Kovalenko Sergey

Language proficiency: English - fluent, Украинский - fluent
Autobiography
Current job
- CJSC “Dnepropetrovsk plant of food concentrates” - Commercial Director (from october 2006-10-01 00:00:00.0, Днепропетровск)
• Enterprise strategic development
• Sales management on the territory of Ukraine
• Export sales development
• Control over company’s key performance indicators:
• Sales forecasting, Production planning,
• Control over financial discipline,
• Profitability,
• Price formation
• Commercial policy
• Distribution business-processes and document flow development.
• Personnel motivation system implementation
• New product lines development.
• Rebranding, redesign, restyling of the existing products
• Procurement of raw-materials and supporting materials for production process
Previous jobs
- CJSC with FI «Bureau of Successful Sales» - Distribution Director (2006-01-01 00:00:00.0 - 2006-09-01 00:00:00.0)
• Negotiations with producers
• Hiring people
• Project management
• Commercial policy
• Control projects managers
• Control budgets - CJSC with FI DOEP («Oleina » ТМ), Business unit of «BUNGE», - “Ideal” sunflower oil project leader, Tolling production at CJSC “Chumak” (2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 - 2006-01-01 00:00:00.0)
Main functions:
- Planning of:
Production volumes
Crude oil and packaging materials purchasing
Finished goods shipment
-Efficient coordination of the activities under the tolling contract of the companies involved in the project (CJSC «Chumak», «Molinos Ukraine», Bunge CIS, Moscow, Bunge Ukraine)
- Organization and control over:
Finished goods pricing/ price calculation.
Shipments
Payments
- Reporting on the current activities to the management of Bunge Ukraine, Bunge CIS.
- Indirect subordination of 2 people (medium-level managers), direct subordination of 2 employees of Shipments Control and Administration Department. - CJSC with FI DOEP («Oleina » ТМ), Business unit of «BUNGE», - Head of Shipments Execution and Administration Department (1998-10-01 00:00:00.0 - 2006-01-01 00:00:00.0)
Main functions:
-Management of foreign economic activity for FMCG group
-Planning and reporting on sales/shipments for all the products produced by the enterprise
-Management of the department (12 people)
-Responsibility for shipments (partially for sales) of all the products produced by the plant
-Responsibility for the administration of sales and contracts execution
-Structural optimization, personnel recruiting and training
-Efficient cooperation with other plant departments: production, logistics, accounting, financial department, sales department
-Setting tasks to IT department for optimization of the information systems
-Ensuring information exchange between the companies
-Contracts working out and signing - CJSC with FI DOEP («Oleina » ТМ) - Manager of Shipments Department. (1998-03-01 00:00:00.0 - 1998-10-01 00:00:00.0)
Main functions:
- Organization of finished products («Oleina» oil) shipments/sales system in Ukraine.
- Shipments planning in Ukraine
- Preparing primary documents for finished products shipments
- Organizing railway transportations.
- Organizing and participation in the regional and local exhibitions
- Reporting
- Coordination of actions among plant departments (Bottling plant, Finished products warehouse, Accounting)
- Control over contracts execution - CJSC with FI DOEP («Oleina » ТМ) - Sunflower seeds purchasing manager. (1997-10-01 00:00:00.0 - 1998-02-01 00:00:00.0)
Main functions:
-Concluding agreements for sunflower seeds delivery
-Planning of sunflower seeds supply.
-Reporting
-Searching for potential suppliers.
-Participation in the exhibitions - CJSC with FI DOEP («Oleina » ТМ) - “Oleina” oil sales manager (1996-05-01 00:00:00.0 - 1997-09-01 00:00:00.0)
Main functions:
- Launch of “Oleina” sales as a new brand in Dnepropetrovsk.
- Concluding direct agreements with the city retail chains
- Finished products shipments planning
- Preparation of primary documents
- Control over contracts execution - «Dneproneft» company, Dnepropetrovsk - Sales manager5 (1995-05-01 00:00:00.0 - 1996-05-01 00:00:00.0)
Working on a tolling basis with CJSC with FI “DOEP”
Crude oil wholesaling in Ukraine and abroad.
University education
- Kiev National University of Economics , Masters’ preparation centre., of Business Administration (MBA)2005-2005
- Dnepropetrovsk Chemical and Technological University, Faculty of elastomers processing , Major – Technologist of elastomers production, 1995-1995
Training courses
- Budgeting, ----Ernst and Young, -----certification, 2003
- Efficient telephone sales, Agency Business Master, -----certification, 2003
- Time-management (advanced)Infor manager, -----certification, 2003
- Strategic Management , Ernst and Young, -----certification, 2003
- Company efficient management, -----IIB, ---certification, 2002
- Time-management, ----Infor-manager, ---certification, 2002
- Company efficient communications and management skills, ----Nordic, ----certification, 2002