Eric Schaeffer

Accenture
Senior Managing Director
Eric Schaeffer is a Senior Managing Director at Accenture. He is leading Accenture’s Digital Industry X.0 program with the objective of supporting industrial companies in harnessing digital opportunities – new services and business models – and transformation waves spanning across the whole enterprise. Schaeffer also leads one of Accenture’s global business services –Accenture Product Lifecycle Services – which provides end-to-end services to unlock value and efficiencies from product data across the
engineering value chain, from the innovation and product development through to the manufacturing, aftersales and warranty services. Schaeffer’s primary industry focus is automotive and industrial
equipment manufacturers, his secondary industry focus is freight and logistics and transportation and travel. His project track record covers business transformation programs encompassing complex business and technology changes and he has lead such programs for large and multinational companies. Prior to his current global Industrial role at Accenture, Schaeffer was responsible for Accenture’s Products (Industrial, Consumer Goods, Pharma and Retail) practice in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Schaeffer joined Accenture in 1987. His background is in Engineering and he studied at École Supérieure d’ Electricité. He is based in Paris, France.