Paulo Costa

Managing european high end retail fashion stores (French and Scandinavian team) through the Farfetch e-commerce platform: > Working on the store's setting up > Dealing with day to day operational issues > Analysing and influencing sales, stock and operational performance > Working on specific action plans to improve sales > Building strong motivational partnerships

General Club management. This included the following responsibilities: >managing the club's monthly Profit & Loss account as a function of sales and cost management according to the annual budget >Developing new commercial strategies and events to promote the club and recruit potential customers >recruiting, evaluating, developing and motivating the club's human structure >delivering to all members a service of excellent quality >delivering high operational standards (maintenance, cleaning, marketing)

Responsible for managing the Store (12 M€). This included: >managing the club's monthly Profit & Loss account according to the annual budget >development of the store annual budget >Capex decisions >communication and advertisement campaigns (leaflets, street boards…) >development of the store commercial project (seasonal layouts and merchandising) in order to achieve the sales and ultimately EBITDA results according to the objectives >recruiting, developing and evaluating the stores’ section managers

Amadora Store Same responsibilities as in the previous function. Higher Annual turnover (3 M€)

Portimão Store: responsible for managing a commercial section (0,5 M €) in the store. This included: >recruiting, integrating, organizing and motivating the sale's team >Stock and sales management >analysis of the section’s performance indicators and subsequent action plans >development of the section’s commercial policy >implementation of the merchandising concepts and seasonal structural changes

Corporate Strategic Planning, Project Management, Balanced Scorecard, Performance Evaluation, Cost Management Systems, Leadership and Team Management, Budgeting, Investment Analysis, Corporate Governance, Internal Audit & Risk Management

Industrial Management, Microeconomics, Corporate Finances, Accounting, Marketing Management, Economics project, Cost Management and Budgeting and other smaller seminars(included several guided tours to production plants such as Brioche Pasquier and Master Foods in France)

Effluents treatment technologies, Environmental Management, Environmental regulations, Environmental Impact Assessment and Industrial Management (complemented by basic engineering fields such as Thermodynamics, Fluids Mechanics, Bioprocessing Engineering, Process Control and Statistics)