More than 15 years in purchasing and procurement positions. Used to work for several FMCG famous brands in Poland: Stella Pack, Pepsi, Stock Polska, PKN Orlen, MARS, Ciech. I managed thousands of indexes and purchasing categories with spend of hundreds of millions PLN. Delivered saving and managed the teams of professionals.
Last year I started the private business with aim to support foreign companies. The first foreign company needed the support to enter Polish coal market. The purpose of the project was to analyse the market, provide information about the niches and mainstreams, competition, prices and distribution system. The project also required to seek and contact potential distributors, initiate the sales, support official communication, support negotiations and meeting translation, frequent travels around Poland.
My focus is on FMCG (fast moving consumer goods), fuel and energy categories. These are the categories I understand most and can guarantee outstanding results!
In my life-span I have gone through all the corporate job positions - from a specialist, through a category manager to the team leader and purchasing director. I know the nature and expectations of family businesses and international corporations. I have learnt what are the expectations of owners of small companies and requirements of shareholders of stock exchange companies. I went through several professional trainings and applied practical knowledge in the field of management and technical purchasing competences, building strategy and team motivation. Graduated Faculty of Economics at UMCS in Lublin, post-graduate studies at the Faculty of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Fluent Polish (native), English and Russian in business use. I live in Lublin but do frequent travels country-wide and abroad.
