Aliaksandra Balashova
Poznań
Summary
Productive employee with extreme love for people.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Junior Material Planner
Hays Polska for Mars Polska
11.2022 - Current
- Medium-term and long-term material planning.
- Coordinated expedited orders with manufacturing affiliates to meet demand.
- Tracked placed orders to identify and resolve problems impacting on-time delivery.
- Assessment of risks related to potential problems in the supply of materials, flagging and minimizing these risks.
- Update data in SAP system.
- Housekeeping in planning system.
- Verification of incoming invoices.
- Building relationships with external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Optimizing costs of potentially obsolete materials.
Purchase Coordinator
Grupa Mo
06.2019 - 09.2021
- Managed purchases, receipts and the documentation of finished goods, materials, packaging and ingredients.
- Logistical process management.
- Monitored weekly, monthly and quarterly achievement goals.
- Implemented robust inspection policies to check the quality of all incoming products.
- Collected operations data and created spreadsheets detailing trends.
- Expeditiously and effectively resolved purchasing claim issues.
- Executed successful events and trade shows.
- Determined pricing schedules.
- Located and vetted vendors, established good relationships and negotiated contracts.
- Sourced new vendors for purchasing needs.
- Conducted market research to determine appropriate pricing.
- Expedited distribution of materials to locations.
- Organised shipment paperwork.
- Prepared professional presentations.
- Researched market trends.
- Driving client satisfaction.
- Account management.
- Communication and coordination of the top and largest companies within the branch.
- Advocate clients needs cross-departmentally.
- Build relationships cross-functionally with both internal and external teams.
- Participation in negotiations in English, Polish, Russian and as well as in Spanish.
International Office Coordinator
Collegium Da Vinci
12.2013 - 05.2019
- Managing a small team of the International Office (delegating tasks, new employees onboarding, monitoring the quality of work, sales and customer service, motivating employees).
- Administrative support of the department (maintaining recruitment documentation, issuing certificates, managing the recruitment system, close cooperation with the IT department, with the student support department, with the marketing department, with the Dean's department, taking care of the recruitment process).
- Close cooperation with direct superiors (keeping a calendar, preparing meetings and business trips, taking care of foreign guests from the Chancellor's Office).
- Active recruitment of candidates for all cycles of study programmes and information support for students during the first year of study.
- Presentation and sale of the educational offer (customer focused selling, organization of presentations for a wide audience, conducting presentations together with the sales team in three languages).
- Foreign trips (organizing foreign delegations for sales purposes).
- Organizing of language courses (creation of the program, responsibility for sales, recruitment and implementation, recruitment of the teachers).
- Managing the Erasmus+ international project.
- Attracting recruitment agents from abroad.
- Experience in creating procedures and standards to improve the quality of the internal management system of the educational institution.
- Planned and executed new strategies to increase sales.
- Operated equipment to exceed production targets.
- Measured and accurately processed materials to minimise wastage.
- Engaged with customers to better understand needs and deliver excellent service.
- Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends and improvements in processes.
- Planned rotas to maintain high service levels while minimising payroll costs.
- Actively listened to customers to fully understand requests and address concerns.
- Handled customer concerns and escalated major issues to supervisor.
- Identified issues, analysed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Developed team communications and information for meetings.
- Produced content for websites and social media channels to enhance brand visibility.
Education
Bachelor degree - Cultural Studies
Collegium Da Vinci
Poznan2007
Bachelor degree - Cultural Studies
European Humanities University
Minsk 2003
Skills
- Professional communication skills
- Ability to share knowledge
- Onboarding new employees
- Loyalty, commitment and internal motivation
- Control and rapid response in emergency situations
- Customer service skills
- Languages
Languages
Polish
Advanced
C1
Russian
Proficient
C2
English
Advanced
C1
Spanish
Elementary
A2
Timeline
Junior Material Planner
Hays Polska for Mars Polska
11.2022 - Current
Purchase Coordinator
Grupa Mo
06.2019 - 09.2021
International Office Coordinator
Collegium Da Vinci
12.2013 - 05.2019
Bachelor degree - Cultural Studies
Collegium Da Vinci
Bachelor degree - Cultural Studies
European Humanities University
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