Olena

Olena Vysotska
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Kiev city
Qualifications: Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Project Leading, Team Building & Leading, PM methodology development or adoption, PM Trainings

Avon Cosmetics Ukraine
2018 – now – Project Manager (Supply Chain, Supply Planning, Regulatory, Logistics(international), Delivery(local), Sales, Marketing, Omnichannel (retail, marketplace) projects)
Project Portfolio management for CEE countries (Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirghistan, Uzbekistan, Czech, Slovakia, Poland)
2010 – 2018
Project Coordination Specialist (responsible for EE: Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia Markets)
• Developing a Corporate Project Management approach based on corporate requirements and international PM approaches (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies) establishing own corporate guideline & toolkit.
• Preparing & holding PM trainings.
• Managing Project Portfolio (cross markets) to obtain corporate strategic aims: consolidating, prioritization, evaluation of the project’s results impact on financial indicators (P&L), KPI performance tracking, portfolio reporting, portfolio risk management.
• Projects’ resource management – staff planning & selection & allocation, resource loading calculation, staff risk management, project work scope definition per each employee.
• Project leading & coordinating at all its life cycle stages: starting from idea\concept defining, project initiation (project goals determination, in\out of scope, KPIs establishment, risks assessment, governance setting up), planning (project plan development -high-level and detailed), delivery, post analysis&results performing evaluation, closure, hand-over to business as usual via guides creation, fixing roles and responsibilities.
As well coordinating of IT projects in PM role (coordinate technical requirements developments, analysis ASIS vs TOBE models, test cases creation, UAT coordination (Jira/zephyr), prod plan development, reporting to board)
• Risks management: risks definition (external & internal), prioritization based on risk prioritization matrix, mitigation actions development and implementation, monitoring on regular basis.
• Reporting to Board, Managers, Stakeholders, Sponsors, Steering Committee groups on country project portfolio status or separate project status using standardized corporate template
Main achievements:
Successful delivery of corporate projects in different areas: Supply Chain, Supply Planning, Regulatory, Logistics(international), Delivery(local), Sales, Marketing, Omnichannel (retail, marketplace) projects & IT

Supply planning coordinator: 2017-2018:
• Products supply planning from manufacturing (Poland) to Ukraine. Planning and control of product’s volume supplying, inventory stock control and analysis, reporting.
Executive assistant in Supply Chain, Kiev, main office: 2006 -2010:
• Performing minor accounting duties
• Organizing meetings, including scheduling, sending reminders, and organizing catering when necessary
• Answering phone calls in a polite and professional manner
• Welcoming visitors and identifying the purpose of their visit before directing them to the appropriate department
• Managing the executive’s calendar, including making appointments and prioritizing the most sensitive matters
• Providing administrative assistance, such as writing and editing e-mails, drafting memos, and preparing communications on the executive’s behalf
• Working with document flow: contracts checking & signing, invoices & acts preparing, travelling set of docs, etc.
Executive assistant Supply Chain, Crimea, subsidiary: 2003 -2006
The same responsibilities.

Education
2000 – 2005 – Kyiv National Economic University (Vadym Hetman) in Crimea - Accounting & Audit Specialist
Additional education
2020 – Laba Business School - Project Management course
2010 – Academy of networking, Moscow – Project Management using Microsoft Project Professional
2020 – 2021- English Dom – Business English course advanced level

Other data
Languages: Ukrainian – native, English – advanced, Deutsch – A2 level, russian (in case of emergency only)– Fluent
PC literacy: Microsoft Office, MS project, Excel power user, Jira/Zephyr
Hobby: Fishing, Skiing, Сlimbing, Hunting, Travelling, Building, self-development, books