Klavdija Verlak
T&L Business Partner at Novartis in Slovenia- Claim this Profile
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English Professional working proficiency
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German Professional working proficiency
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Croatian Full professional proficiency
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Serbian Limited working proficiency
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Karmen Voda
I worked closely with Klavdija during several years in L’Oreal, at the Active Cosmetics Division in the Adria Hub. Klavdija is a multi-faceted expert with the incredible capacity of getting teams on board her vision and bringing together various profiles to achieve a common goal. By simply listening and asking questions, she can deconstruct complex problems, clarify priorities, reorganize processes for better efficiency and find constructive solutions. She lead a large commercial team in several countries to create the category of dermocosmetics in the pharmacies of the region. She earned the full trust of all the pharmacy chain directors by showing the added value of the category, both for this specific retail channel as well as for their business. Still today, she is recognized as as THE EXPERT for the category in the region. Klavdija is a natural leader and builds her leadership on collaboration, empathy, trust, transparency and strategic vision. Being a leader means daring to be yourself and accepting yourself with all your qualities and faults. Being first a human being working with other human beings, trying to bring out the best in them and help them develop as professionals. Klavdija has the super-power of doing just that and I recommend her dearly!
Tina G.
Klavdija is a great leader and motivator, who recognises personal qualities and manages to set up great teams that are highly efficient. With her deep knowledge and experience in marketing and sales she is able to think strategically but also knows how to practically aproach to each part of the sales chain. She is a great partner to work with.
Karmen Voda
I worked closely with Klavdija during several years in L’Oreal, at the Active Cosmetics Division in the Adria Hub. Klavdija is a multi-faceted expert with the incredible capacity of getting teams on board her vision and bringing together various profiles to achieve a common goal. By simply listening and asking questions, she can deconstruct complex problems, clarify priorities, reorganize processes for better efficiency and find constructive solutions. She lead a large commercial team in several countries to create the category of dermocosmetics in the pharmacies of the region. She earned the full trust of all the pharmacy chain directors by showing the added value of the category, both for this specific retail channel as well as for their business. Still today, she is recognized as as THE EXPERT for the category in the region. Klavdija is a natural leader and builds her leadership on collaboration, empathy, trust, transparency and strategic vision. Being a leader means daring to be yourself and accepting yourself with all your qualities and faults. Being first a human being working with other human beings, trying to bring out the best in them and help them develop as professionals. Klavdija has the super-power of doing just that and I recommend her dearly!
Tina G.
Klavdija is a great leader and motivator, who recognises personal qualities and manages to set up great teams that are highly efficient. With her deep knowledge and experience in marketing and sales she is able to think strategically but also knows how to practically aproach to each part of the sales chain. She is a great partner to work with.
Karmen Voda
I worked closely with Klavdija during several years in L’Oreal, at the Active Cosmetics Division in the Adria Hub. Klavdija is a multi-faceted expert with the incredible capacity of getting teams on board her vision and bringing together various profiles to achieve a common goal. By simply listening and asking questions, she can deconstruct complex problems, clarify priorities, reorganize processes for better efficiency and find constructive solutions. She lead a large commercial team in several countries to create the category of dermocosmetics in the pharmacies of the region. She earned the full trust of all the pharmacy chain directors by showing the added value of the category, both for this specific retail channel as well as for their business. Still today, she is recognized as as THE EXPERT for the category in the region. Klavdija is a natural leader and builds her leadership on collaboration, empathy, trust, transparency and strategic vision. Being a leader means daring to be yourself and accepting yourself with all your qualities and faults. Being first a human being working with other human beings, trying to bring out the best in them and help them develop as professionals. Klavdija has the super-power of doing just that and I recommend her dearly!
Tina G.
Klavdija is a great leader and motivator, who recognises personal qualities and manages to set up great teams that are highly efficient. With her deep knowledge and experience in marketing and sales she is able to think strategically but also knows how to practically aproach to each part of the sales chain. She is a great partner to work with.
