Nursel Ölmez Ateş, continues her professional job career since 1995, after the graduation from Istanbul University, Industrial Engineering Department. She had started her career at Migros Türk T.A.Ş. as Method Organization and Planning Specialist and worked in different departments as New Business Development, R&D, Planning and Project Management. During that period, she implemented many innovative human resources projects. In 1999, while working in Migros, she acted as the Project Leader of the first application of SAP Human Resources Module in Turkey, and that project is ranked among the best practice applications of SAP.

In 2003, she is appointed as Deputy General Manager in charge of Human Resources and Administrative Affairs to Ramstore, one of the foreign operations of Migros. During her term of service of five years thereat, she played an active role in opening of more than 60 stores in different cities, and acted as a leader in establishment and operation of human resources systems therein. In 2007, she played an important role in election of Ramenka as the company with the most successful human resources practices in Russia.

After returning to Turkey in 2008, she continued her career as Human Resources and Corporate Communications Director first in Koçtaş, and then in Ford Otosan. During her term of office thereat, she worked actively not only on human resources transformation, but also on gender equality, and supporting education of girls in STEM fields, she built and led the “Honeybees Are Becoming Engineers” project.

Nursel Ölmez Ateş, Group President of Human, Communication and Sustainability, assumed the Sustainability Leadership of the Group, in order to create synergy between Group and company activities and thematic working groups.

In 2016 and 2017, in “50 Most Effective Human Resources Directors of Turkey” survey, she is elected as one of the 50 Most Effective CHROs of Turkey managing human resources most effectively and creating difference therein. Since 2013, she is serving as an executive coach as well.