For the first 15 years of his professional career he has been associated with the financial industry. At first, he held specialist positions at Volkswagen Bank Polska, then at mBank Group, where he supervised credit sales and product policy, and then served as a Chief Operating Officer. From 2008 to 2015, Piotr Burwicz was associated with the Getin Noble Bank Group, where he held the positions of, among others, Director of the Corporate Client Department, Managing Director of Products and Processes and Director of Projects and Development. During this period, he was responsible for shaping the bank's product policy, the work of the credit and leasing analysis centres and the corporate client operations centres, as well as for developing the Bank's strategy.
At the same time, from 2009 to 2014, he was associated with the Getin Holding Group, where he served as a Member of the Supervisory Board of "Idea Bank Ukraine". He supervised the Bank's relocation from Ivano-Frankivsk to Lviv and a number of projects transforming the Bank into a modern financial institution (e.g. debt collection, product policy, finance, sales network development).
Since 2016, he has been involved in the tourism industry as Operations Director, Member of the Management Board and Vice President of Rainbow Tours S.A. – one of the leading tour operators in Poland and the only one listed on the WSE. He actively participates in activities related to transformation and development of the sales network, development of the IT systems, product implementations, price optimisation and customer service.
He graduated in econometrics from the Faculty of Economics and Sociology of the University of Lodz.
Mentor in the Mentoring Project: 11th edition, 2023/2024
Meeting locations: at the Mentor's workplace; at a location agreed upon with the Mentee; online meetings; Łódź
Number of mentees in this edition: 2
Language of meetings: Polish, English
Mentee support area: Possible topics are listed below, a detailed scope of activities is to be agreed upon by the mentor and the mentee (the listed topics serve as an example).
Possible topics in quantitative methods:
1. Practical application of quantitative methods in big businesses – two sectors: foreign tourism and banking. Focus on forecasts and case-study analyses – access to a large amount of data (millions of records) + real impact on decisions regarding tens of millions of Polish zlotys.
2. The formation of dynamic prices (i.e. changing daily) in the modern world. Using the example of
a company offering a product catalogue of 3 billion combinations (complexity comparable to booking.com). Automation of decision-making processes. Algorithmization.
Possible topics in banking:
3 What working in banking is about in practice? How to manage an important division/a bank? What is the most important thing in the 'big business' of banking?
4. Any (collectively chosen) part of the banking/leasing business – a closer look and analysis. What determines its success? How to manage it?
Possible topics in management and marketing:
5. Advertising campaigns – how to create them in practice, how to find "product differentiators" for campaigns, how to test the success rate. Practical case-studies + participation in the design of real campaigns for a mass client.
6. Process management in large organisations. How to set them up and how to monitor whether the organisation is cost/process effective?