Jarosław Zamojski
Center manager, Promenada
Although Jarosław Zamojski, 37, has spent most of his career moving between work for retail companies and running his own firm, he said he finally found his ideal post by taking the top job at Promenada.
A desire to travel led him to enroll at the Budapest Agriculture Academy (BKE), where he studied food technology. He returned to Poland in the early 1990s and quickly set up his first private company, a household electrical goods distributor called Fit, which grew to employ 16 people by 1994. That year Zamojski handed control over the firm to his wife and took a job in the corporate management sector. He worked for a year as head of sales for Warsaw at Polish food manufacturer Danuta, and in 1995 Zamojski joined a team that was setting up operations in Poland for French hypermarket operator Auchan. As one of the firm's first five Polish employees, his job combined many roles, including that of buyer, staff trainer and regional director.
Two years later Zamojski left Auchan to set up Profit, a consulting company catering to small- and medium-sized firms, whose work included developing distribution for Eldam, a local shoe manufacturer and distributor. In 1998 an offer from German hypermarket operator Metro to head the M1 Marki center led him to return to retail management. But Zamojski said he finally abandoned his desire to be his own boss when Netherlands-based developer ECC offered him the job of center manager at the upmarket Promenada center last year.
Past notes:
1988 - Graduated in food science from Budapest Agriculture University
1988 - Started electrical retailer Fit
1991 - Graduated in food science from the Warsaw School of Agriculture
1995 - Regional director, trainer, buyer at Auchan Polska
1996 - Owner of Profit
1998 - Head of M1 center, Marki
2000 - Center manager of Promenada
Word of advice:
"You have to have a hierarchy of values: pursue goals with single-minded determination, be honest in all aspects of the job, be professional and open to challenges."
