14/09/2022 PRESENTING A COMPANY

Hello, Today, I will talk about the firm called SARA LEE.

TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE COMPANY CALLED S L.

DESCRIBING JOBS

Esteban Joined the company AS GENERAL MANAGER(CEO= CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICIER)

MD(Managing Director)

26/09/22

VOCAB :
-So far : for the miment/until now= pour le moment
« So far, so good »= pour le moment tout va bien= for the moment, everything is ok«
HOW OFTEN : TOUS LES COMBIEN
WHAT KIND/SORT : QUEL TYPES
ALSO : AUSSI
USUALLY : Habituellement
to spend : dépenser ou passer
-to manage to do something= réussir à faire quelque chose
-to succeed= réussir
-flexible : capable de s’adapter
be able= doit pouvoir
required=necessary : requis, nécessaire
be good at= je suis bon pour
I enjoy=i like=i love= i prefere
to fire : virer opposé de to employ/to hire embauché
im really involved : impliqué
PERKS= benefits → avantages et pas benefices
bill= factures= invoices

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ESTEBAN F :
He works as GENERAL MANAGER/CEO/MD
=He work as GENERAL MANAGER CEO/MD

His main job responsability is for the management team, that’s 5 managers who are in charge of 5
departments :
-HUMAN RESSOURCES (HR)
-Finance
-Production
-sales
-Marketing
• He has a lot of/many/lots of meetings
-weekly meetings → every week in Barcelona with the managers
-monthly meetings → every month at the headquarters in Holland
-daily meetings →every day
 -quarterly meetings → every three months/quarter
-yearly or annual meeting → every year

QUESTION : How often do you have meetings ?

Doesn’t get out of the office (as much as he want= autant que je le voudrai).
He travells in different parts/areas of Spain two or three days per month (to spend 2or 3 days…) to
visit customers and to meet sales teams.

Qualities required for job

In his job , he has to have a lot of patience and he needs to be flexible and be a
good communicator and be able to motivate people and be good at taking decisions
quickly and be think globally and he has to have a good level of English.

Aspects of jobs liked

-He likes marketing because it’s very creative
-He enjoys working with a team
-He really likes being part of international team/group and working with different
nationalities.
I dislike fa
He doesn’t like working in long hours(10 or 12 hours a day) and firing someone.

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He is a General Managerof the company.
He joined the company as general manager in 1993.
He is responsble for 5 Managers and he is in charge of manager team.
He have been working for (this company) for 1993.
He spend a lot of time in meeting.
He have daily,weekly,monthly meetings with the managers, in the head quarters.
He’s job involves a lot of meeting
You must to be a good communicator
It’s very important to have a lot of patience
You have to be flexible
The part of his job, he find most interresting is the marketing
I really like being part of interational team
What he like most abbout his job is working with a team.
He don’t enjoy working in the team
He doesn’t like/dislike Firing someone.
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COMPANY CAR= AVANTAGES SOCIAUX
PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE= assurance mutuelle
life assurance : assurance vie
company pension scheme= pension retraite
performance-related bonus : prime
Vouchers for lunch : tickets resto
sport s facilities : installation de sport
others= autres avantages

He gets a bonus of between 20 percent and 40 percent of this salary

One evening a week
they pay his private telephone bill.
SINCE= DEPUIS
entrainer a l’oral