Dragan *****
***** Subotica
SERBIA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Accomplished, energetic senior manager with over 20 years of diverse business experience in big, medium sized and small company settings. Well-rounded leadership experience in business development, production, management operations, strategy and operational execution. Proven expertise in business strategy, innovation and operational
Turnarounds, and management changing.
Summary successes: During my work in company in Kazakhstan, we increased production efficiency from around 40% to 76%(depend on each line efficiency before) within 6 months, we increase products quality and reduced the losses from about 3, % to 1, %, starting new factories, introduced new products and technologies. Saving money about the new unnecessary investments in production lines ( values around $20M), reorganize production schemas, with additional trainings – increase operators skills and save the money for spare parts ( $500. 000), reduce the money volume in turnover with good job organization and with decreasing the stock of raw materials and final product – turned back in the flow cash around $2M, reduce number of workers (8% - 30% depend on factory) in the production with new organization.

SKILLS

- Wide education, experience in different fields of productions and managements
- on the ground based manager
- skill to make things happen
- problem solving skill
- analytical approach to problems
- Several times Start up different productions and the businesses (alone and
as the team member)
- Strong and long experience in managing positions
- Long tracking in the food and packaging industry
- ability to work under the pressure for the long period
- negotiation skills with the business with turnover over $50M/year
- good connections with bodies and organizations (profit and nonprofit)
- over 20 years of working experience with success
- raised up in business through all steps - from engineer in the production, shift engineer until COO position (very good knowledge base in electronic, electric and mechanic engineering as well)
-very good understanding of purchasing process, logistic and the customers wishes







Working experience



“ ***** ***** ” Group – FMCG Division ( Sept. 2009 - now) – 450 employees
ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN

Corporate Production Director (450 workers). Organizing, coordinating, controlling and responsible for the production in the two factories in the fields:
- Water – carbonated and still water(minareal and drinkable table water)
- Nectars and drinks
- Ice tea –hot fill line
- Carbonated and soft drinks
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GM in “ ***** ” – member of “ ***** ***** ” Group:

- Member of the board of directors:
In charge for all technical and technological issues in the Group
That mean responsibilities :
INTERNAL:
- Controling and leading the enterprise “ ***** ”
- Taking care of expenses in the scope of the yearly financial plan
- Permanent control and comparing the productions against the production plans
- In charge with Plan & analyses dept, Selling dept and Marketing dept for the making yearly production plans for the factories and products profitability analyzing
- Permanent control and reduction products costs
- Coordinating the work of all factories in the Group
- Negotiation with the key equipment suppliers
- Determination of new production lines
- Activation, preparation factories for the start up
- Solving HR issues about the skill workers in the factories – choosing them too
- Increase efficiency in the factory
- Reduce losses for the final products and for the raw materials
- Coordinate and reports to the Corporate management
- Complete management changing
- New production structure installing
- Made the short programs for the fast calculations in the production
- Responsible to the Board and to the owner for the all factories production results
- Etc.

EXTERNAL
- International contacts with the foreign partners connected with the key raw materials, products, productions, equipment or factories at all
- Etc.

“Raimbek Group – FMCG Division” ( Nov 2007 - Sept. 2009. ) – 1200 employees (monthly turnover over $30M)
ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN

Corporate Production Director (420 workers). Organizing, coordinating, controlling and responsible for the production in the three factories in the fields:
- Natural juices, nectars and drinks – Factory in Almaty
- Natural juices, nectars and drinks – Factory in Urumchi, China
Dairy products – factory in Almaty

That mean responsibilities :
INTERNAL:
- Member of the team for the new factory projecting (in the same time in 7 projects ) like the key person for the equipment and each future technology parameters determination
- Taking care of expenses in the scope of the yearly financial plan
- Permanent control and comparing the productions against the production plans
- In charge with Plan & analyses dept, Selling dept and Marketing dept for the making yearly production plans for the factories and products profitability analyzing
- Permanent control and reduction products costs
- Coordinating the work of all factories
- Negotiation with the key equipment suppliers
- Determination of new Tetra Pak production lines
- Activation, preparation factories for the start up
- Solving HR issues about the skill workers in the factories – choosing them too
- Increase efficiency in the factories
- Reduce losses for the final products and for the raw materials
- Coordinate Factory Production Managers works and reports to the Corporate management
- Complete management changing
- New production structure installing
- Made the short programs for the fast calculations in the production
- Responsible to the Board and to the owner for the all factories production results
- Etc.

EXTERNAL
- International contacts with the foreign partners connected wit the products, productions, equipment or factories at all
- Etc.





“Si & Si Group” ( Jan 2005. - Jan 2006. ) – 1500 employees ( monthly turnover over $5M)
Subotica, erbia
Chief Operation Officer (480 workers) : Organizing, coordinating, controlling and responsible for the production in the five factories in the fields:
- carbonated drinks (“Sinalco”)
- alcohol and liquor drinks “ Gorki List” and “OR” programs
- vinery company “ Podrum Palic”
- mineral water “VODA voda”
- jam and marmalades “ Nase voce”
and other equal responsibilities:
- company “Si & Si Spedition”
- & Member of the Board.

