Anna Cichocka
Warsaw
Summary
I'm a person with a global outlook and exposed to different
challenges and cultures experiences (working experience from
different countries and from global companies).
Able to cope effectively with change, demonstrate a drive for results and decision-making abilities.
Loyalty, easy-going personality that seeks for developing new
challenges.
Very strong negotiation skills.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Category Sourcing Manager
JULA Europe Sp. Z O.o.
01.2023 - Current
- Almost 5 years of experience in different categories - garden,
leisure, household, cars&garage - Responsible for a whole European footprint with main focus on own-brand suppliers - developing relationships with suppliers to attain maximum cost efficiency
- Supporting Buyers with the best possible selection of suppliers (pre-evaluation, price and contract negotiation, everyday business relation, internal company system tasks)
- Supporting other teams (marketing, logistic, QA)
- Market analysis, fair trades, factory visits
- Team management
- Currently responsible directly for over 60 suppliers, also
supporting sub-workers with their tasks and for over 13 mln euro purchase value business
Senior Sourcer
JULA Europe Sp. Z O.o.
04.2021 - 12.2022
- Main focus on garden and home & household category
- Daily sourcing tasks for 47 active suppliers supporting Global
Sourcing Buyers with purchase business basket overcoming 10
mln euro
Sourcer
JULA Europe Sp. Z O.o.
02.2019 - 03.2021
- Main focus on garden and home & household categories
- Daily sourcing tasks for up to 25 suppliers developing both
categories from 2,2 mln euro purchasing basket value to almost 10 mln euro within 3 years - Daily support of Global Purchasing Buyers
Sourcing Specialist
Kingfisher Sourcing Eastern Europe Sp. Z O.o.
09.2011 - 01.2019
- Over 7 years' experience in sourcing in bathroom and kitchen
category - Deep knowledge of the European market producers
- Project development from the beginning till the end (sourcing of new vendors, factory pre-auditing, products quality control,
contract negotiation, preparing packaging and labels, ensure the project is delivered on time) - Every day work with Quality, Supply Chain, Brand team
- Realization of global e-tenders
- Driving cost price reduction and other costs optimization
- Vendor mapping actualization (over 100 potential vendors
defined for Kingfisher Group) - Implementation of Cooke&Lewis brand (support in creating other merchandising tools for Operating Companies)
- Market analysis (visiting fairs, analyzing the competitors'
products, collecting news from the market from different sources)
Import Specialist
ZPOW Dawtona
02.2010 - 09.2011
- FMCG goods import (Europe + Asia), purchasing planning
- Contracts' negotiations, supervision of their
realization - Effective suppliers management, searching for new potential
contractors - Active participation in new products' creation, supervision during their launching to the market, sale analysis
Export Specialist
Delia Cosmetics
06.2009 - 02.2010
- Products' sale planning
- Preparing documents for export (Eastern and Western Europe)
- Contracts' negotiations, logistic and transport organization,
vindication - New products creation and launching to the market
- Labels translation to english and spanish
Real Property Sale Agent
Villas Blancas
12.2008 - 03.2009
- Preparing documentation for houses selling
- Marketing campaigns organization over Spain
Education
High School Diploma -
Warsaw School of Economics, Procurement Management
Warsaw, Poland02.2015
Master of Psychology - Psychology
University of Łódź
Łódź, Poland06.2008
Master of Psychology, PHD Curse of Gender Studies - Psychology
Universidad De Granada
Granada, Spain06.2007
Skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Excellent projects' management result
- Deep knowledge of many different categories across
Europe (garden, leisure, home&household, cars)
- Very good relation with Global Purchasing Team
- Strong orientation on KPIs delivering
- Huge will to develop myself in team
management role
Hobby
Classical ballet
Travelling to remote places (Latin America)
Languages
Polish
Native language
English
Proficient
C2
Spanish
Advanced
C1
Timeline
Category Sourcing Manager
JULA Europe Sp. Z O.o.
01.2023 - Current
Senior Sourcer
JULA Europe Sp. Z O.o.
04.2021 - 12.2022
Sourcer
JULA Europe Sp. Z O.o.
02.2019 - 03.2021
Sourcing Specialist
Kingfisher Sourcing Eastern Europe Sp. Z O.o.
09.2011 - 01.2019
Import Specialist
ZPOW Dawtona
02.2010 - 09.2011
Export Specialist
Delia Cosmetics
06.2009 - 02.2010
Real Property Sale Agent
Villas Blancas
12.2008 - 03.2009
High School Diploma -
Warsaw School of Economics, Procurement Management
Master of Psychology - Psychology
University of Łódź
Master of Psychology, PHD Curse of Gender Studies - Psychology
Universidad De Granada
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