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Sii, the second largest IT employer in Northern Poland employs 700 people only in Tri-City. Gdańsk branch within a year plans to hire another 100 developers. Throughout Poland in Sii work 2 400 engineers. The company has just started recruiting for new international projects. In addition to the Tri-City labor market, Sii attracts to Gdansk specialists from all over Poland. The company offers relocation packages and helps to move.

Sii increase employment. Due to the growth of the company and the foreign expansion, Sii is looking for next specialists. As Managing Director of Sii Gdansk, Michael Desmurs announced – Within 12 months, Sii will create over 100 new jobs for IT experts. The newly employed will carry out projects for our clients – global players in the financial industry and foreign media houses. Our plans assume that within 5 years Sii Gdańsk will employ 1,100 people.

Primarily, Sii seeks experienced .NET, ASP.NET, Java, PHP, Python, Magento, C++, and mobile technology as Xamarin developers. Wanted are also DevOps specialists. There will be new vacancies for automatic and manual testers too. Sii as its team members looks also after project managers, analysts and Scrum Masters. Those with 2-3 years of experience in programming can also count on the job.

– Despite the fact that we are an enormous company, Sii is not a stereotypical corporation. We focus on relationships and relaxed atmosphere at work. Our advantage is the variety of projects that we realize on almost all continents, therefore in Sii there is no time for boredom. Working in Sii enables career development from the developer, to systems architect, but also gives access to multiple technologies and possibility to work in a mature agile team – says Alicja Sawicka, Head of Recruitment and HR.

In the spring of 2017 Sii Gdańsk will move its office to the rising, highest skyscraper in Tri-City – Olivia Star in Olivia Business Centre. The new headquarters is designed to resemble the giants of Silicon Valley. Employees will occupy an area of 6 thousand. sq m. In the new workplace in addition to office space there will be many attractions, which even Google or Facebook would not be ashamed of, among other things slide combining the floors.

Sii Poland is a part of the French group Sii Groupe which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange. It has 8 offices in major cities in Poland – Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Poznan, Krakow, Lodz, Lublin, Katowice. By employing 2 400 engineers, the company has a significant contribution to the rapidly growing market of new technologies in Poland.

 

More information:

Dominic Arendt

PR & EB Specialist

darendt@pl.sii.eu

Tel. +48 536 988 882,

+48 587 674 141

FUJIFILM Europe announces the establishment of a new subsidiary, FUJIFILM Europe Business Service Sp. z o.o. (FEBS), in Gdansk, Poland. Starting 1 September 2016, FEBS shall perform operational and routine activities for FUJIFILM Europe, in particular in the area of Finance, Procurement and Human Relations as a European Shared Services Center.

FEBS will support FUJIFILM Europe’s strategy towards further standardisation, harmonisation and continuous improvement based on best practice across its operations. Combining those activities in one location in a very professional and stimulating environment will Foster innovation also for Fujifilm’s internal processes and contribute to overall cost reduction and customer satisfaction.

Go Miyazaki, Managing Director FUJIFILM Europe says: “We decided for Gdansk because they have created a very attractive and professional business environment for captive shared services with a secured base for highly qualified personnel. The new operation will strengthen our overall performance across Europe and will support our further development and growth.”

FUJIFILM is located at Olivia Business Centre.

 

Overview of FUJIFILM Europe Business Service Sp. Ltd.

Business description: Shared Services for Fujifilm group companies in Europe

Registered Share capital: 2,652,900 PLN (appr. 600,000 Euro)

Location: Gdansk, Poland

Manging Director: Hideru Sato

Number of employees: 30

 

About FUJIFILM Corporation

FUJIFILM Corporation is one of the major operating companies of FUJIFILM Holdings. Since its founding in 1934, the company has built up a wealth of advanced technologies in the field of photo imaging, and in line with its efforts to become a comprehensive healthcare company, Fujifilm is now applying these technologies to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the Medical and Life Science fields. Fujifilm is also expanding growth in the highly functional materials business, including flat panel display materials, and in the graphic systems and optical devices businesses. For more information, please visit www.fujifilm.com.