Karmen Voda
I worked closely with Klavdija during several years in L’Oreal, at the Active Cosmetics Division in the Adria Hub. Klavdija is a multi-faceted expert with the incredible capacity of getting teams on board her vision and bringing together various profiles to achieve a common goal. By simply listening and asking questions, she can deconstruct complex problems, clarify priorities, reorganize processes for better efficiency and find constructive solutions. She lead a large commercial team in several countries to create the category of dermocosmetics in the pharmacies of the region. She earned the full trust of all the pharmacy chain directors by showing the added value of the category, both for this specific retail channel as well as for their business. Still today, she is recognized as as THE EXPERT for the category in the region. Klavdija is a natural leader and builds her leadership on collaboration, empathy, trust, transparency and strategic vision. Being a leader means daring to be yourself and accepting yourself with all your qualities and faults. Being first a human being working with other human beings, trying to bring out the best in them and help them develop as professionals. Klavdija has the super-power of doing just that and I recommend her dearly!
Tina G.
Klavdija is a great leader and motivator, who recognises personal qualities and manages to set up great teams that are highly efficient. With her deep knowledge and experience in marketing and sales she is able to think strategically but also knows how to practically aproach to each part of the sales chain. She is a great partner to work with.
Credentials
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Design Thinking: Understanding the Process
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Take a More Creative Approach to Problem-Solving
LinkedInAug, 2021- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Novartis in Slovenia
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Slovenia
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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300 - 400 Employee
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T&L Business Partner
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Jun 2021 - Present
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Holimar
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Spain
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Food and Beverage Services
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Business Owner, Marketing & Brand management expert; Team leadership & Accountability Coach
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2013 - Aug 2021
Trainer & Coach: management and sales training/coaching for multiple employees to drive leadership and business developmentBusiness Development & Marketing Consultant: resetting overall marketing & sales workflow to increase results; category management and space management od pharmacies
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Marketing Consultant
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Sep 2013 - 2019
Marketing outsourcing: overall marketing management: preparing plans, implementation, budget management, team leadership - short term or long term cooperationBrand management: overall brand management: preparing plans, implementation, budget management, team leadership - short term or long term cooperationSpecialized in pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and food supplement industries with measurable benefits.
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HOLIMAR, Klavdija Verlak; holistic help with business development
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Personal & business development mentor
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2019 - Jun 2021
Find your SELF: self - WORTH, self - CONFIDENCE, self - UNDERSTANDING Find and understand your WHY. Find and practice the HOW. Be authentic, evolve & have a career of your dreams. Find your SELF: self - WORTH, self - CONFIDENCE, self - UNDERSTANDING Find and understand your WHY. Find and practice the HOW. Be authentic, evolve & have a career of your dreams.
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Lekarna Ljubljana
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Slovenia
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Retail Pharmacies
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1 - 100 Employee
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Brand manager
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Jun 2010 - Sep 2013
Brand Manager with the responsibility of developing the business of the Private Label (the Brand belonging to the chain composed of food supplements, cosmetics, cosmetics with special purposes) from product concept and composition to the final product on the shelf including all regulatory issues, brand architecture and brand expression in the point of sale, marketing, training and commercial strategy and team management. Achievements: 70 products launched in 3 years, developing cosmetic range in a galenic laboratory.. Show less
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Sales manager
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May 2009 - Mar 2011
Sales Manager responsible for the preparation and execution of yearly turnover of the chain, cooperation with clients, modernization of pharmacies and yearly activities/marketing plan. Achievements: redesigned, modern open space pharmacies, category labelling/differentiation in all 40 pharmacies (total universe Slovenia 297 pharmacies at that time), category activities with KAM clients: three educational / sales handbooks for end consumers (food supplements, suncare, cosmetics).
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Category management & business development director
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May 2000 - May 2009
Category Management & Business Development DirectorResponsible for the business development of Active Cosmetics Brands (Vichy, La Roche-Posay, Innéov) in 8 countries with different nationalities and languages. Achievments: cooperation with all KAM clients, three gropus of Pharmacy Managers educated through specific training program (one group of Chain Directors and two groups of Pharmacy Managers). Participation at the International ACD Pharmacy Managers' Convention with VIP clients, award received. Modernization of the pharmacy: 10 tailor-made projects. Windows presence covering 40% of the market. Healthy Skin Center in three countries – outdoor and indoor pharmacy activities every year. Show less
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Product Manager
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2003 - 2004
Product Manager Vichy responsible for all marketing activities of several Vichy franchises (cellulite, body, anti-aging).Achievements: launching Liposyne – exceeding the plan for more then 30%. Set-up of new ways of communicating with consumer in POS (introducing window vision windows to the region).
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Education
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University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), German Language and Literature
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