cecilie lindgreen

My role as Commercial Intern was a dual role, where I assisted both the Economic Diplomacy team and the IT & Communications Technologies team. My role in the Economic Diplomacy team involved driving Business Development by establishing strategic partnerships between the United Nations and Danish companies. This involved mapping relevant stakeholders, preparing Business Development material and PPT presentations. The focus for the partnerships was establishing connections between the products or services presented by Danish companies and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This has enabled me to achieve a strategic and tangible understanding of the SDGs. As part of the ICT team, I assisted Danish SMEs in entering the US market. This involved preparing market analyses, partner searching, establishing contact to potential partners and preparing market entry reports.

* During my internship, I became acquianted with many different aspects of working professionally with communication. I took part in the following: * Prepare texts for tenders * Project management: book internal hours and prepare external timeschedules in Workbook * Assisted in preparing dialogue systems and dialogue flows * In charge of looking into public procurement demands for tenders

* As an account manager in Carlsberg, my overall objective has been to ensure positive relations between the customers and the business. This involved: * Communicating daily with sales reps and customers to establish clear credit agreements * Responding to and managing customer queries * Building relationships with customers to minimize risk in terms of debt * Developing repayment plans to accommodate both Carlsberg and the customers * Preparing a monthly ledger to report problem accounts to the Finance Manager

* I have been part of the Project Management team on several large infrastructure projects, where my responsibility has been to assist with the following: * Progress reporting * Resource planning * Quality Assurance (maintain and update QA archive and Document Control Plan) * Monitor and report on budget performance * Preparation of reports * Management reporting * Time planning My insight into project management has given me a structured and systematic approach to my tasks. Additionally, I have acted as financial controller on a +100m DKK project. This involved estimating budgets, prepare budget agreements and manage budgets in Maconomy. I took part in developing a financial reporting system which is now used on several projects across COWI.

Bachelor thesis: Integrating blogs in a company's external marketing communication - a case study of the Danish interior company; BoConcept.