Regional Operations Manager Commerical Fleet - Emea (Cee, Tk, Sa)
Cape Town, South Africa
Since August 2014, has been leading the Sales Support Operations teams across Europe, initially covering Western Europe and South Africa and then since January 2015, covering all Central Eastern Europe (CEE), Turkey and South Africa.During these last 3 years, managed to provide more focus & energy on e2e customer mind-set and operational excellence within the Sales Support team. Created a lot more structure especially within the Compliance & Contract Management process area and put focus on alignment and standardization across the cluster, driving proactively for automatization tools. Established new ways of working within own Organization with clear tangible results in Sales Time Liberation and put much more focus on commercial value add activities especially driving the growth in the Services on the Road CVP. Initiated & supported the Growth Leadership Team in developing & implementing Arbinger's Outward Mindset change journey within the region to strengthen the way of working in a way that transforms self-accountability, collaboration, focus on results and relationships. This resulted in structured Self-Accountability Performance Discussions owned by the team member, a reduction in Victim Mentality, better communication between teams, especially between offshore Support Services and onshore Sales teams and ultimately a ONE Team approach with an effective way of working across multiple e2e partners, where people are much more conscious of the impact they have on each other and how they can help each other succeed through their efforts. Was also instrumental to lead, design & drive a global organizational change & transformation project (impacting approx. 150 Sales Support roles and moving these activities to off-shore hubs) across the 3 regions of CF. As a result own role ceased to exist effective Dec 2017.