Charmaine Bentz Email & Phone Number

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Permanent Recruitment | Temporary Staffing | Business Process OutsourcingWe assist our clients in sourcing the right skills in the fastest time. Hiring a resource with the required skill set, qualification and experience is always a challenge and we are up for it!Changing business dynamics demonstrates the requirement for resources in organisations to be project-based and/or temporary. In staffing engagement, it’s crucial to find the right resource at the right time according to your ever-changing fluctuations within your business.Intellection’s key strength lies in identifying and deploying flexible resources to support you during your expansion and growth phases.Our temporary / contingency staffing solutions offer our clients the ease of mind and leverage to work more effectively, giving them the flexibility of extending project/contract durations or enabling them to convert assignments to permanency if and should the need arise.Our outsourced solutions offer end-to-end management and productivity solutions ensuring cost reduction and productivity gains. Our resources and site management teams become extensions of your existing staff and business.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

[Anssum is an advanced process control / engineering consulting start-up company, providing tech solutions to the paper & pulp industry]“Charmaine led our international expansion in the most challenging of times. Thanks to her tenacity, we have grown from a local company with a small footprint to an international company with many customers on many continents” -Nico Brunke, CEOHead Sales and Marketing for the local and international market – SA🇿🇦 | CA🇨🇦 | BRZL🇧🇷 | CL🇨🇱 | EU🇪🇺 | AU&NZ🇳🇿. Notably, faced challenges due to Covid, yet scored significant wins internationally creating a global presence in the pulp and paper industry, spanning across 35 countries within 2 years. Special Contributions: Expansion, International Footprint - successfully expanded the client portfolio from one client in South Africa to 58 clients spanning 35 countries – all within 2 years despite being a startup company.Tenacious New Business Development: researched the market, tackled local and European market calls in the mornings, USA and Canada market calls in the afternoons, Oceania country calls late afternoon. Analysed buying behaviour and industry news in the regions, adjusted approach accordingly and developed a strategy which successfully penetrated those markets.Key Responsibilities:Sales and Marketing StrategyDealstormingProspecting, Farming and Lead generation Market and Prospective Client Identification Door opening and Initiating ContactSetting Up MeetingsPresenting SolutionsNegotiating Closing DealsAccount Management Up-selling and cross-selling

Parktown, Johannesburg

[Workforce Staffing and PPO are temporary labour (TES) recruitment and business process outsourcing (BPO) businesses]“Fiercely competitive…persistent” “Charmaine was fiercely competitive in her approach to winning new business and could manage multiple accounts from a strategic and tactical perspective… she was persistent and dedicated to continuous improvement and always went the extra mile for her clients, co-workers and prospects alike… she worked well under pressure and was on target in an extremely competitive nichemarket… I would highly recommend her.”-Dermot Byrne, MD, PPOBusiness Process Outsourcing Division:Entrepreneurial, solution driven, out-of-the-box oriented mindset known for customer centric focused sales approach. Recognised for securing time with key decision makers via strategic marketing campaigns, often focusing on C-Suite Executives. Sourcing opportunities and solutions to problems, often crafting disruptive solutions by embedding herself into the solutions, creating a disadvantage to competitors. Temporary Employment Services Division:Spearheaded the turnaround of the regional staffing sales team encompassing 11 branches (Gauteng extending to Mpumalanga and Limpopo). Created and executed turnaround strategy and action plans. Special Contributions: Rapid performance turnaround, new business - took over a region that was not performing optimally - assessed and analysed problems, formulated and implemented action plans for improvement. Coached, monitored, trained and carried out sales calls with team. Efforts resulted in "most new accounts opened in SA" recognition. Key Responsibilities: Sales Management Performance Appraisals and Performance ManagementNew Business Development Sales Planning, Budgeting & ForecastingDeal StructuringTarget Achievement

4 Forge Road, Kempton Park, Johannesburg

[The Kempston Group includes a Temporary Labour TES recruitment business]Hired to lead the turnaround of the Durban and Johannesburg temporary employment services (TES) branches; and additionally established the Cleaning and Hygiene business units in both regions.Special Contributions: Turnaround Durban branch - from Loss to profit in <4 Months Turn around of Johannesburg branch from loss to profit in <6 months.Achieved the biggest growth nation-wide, winning an 8-week national incentive competition, growing 32.74% in the 8 weeks. As a result, was used for national projects and audits of other branches. As a result, was used for national projects and audits of other branches.Headcount growth of 100% within 6 months.

Durban Area, South Africa

[LIVClean/LIVHygiene is a commercial cleaning and hygiene services company]“incredible… energetic…positive”“Charmaine is an incredible team player…her exemplary work ethic shone through…she led her branch with a very energetic and positive approach… she formed strong and healthy relationships.”-Murray Gilson, Sales Director, LIV CleanManagement of the Durban hygiene division consisting of 15 service technicians and 3 administrative staff in the delivery of services.Key Responsibilities: Branch ManagementTalent Acquisition & Retention Sales Team ManagementKey Account Management Business Development & Operations Management – efficiencies, processes, procedures, reportingSpecial Contributions: 5X Team Growth, 117% Turnover Increase (Hygiene) – grew the branch from a team of 3 to 15 (+ 500%) due to expansion. During the period saw just the hygiene portfolio turnover increase by 117%.

East London

“Extremely proud of her work...jealously guarded our clientele..."I regarded Charmaine as one of the finest self-motivated and responsible Conveyancing Paralegals with whom I have had the pleasure of working with. She is accurate, efficient and extremely proud of her work. She jealously guarded our clientele who found her approachable and super efficient."- Mickey Webb, Conveyancing Associate, Kirchmann Inc. "Charmaine is the most loyal and dedicated employee I have been privileged to employ. She is always willing to work overtime and go the extra mile. She takes pride in her work and her employer. I can confidently state that Charmaine will be an invaluable asset to any company. Although she has extensive expertise in the legal fraternity, her strengths lie in her management and organizational skills, the ability to work independently with her own initiative"Catherine Gray, Founder and Owner, Catherine Gray Attorneys Inc. “Goal-oriented…exceeded targets”“Charmaine is a goal-oriented self-starter… an effective communicator… she has strong people skills… she is an efficient administrator… she tackled targets with enthusiasm and more often than not exceeded targets.”-Nathan Carr, COO, Global Business SolutionsSales of Labour Law, HR and IR training Collective experience of over 10 years as a Paralegal specialising in Conveyancing and property related matters.Special Contributions:During my early 20's I was entrusted to establish and manage a busy Conveyancing Department with Associate Attorney attending to Property Transfers, Bond cancellations and Bond registrations for all major Banks and Estate agencies.Managed a bridging finance company as a member of a CC created by my employer as an additional revenue stream.Held Power of Attorney for international client for his residential development (4 phase) and executed registration process, municipal compliance in terms of services, etc, to final registration.