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Kiev

 Reporting to Vice President of Strategy and New Business Development. Projects management from generating ideas up to their executing into business (i.e. a full life cycle of the project). Managing the day-to-day operations to ensure the effective implementation of the project activities, managing all aspects of the projects execution. Development and implementation of programs aimed on efficiency increase, costs cut, revenue increase, process simplification and behavioral changes. Business ideas, initiatives generation, evaluation and selection, brainstorming process organization. Supporting business by inner consulting.  Providing input to the projects development process, preparing the materials/ presentation of the projects for Steering Committee meetings, organizing and participation in. Achievements: Led “Logistics in Ukraine” complex project with debottlenecking in logistics (technical and operations limitations). Created, agreed and implemented the Strategy of factory logistics development. Led “Construction of rail sorting yard and access ways” project. Participated in company strategy development and its further review according to current conditions of market environment. Knowledge library created. Initiated and built of systematic process for business ideas and initiatives gathering, analysis and implementation. Participated in “Realization of emission reduction units in accordance with Kyoto protocol” project. Coordinated project of moving employees to one new office. Participated in “Electricity efficiency improvement” project.

Kiev

 Building and management of CRM department (13 people). Organizing and optimizing of documents circulation through the entire contracting chain from manufacturer to consignee. Production and transport logistics management.  Contract management. Claim handling. Project management.Achievements: Developed and implemented of CRM strategy. Created and developed CRM Dept. consisting of 3 divisions from scratch. Organized facilitation of knowledge building and sharing.  Developed productive working relationships with DSS group of companies (factory, offices in Russia, Switzerland, Germany and USA). Managed and maintained healthy pipelines to achieve mutual business goals and maximize customer satisfaction.  Arranged the using of SAP ERP 6.0 system in Kiev office. Automated issuance of documents in SAP system without delays provided. Arranged necessary developments/ transactions within the system. Optimized business process, documents and information flow and had a significant cost reduction by functions transference from foreign office to Kiev. Provided clear procedure of documents circle and customer satisfaction and loyalty. Transport logistics functions organized in Kiev office. Provided timely shipment plan fulfillment. Led the project of business process’ automation and addition modules implementation in SAP system. Arranged with consultants common use of SAP system of all DSS group of companies.  Successfully organized optimization projects.

 Business development and coordination by agency presentation and promotion, agency’s services sales. Partnership and networking projects management, website management.Achievements: Developed and maintained of clients database and established strategic relations. Found a VIP client for a comprehensive set of services.  Formulated and developed business strategies and plans to achieve planned growth. Provided information for long-term planning and business expansion. Initiated and developed recommendations to improve corporate style and website.  Initiated, successfully organized and conducted different activities on promotion of Agency (CEEPR-net, EBA, UAPR). Organized and implemented of imaging events (III European PR Congress).  Coordinated of Agency’s participation in industry activities (Baltic PR weekend, UAPR sessions).  Built and maintained mutually beneficial partnership between foreign/ local Partners and Agency. Adopted the international Partners’ best practices.

 Foreign trade conduction, control and development. Coordination of goods and information flow from manufacturer to consignee. Training of new colleagues and partnership development.Achievements: Increased quantity and improved quality figures on export sales.  Managed production, transport and warehouse logistics with a high intensity and volume. Reduced transport costs.  Managed project of equipment procurement and import. Established effective communication in cooperation with factories, the foreign branch and the Company. Generated initiatives of business units’ development in the fields of marketing, logistics and documentation.  Led the projects of acquired plant promotion and branding. Successfully organized and conducted international and local exhibitions with a limited budgets: “WIRE-2005, Moscow”, Russia and “WIRE-2006, Düsseldorf”, Germany. Ensured that the Company and its products have positive image in foreign markets.