointed former Salesforce and SAP executive Fadi Naffah as General Manager to spearhead growth in France, the Middle East and Africa.

“France is a global economic powerhouse distinguished as a nation driven by innovation and entrepreneurship. Today, French companies – like their counterparts in other markets – are under pressure to drive down costs and improve efficiency in operations,” said Fadi Naffah. “There is already strong demand from French customers in Celonis’ ability to leverage data and introduce new capabilities to transform both business models and business execution. Against a backdrop of rising competition for productivity gains in a global economy, for both multinationals and locally-focused companies, this is the perfect time to accelerate Celonis’ expansion in France, and I’m actively looking for the best talent to join me in driving our hypergrowth. Currently, more than 100 people in France are already certified on the Celonis platform, and it’s just the start. By launching our new Execution Management System we expect our growth to also stimulate job creation in our partner ecosystem.”

One of Celonis’ first customers in France is Airbus, which began using Celonis back in 2015. Head of Airbus’ ERP Solution Center Boris Alexandre commented: “Our cooperation with Celonis began because we were interested in finding innovative solutions to help Airbus achieve digital transformation. We needed to change processes from end to end. When our people start using Celonis to identify execution gaps for the first time, there is usually a ‘wow’ effect. Thanks to Celonis powerful process mining-based Execution Management approach, we are making progress toward bridging the gaps between our departments and to optimize our execution capacity.”

Rémy Sergent, Partner People & Strategy at BearingPoint, added: "The BearingPoint Operational & Process Excellence teams have been leveraging the Celonis Platform for several years to achieve performance improvement, and to improve end-to-end digital process implementation and ERP transformation. The strengthening of the French Celonis team shows our joint commitment to provide high-quality services to French companies and help them to optimize their business execution, as we do in other regions.”

On November 10, the Celonis World Tour visits France - providing an opportunity to hear from senior leaders at Celonis customers, including Airbus, L’Oreal and Faurecia, about how they leverage Celonis to identify and address execution gaps and increase execution capacity across their entire enterprises.

Celonis has already reached a workforce size of 25 in Paris. The company plans to double the size of its local workforce in France over the next 12 months and triple its headcount in France during 2022. With the Paris office opening, Celonis is also launching a local recruitment campaign for multi-level roles in Data Science & Management Consulting, Sales, Professional Services and Customer Success.

Note to editors

During 2020, Celonis has built its European presence to provide local language service support and increase customer value. In addition to its joint global HQ in Munich, Germany, Celonis has established a network of offices in Madrid, Spain, created a Nordic presence with new teams in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Stockholm, Sweden; and expanded its offices in London, UK, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Celonis is actively hiring across all departments and in multiple locations. Interested candidates are encouraged to visit the company’s Jobs page.

About Celonis

Celonis believes that every company can unlock its full execution capacity. Powered by its market-leading process mining core, the Celonis Execution Management System provides a set of instruments, applications, and developer studio and platform capabilities for business executives and users. The Celonis EMS offerings help companies manage every facet of execution management from analytics to strategy and planning, management, actions and automation. Celonis has thousands of customers, including ABB, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Citibank, Dell, GSK, John Deere, L’Oréal, Siemens, Uber, Vodafone and Whirlpool. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.