Edwin J. Pietersen Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Edwin is a certified ACC and Enneagram coach, mentor, strategist and business consultant with a strong Information and Communication Technology bend. He is passionate about youth development and SETA learning-based education.He is co-founder of Mitra OD Consulting, and the Greenchild Foundation, an NPC focused on facilitating SETA learnerships for people with disabilities. He holds a B.Comm degree and post-graduate B.Phil in Logistics, Supply Chain and Transport Economics from the University of Stellenbosch.In the past, Edwin held the role of Operations Manager at an international strategic sourcing specialist company, Agrega EEMEA, for eight years. He managed the operational merger of two sourcing teams (South Africa and Russia) and lead the joint team, focusing on change and transition management, as well as cultural integration.Nowadays, he commits himself to utilizing the best of SETA-based coaching, mentoring and training to develop leaders and teams in the corporate field, as well as disabled and disadvantaged youth.Edwin has managed projects in Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Turkey, UAE, Seychelles, South Africa, Egypt with specific expertise in Information & Communication Technology.

South Africa

Co-founder of e-learning platform designed for accessibility for special needs education and persons living with disabilities.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Christian Faith based Coaching, Fatherhood Coaching, Christian Leadership Development

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Life coaching (transition & change management)Skills Development and Employment Solutions for People Living with DisabilitiesYouth Employment Solutions

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

•Leading a strategic sourcing team to deliver strategic sourcing projects in the Central & Eastern European, Africa and Middles East markets for British American Tobacco.•Application of category, sourcing management processes over the short, medium and long term. •Responsible for managing and supporting the team in developing suppliers SLA´s, supply market development, including support for innovation and growth.•Manage and deploying of category and sourcing resources to optimise effectiveness and efficiency. - Achieving 25% above global KPI's for 3 consecutive years.- Delivering record P&L savings of GBP14m in 2014- Achieving 100% global audit & process compliance for 5 consecutive years.- Leading a team of 9 managers (6 in SA & 3 in Moscow)- Successfully leading two teams and integrating into one team as part of merger.- Successfully completing Leading Managers training in Dubai (2014).- Successfully completing Ontological Coaching in Action training (2015- Managing Procurement Spend portfolio of 180 project with GBP274m annually- Managing strategic sourcing operations for all Indirect Procurement spend for Russia, Ukraine,Kazakhstan, Uzbekhistan, Southern Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, UAE, North Africa & Turkey.

South Africa

• Conducting business support functions, including IT & Infrastructure, process & knowledge audit compliance, delivering business intelligence reporting and tracking and engaging key business stakeholders with the purpose of maintaining visibility of company performance metrics.• Liaising with Cell Cluster Managers to ensure all operational activities are actively and accurately captured, reported and managed on a monthly basis. Ensuring that all business reporting tools are aligned to partner (stakeholder) reporting systems and managing and resolving anomalies and discrepancies on a continuous basis.• Managing the Business Analyst (direct report line).• Responsible for all strategic sourcing activities for AME within the IT & Telecoms category.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Developing strategic sourcing strategies and implementing as part of a strategic sourcing process.• Implementing global category strategies on a regional level.• Managing indirect commodities at a regional level (Africa and Middle East region) to enable above market sourcing.• Compiling the go–to–market strategy and RFP process, making the proposal available on the portal and managing the process.• Managing the following commodities:- 2010 – Present: IT hardware, software, datacentres, mobile and fixed telecommunication, call centres, network infrastructure and equipment, audio visual equipment and services and document output machines.- 2009 - 2010: Fleet, vehicle purchases, vehicle leasing, vehicle rental, tyres, belts and bearings.• Gaining extensive experience in above market sourcing throughout the African region as well as the Middle East.• Gaining active experience in supplier operations and negotiations in strategic hubs (Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and Dubai) within managed commodities.

Brackenfell

• Completing the Supply Chain Development Program.• Training for a cumulative period of 9 months within each department of the supply chain within the Group.• The departments include:- Distribution centre management (Inventory management, master cycle planning, receiving and dispatching and operations management).- In store training (Receiving, sales floor training, front end management and store room management).- Freshmark (Training within the operations of the fresh foods and perishables distribution centre).- Replenishing stock (Managing stock levels and strategic ordering).- Projects management.- International Trade Department. - Export Distribution Centre.

Associate Coaching Certification, Executive Coaching

Ontological Coaching In Action, Life Coaching

The Ontological Coaching Institute (OCI) is an international educational, coaching and consulting company specialising in the development.

Future Leaders Programme (British American Tobacco), Business Administration And Management, General

The programme is designed to accelerate the development of selected candidates in specific business areas relevant to specific business.

Bphil (Post Graduate), Transport Economics And Logistics

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Logistics And Transport Economics