Position: General Manager, Branch Manager, Head of Operations, Director
Category: Other
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 10

Site Manager (Country Manager) at the Lviv office of Dialog Semiconductor (now part of Renesas company). In this current role, I maintain proper and efficient operations within the local business unit. The most exciting part of the role is to ensure that we are working based on the Company's business strategy and plan for growth, in parallel with representation of the Company towards the local authorities and third parties. The implementation advisor for strategic plans of the company for different stakeholders inside the organisation (HR, recruitment team, hiring managers) that helping managers to translate strategy into practice.

Before joining Dialog Semiconductor, I worked for the Danish company Thyregod A/S as Company Director in Ukraine. My main goal was to establish from scratch working metalworking production of agriculture machinery. Daughter company was established according to Ukrainian legislation and the process of hiring first employees, finding local suppliers together with transferring experience and technologies from Denmark has been started. Sometime later production delivered high-quality products for the customers in Denmark, Germany, and Norway.
Head of operations (Site lead) at Dialog Semiconductor (Renesas):

- Cross-functional cooperation in building and leading a team of engineering leaders, upper management and local partners in emergency, recovery and development contexts;
- Development strategies to ensure the high efficiency of different departments (Software, Hardware (embedded) etc.); 
- Financial and operational, legal, labor-management of the local legal entity as a Director (Act as an authorized signatory on documents, payments and payroll)
- Supervising rapid expansion of the Lviv office (IT infrastructure, office administration, vendors);
- Key contact point to corporate teams (HR/ Recruiting, Legal, Finance, etc.)
- Ensure that legal requirements and company policies are followed.
- Provide support, initiation and documentation of various audits, to cover site-specific questions including country-specific Health & Safety duties.
- Supporting of new hires and possible expansion (market analysis, levels of compensation, etc.), promotions.

Country manager (Director) at Thyregod A/S (Danish production company):
- Acting as a Country Manager in Ukraine and formal company establishment;
- Effective communication with local government and national governmental institutions;
- Recruitment: hiring engineering team, workers, accountant, supply manager, production lead;
- Keeping the entity within the legislation: official employment of all employees (labor, health and safety procedures different other policies in accordance with the law);
- Getting prepared estimated budget for the first 6 months and 1-2 years of operation in Ukraine;
- Meeting with key competitors in Lviv area;
- Preparation of various reports on the available workforce (as well as levels of compensation for different roles); suppliers etc.
- Production facility: search of the suitable place for the production;
- Finding a suitable and reliable suppliers (getting quotations; delivery plans, contracts negotiation);