Business Development Manager / Project Manager

Location: Poland
Reference: CPC90
Language: English

Short description

  • Experience in multinational consulting and client companies, work experience in Poland, UK, Sweden, Hungary

  • Over 9 years of experience in Consultancy

  • Strong project management skills, design and delivery of training, coaching experience

  • Management of small companies.

Experience

Since Sept. 2005 - Consulting Division of multinational corporation, area: Change Management

  • Business Development Manager/Project Manager

  • Consultancy in the area of Safety Management

  • project manager for a client in CEE – Oil & Gas company – project scope: Safety Management, consultancy, training, Process Safety Management, Train the Trainer package- project revenue ~ 1000 000 USD

  • trainer, auditor, consultant for local and regional clients (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Latvia), involved with Global Accounts on a corporate level

  • responsible and accountable for project results, project staffing, quality, contractual issues, payments, suppliers, coordination of delivery of services and logistics, recruitment of resources

  • business development activities, negotiations with clients, preparation of offerings, representing company during conferences and events

1998- 2005 - Freelance Consultant (self-employed)

  • operational consultancy, project management and communication training – various:

  • working for a diversity of clients and business areas, involved in sales, concept design and implementation of results, acting as a single point of contact between client decision-makers and consulting companies, CRM on executive level:

2002-2005 - Project Manager
  • audit, analyses and projects: assets inventory for a major telecom company, contact centre (business process analysis and improvement)
  • international project for a napkins manufacturer (efficiency, process improvement, restructurisation, benchmarking, coaching -Poland, Germany, Sweden) – average project revenue ~ 500 000 EUR
  • analysis and a project for a dairy manufacturer (productivity, training, implementation of a forecasting model) – project revenue ~ 300 000 EUR

1998 – 2001 - Management Trainee, then Management Consultant

  • Project Manager (since 04.2000) for various clients in Poland:

  • projects: shipyard, steel constructions, brewery, distillery

  • analyses: steel constructions, frozen food manufacturing, waste management

  • Project Management: frozen food manufacturing (productivity, training), waste management (productivity, training, performance management, design and implementation of organisational changes)

1997-1998 - Ltd. Company Director (recording studio, music business)

  • control: staff, sub-contractors, financial documents, clients and the accounts;

  • responsibility: staff, documentation, deadlines;

  • preparation: contracts, invoicing, monthly reports to the board;

  • planning: purchasing, contractors and clients, staff recruitment;

  • co-ordination of the company activity, organisation of concerts and events, marketing, contacts with foreign clients

1992-1996 - Ltd. Company Secretary (computer industry, network services)

  • office management, contacts with clients and agencies, invoicing and financial control, documentation

Education

  • 2005 MBA (area of interest: Change Management, final grade: ‘A’)

  • 1996 – 1997 Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science and Management

Area of interest: Process Improvement, final grade: ‘A’

  • 1992-1994 MA in Linguistics (area of interest: Communication, final grade: ‘Pass’)

  • 1985-1990 English Studies

Aditional Qualifications:

 

1998-2007 Various Employers – internal training:

Safety Management, Project Management

business process analysis, performance management, coaching

productivity, project management, etc.

2000 Association of Productivity Specialists, Dublin

- membership exam

Other

Competences and skills:

 

  • ability to analyse and determine client needs, project design and implementation of results in various environments: production & services; experience of various consulting solutions: business process improvement, productivity, training, coaching, implementation of management systems, safety management, design and implementation of culture change, design and implementation of KPIs, measurement of results and others

  • ability to build good relations with the team and client personnel at all levels

  • experience in working with client Executive Level

  • flexibility, openness to learn, ability to work in changing conditions, acceptance of diversity

  • excellent communication skills, very good English, presentation, computer skills

  • familiar with modern communication techniques: net meeting, tele- and videoconferencing

  • flexibility, openness to learn, ability to work in changing conditions

  • strong team activities, also ability to work independently

  • strong academic background

  • openness to challenge

Languages:

  • English (near-native),

  • Russian (communicative),

  • Spanish (basic),

  • German (basic)

Computer skills:

  • Various operating systems, spreadsheets, word-processing, presentations & graphics

Driving Licence