Our People Stories
Alexandra-Ligia Negru
Senior Business Analyst, Corporates Research
In 2022, our Romanian office earned its first Great Place to Work® Certification™. To celebrate that achievement and recognize our wonderful Romanian employees, we are featuring some of Evalueserve Romania’s superstars!
Alexandra-Ligia Negru is a senior business analyst in Evalueserve’s Corporates Research division, and she has been a part of the organization since 2018. She has worked with international clients in a wide variety of industries including automotive, education, consumer and industrial goods, healthcare, and agriculture. Read Alexandra-Ligia’s story below.
Q: What are your favorite parts of working at Evalueserve?
Alexandra-Ligia: I have always loved the “detective” kind of work I am doing here at Evalueserve. I enjoy digging deeper and deeper to find the missing piece of a complex puzzle, made up of some official statistics, a few macroeconomic indicators, a fair amount of competitive intelligence coupled with thorough market research, and a little bit of business opportunity benchmarking seasoned with designing a nice presentation for a picky client. In other words, what is amazing about Evalueserve is that, at least in my case, my favorite part of working here is the work itself – the research.
Q: How has working at Evalueserve furthered your personal and career growth?
Alexandra-Ligia: Evalueserve helped me improve my public speaking, presentation, and even language skills through frequent client interactions and primary research projects. Moreover, it helped me develop my analytical and critical thinking through the numerous projects that require opportunity analysis and providing a “wise business decision” recommendation to our clients.
Q: What have you learned during your time at Evalueserve?
Alexandra-Ligia: First of all, I’ve learned that working here is impossible without a high dose of curiosity and dedication. You need to be curious enough to remain dedicated to completing one- or two-month projects covering industries from animal feed, home furnishing, and pre-college training to recycling EoL EV batteries, irradiation sterilization, and medium-voltage vacuum circuit breakers.
Q: What separates Evalueserve from other places you’ve worked?
Alexandra-Ligia: Evalueserve was the first work environment I was really happy in. I’ve always appreciated the peaceful atmosphere I found here and the funny colleagues I met.
Q: Do you have a personal mission? What drives you in your work?
Alexandra-Ligia: My mantra is to underpromise and overdeliver. I am driven by the knowledge that the insights I deliver to clients have an impact on their decision-making.
Q: Looking to the future, what are your goals for your time at Evalueserve? What achievements are you most proud of so far?
Alexandra-Ligia: I plan to continue building on my already acquired skills and specialize in a certain market field. I am most happy about one nice interaction I had with a client who said he would like to do the interesting work I am doing at Evalueserve as well.
Q: Why did you decide to join Evalueserve?
Alexandra-Ligia: I joined Evalueserve because it was one of the very few working opportunities in Cluj that would allow me to be creative and technical at the same time and to make use of both my language and economics-related skills. All in all, it was not just a business process outsourcing company, it was all about knowledge outsourcing, which appealed to me, so I jumped in!
