Interactive Seminar 1 (For Non Russian Delegates):
December 2, 2008, 9:00 – 15:00
The Practical Guide To Establishing & Managing Your Automotive Operation In Russia - Click Here
Interactive Seminar 2:
December 2, 2008, 9:00 – 15:00
Recruiting, Training And Retaining Skilled Automotive Personnel For Your Production Facility In Russia - Click Here
Interactive Seminar 1 (For Non Russian Delegates): The Practical Guide To Establishing & Managing Your Automotive Operation In Russia
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
About Your Seminar Leader:
Dmitry Yurushkin,
Independent Analyst, Formerly GR and Business Strategy Manager,
Ford Motor Company, Russia
Your seminar leader has been a member of the Ford team in Russia for 15. He took part in Ford local manufacturing project due diligence and business plan development. He subsequently ran 18 months negotiations course with federal authorities. In 70-ies and 80-ies Dmitry was a high ranking officer in the Soviet automotive hierarchy responsible for international projects and new products development. He was directly involved in numerous deals between Russian companies and global OEMs and suppliers. His network of contacts and his vast experience in the Russian automotive sector makes him an ideal source of information and contact for those starting their businesses in Russia.
Interactive Seminar 2: Recruiting, Training And Retaining Skilled Automotive Personnel For Your Production Facility In Russia
What will you learn?
- 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.
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 story.