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Professional background and CV of Elena Meier, an organized Junior Project Coordinator based in Bern, Switzerland.

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Elena Meier

Project Coordinator | Operations Support & Milestone Tracking

[email protected]

Bern

Professional Summary

Detail-oriented Project Coordinator with demonstrated experience supporting complex workflow implementations and cross-functional operations in Switzerland.

Skilled in maintaining milestone schedules, facilitating stakeholder communication, and standardizing project documentation across modern collaboration tools.

Professional Experience

AareSys Logistics AG

Bern, Switzerland

Junior Project Coordinator

Mar 2024 – Present

  • Track schedule milestones, action items, and task completion across cross-functional logistics improvement initiatives.
  • Coordinate weekly status meetings with 14 team members, documenting key decisions, dependencies, and follow-up deliverables.
  • Maintain project documentation and risk registers in Jira and Confluence, flagging delivery bottlenecks to senior project leads.
  • Prepare monthly budget tracking summaries and resource allocation dashboards in Microsoft Excel.

Project Assistant

Sept 2022 – Feb 2024

  • Assisted project managers with agenda preparation, stakeholder communication, and workshop logistics for client onboarding tracks.
  • Consolidated weekly progress reports from department heads to compile unified project briefings for steering committee reviews.
  • Standardized meeting minutes and filing structures across 6 internal digital workspaces.

Kandertal Commercial Services GmbH

Bern, Switzerland

Administrative Assistant

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022

  • Supported corporate operations with scheduling, client correspondence, and vendor contract document management.
  • Organized internal training sessions and cross-departmental scheduling for up to 35 participants.
  • Audited digital filing records to verify compliance with internal document retention standards.

Education

Bern University of Applied Sciences

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration · Business Administration · Bern, Switzerland · 5.4 / 6.0 · Sept 2018 – Jul 2021

Focused on organizational management, supply chain fundamentals, and project operations, completing a thesis on process optimization in regional service organizations.

Key Projects

Internal Workflow Tooling Migration

Aug 2024 – Jan 2025

  • Coordinated workstreams for migrating internal ticketing and project tracking from legacy spreadsheets to Jira, ensuring zero document loss.
  • Created standardized onboarding manuals and conducted 4 software walkthrough sessions for 25 team members.

Core Competencies

Project Schedule Tracking

Stakeholder Communication

Risk & Issue Logging

Meeting Facilitation

Budget Monitoring

Jira & Confluence

Microsoft Project

Process Documentation

Resource Coordination

Cross-Functional Alignment

Languages

German

C2

English

C1

French

B2

Certifications

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

Project Management Institute (PMI) · Apr 2025

PRINCE2 Foundation in Project Management

AXELOS · Nov 2024

Community Engagement

Bern Youth & Environment Forum

Bern, Switzerland · Jan 2023 – Jun 2024

  • Event Logistics Coordinator
  • Coordinated venue arrangements, volunteer shift rosters, and registration logistics for an annual 3-day sustainability forum with over 200 attendees.

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