Project Management Assistant.
STORAGE ENERGY EXPORT s.r.o.
My father's company in renewables. Chinese supplier relations, project planning and helping steer the business towards renewable energy.
ACTIVEMy father’s company. Running in parallel with banking, different logic, different kind of responsibility.
About the company
STORAGE ENERGY EXPORT is going through the kind of transition a company makes once a decade: from manufacturing biomass pelletising lines with robotics towards renewable energy — solar, hydroelectric and battery storage. Clients are primarily abroad, most of the business runs in English and across multiple time zones.
What I actually do
My main focus is the relationship with the Chinese supplier of these technologies. Communication, keeping the partnership alive, negotiating terms and tracking deliveries. I went to China with my father in person — because in this kind of business, with this kind of partner, a long-term relationship does not get built from an inbox.
On top of that I run project planning: timelines, milestones, coordination between suppliers and my father. My job is to know where every project stands and to flag early when something is slipping or a conflict is coming.
What I took from it
In a family firm decisions get made fast and the responsibility for them does not go anywhere. There is no “the boss approved it, I just executed”. In a small team every decision has a name on it.
It taught me to talk to people outside IT: suppliers, clients, partners from different cultures. To say things plainly, because there is nobody standing behind you to translate.