 

About Fujifilm in Europe

Fujifilm entities operate in over 45 group companies in Europe and employ around 4,500 people engaged in R&D, manufacturing, sales, and service. Throughout Europe they serve a range of industries including medical, chemical, graphic systems, electronic materials, optics, recording media, and photographic technologies. FUJIFILM Europe GmbH (Duesseldorf, Germany) acts as Strategic Headquarters for the region and supports its group companies in Europe by formulating marketing and corporate strategies. For more information, please visit www.fujifilm.eu.

Media Contact:

FUJIFILM Europe

Corporate Communications

PHONE: +49 211 5089214

Mail: news@fujifilm.eu

We would like to invite you to the fourth chamber concert – Olivia Camerata at the O4 conference centre (Olivia Four building, ground floor from the Patio side), which will take place on Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 5.00 p.m. The programme will include works by Maurice Ravel, Henryk Wieniawski and Sergei Prokofiev, m.in.

Performers:

Katarzyna Bąkowska – violin – graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in the class of prof. Henryk Keszkowski, postgraduate studies with prof. Henryk Kowalski and Franco Gulli at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. She was a scholarship holder of m.in. Kosciuszko Foundation and the Ministry of Culture and Culture. She received a distinction at the T. Wroński, first place and Grand Prix at the First International Competition of Music Educators in Warsaw. She also completed a three-year chamber music internship with prof. Maja Nosowska. She has performed at numerous festivals in the USA and Poland. Currently, he is a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz and the Secondary Music School. Bednarska in Warsaw. He gives concerts in Poland and the USA, and is the initiator of string courses in Kąśna Dolna, Drozdów and Radziejowice.

Ewa Czeluśniak – violin – a graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in the violin class of Katarzyna Bąkowska, PhD. She has participated in numerous courses in master music interpretation, m.in. the Zenon Brzewski International Music Course in Łańcut (2011, 2012), the Violin Master Course in Drozdów (2012), the II, III and IV Master Courses in Violin and Chamber Music – Palace in Radziejowice (2013, 2014, 2015), where she perfected her skills under the supervision of outstanding teachers, m.in. Piotr Tarcholik, Marcin Baranowski, Edward Zienkowski, Roland Baldini and Katarzyna Bąkowska. In the years 2012-2015, as part of the European Artistic Meetings in Bydgoszcz-Ostromecko, she had the pleasure of collaborating with outstanding artists such as: Alexandre Brussilovsky, Richard Schmoucler, Ivry Gitlis, Alexis Galperine and Liviu Stanese. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has taken part in numerous chamber music concerts held, m.in at the Warsaw Music Society – Szustra Palace, the Old Town Cultural Centre in Warsaw, the House of Creative Work in Radziejowice, the Palace in Lubostroń – a series of concerts “The Stage of the Young”, the Lutosławski Manor House in Drozdów and the Palace in Ostromecko.

Anna Sawicka – cello – graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk in the class of prof. Roman Suchecki. She also studied baroque cello at the School of Early Music in Geneva. Concertmaster of the Baltic Opera Orchestra, long-time academic lecturer (doctorate), teacher at the Secondary Music School. in Gdansk-Wrzeszcz. He is very active in concerts, research and journalism. His repertoire includes all the works of Fr. Chopin with cello and Polish music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He gives concerts in Duo and Trio Sopot, performs at numerous concerts in Poland and abroad (Italy, France, Switzerland, USA). He is the organizer of the summer “Musical Evenings at St. Andrew Bobola’s” in Sopot.

As part of the promotion of young talents, the guitar duo Paweł Kasprzewski & Krzysztof Szabowski from the Secondary Music School will perform. in Gdansk-Wrzeszcz.

