Employments• Mercator, d.d. (Retail)• Chamber of Commerce and

Industry of Slovenia • IMP Livar, d.d. (foundry and

industrial valves)

JJože Sadar CEO at CJS, management consulting and trade d.o.o.

Competency

- More than 24 years of experience in retail, metal industry and consulting.- Last 17 years working experience in retail industry in all business processes - purchasing, category management, logistics, wholesale and retail operations in different executive positions in Slovenia and Balkan countries (senior vice president, senior executive director, programme director for fresh and frozen goods, commercial director, category manager). - Specialised in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG).- Few years the member of Global Supply Chain Committee The Consumer Goods Forum. - Visiting university lecturer in Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana for category management.

Key Experience

- Experience in category management and purchasing in retail company Mercator /strategies and executive purchasing and category management policy/.- Leader of strategic projects in retail company Mercator – Category management project and Refreshment of Mercator FMCG offer in Slovenia (restructuring whole retail business model).- Project leader of commercial part of business operation expansion into foreign markets (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Albania).- Cost cutting and business processes optimisation experience.- Industrial management experience (commercial director in foundry and industrial valves).- Advisor to the president, supervisory board and members - companies of Chamber of Commerce and Industry.