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Work experience

Business Planning Cluster Leader

from 01.2015 to 01.2017 (2 years)
ACNielsen Ukraine, Киев (Marketing & Retail Measurement)

Set Strategic Planning framework and monitored processes in operations
• Coordinated Operation Plan preparation across all departments in NEE countries.
• Tracked Cost & EBITDA at NEE Cluster level.
• Ran benchmarking & activity based-cost analysis to identify business opportunities.
• Measured process improvement performance against targets
• Managed special projects (global & regional)
• Led improvement projects utilizing BPI, Lean & Six Sigma tools and methodologies

Operations Director Ukraine, Kazakhstan & Caucasus

from 08.2014 to 12.2014 (4 months)
ACNielsen Ukraine, Киев (Marketing & Retail Measurement)

Built and managed operations team to deliver expected outcomes and achieve all relevant key performance indicators;
• Developed operations teams creating high performing organization;
• Managed Operations - Client Service relation
• Drove Business Processes Improvement activities locally
• Managed external vendors utilized in operations processes

Knowledge and skills

Language proficiencies

• English — fluent
• French — fluent
• Arabic — average
• Ukrainian — average
• Russian — fluent

Additional information

Selected Achievements
• Led business process improvement Kaizen event for cycle time reduction of product creation in Ukraine. The project resulted in an overall reduction of 5 days for the delivery of the products.
• Implemented a project portfolio management process for North Eastern Europe to drive prioritization, smarter decision making and improved resource management.
• Managed suppliers on operational and quality processes by establishing an interaction model to track their performance and improve it.
• Participated in two Kaizen events as a representative from Production Department and part of the Continuous Improvement group that had to implement actions from the Kaizen newspaper related to specific production processes.
Kaizen 1: Cycle time reduction of the product release process, which required among other actions, adjusting the batch sizes to smaller units for faster QA and feedback of the production work.
Kaizen 2: Implementation of Lean principles (such as 5s and lean board with metrics tracking) on several projects in one of the production centers.
• Led six continuous improvement project teams to improve their key performance indicators. These efforts contributed to productivity, capacity, and quality improvement.
• Mentored production development team at one of the production facilities.
• Provided on-site training in root cause analysis and worked closely with the team on specific projects to provide support and guidance in utilizing analytical techniques to find the root cause in performance problems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nielsen Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Business Planning Cluster Leader – North Easter Europe (01/2015 – 01/2017)
• Set Strategic Planning framework and monitored processes in operations
• Coordinated Operation Plan preparation across all departments in NEE countries.
• Tracked Cost & EBITDA at NEE Cluster level.
• Ran benchmarking & activity based-cost analysis to identify business opportunities.
• Measured process improvement performance against targets
• Managed special projects (global & regional)
• Led improvement projects utilizing BPI, Lean & Six Sigma tools and methodologies
Operations Director Ukraine, Kazakhstan & Caucasus (08/2014 – 01/2015)
• Built and managed operations team to deliver expected outcomes and achieve all relevant key performance indicators;
• Developed operations teams creating high performing organization;
• Managed Operations - Client Service relation
• Drove Business Processes Improvement activities locally
• Managed external vendors utilized in operations processes
ChemtechSystem LTD, Kiev, Ukraine
Business Development Manager (11/2012 – 07/2013)
• Analysis of the market and competitive environment.
• Search for new suppliers, customers and products.
NOKIA (Location and Commerce Division), Fargo, ND, USA
Quality and Continuous Improvement Manager (01/2009 – 05/2012)
Leading continuous improvement projects to drive improvement in a business,
management, and operational processes. Led the launch process and provided onsite
startup support for new production sites. Led several projects teams to develop and
implement improvement activities and launched new production sites to ensure they meet
the performance expectations. These projects resulted in improvement in productivity,
quality, process capability, and capacity utilization.
• Led the development of a web based feedback system (on the basis of Atlassian JIRA),
for quicker turnover of production work.
• Performed cost-benefit analysis to provided basis for the utilization of Atlassian JIRA for
internal feedback.
• Created statement of requirements and scope of work for the development of JIRA
based feedback system
• Mentored subject matter experts (SMEs) and team leads on quality acceptance and
project management in various production sites.
• Becoming part of the corporate lean team, and given the responsibility of developing a
tracking system for quantification of savings across all lean initiatives.
• Launched and provided on-site support and leadership to Offshore Production Centers in
Tunis, Tunisia; Kharkov, Ukraine; and Sophia, Bulgaria to improve their production
planning, execution, and quality acceptance processes.
• Co-developed a launch readiness process to standardize the project planning and
launch activities. This process is now being formalized into the corporate Product
Development Life Cycle Process.
• Actively supported the management review processes by leading weekly performance
reviews with Offshore Production Centers to monitor, track, and drive continuous
improvement in their project and operational performance.