MAKEDONSKA, Antonina
email:-linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/antonina-makedonska
Work experience:
Nov 2019 - present - Benamic
Position: Project manager
Main Activities and Responsibilities:
Account management and project management of web projects
Calls with clients
Setting up of promotional campaigns in CRM and administration panel
Coordination between crm, web dev and design departments for the projects’
completion and delivery
Strictly following deadlines in projects execution
Sept 2014 – Oct 2019 – Benamic (prev. Sales-Promotions)
Position: Team Leader Project Management
Main Activities and Responsibilities:
Manage the workload in the Project Management team
Monitor the progress of each promotion and allocate additional resources where needed
Communication with Finance, Design, Development, Business Analysis and Customer
Service team to assure smooth promotions running
Work with the different departments responsible for CRM and admin development and
communicate the new developments/functionalities to the team
Update relevant manuals in use
Maintain client contact on important projects and campaigns; participate in
weekly/monthly calls and business correspondence via email
Approve team`s requests for leaves; training of new staff; calculation of performance
index and conducting performance reviews of the personnel
Provide continuous support to the team on their daily duties and being the ultimate
responsible contact for the service provided to clients
Ensure following of ISO procedures and updating the relevant team procedures and
processes in relation to that
June 2019 – Dec 2019 – Moon Magic
Position: Customer service representative
Responsibilities:
Replying to Zendesk tickets
Checking orders status in Shipmonk and Shopify and updating customers on the status
of their order
Performing control checks on orders on hold
Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 - Editions Trédaniel (freelance)
Position: Content manager
Responsibilities:
Updating content on web page: book description; authors pages
Final stage slicing of books’ artwork
Feb 2018 – June 2018 – HomeDecoratingCompany.com (freelance)
Position: Admin support for e-commerce company
Responsibilities:
Managing back orders
Pulling reports from the database regarding recent orders
Project management of new campaigns; communicating with design and content
management freelancers
Jan 2018 – May 2018 – Meir Kay (freelance)
Transcribing and subtitling videos in English
Nov 2013 – Aug 2014 – Benamic (prev. Sales-Promotions)
Position: Promotions Coordinator
Main Activities and Responsibilities:
Setting up of new promotions in the database
Creation of web forms for upcoming promotions
Communicating with Web developers, Database developers in case of additional
functionalities have been requested
Communication with Web design team in regards to the creation of a design for web
forms
Creation of project plans for the promotions
Preparing of quote taking in consideration all the specific and requirements for the
realization of the promotion and negotiating the fees with the client
Communication with the clients in regards to details and specifics of the promotion
Storage of the legal documents and ensuring the documents get signed by the client
Dealing and proper storage of complaints raised by the end customers regarding the
promotional product and client
Improvements in regards to ISO audits, process and procedures
Feb 2013 – Nov 2013 – Benamic (prev. Sales-Promotions)
Position: Customer service representative and data entry specialist
Main Activities and Responsibilities:
Customer service representative (phone and email correspondence) for companies
operating in various sectors of the industry worldwide;
Respond to customer queries and approaches in the language agreed, with a friendly and
professional tone and language in both spoken and written communication;
Processing web registrations;
Track all initial communication with the customer;
Particular attention to detail to ensure that the database is filled in with complete
accuracy.
Testing by phone interviews the French language of potential employees;
Initial training of new customer service employees;
Edit of the French version of company's website;
Collecting all documents needed from customers
Aug 2012 – Nov 2012 - DSG International plc (Pixmania France division)
Position: Account management coordinator
Main Activities and Responsibilities: manage a number of specified accounts; identify
mismatches and potential exposure; meet specified KPIs; respond to queries from
internal customers; escalate potential issues to relevant individuals, Team Leader and
external teams.
Aug 2011 – July 2012 – hotel Royal Beach, Golden Sands, Bulgaria
Position: Receptionist
Main Activities and Responsibilities: receive and register guests as they arrive, answer
phone calls and emails and control booking and reservations, receive the payment for
accommodation and allocate the rooms to the clients, preparing bills, handling
checkouts, in charge of rooms mini-bars, serving clients at the lobby bar and receiving
clients at SPA center, working with scanner, printer, fax, working with documents in
Word and Excel, place orders to distributors for lobby, mini-bar and hotel needs.
Feb 2011 – March 2011 – International internship AIESEC
Position: Marketing consultant, project “Marketing Focus”, Belgrade, Serbia
Main Activities and Responsibilities: be part of “Marketing Focus” team and work on
marketing workshop, which goal is to improve current position of small and medium
enterprises on market in Serbia; do the survey of small and medium enterprises; contact
and schedule meetings with them in order to work closely with company directors; make
marketing plan with activities for the company.
Nov 2010 – Dec 2010 – Artin Vision, Varna, Bulgaria
Position: Movie translator and volunteer at Sofia film festival
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Translate movies from English/French to Bulgarian
using specific software; working on the entrance of movie projections; giving directions
to customers; promoting the event.
June 2010 – July 2010 – Ice skating “Ice island”, Golden Sands, Bulgaria
Position: Front-office and promoting
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Welcoming clients; receive payments; giving skates
and main explanations to clients; promoting the event around Golden Sands.
May 2008 – July 2008 – Translation agency “Steady”, Varna, Bulgaria
Position: Secretary and translator with French language
Main Activities and Responsibilities: Welcoming clients; Transfer queries to translators;
Answer phone calls and emails; Translate documents from Bulgarian to French and
vice-versa.
Education
2008 - - – 2003
University of Economics, Varna, Speciality: Management
French high language school “Frederic Joliot Curie”, Varna
with French and Spanish language
Primary school ”Cyril and Methodius”, Varna
with German
Specializations:
Sept 2009 – June 2010 - Student exchange program Erasmus;
Location: University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic
Faculty: Business and Management
Languages:
Bulgarian - Native
French - Excellent
English- Excellent
Spanish- Basic
Certificates:
French – International French language diploma, DELF B2
English – Certificate at English Academy Varna, Bulgaria
Hobbies: Yoga, dancing, movies