Petya Panayotova

Building the network of local fixers around the world, which is practically finding, selecting and recruiting Japanese-speaking producers/ fixers/ DOP’s and other technical staff, onboarding them and maintaining the network. Managed to build a network of 120 people for the period of 1 year.

Media Production Coordinator (Fixer) for Japanese TV and media crews in Bulgaria.

I am a co-founder of a trading company, trading local organic foods and imported ingredients to Japan. Our company is the exclusive exporter for Japan of successful organic brands – Roobar, Bett’r, Harmonica, Wooden Spoon, Amore, Rookies, Dragon Superfoods.

I’m responsible for

• Market research, finding new partners in Japan an business development,
• B2B communication,
• Marketing content creation.

I’ve been a freelance translator and interpreter to/from Japanese, English and Bulgarian since my last year in university.

My translation experience is

• Legal documents
• Marketing and product descriptions, website content and SEO optimization
• Movies and subtitles – Bansko Film Fest, Japanese Movie “Thermae Romae” starring Abe Hiroshi in Nu Boyana Studio, Japanese TV productions filmed in Bulgaria for Asahi TV, NHK, TBS, TV Tokyo.

My interpretation experience is

• Medical seminars and medical equipment presentations
• Technical seminars – IT and manufacturing
• Business seminars and meetings – B2B, B2C, Conferences at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Bulgaria-Japan Fellowship Association
• Japanese TV and media productions – documentaries, drama series, movie “Thermae Romae” starring Abe Hiroshi at Nu Boyana Studio in Sofia, Bulgaria
• For local Bulgarian manufacturers
• Interpreter at exhibitions in Japan – cosmetics and superfoods and supplements

I’ve been working as a contractor with various local manufacturers who want to start business partnership in Japan.

I was an account manager for Nexo’s VIP Japanese clients.

I was responsible for increasing client satisfaction by building strong relationships and addressing their needs comprehensively and launching a new marketing campaign to maintain high client retention rate.

I was a brand manager for a trading company. My role was to develop the market for “ProViotic” in Japan and eventually other healthcare products produced in Bulgaria.

I was responsible for

• the market research and development of ecommerce via Amazon, Rakuten, other platforms,
• searching for importers and distributors,
• creating the social media content,
• collaborated with creative agencies to produce the website’s content and other marketing content,
• leading the B2B/ sometimes B2C/ communication.

University teaching assistant in Methodology of Psychology and Philosophy.

I was a fixer for Japanese TV productions in Bulgaria working with a sempai.

We were engaged in the whole process of making a TV production – the preliminary research and planning, taking part in the writing of the script with the Japanese team, doing the translation and on-site interpretation, and the final subtitling.

Tour guide to Japanese tourist groups in Bulgaria.