CACHITA
COO/Managing Director - Romania - iCEO #50014

Experience

Founder of Company 3 : 1 financial - economic profile, 2 technical and commercial profile ; I was branch manager at a company with 350 employees and coverage 1 / 3 of Romania area

Major Achievements

- Responsibility for administrative and organizational leadership of the branch (all over Transylvania Area – 11 counties) • Responsible of the people management, competence development and creation/application of best practices/processes in own group; • Provides technical leadership in my area of competence; • Supports the business in making good development project/program plans and in identifying the necessary resources; • Needs to work well with all stakeholders (other local managers/leaders, project managers, Site Manager; HR; their direct reports and others); • Recruits/selects new employees based on the business needs; • Develops the talents and skills needed by the business; • Proactively identifies the need for new processes and best practices, that would increase the efficiency of the people in his/her group; • Identifies competencies and preserves the know-how needed in the field; • Coordinates activities to identify the latest technologies/methodologies used in the field and builds up the necessary competencies; • Responsible with performance evaluation, setting and reviewing the objectives and the personal development plans of his/her direct reports; • Responsible with planning and tracking my group budgets • Responsible with the subcontracting relationship in my own team - negotiation, coordination and tracking contracts - Oversee ongoing, short range and long range property management to ensure the viability, continuity and growth of the company; - Oversee workplace operations, including holding staff meetings and retreats, and working with staff to maintain and improve effectiveness and efficiency; - To manage and grow the sales and service organisation in a client oriented environment; - Optimizing office managing processes with the objective of decreasing its working costs and lowering indeptness to HQ creating and being held responsible for the annual P&L budgets; realization of predetermined P&L reports; - Effective Operations Management to ensure committed service levels are met consistently; - Develop business activities, build and maintain excellent client relationships with client / agents/ partners etc. - Develop all and any associated services that will maximize value creation, accelerate growth and achieve operational profit and excellence across all functions - Retention of Customers through effective Client servicing & relationship management; - Provide vision and oversight for the technology needs of the organization; - Competitors monitoring & analysis; - Identify new business and growth opportunities to help grow and expand current company operations; maintaining and creating sales plans; - Training and ongoing qualifications' improvement of office personnel (particularly in the sales structure - coaching); - Responsible with hiring, dismissal and personnel transfers within the region in cooperation with the HQ managers. - Plan, control and supervise the fulfillment of tasks in the field of responsibility. - Secure a smooth co-operation of the employees in engineering and production - Define limits for decisions and responsibilities of the direct subordinated employ-ees. - Inform employees in the field of responsibility about actual objectives, tasks, cost, performance and all essential decisions or implemented measures by management concerning the department or the employees directly. - Contribute to continuous improvement of structure and process organization in engineering and production considering the interfaces to other organizational units. - Control and meet cost, performance, budgets and planning in the field of responsi-bility. - Resolves customer issues with the highest level of complexity that have been escalated by individual contributors and supervisors, focusing on "top-tier" customers. - Presents highly complex internal operational issues (e.g., opportunities to improve current processes) to senior management and drives implementation of solutions... - Understands and can present country- or region-specific business issues to senior leadership to work towards solutions - Improve efficiency in field of responsibility

Industry Sector Competencies

E-Commerce/Internet

Electronics

IT/Computer Hardware

Telecommunications

Telecom & studios equipment

Automotive

Professional Objectives

Function: Executive Manager / Operations Manager / Branch Manager / Senior Manager / Project Manager / Business Developer / General Management - Consulting

Interim Manager: No

Permanent Position: Yes

Operational: Yes

Availability: Full time

Prefered Locations: Romania ; France ; Italy

Additional Professional Interests

Non executive director assignments

Countries Covered

Romania

Operational Competencies

Technologies to market (Professional)

Business development (Professional)

Acquisition and shadow management (Professional)

Geographical expansion (Professional)