A manager with extensive experience in the company, who evolved together with Technoelectric – these are just some of the characteristics of Geanina Simileanu, Procurement, and Logistics Manager. Her professional career began in 2008 when she was hired as Administration Manager, and in two years she took over the role of Procurement and Management Manager. Since 2017 she coordinates the Management, Procurement, and Logistics Department of the company. Geanina still remembers the interview he gave with great emotions.
For Geanina, working hours are moving at a fast pace, with numerous activities to check, from organizing and providing complete and timely supplies of material goods and transport services, to following company procedures by all her colleagues.
She is also responsible for the planning and control of the contracting, supply, reception, distribution activities, and materials discharge, all while ensuring the legality of the documents prepared. These are just part of the activities they carry out within the team. Among the criteria that she appreciates and thinks she has in common with her colleagues from Technoelectric, Geanina mentions:
- Honesty-We tell the truth regardless of the consequences;
- Morality-We do the right thing because it is right;
- Assumption- We make decisions carefully and assume the consequences;
- Dedication-We do everything to complete each project;
Due to her numerous years within the company, Geanina made a review of some of the company’s turning points:
1. With 16 years of experience in the company, you followed Techoelectric’s evolution, both objectively and subjectively. Tell us about how you perceived the company’s development, the team that grew, the way of working, etc.
The first time I realized the company’s development capacity was when we started to focus on foreign markets. International projects had begun to outnumber domestic ones. With this, new internal and external suppliers began to appear, external customers with deliveries (documents) very different from those in the EU but also changes internally. New internal procedures have emerged (developed together with the company’s management) that have helped us in the way we work, automation elements have been introduced to facilitate our activity, and also our team grew.
Geanina’s favorite quote belongs to Albert Einstein, who says: “Don’t try to become a successful person, but a valuable one.” This is also the motto that guides you in your professional activity.
To the following questions 2: What are the three most important qualities of a procurement and logistics manager? And can these qualities be formed, or do you have to be born with them? She replied:
Multitasking, Vigilance, and Perseverance. You are not born with these qualities. They develop once you acquire experience in this position. We are not born managers, but we become ones. Or at least that’s what happened to me.
3: What motivated you to make the professional change and get hired in the logistics and procurement department?
As time went on, I started to know more and more about the company’s internal processes in terms of management, procurement, logistics, primary accounting. The experience gained and the fact that I started from the lowest level, together with my personal ambition helped me to stand out and be promoted.
4. What should those who want a job similar to the one you hold know?
All colleagues rely on you, so it is important to always be prepared to provide support for both the equipment and the delivery and logistics part. In recent years, Technoelectric has entered more and more exotic markets, such as Asia and the Middle East. These are outside the EU, which means that a high number of different requirements will be issued. In this position, I have the opportunity to interact with a great number of people with distinct specializations (from drivers to internal and external logistics managers). It is a job that you develop on a personal/social level.
5. If you had to choose an experience or a project you worked on, what would it be and why?
I will never forget the first non-EU delivery to Lebanon. With a little help, perseverance, and stubbornness, I managed to complete the task. It was a pioneering moment for us, which meant the need for external information resources. However, it was a stressful time, so I wanted to give up the logistics job, even though it came with what I liked to do, the purchasing part. In retrospect, I am glad that I faced the pressure, that I successfully completed that project and that I have been part of the Technoelectric team for 16 years.
When she doesn’t manage the Logistics and Procurement Department, Geanina takes care of her passion, culinary art, reads, listens to music, and walks in nature. She loves to visit as many beautiful places in the country as possible, with her family.
