Nikola Kostić Email & Phone Number

Belgrade, RS

Belgrade, Serbia

• Driving the teams to deliver value, optimize the workflow and increase the quality of outputs and outcomes.
• Implementing Agile and Lean practices to meet the team’s current requirements, style, and phase of development.
• Using the key metrics to lead continuous improvement cycles, and proactively identify risks and opportunities.
• Facilitating discussions, workshops, and collaborative sessions by engaging the project teams, experts from wider organization, and peers from the… Show more
• Facilitating discussions, workshops, and collaborative sessions by engaging the project teams, experts from wider organization, and peers from the client side.
• Keeping the stakeholders up to date with the project status, progress, and challenges by reporting in timely and data-driven manner. Show less

• Strategically driving project roadmap delivery through planning, prioritization and release management across 2 different markets and 7 company divisions.
• Coordination, resource allocation and scheduling of project tasks and activities, using both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Supporting project teams throughout the project life cycle via backlog prioritization and issue resolution.
• Acting as a single-point-of-contact for the entire ad-hoc/change request pipeline, ensuring… Show more
• Acting as a single-point-of-contact for the entire ad-hoc/change request pipeline, ensuring continuous execution of over 100 initiatives annually.
• Facilitating project risks and challenges via impact analysis and mitigation proposals, ensuring clear communication and adequate ownership approvals.

• Assisting project teams in preparing and updating project plans, from kick-offs to follow-ups;
• Assisting project managers and project owners during all project portfolio-related activities;
• Liaising with key stakeholders on project-related topics and methodologies;
• Reporting on project performance and suggesting improvements on both project and process side;
• Ensuring the quality and timeliness of project documentation, templates and processes;
• Facilitating project… Show more

• Managing both Healthy Food and Basic Food categories, comprising of over 1500 products distributed among 400 stores;
• Deployment, execution and overseeing of promotional and pricing strategies across 5 markets;
• Setting and reaching sales targets on weekly and monthly basis;
• Sales forecast and budget allocation;
• Creation of weekly and monthly reports and overviews;
• Dealing with supplier and customer queries and complaints on a daily basis;

Bachelor Of Science, Management And Organization, Project Management, 9,2

Thesis: Agile Project Management and Stage-Gate Model: A Hybrid Framework

Master Of Science, Project And Investment Management, 9,3

Thesis: A Deliverables-Driven Risk Management Approach for Distributed Agile Projects