Benny Cant

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Freelance Musician and Marketing Specialist @ Provoke Design
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australia
About Benny Cant

I am a personable, outgoing individual. I have a friendly disposition and genuinely enjoy working with other people in a collective environment. I am passionate about the roles I perform and I continually strive to set new benchmarks with the work I produce. I take on the responsibility of managing my own career and developing the skills I need to achieve my career objectives. Achieving success in all areas within and outside of my job role is what motivates me and seeing positive results from the work I produce, gives me my job satisfaction. My major strengths are building solid, professional relationships at all levels within an organisation; my ability to plan and organise; to think clearly and creatively on all matters and possessing a professional, customer orientated work ethic.CORE COMPETENCIES/SKILLS and ATTRIBUTES >Excellent planning, organisation, time/self management skills obtained through working to strict deadlines on the projects I was assigned to manage in my previous roles. >Excellent analysis, financial/Budget/Accounting skills from formulating recommendations for supplier tenders, managing projects and running my own marketing consultancy business. >Excellent written and verbal skills from extensive experience in report writing, preparing and conducting presentations, basic desktop publishing, meetings and video conferences. >Excellent communication and human resource skills through extensive experience in team management, and liaising/ co-ordinating human resources at all levels within and outside the company. SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS• Windows/PC (Mobile and desktop)• OSX (Mobile and Desktop)• Microsoft Office Suite• Photoshop (Basic to intermediate)• Website development (WIX)• HTML Basic• Web operations (Web browsers, Social media apps – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin)

Benny Cant's Current Company Details
Provoke Design

Provoke Design

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Freelance Musician and Marketing Specialist
Employees:
10
Benny Cant Work Experience Details
  • Provoke Design
    Marketing Strategist
    Provoke Design Oct 2021 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Self-Employed
    Freelance Musician
    Self-Employed May 2004 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Live, Touring, Session, TV. Played for Virginia Gay, James Blundell, Jetty Road, Jimi Hocking, Aaron Schembri, Troy Casser-Daley, Mark Gable, Ross Wilson, Mike Rudd, The Simontologists, Colleen Hewitt, Pete Cupples, Russell Morris, Luke Austin, The Sunny Cowgirls, Sara Storer, Felicity Urquhart, Carter and Carter, Lyn Bowtell, Adam Harvey, Beccy Cole, Sheila E (USA), Jimmy D Lane (USA), Paul Thorn (USA) and many more..
  • Rays Outdoors
    Business Analyst
    Rays Outdoors Oct 2003 - May 2004
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Role: Analyse and report on business/market data. Provide recommendations to key stakeholders within the company, to assist with its strategic direction. Key Responsibilities >Monitor consumer trends, market activity and it’s competitors. Develop recommendations to keep ahead of market changes and to maintain Rays Outdoors’ position. >Provide direction to the Marketing and Merchandising team on product ranging, pricing and profitability. >Monitor company Gross Profit/turnover and provide strategies/action plans to ensure that it is reaching target. >Manage two Planning Assistants (primarily responsible for collating and modeling data). Projects >Development of new inventory management processes that raised stock efficiencies to the desired benchmark across its wholesale and retail businesses. >Range Segmentation Project which aimed to maximise range efficiencies and profit, returns through restructuring range sizes, depth and pricing.
  • Bunnings
    Merchandise Developer
    Bunnings Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Merchandise Developer (Jan 2001 - Dec 2002) Responsibilities >Data analysis (Business and Market), reporting and recommendations. I.e. Forecasting, stock management, Sales, Margin, Brand Management. >Developing merchandising/range strategies and concepts >Development of in-store promotional/product information material >Developing new packaging and promotional formats with suppliers and business partners. Achievements >Being an integral part of a team that planned and set up over 20 Bunnings warehouses. >Developed a new policy that streamlined merchandise planning for ‘off shelf’ promotional products in new stores. (Eg, Advertised lines, Promotional ends, and other promotional areas). This detailed all aspects from product selection and ordering to in-store logistics. An instruction manual was also written and distributed that included production selection criteria, ordering/logistical timelines and auditing/follow up procedures. This is now used by the Bunnings East Coast office to ensure new stores are sufficiently supplied with promotional merchandise that supports catalogue advertising and other opening specials that are applicable to its local market.
  • Bunnings
    Marketing Assistant
    Bunnings Feb 2000 - Jan 2001
    Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Responsibilities >Administrative Support to the buyer I.e. Price changes, Store queries, Supplier queries >General Product Maintenance I.e. New Products, Product Deletions, Allocations >Advertising Maintenance I.e. Product Selection, Price Admin., Managing Catalogue Proofs (Artwork, Visual Presentation and Product Positioning), >Ensuring sufficient supply of product. AchievementsThe successful application, planning, and implementation of the ‘Housewares Refit’ project. The refit required the planning and implementation of new product categories into the housewares business across 25 retail warehouses, throughout the East Coast of Australia. This was quite significant in Bunnings’ history as it was a new strategic direction for the department. This success was measured in increased sales of the new categories/ranges whilst maintaining targeted Gross Profit. The physical implementation was completed on schedule and within budget.

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Benny Cant's current role is Freelance Musician and Marketing Specialist.

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Benny Cant attended Rmit University, Rmit University, Rmit University.

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