Seasoned and Versatile Management Consultant

• Co-founded and ran a boutique management consulting firm in Turkey for more than 5 years. Defined the corporate strategy, performed business development & sales activities. Managed customers, business partners and projects. Worked hands-on all managed and attended projects. Developed, led, trained, and mentored teams. Managed and/or executed administrative tasks of the firm.
• Established strategic partnerships with Blue Yonder and Anylogic Company, world-leading technology firms, in digital supply chain & retail planning transformation, analytics and simulation. Combined management consulting and software services as a pioneer in the market to deliver end-to-end solutions and supported digital transformations of the clients.
• Collaborated with Eurogroup Consulting France to provide local support for their global projects.
• Delivered strategy formulation, strategic planning, corporate performance management, price elasticity analysis and pricing strategy projects in parcel delivery and retail; resource & network optimization, stock & price error loss prevention, strategic sourcing, sales & channel management modelling, activity based costing, customer experience design projects in parcel delivery, retail and industrial manufacturing; PMO establishment, optimal headcount, redesigned reporting structure, process digitalizing projects, pay for performance system in retail and parcel delivery; warehouse simulation projects in distribution and supported implementation of transportation management and space management systems projects in logistics and retail. Supported compliance with data protection law projects as a business processes expert.

Key Achievements:

• Distinguished in a small, yet intensely competitive Turkish consulting market, top-tier global consulting companies thrived. Delivered exceptional services to leading local companies and multinational corporations like Coca-Cola, Unilever and Carrefour.
• Awarded as the Best New Partner of 2016, EMEA by Blue Yonder.
• Determined serious improvement areas in a cost cutting project for a leading home improvement retailer. Analyzed stock & markdown management and field operations in depth. Decreased stock and income losses by 60%. Also reduced store labor cost by 10% for the same customer.
• Cut resource cost by 20% in resource and network optimization of branches for a leading parcel delivery company. Increased profit of the same company by 7% in pricing strategy project.

• Reported the Business Units to the Country Board.
• Delivered country reports and presentations for the Global Board.
• Collaborated with acquired companies and supported their cultural and strategic alignment activities to the corporate group.
• Assisted in defining service strategies and the main play areas of the Group & BUs.
• Prepared the introduction materials and created content for the Group website.
• As a country responsible, aligned CRM processes in a global harmonization project across Europe.
• Provided business development activities in proposal preparations and customer presentations.
• Executed a service transformation project from payrolling to process outsourcing.
• During the project warehouses layouts and processes redesigned, functional improvements of the used WMS defined.

Key Achievements:

• At the end of the new service development project, a joint software development cooperation was offered by the customer, a leading air cargo firm, for an air cargo ground handling & warehouse management solution.