Apart from the departure in December of Nokia Romania’s country manager Razvan Popescu after a 12-year tenure, several other people are said to have also left Nokia’s commercial team in 2011, according to ZF data.
A sign of Nokia’s efforts to cut costs in Romania is its decision in 2011 not to recruit a Romanian to replace Popescu as Country Manager, with local operations being coordinated from Budapest by the head of Nokia Hungary.
Asked by ZF if Nokia restructured its commercial team – which handles sale of cell phones and of accessories, Marcus Stoerkel – general manager of Nokia Hungary and Romania said after taking over in December 2011 that he had not announced any other departures apart from Razvan Petrescu.
“In December we announced that Razvan Petrescu would leave Nokia and we did not announce other changes to the sales and marketing team in Bucharest,” said Stoerkel, adding that “Romania and the local team continue to play an important role in Central and Eastern Europe.”
According to ZF data, there are now two people left from the original five in Nokia Romania’s commercial team. The company did not confirm or deny the information.
Asked if he would move to Romania or stay in Budapest, the new head of Nokia’s local operations said he would stay in Hungary, but travel regularly to Bucharest.
(English version by Daniela Stoican)