Experience

Comex Eco Packaging

• Serbia
• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operations Officer

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Focused on setting strategic goals, making operational decisions and implementing activities, and leading Graphic Design, Production, Maintenance, and Warehouse departments, increasing performance and productivity of those departments through spearheading operational excellence and continuous process improvement.• Manage a team of 7 people including Production Preparation Managers, Prepress Manager, Production Manager, CTO, Head of Maintenance, and a Store Supervisor, as well as 90 indirect reports, building their skills and capacities through leading coaching and training efforts.• Monitor productivity and performance and analyze accomplished results weekly and monthly, identifying areas of improvement.• Initiate and integrate advanced reporting processes through managing the Business Intelligence (BI) software implementation project, and create requirements through gathering relevant data and insight from all departments.• Accomplished production volume growth by 35% in Q1 of 2020 by ensuring and maintaining an excess stock of FMCG.• Instituted numerous improvements through leading and directing Pantheon information system implementation project.o Streamlined internal logistics by creating requirements for receiving and issuing goods in the warehouse and delivering those requirements to the company that implemented the system.o Achieved cost savings by reducing the warehouse labor demand by 20%.o Delivered transparency and traceability of the input material by introducing terminals (web service) for recording material consumption at the cost point.o Facilitated graphic preparation processes by creating web solutions with a customer's order status change information.o Provided usable insights into Production and Graphic Design departments' operations through creating specialized reports.o Improved issuing and receiving of goods by launching a web service via a mobile device, as well as by implementing WMS and mass use of barcodes.

• Director Of Manufacturing

  • Sep 2013 - Dec 2019

  Oriented on ensuring manufacturing performance and quality goals are met through planning daily production, conducting weekly and monthly capacity planning, monitoring and evaluating workflow, and implementing process improvements, thereby achieving substantial cost savings, profit growth, as well as productivity and efficiency increases.• Managed a team of 6 direct and up to 70 indirect reports, directed selection, onboarding, and termination processes, as well as managed Opex budget and led all capital investment projects.• Enabled gathering and analysis of extensive process data and identified areas for improvement based on the results, as well as drove continuous process improvement by initiating and implementing Lean manufacturing methods.• Gathered complete insights into performance results by integrating KPIs for every process, as well as assessing, reviewing, and analyzing OOE and KPIs, resulting in reducing the monthly scrap from 13% to 8%.• Drove business improvement initiatives by orchestrating ERP implementation projects and training employees on efficient software utilization.• Boosted the revenue by 18.8% over 5 years and increased the profit by 9.9% in 2019 vs. 2018 by establishing and maintaining continuous and uniform product quality and growing the portfolio of cooperation with existing clients.• Streamlined complete color management process, standardized the printing process, and instituted quality control parameters by leading Color Management projects, generating substantial resource savings.• Increased annual productivity by 9% through implementing new automated equipment and optimizing working processes.• Acted as a member of the Integrated Quality Committee, as well as a member of the ISO and BRC standard defense team.• Optimized end-to-end production process by establishing traceability across all process phases, from raw material input to the final product.

• Prepress Director

  • Jun 2010 - Sep 2013

  Emphasis on leading prepress operations and accompanying projects, as well as standardizing processes to improve product quality and minimize errors.

• Prepress Manager

  • Apr 2009 - Jun 2010

  Eliminated over 99.9% of errors by developing and implementing quality control procedures for the Prepress department.



Schargo Tea

• Food & Beverages

• Managing Partner & Co-owner

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  Concentrated on co-founding a company for tea production in cooperation with business partners, setting the strategic direction of the company including its' vision, mission, and goals, establishing, building, and leading communication and cooperation with clients and partners.• Established the product roadmap aligned with the company's vision, successfully entering the company's products into large retail chains such as Delhaize, Mercator, and DIS, as well as acquiring clients such as Hyatt and Mećavnik.• Determined the packaging, appearance, dimensions, primary, secondary and tertiary packaging, as well as the logistical dimensions.• Collaborated with the professional Designer on creating the packaging design.• Created and boosted social media follower base by managing digital marketing initiatives in collaboration with a marketing agency.• Led various business development operations, including purchasing operations, invoicing, book approvals, debits, preparing VAT documentation, identifying suppliers for tea, coffee, packaging, etc., and negotiating prices and delivery terms, defining the raw material composition, etc.