It is looking for 3,500 square meters of office space, which is enough to accommodate 400 people and one of the buildings considered is Timpuri Noi Square of the Vastint group.
Leaseplan Service Center was registered with the Trade Registry in mid-December. The new entity provides support services to companies and is held by Leaseplan Global BV and Leaseplan Corporation NV, with Mihail Ionescu and Gilles Yossi Fhima as managers.
Mihai Ionescu has been service center director of the company since last August, according to his LinkedIn profile. He had previously served as Goodyear’s EMEA marketing & communication manager.
Leaseplan has already started recruiting on job sites, looking for Portuguese-speaking contracts management specialist or for Italian and English speakers among others.
Romania has become a destination of choice for companies looking to open services or support centers in the past few years, so the IT, BPO and SSC sector accounted for more than of the deals with office space in 2017, which stood at 310,000 square meters.
Leaseplan has the largest fleet of cars leased to companies in Romania, more than 12,000. It has 65 employees and has been operating in this country since 2007.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)