The Kasprzewski & Szabowski duo was founded in 2014. They were brought together by a common passion for the guitar. The band is made up of musicians who come from the classical environment, but for some time now they have been looking for new experiences by playing entertainment songs. In their explorations, they combine elements of classical music, jazz, blues and even rock. At the moment, their repertoire includes both works by foreign composers and covers of bands such as Eagles or Nirvana. This year, the duo received their first distinction – the Grand Prix in the Guitar Hits competition. Paweł Kasprzewski and Krzysztof Szabowski are students of the Secondary Music School. in Gdansk-Wrzeszcz in the guitar class of prof. Emilia Majewska.

Admission to the event is free. On-site registration is required.

Artistic director of the concert series: Anna Mikolon, Anna Sawicka

We cordially invite you!

Olivia Business Centre congratulates ThyssenKrupp on 2 years of operation in Gdansk! The company started its work in September 2014 on the 2. Olivia Gate floor, and now they occupy the entire 2 floors of Olivia Six. We believe that this is just the beginning. We congratulate you on all your amazing achievements and wish you every success and endless energy to act.

Olivia Business Centre Team

 

On October 14, at 7 p.m., at Olivia Sky Club, there will be a special evening – the fifth birthday of the Between Heaven and Earth Foundation combined with a charity auction for terminally ill children.

The ceremony will be hosted by TVN24 journalist Marcin Żebrowski. During the birthday evening, there will also be a premiere of a charity book entitled Life is a Journey and an artistic performance.

The Between Heaven and Earth Foundation provides comprehensive assistance to families with terminally ill children who have been accepted as the Foundation’s wards. The assistance provided concerns activities for the benefit of children by covering the costs of rehabilitation, stays and treatment. They also purchase rehabilitation equipment: rehabilitation beds and wheelchairs, standers, medical equipment, mattresses, lifts, stairclimbers and all other equipment. They also help the parents of the children in their care by, among other things, covering the costs of psychological assistance, support in legal matters or renovation of houses and apartments. Siblings of sick children are also not omitted by the Foundation – they help to cover the costs of school starter kits and organize trips and holidays.

 

 

On October 12 (Wednesday) from 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m., in the O4 space, there will be a free workshop entitled “On-screen encoding”. If you are thinking about starting to learn programming and work in IT, this is the meeting for you.

During the two-hour workshop, you will learn:
– Where do I start learning to code?
– What is the situation in the IT industry?
– Why become a programmer?
– Why employers need people like you!
– You will take part in a free JavaScript workshop and see how easy it is!

The organizer of the event is the Programming Academy – Coderspro. Their main goal is to change their working lives for the better and help those who are at the beginning of their professional journey.

Sign up on the Coderspro website.

Welcome!

The training offered by BPO Education Center and the Job Office was terminated on Friday, 30 September 2016. Due to the collaboration of those two agencies based at Olivia Business Centre, 14 people were employed as junior accountants. The all had changed their previous professions. Another edition of the training will commence at the beginning of November 2016.

The free-of-charge Corporate Accounting training, financed by the Gdańsk Labour Office, started in mid-June 2016. Run by BPO Education Center at the Sopot University of Applied Science, the course was divided into a didactic part and a practical part in the form of placements at the shared service centres of Bayer Service Center Gdańsk and thyssenkrupp Group Services Gdańsk, located at Olivia Business Centre.

The fifteen people selected during the enrolment at the Gdańsk Labour Office had 240 hours of theoretical classes and learned accounting as well as the structure and procedures of BPO/SSC companies (shared services), financing and accounting systems (SAP ERP) and advanced use of spreadsheets. Further, the training attendees participated in as many as 60 hours of a German course. A good command of the language, in particular accounting-related vocabulary, was a prerequisite for the successful completion of the training. There was an exam at the end of each course included in the training.

After two months of study, the course participants began 320-hour placements with Residents of Olivia Business Centre: Bayer SCG and thyssenkrupp GSG. All the attendees received course completion certificates on September 30th and on October 3rd they started working with the above-mentioned companies, which had been involved in the training process from its beginning.

