Katarzyna Aniolek - business transformation | growth | operational improvement | effective teams | innovation | value creation | program management

Passionate about sharing management knowledge, consulting experience and broad perspective I started Artes to help businesses, leaders and individuals alike to make the most of their journey. Artes is a company dedicated to rediscovering growth, redefining purpose, finding a way to reach new goals and potential.

‘Artes’ means competencies in Latin as my belief is that anything in life or business requires practice, focus and action. Artes’ services include:

Management advisory | Strategy & Execution | Growth & Restructuring | Digital Transformation | Innovation management I Project & Program Management | Change management | 1:1 mentoring | Leadership development | Building effective teams | Corporate training

Artes offering is rooted in my consulting background & strategic mindset - years of asking the right question, co-creating solutions, guiding the path towards answers and more importantly action. I excel at creating & implementing alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any scenario, I quickly spot relevant patterns and issues. I am intrigued with the unique qualities of each person & help them reach their personal potential, performance goals of the teams they lead, vision of businesses they represent.

Artes services include:

• Management advisory
• Strategy & Execution
• Growth & Restructuring
• Digital Transformation
• Innovation management
• Project & Program Management
• Change management
• 1:1 mentoring
• Leadership development
• Building effective teams
• Corporate training

My top 5 Gallup/CliftonStrengths®: Learner, Achiever, Responsibility, Strategic, Individualization.

Development and activation of innovation assets to enable EY internally and its clients externally to drive winning products & services leveraging emerging technologies

Personal achievements:

• Architecting & bringing to life EY TechWatch as its Product Manager - the first tech and innovation horizon scanning app of its kind helping EY and its clients navigate the transformative age and delivering insights on how 70+ new techs transform global economy across industries, functions and geographies; led a truly global team of 10+ experts in the journey from the concept, through design of user experience, generation of powerful content and agile execution; app leveraged at EY globally and with clients, featured at EY's most prestigious global innovation event - Innovation Realized
• Advising EY and its clients on effective innovation management incl. the design of innovation challenges and crowdsourcing of ideas and on enablement through innovation management tools
• Leveraging start-up and R&D platforms to deliver internally and externally deep insights on tech innovation incl. tech transfers, patents and business developments driven by start-up ecosystems, R&D labs, academia and industry
• Design of emerging tech advisory value proposition, growth strategy and delivery model – bringing together EY's tech consulting offering, use cases, assets, go-to-market strategy and delivery model to best address client business issues with latest technology

Selection experience:

Successful restructuring of business performance - leading European recycling provider: Helped the client avoid bankruptcy by implementing a profitability improvement strategy across key revenue and cost savings areas (purchasing & sales, logistics, operating expenses, capital efficiency) that became the foundation for restructuring across all client entities in Europe.

Revenue growth via new market entry - leading European retailer: Unlocked value for a client by reinventing its business concept through entering consumer lending market via a Joint Venture with a bank. Defined the new business operating model including Consumer Finance product portfolio, settlement model and salesforce incentive system.

Performance improvement via process, organization & systems redesign - world leading mining company: Successfully designed shared services delivery model for a client across 20+ entities, 8 countries and 6 business segments. Redesigned processes - procurement, HR and finance & accounting, organizational model and enabling technology.

Consumer Finance strategy & Joint Venture operating model definition – leading European retailer

• Executed the tender for the Consumer Finance partner – negotiated with leading Polish Consumer Finance banks
• Defined the Joint Venture business operating model including Consumer Finance product portfolio
• Led the design of the Joint Venture financial settlement model, SLA & sales force incentive system

Shared Services Center (SSC) Feasibility Study – leading European generic drugs manufacturer

• Managed the design of the Finance &Accounting, Human Resources and IT SSC operating model incl. the process design, organizational structure, governance and service management model, business case definition

Benchmarking of Shared Services Center (SSC) Finance & Accounting (F&A) operations – European oil company

• Provided expert advice on benchmarking of PTP, OTC and RTR processes including F&A best practices assessment

Performed an internal audit function within the company's financial and manufacturing operations