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Oana Florescu,
Purchasing Manager Agroalim:
„Our role is
to identify
new business
opportunities”
My first task when I started working
for Agroalim seven years
ago, as an Import Assistant, was
to record all the company’s import operations.
I want to thank my colleague Marina
Ionel for the help, patience and detailed explanations
she gave me then. I arrived with
a solid theoretical base (I was a university
assistant within the Faculty of International
Economic Relations - ASE) but I quickly
found out that the business today means
fast reaction speed, a great deal of experience
and a lot of work.
I believe that the entire activity of the
company begins here, within the Purchasing
Department. Our role is not only
to order the merchandise, but also to identify
business opportunities. We work with
strong partners and we take pride in the
fact that we have the experience necessary
to buy “anything and from anywhere”.
We are five within the Purchasing Department
of Agroalim (Ioana, Marina,
Madalina, Mihai and Oana) and our role
is to make sure that our sales colleagues
have something to sell every day. Everybody
starts with the beginning (the records
I talked about above), as it is essential that
the products are understood in details, as
well as the types of operations conducted
with each supplier.
One essential aspect of our activity is the
quality of the products purchased. Buying
Editors:
Andrada Calancea, Iulia Moțiu, Rosana Nedeciu
Editorial team:
Cristina Bodea, Sorin Lazăr, Mircea Bîtcă, Ovidiu Țimbota
Photo:
Mugurel Prodan, Paul Crîngulescu
Editorial consultant:
PRAIS Corporate Communications
„ Oana Florescu Purchasing Manager – Agroalim:
With attention, work and perseverance,
any difficult situation can be solved”.
is easy, while the price is only the tenth part
(not always the most important one) of a
purchasing agreement. However, buying
quality products, for good prices, in due
time and which also sell well, is totally
different. This is what we try to do on a
daily basis. It is not easy, (we have a saying
that: “We haven’t seen everything yet and
many things can still happen”), but with
attention, work and perseverance, any difficult
situation can be solved.
I have talked about one of the two halves
of my life. The other half, at least as equally
important, is my family. I have two boys
(Mihnea, 7 and half years old, and Dani, 3
years old) who complete my life. There is
nothing more beautiful than to arrive at
home after a day of work and be welcomed
cheerfully and highly energetically by two
goblins who scream, “Mommy, it’s so good
to have you home!”, and then you forget
about tiredness and, after you gather the
toys spread around the entire house, you
prepare dinner for them and make some
time to be with them.
In the little spare time I still have, I like
reading (Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Mario
Vargas Llosa – as well as works by important
economists). I was born in Brasov so
I have been skiing since I was little, managing
to create so far (with the help of my
father) two skiers – my husband and elder
son – while the youngest one follows.
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in the second half of this year,
n we want to launch a portal of
agroalim community to work as a
communication bridge between us all.
health and Safety
Pollutant-free
working
environment
One of Smithfield’s values and
major concerns is to provide a safe
and healthy working environment
for our employees. it is therefore
critical to ensure health and safety
and to make continuous investments
in this field.
The most recent analyses on physical
(noise) and chemical pollutants
(ammonia and dust) conducted by
our colleagues from Smithfield Ferme,
in collaboration with Timis Public
Health Directorate, at the farms from
Parta and Padureni and at Padureni
Feedmill, fall within this effort. These
measurements are part of an ongoing
program for the monitoring of work
conditions and pollutants and are periodically
conducted by Smithfield’s
teams of specialists, independently
as well as in collaboration with central
and local regulators.
Following the analyses conducted
in Parta and Padureni farm, it was
established that the level of ammonia
and vegetal dust is below the
maximum allowed values. Parta and
Padureni are two of Smithfield’s old
farms modernized, which were considered
representative in terms of their
headcounts. The analyses conducted
at Padureni Feedmill recommended
the taking of additional collective
and individual protection measures
regarding phonic pollutants (noise),
measures which were implemented
immediately, thus ensuring the health
and safety of Smithfield employees.
As Smithfield’s management is
permanently concerned with ensuring
an optimum and non-polluting
working environment, we would like
to invite you to send your suggestions
and observations regarding
health and safety at the following
e-mail address: Neboisa.Giurici@
smithfieldferme.ro
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