Career Management

Responsible for setting Holding and Group Companies’ strategy and targets and coordinating processes, following strategic performance, identifying the gaps (geographic, sectoral risk/return profile or business line) in the business portfolio and exploring new business opportunities in these areas, determining investment requirements and revenue & profit potential for the Group of identified opportunities, creating high-level action plans for high-potential opportunities, evaluating macroeconomic projections and risks to assess the potential of countries where the Group does or may do business, boosting the Holding’s and Group Companies’ shareholder value and performing the necessary efforts to draw attention from potential investors, determining the optimum financing solutions to be implemented in new investments, providing relevant financing and ensuring that the investment profitability ratios are improved accordingly.

Responsible for identifying all kinds of strategic, operational, financial, compliance, external risks that could endanger the assets, development and continuity of the Holding and Group Companies, determining risk management strategies within the framework of Holding and Group Companies’ strategies, following risk management effectiveness, identifying growth and profitability potential in sectors inside and outside the portfolio, assessing portfolio risk and using opportunities found inside the portfolio, and informing the Top Management accordingly.

Responsible for creating solutions concerning information systems and communication infrastructure to boost the operational efficiency, competitiveness, and profitability of the Holding and Group Companies, and ensuring smooth implementation of any such solutions. Functions performed by the Information Technologies Department include managing new applications and software projects, managing projects on the improvement of existing applications and software, managing the technology infrastructures of software, hardware, servers and system control rooms as well as corporate practices, and information and network security management.

Financial Affairs Department is responsible for Budget Planning, Financial Reporting, and Accounting processes. Its operations include correct, timely, and complete reporting of the Holding’s and Group Companies’ individual and consolidated financial data in legal and managerial standards in line with Çalık Group’s vision in order to support the decision-making processes of the Top Management, following and analyzing the budget planning and budget realizations of the Holding and Group Companies, implementation and reporting of accounting processes in line with the legislation in effect, and ensuring tax optimization in accordance with the regulations and conditions laid down by tax, subsidy, international treaties and financial legislation.

Responsible for simplifying and optimizing the Holding’s and Group Companies’ structures, managing short, medium and long term cash flows, elevating the prestige and reputation in national and international capital markets and engaging in any necessary effort to this end, conducting line of credit, risk efforts with financial institutions, securing cash and non-cash loans needed by the Group, and analyzing the financial performance of business units.

Legal Department is responsible for the management of legal risks to ensure our Group’s full compliance with the laws in its operations, providing all departments with legal counseling, creating the relevant legal texts, resolving legal disputes, providing legal support in the process leading to the execution stage of contracts on outsourced services, and protecting legal interests of the Holding and Group Companies to the maximum extent.

Internal Control and Audit Department is responsible for auditing compliance with internal procedures and regulations of all operations of the Holding and Group Companies, sharing its findings with the relevant departments and ensuring they are corrected, identifying the risks in processes, and securing the assets of the company by taking necessary measures against such risks.

Responsible for bringing in candidates to the Group in the most suitable manner commensurate to their knowledge, skills, and competencies to become a value generating and agile organization, ensuring our employees' continued development and revealing their potential, and making the investments required to achieve this. Recruitment, career management, training and development, wage and benefits management, performance management functions are carried out by the Human Resources Department.

Responsible for positioning our Group's reputation at the highest level and creating the communication strategy to reach out in the most effective and appropriate manner to our customers/business partners across all geographies where we operate, devising the communication channels depending on the strategy, brand management, corporate perception and reputation management, media relations management, leader communication, social media management, managing corporate social responsibility projects and sponsorships.

Responsible for identifying process owners, defining processes, conducting measurements to monitor process performance and performing optimization work, creating and keeping up-to-date documents relating to processes, performing organizational changes and permanent staff management, and effective management of personnel requests and budget.

Making maximum use of modern technologies, manages in line with business program and budget planning projects launched in the Energy, Construction, and Mining sectors with a view to creating groundbreaking, innovative, environment-friendly solutions.

Responsible for utilizing high-quality, innovative and original solutions and environment-friendly technologies while maintaining a competitive edge in the sector and prioritizing the requirements of customers in countries where we operate; capturing investment opportunities based on an investment/service philosophy with a win-win strategy, and offering in the best manner engineering, supply and contracting services in these markets.

Responsible for extracting and distributing natural resources with state-of-the-art and environment-friendly technologies in the fields of oil and gas, engaging in oil, natural gas exploration and production operations, and conducting pipeline and refining operations most efficiently in Turkey as well as hydrocarbon- and natural gas-rich neighboring countries.

Responsible for following the developments in the markets and determining potential investment targets, assessing existing investments and improving the portfolio, and creating innovative ideas and business models from which the Group can profit within this scope, identifying the physical, financial, legal risks of such ideas and business models and making an income and expense assessment, and reporting their findings to the Top Management.

Responsible for developing innovative and unique products that would add value to both our company and the national economy and make a difference in the international markets, and conducting research activities while following the trends in the market accordingly.

Ensures that all processes from raw material stage to the end product are continued with minimal costs at our integrated facilities that have adopted an environment-friendly production system that would help our Group maintain its competitiveness in the sector with a high sense of quality and a potential to develop innovative products.

Responsible for the management of activities related to creating sales and marketing strategies in line with the Group mission, vision and targets, understanding market needs by conducting market analyses, determining sales and marketing targets accordingly, effectively presenting our customers with products and solutions that meet their needs and expectations, developing projects that would expand the customer portfolio and boost sales volume, and increasing product/brand awareness.

Responsible for placing relevant orders for the timely delivery at an optimum cost of equipment, fixtures, and consumables, determining and organizing the method of shipment of the ordered materials depending on their urgency, organizing shipment to relevant locations of all materials entered into the warehouse, following inventory levels on a product-location basis and ensuring that idle inventories are put to use in accordance with needs, conducting the necessary controls to ensure proper and safe storage conditions for all materials in the warehouses, carrying our shipment, export and import operations in line with international and domestic legislations.

Responsible for planning all purchasing requests in accordance with Group strategies and procedures, purchasing the requested services and products in a timely manner at an optimum price taking into account their quality and characteristics, researching prices and suppliers, ensuring effective management of the inventories and purchasing budget for the products under its responsibility, following the prices of competitors, sharing them with suppliers and taking action, managing relations with suppliers, and accordingly, drafting supplier and service contracts, identifying and overcoming problems that could arise after purchase, bringing in alternative domestic-foreign suppliers and equivalent products.

Responsible for the management of corporate mergers and/or acquisitions as well as providing buyer/seller consultancy and intermediary services, creating new funding infrastructures to seize on new business ideas, assessing public and private sector projects, obtaining financing, developing and launching cash management products, carrying out corporate lending policies in line with the legislation, performing the allocation, system, risk analysis, reporting and portfolio trends work required for the efficient and effective use of resources, engaging in sector and risk based assessment of loans in the corporate segment and cash flow based assessment for project loans, and following and analyzing their impact on the Bank's balance sheet and profitability.

In line with the targets of the Bank and in accordance with banking legislation, responsible for Bank channel management, determining strategy, pricing, sales channel development and infrastructure development processes for consumer loans, payment systems and other individual products, concluding these activities as effectively as possible while protecting the Bank's interests, determining the correct loan and allocation policies to facilitate the Group's attainment of its business targets, and within this scope, developing statistical analyses and models, putting in place effective and functional monitoring and follow-up systems, and selling to the customer portfolio products relating to payment systems.