Part-time Fractional Marketing

Marketing leadership for food brands in moments of transformation.

Slow the pace, lead the race.

Pomegranate, a Mediterranean symbol of fertility and patience
40+ food brands supported, from Nestlé, CPW, Nutrition & Santé and Bel to foodtech challengers (Foliz Kombucha, Edonia)
25+ years of food marketing experience
Nestlé · CPW · Nutrition & Santé
3 continents Europe · Americas · Asia
4 languages French · English · Spanish · German

Working together.

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Imprint · 1 month

Define the brand DNA

For brands in a pivot or acceleration phase. Build a coherent territory grounded in clear convictions and purpose.

Diagnostic, strategic immersion workshop and a delivered Brand Platform.

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Fractional Marketing

Embedded at your side 6 months and beyond

More hands-on than consulting, more strategic than an in-house profile. Marketing leadership that helps you reach the next level without hiring full-time.

1 to 5 days per week, on-site or hybrid.

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Imprint · 1 month

Who it's for

Brands in a pivot or acceleration phase that need to define their DNA, their cause and their role in order to stand out in the market.

Goal

Build a coherent brand territory grounded in clear convictions and purpose, to guide future actions: messaging, new products, communication and partnerships.

What's inside

  • Analysis phaseMarket diagnosis, consumer-trend monitoring, brand champion insights, competitive benchmarking and semiotic analysis.
  • WorkshopA half-day strategic immersion session to define the brand's Vision, Mission and Cause.

Deliverables

Your Brand Platform, integrating insights from the analysis phase and the workshop.

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Innovation Inside the Box

4 to 8 weeks

Who it's for

Food brands that want to innovate without reinventing everything. SMEs, mid-caps and scale-ups that need to turn constraints into differentiation levers.

Goal

Connect your history, your current assets and tomorrow's opportunities. Test them against the market before committing investments.

What's inside

  • Setting the directionDefine an innovation thesis and map opportunities by horizon: Core, Adjacent, Transformational.
  • The Failure TourRevisit dormant and active projects. Tomorrow's breakthrough is often yesterday's failure, simply ahead of its time.
  • The Pop-Up FactoryTurn the factory into a showroom. Sales, customers and marketing make their selection and place orders.
  • The Micro-TestTest a prototype (Minimum Loveable Proposition) digitally or with a pilot group before investing.

Deliverables

A prioritized roadmap, ranked by profitability horizon. A creative memory system to recycle ideas. Real test data to secure and guide your budget decisions.

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Fractional Marketing

6 months and beyond

Who it's for

Food brands that need senior marketing leadership without hiring full-time. SMEs, mid-caps and scale-ups in transformation: launch, repositioning, international scale-up, interim management.

Goal

Hold the strategic course while ensuring operational execution. More hands-on than consulting, more strategic than an in-house profile.

What's inside

  • Set the directionDefine a strong value proposition and a clear strategy aligned with your business goals.
  • Structure the planSimple, prioritized, actionable 1, 3 and 5-year marketing, innovation & sustainability plans, with a budget for test & learn.
  • Move into actionCoordinate R&D, insights, product and media teams, freelancers and agencies to deliver high-impact projects.
  • Measure and refineTrack the right metrics and adjust as you go.
  • Embed the methodPut the right tools in place (including AI), automate where possible and pass on lasting know-how.

Deliverables

Operational marketing leadership from day one. A formalized strategic plan, teams led, metrics tracked. 1 to 5 days per week, on-site or hybrid.

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The Crush · 2 weeks · a value proposition Turn your product passion into a customer promise that triggers the purchase.
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The Crush · 2 weeks

Who it's for

For teams deeply passionate about their product, but whose message does not yet trigger an immediate customer response.

Goal

Move beyond technical features to express the real value your users and market expect.

What's inside

  • Flash interviews3 to 5 conversations with team members or customers to capture true motivations.
  • Driver analysisIdentifying purchase drivers and barriers.
  • Intensive workshopBuilding together around the Value Proposition Canvas.

Deliverables

A finalized Value Proposition Canvas, a strategic workshop debrief, and your key pitch messages.

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The Signal · augmented market intelligence A decoding of your market. What matters, structured and prioritized for your brand.
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The Signal

24 to 48h · monthly

Who it's for

To explore an opportunity or a market upstream, before deploying the heavy artillery. To dig into a target, track an underlying trend or debrief a trade show.

Built for marketing teams without an in-house monitoring platform, who need a clear read of the market, not a raw aggregate. Flash format (48h) or monthly subscription.

Goal

Turn the flow of information into an actionable strategic signal. Not a generic report, but a decoding calibrated to your current priorities. AI tools speed up collection and structuring. Analysis and judgment stay human.

