About me

I am professional people's manager with background in redemption (financial settlements), merchant support, content creation with over 8 years of summarized job experience. My professional career includes 6 years spent in the SSC enviroment. Known for expertise in leading small and big teams (6-30 people), as well as the success-oriented mindset and friendly attitude towards people I manage.

I hold a master degree of spatial economy (urban planning) from University of Warsaw, where I graduated magna cum laude. I also have completed numerous certifications and trainings in various areas of expertise. Feel free to check my LinkedIn profile and Skills and Abilities section.

Throughout my career, I worked in international environment in the eCommerce segment of the market, including people from Poland, Ukraine, Spain, United States, Morocco, India. All of my direct reports achieved significant success going above and beyond predefined targets month after month and kept high motivation to work. In my creer I had a chance to serve people from different regions of the world including NAM (USA and Canada), EMEA (Spain, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, and Czech Republic). I have experience in working and managing people both remotely and in the stationary mode.

I am an active member of volunteering organization "Noble Gift", where I utilize my knowledge and skills to support others in need. I also received recognition for their contributions and exempt professionalism in communication between teams.

Currently, I serve as a Team Leader for Groupon, where I manage three teams located in Warsaw, Katowice, and Valencia (since december 2021). In this role I strive to meet business goals and maintain satisfaction of my employees as well as to keep them highly motivated to work.

Outside of work, I enjoy mycology, travelling, journalism, culture, psychology. From time to time one can see me talking about my passions on the national TV. My personality type is INFP.

  • Date of Birth: June 9, 1991
  • Age: 32
  • Nationality: Polish
  • Residency: Warsaw, Poland

Job Experience

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2021-until now
Groupon Shared Services: Team Leader

Summary of the role

Being a part of local operations hub, reporting to area manager, managing directly a group of subordinate employees. Team lead, merchant pperations ensures all performance objectives mainly for merchant pperations are met, as well supports customer service and content operations for the indicated countries whenever required. This role ensures performance indicators are met on an individual and team level, ensures schedules are in line with local labour law and agents’ schedule adherence is met, monitors service quality level and reports potential risks to workforce management team, and is responsible for individual agents’ development.

The role supports the achievement of the company, sets objectives and key results (OKRs) on their level, including the implementation of pre-approved initiatives, while respecting the company values and culture tenets.

Scope of Responsibilities

  • Managing day-to-day operations to ensure the efficency of the team
  • Providing the best merchant and customer experience according to the business standards.
  • Overseeing team specific KPIs and ensuring that the predefined goals are met
  • Providing the teams with regular feedback, training and coaching
  • Presenting reviews to cover the team's performance (SLAs,KPIs, and quality)
  • Providing clear action plansto drive and improve team's results
  • Maintaining an in-depth understanding of all key policies, procedures and processes specific to respective departments
  • Ensuring that employees follow company policies and guidelines
  • Conducting regular meetings to collect and disseminate information
  • Supporting the strategy by implementing improvements in efficiency and quality
  • Preparing data, reports and other tools used during recurring appointments
  • Acting as hiring manager in recruitment processes for new hires to join the team
  • Onboarding new hires and coordinating the timing of the process with broader onboarding schedule
  • Managing company performance reviews, providimg recognition, and apraisal for managed team members
  • Conducting one-on-one meetings with emplyees to review their performance
  • Interpreting, applying, and executing Groupon HR-related policies
  • Executing the legal standars of local labor law
  • Performing other duties as assigned by the manager

2020-2021
Groupon Shared Services: Redemption Specialist

Summary of the role

Redemptions specialist plays a vital role in the merchant's success primarily responsible for all external codes-related tasks (the administrative process of redemption, generating/uploading external codes to the offers, and analysis of codes on behalf of Groupon merchants) for all lines of business. The employee takes care of Groupon merchants’ (partners’) service quality by providing them with professional, helpful information and assistance in any type of merchants' queries related to codes generation and redemption. Working closely with the finance teams, the specialist is necessary to maintain Groupon’s exceptional payment processes, ensuring the best possible merchant experience. Finally, the specialist must stay on top of requests from all regions and ensure redemption is done efficiently and ina timely manner.

In addition to the regular responsibilities required by the team, the agent is responsible for monitoring the team's daily work and supporting all team members, process controllers, and the team leader if needed to take an active part in creating the best merchants', and stakeholders' experience.

