Karoline Czopak

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After completing a Master's in International Business, I gained experience over the last 10 years in a variety of sectors ranging from commercial real estate to automotive, working in positions related to financial planning & strategy, commercial relations & business restructuring.

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Education & background:
- Master's in International Business & Management
- Master Thesis on Sustainability Reporting
- Fluent in German (native), English, French & Spanish

Work experience:
- Financial planning & strategy as Operations Manager at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield in Vienna and Paris, steering the financial results & planning tools of some of Europe's biggest shopping malls
(retail, extensions, renovations, value creation, budgets, forecasts, price setting)
- Business restructuring & commercial relations as Deputy Subsidiary Manager at SAG in Mexico, an automotive supplier with clients across the United States
(price negotiations, cost cuts, management team restructuring, production plant transfer, office building project)
- Strategic consultant at Autodesk to select clients in the DACH region

Strengths: analytical, structured, communicative, multilingual, detail-oriented

I've always loved learning new languages & getting to know new cultures and ways of living. During my studies, I studied or worked in Austria, France, Spain, Norway, India, Japan and Mexico, and I was lucky to be able to build an international career afterwards that allowed me to spend more time getting to know other contexts. I am curious about cultural differences, how history shapes our current world setting and mindset, and sociopolitical developments and trends.
In my free time, I try staying fit through running or yoga, I love to eat well, and I also enjoy going to classical music concerts or the opera.