That mean responsible for the: Solving the arisen issues in all following fields

INTERNAL:
- Coordinate Production Manager’s works within the Group
- Matrix system connections with other departments
- Education / training in the selling dept (quarterly) about the advantages of our products on the market
-Controlling connection between factories and the accounting and booking department
- Coordinating the work of all factories
- Permanent work on the modernizations of the processes in the factories I the scope of permanent reduction of the products costs
- Responsible to the Board and to the owner for the all factories
- Permanent control and comparing the productions/ budgets against the plans
- Have the responsibility to make fast – in the minute decisions for the factories in the name of the Board – if that was necessary
- Etc.
EXTERNAL
- Contact with authorities in the fields of product regulations on the state level, local authorities, and province level authorities and inspections
- International contacts with the foreign partners connected wit the products, productions, equipment or factories at all
- Controlling and doing personally purchasing of critical and/or strategic raw materials
- Etc.








“Si & Si Company” (member of “Si & Si Group”)Jan 2004 – Jan 2005. (500 employees)
Subotica, Serbia
General Manager(500 workers). Area of work :
- carbonated drinks (Sinalco)
- alcohol and liquor drinks
- jam and marmalades
Responsible for the:
- Productions of the products in this Company, in the scope of quality and the quantity
- taking care about workers and working conditions depend the law regulations
- connection with the Booking and Accounting dept.
- implementing all the regulations in the productions
- equipment in the factory and right handling with them
- Matrix system coordination with other depts..
- In one sentence from the material income in the factory, till final products left factory loaded on the trucks
- Responsible to the CEO and to the Company owner


“Si & Si Company” May 2002 – January 2004 (350 emplyees)

Project Manager(33 workers)
- Adviser for the Start up the Sinalco production
- in the new factory in Stockholm (carbonated drinks) I start up the production in brand new factory as the employee in “Si & Si Company”and as the support for Sinalco international program
- Organizing the Exportvof Sinalco products on the Sweden market depending their regulations
- Start up production of Sinalco products in the glass bottles in the brewery “Niksicka pivara”
- Advising, starting and controlling the production in the FYR Macedonia in the name of SINALCO International Gmbh - Germany,
- Controlling the warehouses and storages for the quantity and storage conditions ( correct work in the warehouses on the market)
- And - all kinds of the projects which can not be defined to which dept. belong or have to be done with emergency.



“29. Novembar” Jan 2002 – May 2002. (300 employees – Meat industry)
Subotica, Serbia

General Manager Counselor . Area of work :
- checking and make business system possibility for export
- decreasing the in the production losses
- check the price structures and make corrections
- recommendation for new projects and products
- implemented new calculation methods




“Suboticanka” May 1996 – June 2000. (member of Si & Si group) (280 employees)
Subotica, Serbia

Manager for carbonated drikns. In that period I start up licensee production of Sinalco production in SCG in the brand new company and start with the production PET bottles and working with PET materials from that time through following period in the Si & Si .

“Kozara” (1992 – 1994. ) – 80 employees
Subotica, Serbia

Production ***** pany which produce plastic containers and bottles for cosmetic and pharmacy products and printing on that products. Experience in the field of the polymers: PE, PP, PS and with printing on them,



DP “AZOTARA” ( ***** ) - 750 employees
Subotica, Serbia

Engineer Specialist. Engineer specialist in the Fertilizer plant and also in the beginning – shift engineer in the production in DP”Azotara” – Subotica. Best connections with all Technology operations and wide range of materials. Member of the team which start up main production part of the factory (base of factory).


RO ”SLOBODA” (1985 – 1988) – 3. 000 employees
Cacak, Serbia

Development Engineer. My first job like the engineer in the Chemical technology dept. in the production for military purposes. Experience both with organic and inorganic substances. Very strong tides with mechanic and construction dept. I start in the“Sloboda - FNP” – Cacak.








OTHER basic facts about me:


Name Dragan
Surname *****
Place of birth Smederevo, Serbia, SCG
Nationality Serbian
Religion Christian Orthodox
Merital status Married; spouse – Daniela; three daughters (two
of them from the first marriage, living with
ex wife)

Main education B. Sc. Technological chemistry /Zagreb/Croatia
Specialty Chemical technology (10 semesters)

Additional education Harvard Business School
Executive education
The General Manager Program class 15 (TGMP15)
Alumni status
(one semester: January – end of May 2005. )

Languages Serbian – mother language
English /read, speak and write/
Ex Yugoslavian languages /read and speak/
Russian (read, speak)
Hungarian – partially – speak and read

Skills PC literacy: Windows, MS Office
Driving license since 1977.