Scope of Responsibilities

  • Organizing and submitting requests from merchant services for payment and redemption requests to finance
  • Cooperating with finance to execute the redemption of voucher
  • Uploading generated codes to the relevant system to put the deal live
  • Redeeming vouchers to force the payment for the merchant in a timely manner
  • Reviewing current processes and identifying opportunites for improvement and automation
  • Maintaining proficiency in processes and policies relevant to the team
  • Checking and validating codes provided to avoid satisfaction issues
  • Generating codes based on given requirements (length, structure, type, etc.)
  • Monitoring queues, allocating tasks and prioritizing most important ones
  • Supporting new and existing hires in all aspects of their functioning
  • Supporting process controllers and the team leader with additional tasks

2017-2020
Groupon Shared Services: Content Manager/Site Editor

Summary of the role

Content creator is responsible for producing and publishing digital content, including articles, videos, graphics, and other forms that are engaging and informing for the audience. Besides publishing their work the role also requires research and analysis of topics to ensure the content is accurate, informative, and interesting to the target audience. To achive this one utilizes various tools and software that includes, but is not limtted to tools to create and edit written content, video editing software, graphic design software, and audio recording tools. In addition to creating content, content creator is also responsible for monitoring impact of the content on the customer as well as adjusting it accordingly whenevrt needed to make it more friendly towards the user, towards promotion through social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.), email marketing, and other channels. This involves, but is not limitted to tracking and analyzing metrics to measure how successfull the content is.

Scope of Responsibilities

  • Creating content of e-commerce deals in English for USA, Canada, New Zeland, and Australia markets across all lines of business
  • Maitaining attractive and consistent deal layout on the webpage of Groupon
  • Launching and editing deals in English on Groupon webpage
  • Applying changes in live deals according to needs requested by partners

2016-2017
mLingua: Translator

Summary of the role

Translator converts written content from one language to another while preserving the meaning, tone, and intent of the original text. Translators are responsible for ensuring that the translated text is accurate and culturally appropriate for the target audience. To achieve this one must have a deep understanding of the source and target languages, as well as the subject matter of the text being translated. Overall, the role of a translator is to facilitate effective communication between people who speak different languages.

Scope of Responsibilities

  • Written translation of texts from various fields
  • Graphic composition in desktop publishing programs
  • Terminological and lexicographic works
  • Preparation of files for translation
  • Creating translation memories in CAT programs
  • Quality control of translation services, including software QA
  • Writing articles about translations, scientific methodology, libguistic studies
  • Moderation of the forum
  • Testing IT systems, software development

Known languages

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Język polski

Poziom C2 (ojczysty)

Język polski jest dla mnie ojczystym językiem, którego znajomośc oceniam na poziom C2. Władam nim biegle zarówno w mowie jak i w piśmie. Szczególnie bliska mojej dotychczasowej działalności zawodowej jest biegłośc w piśmie - posiadam bogate doświadczenie w zakresie publikowania tekstów w sieci.

  • Słuchanie: C2
  • Czytanie: C2
  • Porozumiewanie się: C2
  • Pisanie: C2

English Language

C2 level (bilinguality)

English is my secondary language, but I know it on almost native level. I can fluently speak about complex matters, understad any type of content, as well as create content intended for native speakers. My competences can be proven with postive score of CAE. I also used to study in English, and am used to using it on daily basis in work.

  • Listening: C2
  • Reading: C2
  • Speaking: C2
  • Writting: C2

Русский язык

A2-B1 Уровень

Понимаю русский язык на среднем уровне. Я могу легко говорить об основных аспектах, но не могу ни использовать, ни понимать более сложные фразы или выражения

  • Прослушивание: B1
  • Чтение: B1
  • Устная Речь: A2
  • Письменная Речь: B1

Deutsche Sprache

A1 Kompetenz-Niveau

Ich kann die deutsche Sprache auf niedrigem Niveau verstehen. Ich kann mich in der Regel über grundlegende Aspekte verständigen, kann aber komplexere Sätze oder Ausdrücke weder verwenden noch verstehen.

  • Hörverstehen: A1
  • Leseverstehen: A1
  • Sprechen: A1
  • Schreiben: A1

Education

Non scholae sed vitae discimus

Univeristy of Warsaw
Master of Spacial eEconomy

Gothenburg Univeristy
Bachelor of Local Goverment and Local Development

Univeristy of Warsaw
Bachelor of Local Goverment and Local Development

XXXVII Highschool of Jarosław Dąbrowski in Warsaw
Student

Main


Total Experience
8+ years
Management
~1.5 year
Creative
~4.5 years
Other
~2 years

Digital Skills


MS PowerPoint
95%
CMS
95%
Gmail and Gsuite
95%
Zoom/Slack
95%
MS Excel
90%
SalesForce
90%
ZenDesk/JIRA
90%
HTML/CSS/JS
80%

Leadership Skills


Empathy
100%
No Ego Approach
100%
QA
100%
Relationships
95%
Prioritization
95%
Decision-Making
95%
Schedulling
90%
Labor Law
80%

Creative Skills


Design
95%
Copywritting
95%
Mind Mapping
95%
Graphic (2D)
80%

Other Skills


First Aid
100%
Organization
100%
Curiosity
100%
Deadlines
90%