What's inside

  • Multi-source monitoringWeb, LinkedIn, TikTok, trade press. Sources crawled and traceable.
  • Structured analysisSWOT, Jobs to be Done, strong and weak signals.
  • Prioritized insightsIdentifying the priority opportunities for your brand.

Deliverables

A PDF report and a summary infographic. One-off (48h) or recurring monthly subscription. The Insights illustrate the kinds of topics we can monitor.

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We loved building with them.

Audrey's support helped us clarify our value proposition and translate it into concrete, differentiated concepts. She combines a deep understanding of consumer insights in the food industry with a strong ability to turn them into actionable solutions for our clients.

Result: 5 product-concept platforms, ready to activate or move to POC.

Hugo Valentin
Hugo Valentin
Co-founder · Edonia
Audrey's support was structuring, insightful and highly effective. She articulated our identity with precision, challenged our ideas and helped us build a solid foundation for what comes next. A clear, consistent direction to keep evolving Foliz.

Result: Brand book and positioning delivered in 5 weeks. A real turning point.

Charline Rey
Charline Rey
Co-founder · Foliz Kombucha
A clear, structured analysis, closely aligned with our MVP and international expansion challenges. Exactly the level of perspective and quality we needed to inform our strategic decisions.

Result: MVP audit and strategic recommendations for international expansion.

Maxime Rafalimanana
Maxime Rafalimanana
CMO · Pictarine
With MaïMaï Consulting, we clarified our offering and sharpened our positioning. Audrey's approach, strategic, creative and hands-on, helped us turn a solid idea into a brand ready to launch.

Result: Value-proposition workshop, positioning and brand identity, delivered turnkey.

François Colmant
François Colmant
CEO · Digital Nomade
About
Audrey Le Borgne
Partner

Audrey Le Borgne, founder.

I step in with food brands at their turning points: a launch, a repositioning, an innovation, a push into new markets.

In a sector more demanding than ever (pleasure, health, price, sustainability), taking the time to start from a clean slate is often the best accelerator.

A career shaped inside international groups: Nestlé, CPW (Nestlé / General Mills JV). There I learned to move from strategic vision to execution without a break, in transformation contexts and multi-country teams.

The name? 🐌 MaïMaï means snail in old Japanese. A nod to deliberate slowness, to the path walked with intention. It is also the nickname of Maëlys, my daughter. And a promise: to slow down in order to see better, understand better, act better.

Education

AI Leadership Program · Business Sustainability (Cambridge) · CSRD · Design Thinking (MIT) · Digital Marketing Strategy (Harvard).

How I work

Flexible: on-site, hybrid or remote. France and international.

The La Collab collective

A purpose-driven collective company founded in 2015. 190 highly qualified freelance experts across marketing, communication, digital, sales and HR. Based in Toulouse, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes and Belgium. An accredited social enterprise (ESS).

When a project calls for complementary skills (design, digital, motion, development), MaïMaï assembles a tailor-made team from the collective. A single point of contact, broader execution capacity, without the constraints of an agency.

50 skill sets on call 500+ clients since 2015 9/10 would recommend
Sound familiar?

If this sounds like you, it's the right moment to talk.

A brand to launch or reposition An innovation to turn into a business A new market to win A marketing team to rally

Flexible · 1 to 5 days per week · No hiring · no full-time contract · 25 years · seniority in service of the business

Frequently asked

What people often ask.

What is outsourced (fractional) marketing leadership?

It is a senior marketing director who runs your strategy and its execution on a part-time basis, without a full-time hire. I work 1 to 5 days a week, on site or remotely, to hold the marketing course and coordinate your teams, agencies and freelancers. Also called fractional, part-time or interim marketing: more hands-on than consulting, more strategic than an in-house hire.

Who is it for?

Food and FMCG brands in France and Switzerland: SMEs, mid-market companies and scale-ups at a turning point. In practice, that means situations like repositioning a mature range losing share to private labels, framing an 18-month innovation plan under budget constraints, reworking a scale-up's value proposition before a funding round, or building a coherent brand portfolio after an acquisition. The common thread: a real marketing challenge and no senior marketing lead in-house to carry it.

How is it different from an agency or a hire?

An agency runs campaigns, a hire commits a fixed cost over the long term. I hold both strategy and execution while staying anchored in your reality, like a leader on your team, but part-time. And when a project needs specialised skills such as design, digital, motion or development, I bring in a tailored team through the La Collab collective, with a single point of contact.

How does a first engagement work?

We usually start with a short framing phase to identify the priorities that matter most. Then the format fits your need: from a one-off piece such as a brand platform in one month, to part-time marketing leadership over six months and more. The principle stays the same: start from your existing assets and quickly test what creates value. The simplest way to start is a first call.

Let's build what's next.

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