Description

Project Management and Strategic Management professional with experience across energy, digital commerce, and entrepreneurial ventures. Skilled in leading large-scale IT projects, driving change initiatives, and aligning business and technology objectives. Strong analytical background with an MSc in Strategic Management and a BSc in Accounting & Finance. Adept at stakeholder management, team leadership, and translating complex strategies into actionable business results.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Dutch
Conversational
Spanish
Fluent
Greek
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

The Hague (up to 50km)

Shell,
IT Project Manager
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
August 2022 - Today (3 years and 10 months)
The Hague, Netherlands
Results-driven IT Project Manager and Scrum Master (Part of IDT, Global Functions) with 3,5 years of experience overseeing and successfully delivering complex technology projects. Proficient in managing multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to regulations and compliance standards. Adept at leading projects to achieve strategic objectives while maintaining efficient timelines and resource allocation.

Core competencies:
Project Leadership: Effectively led cross-functional teams, ensuring clear communication, defined project scope, and timely execution
Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborated with Compliance Officers, Delivery Leads, Architecture and IRM leads to maintain alignment with regulatory requirements and strategic goals that align with the overall IT landscape of Shell
Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Fostered collaboration between Design Engineers, GCMC Engineers, Portfolio Analysts, Developers, Architecture Information Risk Management Officers, and other stakeholders to drive successful project outcomes.
Team management Corporate strategy IT Project Management Atlassian JIRA Azure DevOps
Freelancer,
eCommerce and Digital Marketing Manager
E-COMMERCE
December 2021 - December 2022 (1 year)
Drama, MT, Greece
Christos worked in a team at one of the biggest textile retailers in Greece in order to shape the company's digital future.

Strategic Thinking: Created a 6 months plan for the company's digital strategy. Achieved a higher ROI (7:1), an increase in monthly sales (each month) and net revenue.
Digitalization: Replaced manual inventory management process with an easy and fast process involving a new ERP system and QR code scanning.
Vendor and Contract Management: Negotiated new, more favourable contracts with the suppliers of the company that decreased the total costs of the company by 34%.
Organizational skills: Restructured the roles of the Digital Marketing team, assigned each member tasks that fitted their skills and interviewed personally new hires for the role.
Knowledge Transfer and Operate Readiness: Build out a sustainable process for the company to operate the existing procedures that were built.
Corporate strategy Digital communication Change and Transformation Management Team management vendor management
Cut the Net,
Founder/Sports Columnist
DIGITAL AND IT
August 2018 - August 2022 (4 years)
Thessaloniki, Greece
Christos created Cut the Net as an online gate of basketball news and retro-stories. In this role, Christos managed to constantly evolve Cut the Net, expanded it in 8 different platforms, contact interviews with national level basketball players and inspire 3 people of his team to choose a career in journalism.
Team management Leadership Digital communication Journalism Storytelling