Süleyman Torun

Experience

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  Anadolu Travel and Tour

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Financial Assistant
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  Tatekan Construction Company

  Dec 2011 - Jun 2013

  Storekeeper

  TATEKAN Constructions (Prime Group)Kabul, AfghanistanManaging a team of approximately more than 150 employees in a busy work environment. Negotiating contracts, ensuring that they balance value and risk.Driving operational improvements, maximizing the value of the asset base while ensuring a tight control on operational costs. Responsible for monitoring and continually improving standards of performance and quality within the operation.Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures. Creating, managing and analyzing performance data as per client’s standard. Ensuring that capacity and capability are continually planned.Encouraging, identifying and developing best practice strategy.Ensuring compliance to all Environmental Health & Safety goals & objectives. Producing Operations manuals which define how the business is to be run. Working closely with the Project Manager, Financial Manager, Facilities Manager and Quality Control Manager. Show less

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  Save the Children International

  Oct 2013 - Jan 2014

  Finance Officer

  Save the Children's work saves and improves children's lives around the world. We work to ensure children have healthcare, food and shelter, as well as learning and child protection services when children need it most. We are committed to helping all children achieve their full potential by ensuring they grow up healthy, receive a good education, and stay safe.Securing children's rights is the foundation of our work. Millions of children around the world are denied their rights, simply because of who they are or where they are from. We know that to ensure every child has the chance for a future their rights must be upheld.Through our programming, emergency responses and advocacy, we put the most vulnerable children first, tackling the barriers to survival, learning and protection. Show less

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  USAID

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2016

  Deputy Admin/Finance Manager

  USAID is the world’s premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID’s work advances U.S. national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience. The purpose of foreign aid should be ending the need for its existence, and we provide development assistance to help partner countries on their own development journey to self-reliance – looking at ways to help lift lives, build communities, and establish self-sufficiency.Our efforts are both from and for the American people.USAID demonstrates America’s good will around the world; increases global stability by addressing the root causes of violence; opens new markets and generates opportunity for trade; creates innovative solutions for once unsolvable development challenges; saves lives; and advances democracy, governance, and peace. Show less

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  TOR HOLDING A.Ş

  Nov 2019 - Jul 2024

  Senior Sales Specialist

  Progressing together, Growing together.As Tor Holding we embrace the highest quality standards for our customers and business partners.We continue creating sustainable values by following growth strategies and building strategic partnerships in investment areas that have predictable and high growth potential like monopolies or areas with low competition.

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  Tremglobal.

  Nov 2019 - Feb 2022

  Senior Investment Advisor

  Trem Global is based in Turkey and has been active in the international arena. Trem Global more than over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry. Our investment history allows us to understand the expectations of international investors truly offer customized solutions and qualified package programs.

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  Agrowell

  Feb 2022 - Jul 2024

  Foreign Trade Specialist

  Agrowell is a prominent agriculture company that grows the seeds of hard-work on the fertile lands of Turkey. It is our duty to process what nature grants us into profitable commodities to enrich the global agriculture industry.We take pride in what we do -we produce only high-quality crops and provide expertise for our customers, introducing the wonders of nature to them. Our feet are on the ground but our eyes are on the sky that is the only limit.

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  Turkish Goods

  Feb 2022 - Jul 2024

  Senior Sales Specialist

  We believe a supply chain requires balance and consistency to successfully continue its activities. That’s why we focus on easing and transforming the essential parts of the process where every party involved can monitor and communicate through every stage. With our integrated network of suppliers, we are able to provide our customers with an extensive product range in every possible category. With this major transformation of supply management, we have ensured to set new standards for the industry. Turkish Goods continues to diversify its portfolio and services to respond to its global partners as a trusted partner. Show less

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  4KA GLOBAL

  Sept 2024 - Jan 2025

  Import Export Manager

  As the Import-Export Manager at 4KA GLOBAL in Istanbul, Türkiye, I oversaw the import and export of a wide range of FMCG products, working closely with suppliers and supermarket chains to bring products from over 500 international brands to consumers. My strategic decision-making and focus on future growth have been instrumental in driving the company's success in the foreign trade market.

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  Universal Brands®

  Jan 2025 - now

  Founder & CEO

  Universal Brands is a leading company in theFMCG sector specializing in import-export,sourcing, quality control, and shippingconsultancy. Based in Istanbul, Turkey, we prideourselves on bridging the gap between globalFMCG brands and local markets worldwide.