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Raluca Ivanescu

Raluca Ivanescu

Bucharest

Summary

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Paulo Coelho

Forward-thinking Strategic Sourcing Manager possessing drive and competitive spirit to achieve successful results and create fulfilling experience for clients and candidates.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sourcing Manager

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2022.06 - Current
  • Create and secure Customer value and satisfaction through efficient execution of the Sourcing process
  • Maximizing supplier value, proactively managing business risks in alignment with the Sourcing Processes and Strategies.
  • Creating the Sourcing package (different categories of goods & services across different geographies)
  • Liaise with suppliers during the event from inviting them to participate to conducting supplier negotiations
  • Clarify for the suppliers the objectives of the sourcing project, perform regular follow-ups and obtain quotations in a timely manner
  • Conducting sourcing activities and price negotiations for various spend categories & suppliers.

Project finance accounting

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2021.10 - 2022.06
  • Create Sales Orders and Invoices for one of the biggest project

Acting Manager of Compliance Operations SAN

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2021.04 - 2021.10
  • Manage a team who had to transfer the scope
  • Responsible for training the team that took over the scope
  • Keeping the people motivated
  • Finding new positions for the team members

Team Leader EMEA Hardware and Software

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2020.03 - 2021.04
  • Responsible for coordinating and monitoring team activity and for the daily workload allocation and planning;
  • Responsible for managing escalations and assessing the operational performance of the team members, along with the quarterly quality checks;
  • Delivered trainings and maintaining updated the training agendas and back-up plans for business continuity.
  • Acted as escalation point for operational support for team, stakeholders and external parties
  • Secures and stores event documentation and other sourcing information according to the process requirements
  • Identifies and communicates process improvement ideas within the Procurement department
  • Share knowledge with peers and management
  • Contributes to team growth and development and engages in cross-functional projects
  • Validating the Purchase Orders compliance with different tools, processes and policies
  • Monitor and supervise the overall process of issuing Purchase Orders using Ericsson internal tools

Procurement Specialist

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRl
2017.12 - 2020.03

• Interfaces with the Procurement Services internal requesters and stakeholders to clearly understand the business objectives and the project landscape
• Secures planning and execution of sourcing related activities (plan, create, monitor and analyze)
• Supports internal stakeholders, end-to-end request management, provides final deliverables, analysis and reports created or extracted from system and interpreted as per need
• Secures and stores event documentation and other sourcing information according to the process requirements
• Identifies and communicates process improvement ideas within the Procurement department
• Share knowledge with peers and management
• Contributes to team growth and development and engages in cross-functional projects
• Validating the Purchase Orders compliance with different tools, processes and policies
• Monitor and supervise the overall process of issuing Purchase Orders using Ericsson internal tools
• Issue and manage Purchase Orders
• Administration of a dedicated mailbox (e.g. register and monitor requests, dispatch request to another team/structure if needed, solve requests)
• Interact with the organization’s line management
• Organize, monitor and report status of the activity towards stakeholders and management
• Work with different process related tools: mailbox, request management tool, eProcurement tool

CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENGINEER

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD
2016.06 - 2017.12

Providing logistic services to all major Huawei customers in Germany;
▪ Maintaining a good relation with Huawei's Logistic Service Providers;
▪ Identifying process errors and finding the right solution;
▪ Organizing spare parts delivery within the customer's contractual SLA;
▪ Providing info to the customer about deliveries;
▪ Escalating issues to higher levels;
▪ Checking the stock, working with the planning team and local office to ensure
the necessary stock, based on the install base;
WORK EXPERIENCE
▪ Using work specific tools

Customer Service Agent

CREDIT PENTRU FIECARE IFN SA HAPPY
2015.09 - 2015.12
  • Answering requests from potential customers (phone, mail, chat) and presentation of credit products and their eligibility check
  • Marketing Activities: Facebook, Google Adwords, Google Analytics
  • Checking credit documents sent by clients.