BPO Education Center is an entity of the Sopot University of Applied Science, which has been helping the inhabitants of the region gain competence and skills required at financial service centres for over 3 years. With measurable effects, as so far 90% of the graduates of the Corporate Accounting course found jobs immediately after its completion, said Sylwia Broda, the Sopot University of Applied Science. The subsequent, ninth flight of the project differs from the other ones in that several entities residing at Olivia Business Centre have cooperated so successfully for the first time, thus presenting a new image of “good neighbourly practices”. For the most ambitious participants, the training will be the starting point for their career development. We have already heard from some graduates that they would like to continue studying at our university, at prestigious postgraduate courses in ACCA Finance and Accounting (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

Every employer based in Gdańsk or the Gdańsk County may report its demand for employees for specific jobs to the Gdańsk Labour Office. If searches for people with the specified job profile are futile, the Labour Office may organise training provided there is an employment guarantee under trilateral agreements. Such projects are aimed at job seekers changing their professions studied, said Anna Hryniewicz, the Job Office. The finished training was prepared for the purposes of Bayer and thyssenkrupp, which had looked for employees for the jobs of junior accountants. With the branch of the Gdańsk Labour Office at Olivia Business Centre, i.e. the Job Office, companies may report their requirements in a simple manner.

We are very happy that thanks to the decisions made several years age we are able to establish better and better conditions at Olivia Business Centre for our Residents to carry out recruitment, said Agnieszka Zglinicka, the Project Manager at Olivia Business Centre. The presence in one place of large, international enterprises, HR companies and the Job Office and Talent Development Centre – which are branches of the Gdańsk Labour Office opened this year – brings about the desired effect. We believe activities aimed at extending the talent pool and creating new jobs will be appreciated not only by global companies, but also by the enterprises and inhabitants of the region.

Another edition of the training will commence at the beginning of November 2016. For more information on the training, visit the website of the Sopot University of Applied Science: http://www.ssw-sopot.pl/bpo/

From the very beginning, Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk Oliwa held multi-functionality as its key objective, including recruitment support for its Residents. At present, there is a total of 10 (commercial and local-government) entities at the centre, whose core operations are Human Resources.

The team of Olivia Business Centre also provides for the work-life balance of all those who work at the centre: business, education, cultural and sport events are held on a regular basis. A modern, two-storey, 24/7 fitness club, CityFit, was opened in April 2016. All the visitors of the centre may already use e.g. 3 conference centres, a healthcare centre with a pharmacy, 3 restaurants, 2 cafés, a kindergarten and nursery, 4 banks, a modern junior high school, beauty salon, notary public and electric vehicle charging point. There are nearly 2000 parking spaces, over 200 bicycle racks and 5 changing rooms with showers beside Olivia Business Centre.

Over 100 entities operate at Olivia Business Centre. They include global corporations, SMEs, start-ups as well as self-government and non-governmental organisations. Residents of Olivia Business Centre include Allianz, Alior Bank, Amazon, Bayer, Energa, Epam, Generali, Hays, Medicover, Noble Bank, PKO Bank Polish, PwC, Sii, T-Mobile, thyssenkrupp, as well as Pomerania Development Agency, Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Commerce, Pomeranian Employers’ Association Lewiatan and BPO Education Center.

The Centre has been extended systematically since 2010, one building a year. The foundation stone for a skyscraper, Olivia Star, was laid ceremoniously in June 2016. It will be the highest building in northern Poland and one of the ten highest buildings in the country.

The Olivia Six building, located in the Olivia Business Centre, has been visited by a new organization supporting entrepreneurs, the Regional Chamber of Commerce of Pomerania (RIGP). From now on, the new Resident will work for the development of the Pomeranian economy in a modern office in one of the most ecological buildings in this part of Europe. Welcome aboard!

