Vlad Tomiță is a graduate of the Tiffin EMBA program in 2022, and he is currently the Director of
Strategic Purchasing at Sogefi Group.
I am a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics-Informatics at the University of Craiova. In
2006, I joined Pirelli in the Purchasing department. After holding various roles within the
Purchasing Organization over the years, in 2015-2016, I held the position of Global Purchasing
Manager.
Since 2016, I was appointed Country Purchasing Manager, having the opportunity to form two
purchasing teams, one located in Slatina, serving the Pirelli plant in Romania, and the other one
being a Shared Service Center located in Craiova, providing support to Pirelli factories in
Europe. The decision to follow an MBA program came from the need to develop professionally
and from the curiosity to understand business in all its complexity. As we live in a fast-changing
business environment that cannot be ignored, to make the right decisions, it is no longer enough
to have a good knowledge of one’s area of responsibility.
The choice of the business school was a very simple one for me, as I wanted an applied way of
teaching where I had the opportunity to learn not only from theory but also from experience
colleagues and teachers. In terms of teachers, a key element that I took into from the beginning
was the fact that they come from an advanced business environment, such as the one in the
US. These aspects, coupled with the professionalism and the easy communication I had with
the Tiffin representatives in Romania, were the foundation of my decision to follow the Tiffin
EMBA program.
I successfully applied what I learned in the program, both in my professional life and in personal
life. For example, I use leadership concepts very often, and I am in coaching sessions with team
members, as well as decision-making, appreciating very much the idea of constructive debate
and proper organization of the decision-making process.
Certainly, all the courses I have attended are useful, and I would like to be able to exchange
ideas in the future, too, both with teachers and colleagues. The best example of the importance
of this program is that I recently took a step forward in my career by joining Sogefi as Director of
Strategic Purchasing.
The program came with many challenges, being run in pandemic times, 100% online. However,
colleagues and teachers facilitated a very important experience for me, as enjoyable as it could
be when COVID-19 affected all of us, directly or indirectly. Tiffin is one of those places where
learning is done with a smile, even online, even on a sunny weekend.”
This material was published in the MBA Guide 2022.