LJILJA DUKIC

• Planning and follow up business operations.
• Developing and maintainin strong relationships with partners and local stakeholders, resulting in repeat business and referrals.
• Motivating key stakeholders to play their business roles.
• Negotiating contracts with local sevices providers suppliers for better pricing and terms, reducing overall costs for the business.
• Evaluating industry competition regularly to reach a competitive advantage in the marketplace with unique ethno-modern products.
• Establishing a positive cooperation culture that fostered all cooperants engagement, collaboration and loyalty.
• Expanding new business into market.
• Attending trade shows and special events to follow up new season fashion trends , network with other businesses and find out new opportunities
• Designing new unique products with ethno motifs; presentation the same to cooperants explaining their roles/tasks; production follow up and final control.

Provide consulting and training services in HR management, project planning, and startup business development:

• Business planning with and for novice.
• Working on clients´ internal proceedings to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and reduce ordering parties costs.
• Delivering tailored solutions for clients in several various sectors, addressing unique challenges and needs.
• Client structure assessments performing, referring required steps for improvement.
• Collaborating with cross-functional and cross-sectoral teams to develop comprehensive business plans and strategies.
• Developing strong relationships with key stakeholders at different organizational and/or partnership levels, fostering better collaboration across departments and/or partners.
• Customized training programs design to enhance employee skills and improve productivity levels and/or more friendly working atmosphere.
• Checking and evaluation diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication, and resource issues.
• Increasing employee satisfaction and motivation by training classes, meetings or special workshops.
• Working on communication at all levels and transformed company culture into more productive atmosphere.
• Review and evaluation internal systems to propose and design training plans to address areas in need of improvement.

• LED strategic planning and project design for fundraising activities.
• Established a culture of continuous improvement by promoting best practices in project management, process optimization, and risk mitigation.
• Created, managed, and executed business plan and communicated organization vision and objectives to motivate teams, resulting new active segments (CECI consulting/training team, Eduka Centar lifelong learning)
• HR and financial operations managing
• Cross-sector partnerships developing (towards sustainable rural economic development of micro region)

Managed project activities and staff for efficient implementation.

Developed future project designs and maintained - Managed programme activities and staff for its efficient implementation.

• Conducted field surveys identifying its needs, resulting new project drafts and proposals later on be presented within FR activites;
• Market surveys identifying suitable donors and sponsors for project proposals;
• Managed few strategic projects with several sub-projects or workstreams;
• Managed cross-functional teams for successful project completion within deadlines and budget;
• Collaborated with ACF HQ leadership to set priorities based on business needs, resource capacity and risk exposure;
• Established strong relationships with local key stakeholders, ensuring support for program implementation;
• Conducted general and specific program evaluations, identifying areas for improvement and recommending better solutions;
• Presentation, PR, Reporting.