BLENDI QYLAFKU

Customer-oriented and strategic-thinking professional with over 30 years of experience in impacting, restructuring, and improving business direction through decisive leadership actions. High degree of ability to provide the development and implementation of competitive organization strategy, structure, business plan, focusing on customers, technology development, society, and people. I foster a positive organization culture, cultivate partnerships, encourage participation, contribution, collaboration, and performance. I am well equipped to transform and motivate people to meet business, technological challenges, and the society expectations for a sustainable future.

• In depth restructuring of European Operations and Entities, Implementing Operational Excellence, Lean Philosophy and Culture, Cost Cutting and Optimization resulting in 12M€ Operation Cost Savings., 2018, 2019
• In depth changes and implementation of a Positive Organization Culture, Focusing on diversity of people, ideas, experiences, inclusiveness, collaboration, equal opportunities for participation, contribution, and open communication resulting in establishment of trust, transparency, accountability, efficiency and result driven individuals and teams., 2018, 2020
• Enhancing European Operations Footprint, Increasing highly qualified capacities in Cost Competitive Countries (Romania, India, Poland, Czech, Spain) resulting in improving the Operation Footprint Ratio of HCC (Austria, Germany) to CCC from 4:1 to 1:1, 2019, 2022
• Increasing the Revenue Volume, Revenue grew from 130 M€ to 250M€ with 3 times productivity improvements., 2019, 2023
• Returning the organization in profitability, Enabling profitable Projects, Business Units, and Entities contributing in Profitable European Operations., 2019, 2023
• Diversification of the Market, Customer, Segments, Resulting in higher Revenue Volume, entering in New Market (USA 150M€, India, Vietnam, Malaysia 40M€ Projects) and Customers (BMW, Magna, Gestamp), developing presence in New Automotive Segments such as Midsize & Heavy Commercial Vehicles (Mercedes, Volvo), participation and contribution in EV Sector., 2019, 2023
• Building up the Romanian Operations, From the ground to Full Scope of Service from Concept, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Commissioning resulting in a Competitive Operations of 170 Employee offering services to all Premier European and Global Automakers such as Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, VW., 2019, 2023
• Successfully navigating the organization during the major Covid -19 and War Crisis, Together with Supplier Landscape Disruption, Labour and Great Resignation Crisis, Uncontrolled Inflation and Major Production Interruptions and Operations Restrictions., 2018, 2022
• Developed and fully implemented the Organization Operational Excellence Framework, Covering all levels from Strategy, Organization Structure and Hierarchy, Delegation of Authority, Risk Management, Processes, KPI, Flow of the Information, and people contribution to all of the above, 2015, 2017
• Developed the concept and implementation of the Corporate and Project Risk awareness and database, Knowledge Management methodology and Database including Customer and Industry Standards, LL Management, Training and Best Practices Database, NCR, 8D, and other CI tools and Platform., 2015, 2018
• Developed the concept and implemented the Outsourcing and Supplier Management Process and Database, Covering the Supplier Assessment and Evaluation, Negotiation and Outsourcing Process, and Supplier Monitoring and Development., 2015, 2017
• Raised the awareness of the organization and secured a large participation of the leadership in the movement for Operational Excellence and Quality in our operations, Including frequent organization communications, Quality and OE Meetings, Training, Performance Analysis and Reviews, Internal Audits and Assessments., 2015, 2017
• In depth restructuring focusing on Cost Savings and Optimization, Resulting in 40% Operation Cost Savings, 2009, 2010
• Revenue growth, From 10M€ to 65M€ maintaining the quality of Services and Technological Solutions, 2010, 2013
• Qualification for World Class Manufacturing (WCM), Which enables establishing Long Term Agreement (LTA) with Fiat - Chrysler and rapidly growth of Revenue and Profitability, 2010, 2012
• Considerable improvements of Financial performance, Resulting in EBTDA improvements from 7% to 26% and Positive Cash Flow during the entire Fiscal Year., 2009, 2014
• Successfully managing a breakthrough project and securing LTA with Ford, GM, and Mazda as Global Supplier for the Premium Segment, Contributing on 35% Revenue Increase and 8% Increase of Profitability., 2004, 2006
• Optimizing the Cost of Operation, By 28% by combining of Smart Investments in Machining and Dies and focusing on Waste Management and Lean Operations., 2004, 2006
• Improved our Product Portfolio Performance, By reducing the weight by 18%, reliability by more than 1M cycle, and cost by 22%., 2004, 2006