Manager Operational Excellence - Job application

SUMMARY

. seven years of work experience in procurement and project management

. reliable, responsible, flexibile, ambitious and diligent person

. professional goal: further improvement, learning, gaining new

knowledges and experiences

PERSONAL DATA

Name: Sandro Snovak

Date and place of birth: 24. sije?anj 1983., Kutina

Adress: Milke Trnine 20, 44321 Kutina

Phone: +385 (0)44 681 656

Mobile: +385 (0-99-704-****

E-mail: *******@***.**

EDUCATION

09/2007 - 11/2008 MBA European Management, Berlin School of

Economics, Berlin, Germany (Mostly focused on

business strategy developement)

09/2001 - 05/2006 Faculty of Economics and Business, Direction:

Business informatics, Zagreb University

09/1997 - 06/2001 Mathematic Gimnasium, H.S. Tina Ujevi?a, Kutina

SEMINARS

04/2009 - 07/2009 School of practic preparation of projects for

EU funds

WORK EXPERIENCE

05/2014 - today Agency for Regional Development of the

Republic of Croatia

Projects coordinator (Projects cofinanced from EU

funds)

. Project management from start of the

project implementation till the end of the

project

02/2012 - 10/2013 Nestle d.o.o. (Adriatic region), Zagreb

Purchasing specialist, Procurement

. IT equipment, Mobile and Fixed Telephony

management

. Events organisation

. Car fleet management

. SAP superuser

01/2011 - 02/2012 STSI d.o.o., Zagreb (Member of INA/MOL Group)

Junior referent, Procurement department

. procurement of complex materials and

highly specialised services for oil industry

. gained excellent negotiation skills

. import of materials and services

. excellent market intelligence especially

on foreign markets (gained savings in several

mil. kunas for STSI d.o.o.)

. included in large project of construction

of three new gas platforms in the North

Adriatic sea

12/2008 - 04/2010 Petrokemija d.d., Kutina

Commercialist (09/2009 - 04/2010)

. communication with suppliers and offers

collections, import/export of material and

services, transport organisation, price

negotiation

. search for finance

sources for large projects

(Connected Petrokemija d.d. with EBRD; Wrote

two investment studies for HBOR finance)

. Created and suggested new digitalised process

for internal document flow of procurement

process (Microsoft Visio)

Strategic controlling (12/2008 - 08/2009)

. Business statements writing

. Market analysis

06/2005 - 08/2007 Hewlett - Packard d.o.o., Zagreb

Logistic coordinatior

. Spare parts management

. Engineers coordination

. First line of communication with customers

SKILLS

Computer knowledge Active - MsOffice

Active - Internet (Data

mining)

Excellent analitic skills

SAP superuser

Foreign languages ENGLISH: Active (Excellent)

GERMAN: Active (Good)

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Sport Recreation, tenis, football

Music Piano (Primary music school, B.P. Kutina)

OTHER

Driving licence, B category

Motivation letter

Dear Madam or Sir,

It is my great pleasure to apply for a job of Manager Operational

Excellence that i saw on internet. Maybe not as a usual, but as a

professional, i will start this motivation letter with the word

'opportunity'. As i see this job as a new opportunity in my life and also a

great challenge, maybe more important of that is that all the opportunities

in my life i recognized and grabbed by myself. I am writing you that

because that kind of character i see as very important for this position.

Especially in aspect of recognizeing opportunities in the business and

turning them into company advantage.

Before i write you something about me i created SWOT analysis 'selfie' so

you could see all of my positive and negative characteristics.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

Fast learning No experience in biopharmaceutical

Reliability company

Good listener and thinker

Goals oriented

Simplicity and flexiblility

Very good team player

Non conflict person

Allways seeks for more

OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

As a very hardworking person and

New view on the company and with all till now experience i do

processes not see threats for myself in any

New values contribution new environment

Luck bringer (

Pledge for the future

Regarding me as a person i am job oriented and loyal person with great love

to work, gaining new experiences and allways looking to go forward. So if

you choose me as a potential employee for this position and give me

opportunity to show you my values i am sure that you will not regret.

I hope you will find this motivation letter interesting and different and i

would like to finish it with phrase from the Rocky Balboa movie:

" Nothing will kick you that hard as life will, but no matter how hard it

kick the most important is to keep moving forward, and when it kick you

again you need to stand up twice as stronger and keep moving forward

Best regards,

Sandro Snovak, dipl. oec., MBA

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