Cǎtǎlin-Dumitru Samara's Linkedin Analytics

- An experienced executive, passioned by retail, customer services, digital transformation and e-commerce, permanently updated with the new trends, able to communicate at all levels of a company, from the shop floor to the boardroom, loving to surround himself by people who talk about visions and ideas; - Leadership skills : cultivating innovation, managing ambiguity, navigating networks, global perspective, developing talents; - Personality characteristics: social leadership, agility, energy; - Life philosophy: a) Our business is change. We’re on offense all the time (Nike); b) Don’t let the little things divide you, when your agreement on the big things should bind you (Ray Dalio); c) Keep it simple. - Driven by the customer and team satisfaction, result oriented, with national and international exposure, exploring multiple stages that a company may face : pioneering, crisis, transformations, turn-arounds, expansion; - A rich history(started in 1999) in Retail : both offline (high in-store experience,in different roles) and online:direct involvement in digital apps (Bringo, Gurmandio, Carrefour App,internal productivity apps & websites),pushing strongly the digital transformation of Carrefour Romania; - National executive experience&exposure : 21 years of different management roles in Carrefour Romania, member of the Executive Board for more than one decade, running in the last 3 years as COO : > 360 stores, 1 e-commerce site, 1 digital commercial app and a business > 2.5 bln € yearly turnover, with 17.000 colleagues in stores and HO; - International executive experience&exposure : Leading Bringo (a digital app belonging to Carrefour Group) as international CEO (2022-2023) and Sole Director for Romania (2017-2020 & 2022-2023),building from the scratch an international business (> 120 mil € GMV / year, leader of the e-grocery market in Romania since the beginning, the best NPS in the e-commerce Carrefour Group), but also a SAAS technology platform, created around a unique “personal shopper” concept. An interesting and exciting switch of selling cucumbers to selling technology. And cucumbers through technology; - A complete professional background : operations management(clients, sales, team management, finance, assets), commercial (purchasing & négociations), permanently updated with the new trends (marketing & digital); - Studies in local (Romanian) & international universities (France, Switzerland); - Full professional proficiency in French & English; - Hobbies : sports, music & concerts, reading, traveling.