Andy Mackenzie Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Full Scale Recruitment - Finding and placing top candidates in multi-industries across Africa: Project Resources, Technology Solutions Specialists, Telecommunication Specialists, Business Development, Finance, Human Resources, Engineers etc...• Client acquisition - Business Development • Project Management : Employee tax advisory, PAYE, submissions and clearance with Ex- Company• HR consulting projects with a SA, Botswana and Tanzanian Companies – advised on HR matters (Policies, Procedures, Basic HR strategies and recruiting the right person in the right job...)

Sandton (Abuja, Accra, Abidjan, Nairobi, Maputo, Gaborone And Lusaka)

✔️ Full HR function and General Management / Administration across Sub Saharan Africa (5 entities, 11+ locations in Africa, 80+ Staff)✔️ Manage the entire recruitment and life-cycle process across Sub Saharan Africa ✔️ Performance appraisal system ✔️ Compensation plan and benefits program ✔️ Full management of VIP Payroll and implementation of ESS✔️ Full management of expatriate staff ✔️ Annual training plan / budget ✔️ Part of EXCO and weekly reporting about all HR/ISS/IFM activity✔️ International reporting of all HR and Headcount activities✔️ Leader of the annual BEE accreditation exercise✔️ Full infrastructure management of the South African and Africa offices✔️ Led new office sourcing and setup in several countries🏅 Some achievements and successful projects:✔️ Built up the HRM function from zero (in several locations) to be well organised with motivated staff and low turnover.✔️ Single-handedly led the project to build a school in rural Eastern Cape as part of CSR/SED✔️ Contributed towards acquiring the company ISO9001 certifications over several years. Led the HRM/ISS/IFM functions.✔️ Led the BEE accreditation program for the company achieving good results for several years despite many challenges✔️ Successfully acquired the companies tax exemption status over many years despite severe SARS challenges ✔️ Assisted with and led the large scale company (in SA) restructuring exercise, including: reorganising resources, retrenchments, stabilising the company, recruitment and engaging the workforce.✔️ Implemented a Performance appraisal system, whilst working in Nigeria, which was eventually adopted by Morpho France and used across many territories.✔️ Successfully recruited and managed many employees in over 8 African countries, where I physically spent time in each country researching and understanding the culture, systems, doing countless interviews etc..

Nigeria

✔️ Sagem SA (Now Idemia) (part of the French based SAFRAN group) was contracted as the technical partner to handle the Nigerian National ID Card project. A massive project aimed at enrolling, printing cards and establishing data on all citizens valued at R6 billion✔️ After the initial phase of the project, I was offered the position as HR manager in Abuja. This I accepted because of the massive challenge it represented and my passion for growing people

Nigeria, Lagos Abuja Ibadan Akure

During my initial training, I was selected to assist with the huge recruitment exercise (600+ interviews), thereafter I conducted the training (350 Persons) for one of the zones on all of the technical equipment (AFIS etc) to be used for the project and then went onto manage the entire operations of a State (120 persons)

(Distinction) Post Graduate Diploma Nqf 8, Strategic Human Resources Management, Distinction

Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, Diploma

Refresher Diploma in Human Resource Management

Unisa, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor of Commerce

Short Courses, Information Technology, Mcse, A+, N+, Mso Advanced, Financial Packages, Sage Vip, Mini Mba, Etc...

Several short courses over career

Able Seaman

Matric

Postgraduate Diploma, Strategic Human Resource Management, Distinction