H.Taylan Kilicoz

Bis 2024, Managing Partner, Dora Chocolate Inc
Düsseldorf, Germany

Skills

Management
Business Development
Entrepreneur
Marketing & Sales
Investment Consulting
Start-up Consulting
Project Management
Software Development
Data Science
NumPy
Pandas
Machine Learning
Java
Python
JavaScript
Spring Framework
React.js
Node.js
HTML
Tailwind CSS
NoSQL
Spring Boot
SQL
Matplotlib
Seaborn

Timeline

Professional experience for H.Taylan Kilicoz

  • 3 years and 10 months, Mar 2021 - Dec 2024

    Managing Partner

    Dora Chocolate Inc

    American-Turkish joint venture startup operates in boutique & technical chocolates /hazelnut products manufacturing backed by over 35 years global experience. - Owner of P&L and full responsibility of all operations and teams. - Plant installations and production starts

  • 2 years and 4 months, Sep 2018 - Dec 2020

    Investment Consultant

    Freelance

    Supporting companies in food and plastics sectors in the contex of feasibility studies, land selection, machine procurements and installations (mostly partnered with Chinese companşes, China visits) government incentives and market entry strategies.

  • 1 year and 6 months, Apr 2017 - Sep 2018

    Head of Business Unit

    Ekolojik Tarim A.S (Mir Holdings Turkey)

    Ekolojik Tarim A.S is one of subsidiaries of Mir Holding- Dizayn Group(One of biggest pipe producer) and operates in high-tech agriculture business. -Reporting to holding HQ -Leading 1000Da Organized Greenhouse Zone project (120 million €) and project sales operations. -Preparing feasibility studies (NPV,IRR,ROGI etc) and managing new greenhouse investment operations (landing,construction, machinery/equipment installations) -Owner of P&L for ongoing business operations and managing a 45-members organization

  • 2 years and 2 months, Mar 2013 - Apr 2015

    Deputy General Manager

    Marpol Polishing Inc

    German origin Marpol is the biggest company in its area that manufactures special chemical compounds and abrasive products for polishing industry with 80 employees -Full responsibility for P&L and whole team -Leading and directing the 6-member sales and marketing team; finding and developing new markets and improving sales. (Mostly initiatives in MEA markets) -Overseeing company’s daily operations -Measuring and reporting on the performance of business departments -Formulating long-term business strategies

  • 2 years and 6 months, Sep 2010 - Feb 2013

    Director of Sales and Business Development

    Bilka Pvc Profile Inc

    The company manufactures pvc profiles, sheets , PP Nonwoven fabrics etc. with 110 employee.One of biggest mask fabric producer in pandemic period. -Leading local/export sales operations,4-members sales team and sales strategies -Managing marketing activities (digital & traditonal methods) -Managing new business development operations for Non-woven Fabric Production Plant and Wpc Composite Door Production Plant (feasibility studies, installation processes, pilot production and market entry strategies)

  • 7 months, Mar 2010 - Sep 2010

    Key Account Manager

    Cargill

    Cargill group is an American company and is the global leader within the food industry. Cargill Turkey produces Starch Base Sugars,starch and after crash products like cornmeal, gluten, etc. -Managing and selling after-crash corn products like corn meal, gluten and germ to livestock and chicken industry to over 200 Turkish big companies -Expanding company market share and gaining new customers -Periodic customers visits, collecting detailed information about customers and effective CRM management

  • 1 year and 11 months, May 2008 - Mar 2010

    Purchasing Engineer

    Cargill

    - Managing factory's all technical purchasing processes which are planned in factory’s CAPEX and OPEX plans (machinery, hardwares, tools etc), approx 20 M$ budget. - Preparing annual agreements with in-plant external maintenance & construction subcontractors -Managing project based procurement processes - Making quotation/BID analyzes, dealing and preparing contracts with local and global suppliers, - Dealing and making annual energy requirement contracts with energy suppliers both for electricity and NG

  • 2 years and 9 months, Aug 2005 - Apr 2008

    Process Engineer

    Bilka Pvc Profile Inc

    -Monitoring, analysing,reporting current extrusion processes and taking corrective actions by creating and executing continous improvement and cost saving projects. -Creating a MRP system and implementing to whole factory. -Creating an effective production plan to reduces production costs and loses -Creating a machinery and tools maintenance plan.

Educational background for H.Taylan Kilicoz

  • 2 years and 2 months, Jan 2022 - Feb 2024

    Software Engineering

    Middle East Technical University

  • 5 years, Sep 1998 - Aug 2003

    Business Engineering

    Istanbul Technical University

Languages

  • English

    C1 (Fluent)

  • German

    A1-A2 (Basic)

  • Turkish

    C2 (Expert / native speaker)

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