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Kateryna Nikolaieva

Kateryna Nikolaieva

Tampa,Florida

Summary

Hardworking employee and founder with customer service, multitasking and time management abilities. Devoted to giving every client a positive and memorable experience.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Founder and Senior Buyer at GBStore Own Enterprise

Self-employeed
Ukraine And Tampa, FL
11.2016 - 03.2024

Main responsibilities:

• Negotiating with stores in English;

• Maximizing value from all the operations;

• Supplying management from the moment of purchase to the direct delivery to the customer;

• Consulting clients and addressing their pain points before buying;

• Monitoring contractors’ performance;

• Searching for goods at the most favorable prices for customers;

• Sale of Goods based on customer needs;

• Work in messengers and social networks, using them as a sales channel;

• Stylist work. Outfit creating according to the clients’ request;

• Organization of all the business processes inside the enterprise;

• Hiring employees;

• Communication with the clients;

• Building a personal brand.

Achieved:

• Successfully managed with more than 750 clients;

• Work with large wholesale customers and uninterrupted supply of goods for them;

• Successful management of social networks and attracting new customers regularly;

• Successful work with all categories of goods – from cosmetics to household appliances;

• Opening a store from scratch to its successful payback.

  • Developed and implemented a comprehensive business plan to launch the company.
  • Created and managed the company's financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting systems.
  • Recruited, hired and trained staff members to ensure that operational goals were met.

Deputy Head of API Purchasing Department

Parmaceutical Firm “Apteka 95”
Kharkiv, Ukraine
02.2013 - 11.2015

Main responsibilities:

• work with the partners to deliver proper execution on existing agreements

• identify optimal procurement strategies and end-to-end implementation hereof to maximize the value of spend;

• negotiating and concluding contracts, contracts management and continuous improvements against the deals;

• focus on reducing the costs to the business;

• active support for key procurement goals and objectives via stakeholder engagement;

• ensure compliance with established strategies, contracts, policies, and procedures;

• develop new commercial ideas and opportunities to enable the business to meet current and prospective business challenges;

  • Coordinated with internal departments to ensure timely procurement of goods and services.
  • Negotiated favorable terms, pricing, payment schedules, delivery timelines and volume discounts with suppliers.
  • Established relationships with vendors to facilitate efficient ordering processes.

Manager of Foreign Economic Activities

Pharmaceutical Firm “Apteka 95”
Kharkiv, Ukraine
09.2010 - 02.2013

Main responsibilities:

• Purchasing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients all over the world;

• Market research and analysis;

• Negotiations with suppliers;

• Getting discount and good conditions for buying (payment terms, delivery terms (Incoterms);

• Contracts and exclusive agreements conclusion;

  • Initiated new projects that resulted in increased productivity across all departments.
  • Collaborated with other departments to ensure timely completion of projects within budget constraints.
  • Reviewed contracts before signing them on behalf of the organization.

Achieved:

• Came to the new level of cooperation with suppliers (began activity which company never did before (since 1995 year);

• Brought exceptional purchasing conditions (payment after delivery, etc.) with each vendor;

• Demonstrated top indexes of activity in department (among 50 people);

• The best employee reward.

Translator and Interpreter

Logos And Names
Kharkiv, Ukraine
01.2010 - 10.2010
  • Translated documents from English to Ukrainian and Russian and vice versa for various clients.
  • Provided written translations of legal, medical, and technical documents.
  • Proofread translated documents before submitting them to the client for review.
  • Mediated conversations for one-on-one and group discussions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - English And Ukrainian Philology

Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
Kharkiv, Ukraine
06-2010

Skills

14 years in international procurement area (English, Ukrainian, Russian language;

Exceptional experience in purchasing and delivering;

Supply chain improvement;

Marketing research;

Negotiation conduct;

Getting discount and other better conditions (for example in payment terms);

Ability to learn quickly and exceptional workability

Organizing and planning skills;

Good communicational skills;

Have completed social management courses (in particular, Instagram), courses on building a personal brand and got the diploma of stylist after original courses completing;

Well-bred speech;

Negotiating on different levels of management;

Extensive experience in both purchasing and sales of different kinds of goods;

Knowledge in goods logistics;

Skills in building a business from scratch

Good taste and sense of customer needs

  • Operations Management
  • Business Administration
  • Trends Analysis
  • Financial Management
  • Customer Acquisition
  • Staff Management

Affiliations

  • Progressive reader
  • Stylist as a hobby
  • Acting

Languages

English
Full Professional
Ukrainian
Native/ Bilingual
Russian
Native/ Bilingual
German
Elementary

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Founder and Senior Buyer at GBStore Own Enterprise

Self-employeed
11.2016 - 03.2024

Deputy Head of API Purchasing Department

Parmaceutical Firm “Apteka 95”
02.2013 - 11.2015

Manager of Foreign Economic Activities

Pharmaceutical Firm “Apteka 95”
09.2010 - 02.2013

Translator and Interpreter

Logos And Names
01.2010 - 10.2010

Bachelor of Science - English And Ukrainian Philology

Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
Kateryna Nikolaieva