Steen Sorensen

Current

Group Manger at DABGO Russia

Past

General Director at Algeco
General Director at Palsgaard R
Head of the 'CRM & Consumer Financing Department' at PEREKRIOSTOK

Various Management Positions at Ford Financial Europe

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Education

Copenhagen Business School
Horsens Statsskole

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Industry

Automotive

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Steen Sorensen’s Summary

A proactive, diligent and highly motivated manager with extensive international management experience in finance, business and product development. The experience has been gained working for internationally renowned companies such as Ford Financial Europe (automotive captive), Perekriostok (retail trade), Palsgaard (production and sales of emulsifiers and stabilizers) and Algeco (modular construction).

Shows genuine enthusiasm and a strong bottom-line drive, coupled with excellent negotiation, communication and team management skills

Steen Sorensen’s Specialties:

General Management
- Automotive Finance
- B2B
- Business Development
- CRM

Email: Steen_s_sorensen@yahoo.co.uk
Mobile Phone No.: +7 910 442 0895

Steen Sorensen’s Experience

Group Manger

DABGO Russia

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

DABGO is a free online network for Danish business professionals who
are interested in increasing their business opportunities, accelerate
their careers and make new connections.

It is DABGO's mission to significantly increase opportunities for Danish
business internationally by making it easier, more convenient and more
effective for Danes and Danish companies to build international relations.
General Director

Algeco

(Privately Held; Construction industry)

September 2008 — February 2009 (6 months)

Algeco offers space rental solutions throughout 16 European countries and serves 31,100 customers in the areas of construction & infrastructure, industry, services and administration. Its fleet of approximately 230,000 modular space and storage units is leased through a network of more than 100 locations.

Algeco is part of Algeco Scotsman, a leading global business services provider, expert in modular space and storage solutions. The company manages a fleet of more than 335,000 units with operations in 19 countries throughout Europe and North America, making it the world leader in the space rental sector and a company which is the 5th largest player by revenue in the global rental services sector.

We are the clear leader in Western Europe, the next major move is to establish an entity in the Russian Federation to offer modern rental solution in the Russian market.

Email: info-russia@algeco.com
General Director

Palsgaard R

(Food & Beverages industry)

January 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 8 months)

Daily Management i.e. development, planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring all business activities required for the efficient operation of ‘OOO Palsgaard R’ (B2B).

PALSGAARD is globally acknowledged as a major manufacturer and supplier of comprehensive, versatile, specialty range of emulsifiers/stabilizers concentrates, premixes, compounds, integrated and extruded products for application within the bakery, dairy, ice cream, margarine, chocolate and fine food fields.
Head of the 'CRM & Consumer Financing Department'

PEREKRIOSTOK

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

March 2005 — December 2005 (10 months)

Managing Perekriostok’s CRM strategy for the supermarket chain’s stores in Russia.

Perekriostok is part of X5 Retail Group.

X5 Retail Group N.V. is the largest food retail company in Russia in terms of sales. The company uses a multi-formatted strategy to develop three formats simultaneously: soft discounters, supermarkets and hypermarkets. The key strategic objective is to become the main consolidator of the Russian food retail market and the absolute leader of Russian retail, able to compete with leading international chains as an equal.
Various Management Positions

Ford Financial Europe

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; f; Financial Services industry)

August 1990 — February 2005 (14 years 7 months)

April 2003 to February 2005
Regional Manager, European Sales Operations North, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Managed Ford Financial Europe's quality improvement strategy for 7 markets (Scandinavia, Benelux & Ireland)

August 2000 to March 2003
Program Manager, Management Information Systems (MIS), Brentwood, UK
• Managed the development and launch of Ford Financial Europe's MIS program

February 1999 to July 2000
General Manager, Ford Credit Russia, Moscow, Russia
• Working as part of Ford’s general management team.

August 1996 to January 1999
Business Development Manager, New Markets & Associations, Brentwood, UK (08/1996 – 02/1998) & Moscow, Russia (03/1998 – 01/1999)
• Managed FFE's team in Russia. Assessing market opportunities and working with Ford Motor Co to develop sales initiatives suitable for the local market conditions.