 

The Regional Chamber of Commerce of Pomerania (RIGP) is an organization of economic self-government, currently associating over 250 companies of various sizes operating in the Pomeranian, West Pomeranian, Warmian-Masurian, Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Greater Poland Voivodeships. Its main tasks include representing the economic interests of its members, establishing cooperation and exchanging experience with domestic and foreign business support organizations, shaping and disseminating ethical principles in business activity or giving opinions on the functioning of the economy to relevant bodies and organizations.

– Our presence in Olivia Business Centre is closely related to the profile of our business. We cooperate directly with enterprises, and thanks to our presence in Olivia CONNECT, we have even better contact with them than before. Often it is no longer a matter of a phone call or an e-mail, but a meeting in the complex. We live here in such a symbiosis – having direct access to the life of Pomeranian companies, we can respond to their problems even better. On the other hand, it is easier to reach us and get help – says Magdalena Raczyńska, Head of the RIGP Office.

The RIGP office is located at 13. on the first floor of the Olivia Six building, in the Olivia CONNECT space designed specifically for business support institutions and non-governmental organizations. The aim of shaping this space was to create a place where, through the immediate vicinity, diverse communities integrate and develop important social and economic projects.

“We believe that the presence of the Pomeranian Regional Chamber of Commerce in our centre inspires action and effective cooperation with other Residents. Currently, RIGP is developing, together with its neighbour, the Pomerania Development Agency, an important project “Pomeranian Export Broker”. RIGP undoubtedly supports the development of the regional economy and will certainly bring further additional benefits to all our Residents. In this situation, it does not matter whether you represent a global company or a fledgling startup. At Olivia Business Centre, we create a space for development for companies at various stages of their operations – says Agnieszka Zglinicka, Project Director at Olivia Business Centre.

 

Contact:

Regional Chamber of Commerce of Pomerania

Office Manager – Magdalena Raczyńska

Olivia Business Centre, Olivia Six building

Al. Grunwaldzka 472D, 80-309 Gdansk

Tel. +48 58 305 23 25

E-mail: biuro@rigp.pl

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About Olivia Business Centre

Over 110 companies work in Olivia Business Centre, including m.in. Allianz, Amazon, Bayer, Energa, Epam, Generali, Hays, PwC, Sii, T-Mobile and thyssenkrupp, as well as the Pomerania Development Agency. Olivia Business Centre is home to global corporations, and has also prepared an offer for small and medium-sized enterprises, non-governmental organizations, business environment and startups. The centre has been expanding steadily since 2010 at the rate of one building per year. In June 2016, the cornerstone for the Olivia Star skyscraper was ceremoniously laid.

Everything in place

From the very beginning, one of the main assumptions of Olivia Business Centre in Gdańsk Oliwa was multifunctionality. The institutions present here offer training, support in obtaining funds needed for the development of the company, legal consultations, HR support, and much more.

The centre’s team takes care of the work-life balance of all those who work here: the 3 conference centres available on site regularly organise business, educational, cultural and sporting events.

• Gastronomy in Olivia Business Centre already includes 5 different points: Starbucks café, Gorąco Polecam Nowakowski bakery, Lobster Restaurant (fresh lobsters and shrimps m.in), Koku Sushi and One Minute shop.
• We will take care of your health and beauty in the Medicover medical centre with a pharmacy, the P. Roccialli beauty salon, the two-storey CityFit fitness club, the exclusive Cafardini tailoring salon and a point with shoemaking and tailoring services.
• With children in mind, the White Kitten kindergarten and the Thinking Zone Junior High School were established here.
• Accounting and financial services are provided by 4 banks (PKO Bank Polish, Noble Bank, Alior Bank, Idea Bank), Tax Care, Open Finance, as well as 2 ATMs.
• Other services offered by Olivia Business Centre include the Energa Showroom (BOK), the Talent Development Centre (a branch of the District Labour Office in Gdańsk), a notary, a laundry, a parcel locker, and even a car wash with the option of leaving the car in the parking lot and the keys at the reception desk of any building.