Interactive Seminar 1: The Practical Guide To Establishing & Managing Your Automotive Operation In Russia
Seminar rationale:
As more and more automotive producers move to Russia it is essential that you make your strategic decision to establish operations in Russia based on facts, figures, experience and serious growth forecasts. Join this practical, information & experience driven seminar to learn about key challenges and opportunities you will have to face when establishing operations in Russia. Practical advice combined with lots of experience, success and failure stories is exactly what you need before you embark on your Russian operations venture.
What will you learn?
Gathering information about the practical side of establishing operations in Russia could be difficult, time-consuming and expensive. This seminar is designed specifically for automotive professionals who have been given the uneasy task of setting up and growing their company’s business in Russia. Get the information you need and learn from many years of experience in Russia. In just one day you will get information and learn essential truths about:
- Dealing with initial company registration and paperwork in Russia
- Choosing legal and banking services
- Getting bank accounts and establishing legal entities in Russia
- Handling accounts, charter capital, minimum bank deposits
- Wading through ministries, officials and other authorities
- Keeping on top of tax returns, taking advantage of tax incentives and dealing with tax inspections
- Dos and Don’ts in initial company set up in Russia
- Property – to buy or to rent? How much to pay? Greenfield vs brownfield?
- Catch 22 in Russia – where might you get stuck and how to deal with different problems
- Buying equipment for your facility – practical advice and experience
- HR – how to find good workers and make them loyal to your company
- Logistics, logistics, logistics – how to have good service and not pay a fortune
- Finding local reliable suppliers to reduce cost and improve quality – supplier localisation
- Getting new business – western OEMs and Russian OEMs.
- Importing and exporting produce to and from Russia – key issues and how to overcome them
Structure Of The Day
8:30 – Coffee and registration
8:45 – introduction and overview of the day
9:00 – Company registration, legal, banking, property and tax
10:00 – Morning Coffee and Questions
10:20 – HR, Employment and staff training
11:00 – Coffee Break & Questions
11:15 – Logistics, supplier sourcing and localisation
12:15 – Growing your business in Russia. Selling to Russian and to western OEMs.
13:15 – Lunch & Questions
About Your Seminar Leader:
Roeland Van Gestel, General Manager, Lear Russia - is one of the pioneers among global T1 suppliers with production facilities in Russia. He has been in charge of production and done business on all levels with both Russian and western OEMs in the country since 1998. Most of Lear’s business in Russia is with the local OEMs. Roeland is currently working on his company’s strategy for future growth and work with the local Russian OEMs. He is an absolutely ideal source of information, contacts, tips, practical advice and encouragement for anyone who is new or relatively new to Russia and its automotive sector.
Interactive Seminar 2: Recruiting, Training And Retaining Skilled Automotive Personnel For Your Production Facility In Russia: Practical Solutions & Information
Seminar Rationale:
With most OEMs and their T1 suppliers moving to establish productions sites in Russia, skilled personnel has become the most challenging issue on the agenda of every automotive executive, responsible for their company’s success in Russia. This seminar is designed to give you the information and practical solutions you need to build an effective and dedicated team for your company in Russia. Given the ever increasing staff shortage in St Petersburg and the region, it is important that you have a full view of the current state of the employment market. You must be prepared to deal with the current and future engineering staff shortages in the automotive industry in Russia. You will hear latest labour market trends and prognosis for the coming 3-5 years in Russia. You will also learn how to best attract and keep your personnel in Russia.
What will you learn?
You will gain information about the current state of the employment market, that will help you make strategic decisions upon where to base your production facility in Russia, including:
- Current employment situation in St. Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast and key leading production areas throughout Russia with a special focus on St. Petersburg and Kaluga regions
- Overview of technical and Univeristy education in Russia. Skilled labour market. Detailed analysis of the young engineer’s numbers and quality in St. Petersburg, Moscow and across Russia.
- understanding of professional skills and level of qualification for production and engineering personnel in the Russia automotive industry. C&B for production, engineering and other personnel for St. Petersurg, Moscow and key industrial areas in Russia
- Forecasts for the future of the employment market in St Petersburg and across the country: skills shortage analysis, compensation changes, availability of labour in key industrial locations, C&B changes in 2009-2010, influence of the current demographic conditions on next 3 to 10 years
- Overview of the Russian labour legislation (labour contracts, taxation, personnel hiring/dismissal)
- Aspects of personnel training, motivation and retention in Russia
- Employment of expatriate personnel
- Projected legislative changes
- Using personnel migration in Russia as a solution to your labour force shortage: migration policy and legislative aspects.
Structure of the day
8:30 – Coffee and registration
8:45 – introduction and overview of the day
9:00 – Data & information on the Russian employment market
10:00 – Morning Coffee and Questions
10:20 – Sourcing, training & retaining staff
11:00 – Coffee Break & Questions
11:15 – Legislation, packages and practical realities of managing staff in Russia
12:15 – Growing your production site in Russia.
13:15 – Lunch & Questions
About your seminar leader:
Eugenia Delnova, Kelly IT and Engineering Resources, Branch Manager North-West Russia, KELLY SERVICES
Kelly Services is a global staffing company based in Troy, Michigan, USA, with 2600 offices in 32 countries the world over. Kelly Services started operations in 1993 in St. Petersburg. Today Kelly Services CIS operates through own branches in 18 regions of Russia. The has several branches, specialising in the automotive industry, with most automotive producers as their clients in St Petersburg and the region. Join Eugenia who is in charge of Kelly’s automotive search and selection to find out how you can make your HR strategy in Russia into a success
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