VLADIMIR HRISTOV
Project Manager
Sofia
Summary
Positive, organized, and solution-focused individual with comprehensive understanding of project lifecycle management and stakeholder engagement. Possesses strong communication and problem-solving skills, adept at managing project timelines and budgets. Committed to delivering successful outcomes through effective project coordination and collaboration.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Customer Project Manager
DXC Technology
09.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: IT and Consulting services
- Supports project planning, scheduling, monitoring and reporting activities in a Project/Program environment
- Preparing Project/Program documents including WBS and project Plan, contributes to requirements, risk schedule and change control
- Supports project team with knowledge about PM methodology, processes and tools
- Organizes and maintain all project related documentation
- Managing scope, cost, schedule and contract deliverables according to the project via different tools
- Host daily team meetings to get/give updates on the progress of the project, address potential roadblocks, and ensure that the project is on track
- Procurement ordering, tracking, and coordinating activities with 3rd Parties
- Produces weekly project status reports
- Managing the onboarding process of new resources
- Financial activities related to budgeting, forecasting, cross-charging, invoicing and over/under-spend analysis
- IT and Consulting services
Project Specialist
Forsta
03.2020 - 09.2022
- Company Overview: Marketing Research - Looking beyond the voice of the customer to understand their hearts and mind through integrated research solutions
- Handling SMB projects
- Complete 100% of projects withing the wave plan structure
- Responsible for the delivery of quality audit to clients
- Communication and ensuring timely updates to clients and provide the optimum solution to client's request
- Attend to inquiries on the delivered report
- Participating in kick-Off and recap Meetings to improve each project or wave
- Recruit new partners per project to grow the database and increase coverage
- Provide clear instructions and active briefing sessions for the recruited partners
- Establishing good connection to promote a good understanding of the client's needs
- Delivers top-notch quality data to the client
- Building Dashboards, Reports and Questionnaires
- Survey testing (link checking) for logic and text, including formatting; survey look and feel; instructions to be used; Red herring, Speeder and Straight-liner logics function correctly; looking for odd pieces of code/tags; foreign languages match translation files and survey flow remain the same
- Marketing Research - Looking beyond the voice of the customer to understand their hearts and mind through integrated research solutions
Lead Project Manager
Kantar
05.2017 - 03.2020
- Company Overview: Marketing Research
- Successfully managed high volume of projects accounting for $1.2mm in revenue
- Proactively communicated with internal and external clients, relaying key project milestones and navigating potential hurdles
- Consistently exceeded client expectations in delivering high-quality market research data and services while staying within budget
- Managed approximate of 5–10 research projects simultaneously, 20–30 per month, therefore, 240–360 per the calendar year
- To ease and solve partners' conflict with the organization and to repair the damaged relationship
- Daily incentive reconciliation for all projects
- Handled Multi-Market projects
- Prepared necessary project documentation to meet requirements for each project
- Prepared and delivered reports requested by clients and management
- Works withing the budgets set by the Sales team
- Marketing Research
Fieldwork Manager
Bright Marketing Research
08.2015 - 05.2017
- Company Overview: Marketing Research
- Ensure data were error-free and successfully delivered to the client within competitive timeframe
- To promote good understanding of the designated project with peers
- Reports directly to the lead project manager
- Marketing Research
Education
Associate's degree - Computer Science
Academic S.P. Koroliov
09.2007 - 05.2011
Associate's degree - Physical Education Teaching and Coaching - C. O. R. F. I. T Europass certificate supplement
Private Proffesional Sport College "BIO FIT"
09.2016 - 05.2018
Skills
Sense of responsibility
Certification
Certified Project Manager, Project Management Academy, Bulgaria
Scrum Foundation Professional Certification, CertiProf
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services
Timeline
Customer Project Manager
DXC Technology
09.2022 - Current
Project Specialist
Forsta
03.2020 - 09.2022
Lead Project Manager
Kantar
05.2017 - 03.2020
Associate's degree - Physical Education Teaching and Coaching - C. O. R. F. I. T Europass certificate supplement
Private Proffesional Sport College "BIO FIT"
09.2016 - 05.2018
Fieldwork Manager
Bright Marketing Research
08.2015 - 05.2017
Associate's degree - Computer Science
Academic S.P. Koroliov
09.2007 - 05.2011
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