Yakup Ceki Besleyen

- On top of the accountabilities from the previous position, lead productivity improvement initiatives - Review and submit weekly and monthly operational and cluster highlights, reports - Set manufacturing KPIs - Evaluate alternatives from various scenarios of production volumes, machine load and working hours - Help project teams with industrial engineering know-how

- Plan, organize, manage and control all manufacturing support activities related to short, medium and long term planning of production - Follow up sales, sales forecast, shipments and production volumes to review and update operational plan and secure optimum stock levels while minimizing financial cost - Develop detailed production and capacity analysis for the Long Range Plan while considering investment requirement, manning, manufacturing objectives - Budget preparation of other cluster affiliates

- Evaluate and interpret sales, market, consumer and competitor data - Monitor consumer preferences and identify brands’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats - Plan, organize and report consumer and trade research activities - Support brand management, operations and regional packaging department in developing the concept and rationale for new brand launches/line extensions - Formulate brand portfolio strategies and preparation of Marketing Plan - Organize and provide Marketing trainings

- Project team for Tekel privatization - Philip Morris tax proposal generation and presentation to governmental bodies - Creation for retail sales price scenarios together with sales volume estimations - Weekly reporting to HQ office about sales volume, regulation, taxation, competition, privatization and macroeconomic environment - Generation of 3-year sales forecast, new brand and pricing strategies

- Responsible of PM Turkey overhead budget - Inter-company price eliminations - Budgeting and reporting the financials to Lausanne HQ - Ad-hoc analysis on sales price determination to distributors and retailers - Monthly/yearly closing and reporting of Arizona (Duty Free company of Philip Morris)

- Making Philip Morris Turkey manufacturing SVC (Standard Variable Cost) budget - Analyzing actual manufacturing costs and the variances versus budgets - Reporting and explanations of deviations from the budgets to management - Year end stock count organizations - Statutory and GAAP closings - Ad-hoc analysis on operational costs

- Making Philip Morris Turkey manufacturing SVC (Standard Variable Cost) budget - Analyzing actual manufacturing costs and the variances versus budgets - Reporting and explanations of deviations from the budgets to management - Year end stock count organizations - Statutory and GAAP closings - Ad-hoc analysis on operational costs