Experience

APG LAB Group

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Owner

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  With extensive product development and marketing experience, we are innovation and creative beauty specialists offering a full consultancy services and product development across the beauty industry. • Global Sourcing (Asia & Europe focus) • Product Development (Beauty Tools, Fashion Accessories, Home & Deco) • Market Research (Company Short-listing, Competitor Analysis, New Product Ideas) With extensive product development and marketing experience, we are innovation and creative beauty specialists offering a full consultancy services and product development across the beauty industry. • Global Sourcing (Asia & Europe focus) • Product Development (Beauty Tools, Fashion Accessories, Home & Deco) • Market Research (Company Short-listing, Competitor Analysis, New Product Ideas)



Bare Beauty Group

• Poland
• Cosmetics
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sourcing & Product Development

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Customized accessories for your brand. • Beauty Tools - We specialize in creating premium quality beauty tools. • Home & Deco - We offer beautiful designs to add character and life to your space. • Fashion Accessories - We design & produce the right fashion accessories to complete your collection. Customized accessories for your brand. • Beauty Tools - We specialize in creating premium quality beauty tools. • Home & Deco - We offer beautiful designs to add character and life to your space. • Fashion Accessories - We design & produce the right fashion accessories to complete your collection.



Asquan Ltd.

• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Product Development & Marketing Director

  • Feb 2017 - Jun 2021

  Asquan is a boutique global company that develops, sources, creates, produces & markets turn-key beauty solutions with great passion for prestigious brands & retailers all over the globe. With offices in Hong Kong, USA & Europe we focus on full outstanding customer service and fast-track innovation and on-trend creativity. • Development of primary packaging & beauty tools for main players in the beauty industry • Supervising OEM & ODM projects • Business Development (Australia, Middle East, Europe, Africa) • Preparing & presenting the company at trade shows (Cosmoprof, MakeUp in™, PCD Paris) • B2B print & digital media (Beauty Packaging, SPC, GCI Magazine, BW Confidential, Premium Beauty News) • Sourcing & Merchandising Show less



Concept4 Group

• Hong Kong
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Aug 2015 - Feb 2017

• Product Manager

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

  • Textiles (printed scarves, cold weather, lingerie), sunglasses, cosmetic accessories, home & deco• Building up collections and seasonal items • Fashion trend research and analysis (Fashion Snoop)• Meetings with customers• Sourcing (visiting factories on weekly basis, international fairs, overseas shopping trips)• Merchandising & production• Business development



Oriflame

• India
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Product Manager Accessories

  • Mar 2013 - Apr 2014

  • Managing global portfolio of Cosmetic Accessories • Product development (around 70 SKUs annually)• Contact and communication with international suppliers, mainly Asian • Close collaboration with cosmetic Brand Managers, Creative, Purchasing and NPD teams• Communications and presentations with Oriflame internal regions • Global pricing guidelines for Cosmetic Accessories• Sales analysis • Competitor’s watch and trend research • Sharing regional knowledge within the global team Show less

• Regional Category Specialist – Youth & Accessories, EMEA Region

  • Mar 2012 - Feb 2013

  • Managing Youth category (Skin Care, Fragrance, Color Cosmetics, Personal & Hair Care products directed to Youth, in total 200 SKUs)• Planning flow of novelties and ongoing products ( settings straight discounts, purchase with purchase, gift with purchase, section driver offers)• Planning key resources for Youth section (space allocation, scratch & sniff, sampling)• Price positioning – setting standard & merchandising prices for new launches• Close cooperation with a creative team in Stockholm in terms of layout briefing and creation• Microsoft Project Team member (setting timeschedule for Catalogue Planning, Category, Forecasting, Excess & Obsolete teams) Show less

• Regional Category Specialist - Accessories, EMEA Region

  • Jan 2010 - Feb 2012

  • Strategy creation and implementation• Managing portfolio of 300 new SKUs per year • Close cooperation with NPD team (preparing regional briefs for new products – catalogue & section drivers and seasonal collections, preliminary volume estimation) and with Global Marketing team based in Stockholm (realized projects – Puma, Disney Cars, Disney Cars2, Tangled, WTA, Charity)• Quartery product flow creation & plans presentation during quarterly marketing sessions with EMEA markets• Fashion & Jewellery layout briefing• Price positioning of new launched products in 23 markets; setting regional loyalty & activity offers• Setting standard and merchandising prices in Polish market for new launched products• Preparing Newsletter information of key product launches• Preparing category reports & analyses (unit per order, unit per active, sales performance, margin impact)• Close cooperation with Forecasting team (volume estimations), Excess & Obsolete team (sale actions, cannibalization check), Catalogue Planning team (catalogue creation – quarterly brainstormings, activity & loyalty programmes, key campaign KPIs assessment, layouts acceptance), Global Logistic team (product delivery on time) Show less

• Regional Market Specialist, EMEA Region

  • Jan 2009 - Jun 2010

  • price positioning of new products for three markets of EMEA Region – Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia• setting merchandising prices in above mentioned markets• setting combination offers: Buy1 Buy set, But 1 Get 1 free, Mix offers; activity & loyalty offers• assessing impact of pricing decisions on units/sales/profit (planning and post implementation)• close cooperation with forecasting team• competition monitoring in terms of pricing• regionalizatoin project - a first market specialist position in a company, testing possibilities of local pricing management from a regional level Show less

• Catalogue Planning Assistant, CEM Region

  • Apr 2008 - Dec 2008

  • sale pages creation, stock & excess analyses– close cooperation with 13 countries of CEM Region• active participation in catalogue planning process• preparing presentations, reports and market analyses for Category and Excess & Obsolete teams



KOMPAN A/S

• Poland
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Coordinator

  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2006

  • individual project – researching, mapping and planning KOMPAN’s market entry to India and Taiwan (successful market entries: gaining two distributors in India and one in Taiwan) • assessing and researching of Indonesian, Malaysian, and Philippine markets (positioning, competitive analysis, brand recognition) • marketing projects related to Chinese market (e.g. Sponsorship Project) • preparing marketing reports and presentation material • individual project – researching, mapping and planning KOMPAN’s market entry to India and Taiwan (successful market entries: gaining two distributors in India and one in Taiwan) • assessing and researching of Indonesian, Malaysian, and Philippine markets (positioning, competitive analysis, brand recognition) • marketing projects related to Chinese market (e.g. Sponsorship Project) • preparing marketing reports and presentation material



Maxmedia Sp. z o.o.

• Personal Assistant to Financial Director

  • Jun 2003 - Sep 2003

  • financial reporting, invoicing using MS Excel and SAP • filing, accounting • financial reporting, invoicing using MS Excel and SAP • filing, accounting