ASSISTANT MANAGER

VP ACCDD, RESEARCH CENTER
2015.02 - 2015.08

Assistant Manager – POSDRU Project –Inclusion on the labor market through social economy structures.

▪ Activities carried out within consulting department.

▪ Secretarial/administrative activities.

Executive Coordinator

VP HOLDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
2015.01 - 2015.08
  • Coordination of the five employees of the Department Front Office Support &
  • Assistance Page 3 of 5 Writing reports, such as employee evaluations
  • Implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems
  • Participation in the implementation of communication strategies in accordance with company policies
  • Assistance to company management issues: communication, documentation and coordination activities
  • Contribute to the achievement of the intended actions or campaigns to promote the company's image

Assistant Manager

VP HOLDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
2014.03 - 2015.01

▪ Coordination of the five employees of the Department Front Office Support & Assistance
▪ Writing reports, such as employee evaluations.
▪ Implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems.
▪ Participation in the implementation of communication strategies in accordance with company
policies.
▪ Assistance to company management issues: communication, documentation and coordination
activities.
▪ Contribute to the achievement of the intended actions or campaigns to promote the company's

Trainee

SC. FIRST INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
2008.01 - 2008.08
  • Completing the primary documents sorting documents for archive doing the trial balance data transmission

Education

BACHELOR DEGREE - ECONOMIC SCIENCES, FIELD OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Academia De Studii Economice
Bucharest, B
2013

High School Diploma -

Virgil Madgearu” Economic College
Bucharest, B
2010

SHAPE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL
Belgium
2007

Skills

  • Contracting and procurement negotiation.
  • Business ethics and transparency
  • Category management
  • Vendor Management
  • Project Management
  • Team Management
  • Communication

Certification

  • Negotiating With Suppliers 1- Red Bear
  • Negotiating With Suppliers 2-Red Bear
  • Negotiating With Suppliers 3- Red Bear
  • Public Speaking - Dale Carnegie

Additional Information

  • Honors-Awards Silver Award for Procurement Services HW/SW
  • Gold Award for Procurement Services HW&SW Silver Award for ESC Operations
  • Professional Qualification Certificate Level III, technological profile, profile services, professional qualification - technician in economic activities by supporting professional project
  • Certificate of Graduation "Intelligent data analysis techniques in SME business"2011 strategic project "Integrated Pilot Center for initiating and supporting businesses in order to increase the competitiveness of the Romanian economy's
  • Diploma - intensive personal development: ThetaHealing - Vianna Stibal
  • Blue Belt - Shotokan Karate - Club DINAMIC Bucharest
  • Certificate „D.A.R.E" – Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program - SHAPE Highschool Belgium

Timeline

Sourcing Manager

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2022.06 - Current

Project finance accounting

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2021.10 - 2022.06

Acting Manager of Compliance Operations SAN

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2021.04 - 2021.10

Team Leader EMEA Hardware and Software

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRL
2020.03 - 2021.04

Procurement Specialist

Ericsson Telecommunications Romania SRl
2017.12 - 2020.03

CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENGINEER

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD
2016.06 - 2017.12

Customer Service Agent

CREDIT PENTRU FIECARE IFN SA HAPPY
2015.09 - 2015.12

ASSISTANT MANAGER

VP ACCDD, RESEARCH CENTER
2015.02 - 2015.08

Executive Coordinator

VP HOLDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
2015.01 - 2015.08

Assistant Manager

VP HOLDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
2014.03 - 2015.01

Trainee

SC. FIRST INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
2008.01 - 2008.08

BACHELOR DEGREE - ECONOMIC SCIENCES, FIELD OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Academia De Studii Economice

High School Diploma -

Virgil Madgearu” Economic College

SHAPE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL
  • Negotiating With Suppliers 1- Red Bear
  • Negotiating With Suppliers 2-Red Bear
  • Negotiating With Suppliers 3- Red Bear
  • Public Speaking - Dale Carnegie
Raluca Ivanescu