Experience

Skillab

• Romania
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lecturer in Supply Chain Management

  • Jun 2023 - Present



Premier Restaurants Romania, McDonald’s DL

• Romania

• Supply Chain Manager

  • Mar 2018 - Present

  Creating procurement strategies to align with business needs, leverage expenditures, and maximizing value delivery. Initiating supplier selection, management, and development for food and non-food raw materials. Monitoring suppliers' performance through the external partner, ensuring SLAs compliance and quality metrics to the end customers. Managing and optimizing the outsourced activities of the supply chain and logistics, as well as master data and finance to ensure effective processes and maximize opportunities. Vendors management, overviewing RFPs, negotiating terms and conditions. Product Development, from brief reception to sourcing and selection of appropriate vendors, negotiating terms and conditions, and monitoring implementation with the external partner. Budget responsibility, with a focus on financial optimization. Reports to: Country Manager Romania I Group Supply Chain Director. Manages teams of direct and indirect reports: ≤ 9 seniors and coordinators. Show less



BWFR - Business Women Forum Romania

• Romania
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • Jun 2018 - Present



Self-employed

• Bucharest, Romania

• Independent Contractor I Project Based

  • Jan 2016 - Mar 2018



SC Johnson

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supply Chain Lead Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2015

  Responsible for five divisions, from Logistics, Demand Planning, Operations Import-Export, and Product Registration, to Customer Service. Chosen as Project Lead Supply Chain for the SAP implementation in Romania, and managed the regional cross-functional project team. Super User for APO and Purchasing SAP Modules. Strategy creator for the assigned countries planned and monitored the implementation. Acted as a Change Lead through various business model transitions, from warehousing locations change to the externalization of business units. Re-designed all specific processes for business automatization, as well as the entire HR component, from Job segmentation to new functions creation. Stakeholders’ management, from Sales, Legal, Operations, Finance, and Board Members, to external partners, in a multicultural environment with different specificities and demands. Developed high performing teams nationally and regionally, through situational leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training. Managed budgets for warehousing, re-packing, and transportation. Reported to: Cluster Supply Chain Manager I Country Manager Romania. Subordinates: 8 directs, specialists and coordinators. Show less



Unilever

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regional Project Lead I Supply Chain Automation

  • Sep 2004 - Dec 2005

  Managed the relationship with the IT&C provider for the development and implementation of a tailor-made stock replenishment tool.Designed and implemented stock models for five Unilever warehouses and 50 distributors across 7 countries in the south Eastern region.Created efficiency models with immediate business results in savings for the internal Sales department as well as for the distributors and for the warehouse management.Created forecasting models and communicated them regularly with all internal stakeholders.Developed and delivered training programs for the end-users, occasionally and regularly.Coordinated distributors’ stock reduction initiative.Reported to: Supply Chain Director.Coordinated ≤ 10 project implementation representatives in finance and sales. Show less

• Demand Planner

  • Feb 2003 - Sep 2004

  Covered seven countries within the group, consolidated and reported on the stock from Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania.Provided regular input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.Sourcing imported finished goods from suppliers from all over the world.European single point of contact (SPOC) for all supply chain applications.Reported to: Supply Chain Manager.

• Buyer I Promotional and Packaging

  • Mar 1999 - Jan 2003

  Designed and implemented the buying procedures for Unilever South-Central Europe, as a newly created role in the business.Managed end to end procurement process for POS materials and services, within the allocated European countries: understanding and gathering requirements, supplier search, gathering proposals, evaluating suppliers on both cost and quality, executing contracts with chosen suppliers.Monitored and reported supplier performance management.Increased efficiency in spending promotional budgets, resulting in company savings.Reported to: Country Buying Manager. Show less

• Planning Manager for Algida

  • Dec 1997 - Feb 1999

  Newly created role in Algida, which functioned under separate logistics, due to the specificity of the end-product and the supply chain.Supply planning for imports, demand forecasting, order execution from suppliers to cold-stores, stock control, and reporting.Balancing inventory levels, capacity, and customer service across all the items. Analysis of sales history and reports drawing.Reported to: Country Manager Algida Business Unit.

• Forecasting Manager

  • Jan 1996 - Nov 1997

  Newly created function created tools, processes, and procedures as well as relationships with stakeholders, from a green-field level.Reported to: Sales Manager.