Assessing products, resources, and services to the ensure best prices and quality.Providing critical assessments of all budgets and cost projections. Analysing invoices, ensuring correct products/services are received at the agreed cost.Maintaining positive vendor and service provider relationships. Maintaining a knowledge of all market trends that could impact resource costs.Keeping updated on new vendors and possible cost-cutting partnerships. Developing and demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of cost drivers.Developing and implementing proactive solutions and cost cutting measures. Rolling out clear cost saving programmes with timelines and assessment goals.Ensuring maximum operational efficiency at all levels without compromising quality. Presenting new strategies and assessments to stakeholders.Educating and persuading stakeholders to obtain their buy-in and cooperation. Collaborating with all department heads to develop strategies to minimise waste and ensure maximum profitability.Recommending, implementing, and monitoring preventative and corrective actions to ensure that quality assurance standards are achieved.Executing duties regarding environmental, health, safety, and quality compliance.Coordinating and facilitating the flow of imported steel materials through various departments against the technical drawing specifications and purchase order requirements from a newly formed internal division.

Trading as a food wholesaler, supplying seafood, fresh produce, game meat, and butchery equipment to retail customers.Providing strategic leadership and managing daily operations.Overseeing company finances using the Sage accounting system.Driving the sales and marketing aspects of the company.Managing the company's purchasing, supply chain, and logistics as well as overseeing its imports and exports.Overseeing product research and development.Ensuring excellent customer satisfaction, and driving customer relationship management.

Group intercompany move from my previous position.Maintaining excellent business relationships and sales targets with existing customers as well as obtaining business from new customers.Performing customer sales visits, segmenting customers per town and province for distribution and travelling purposes.Planning the most efficient and effective route for travelling to minimise fuel costs, travel time, and vehicle wear and tear. Creating pin locations for customers in Africa on Google Maps and importing routes from a software converter to the GPS.Representing the group on outward selling missions and exhibitions, both in Africa and abroad. Performing sales reporting via Pastel accounting software.Liaising with customers regularly, assisting them with and updating them on credit applications.Obtaining on-the-job knowledge of company processes, services, components, and their sizes and applications. Reason for leaving: retrenchment/company restructuring due to COVID-19.Achievements:Representing the company as a board member of the Steel Tube Export Association of South Africa.Using market research, feasibility studies, and sales acumen to improve the company's Kwa-Zulu Natal and Western Cape markets to such an extent that the company not only maintained but expanded its business relationships.

Working at Kappa Engineering (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Honingcraft (Pty) Ltd.Ensuring the timely delivery of end products to customers. Coordinating and controlling the usage and maintenance of lifting equipment. Performing scheduled and unscheduled vehicle inspections. Controlling and issuing of personal protective equipment (PPE). Driving and coordinating the Quality Management System transition from ISO 9001:2008 to ISO 9001:2015, certified by TÜV Rheinland.Improving and revising policies and procedures.Overseeing information management and document control.Revising and updating standard operating procedures (SOPs).Improving, revising, and updating process documentation.Coordinating the calibration and verification of all measuring instruments.Implementing quality standard documentation in all company workshops.Coordinating the recertification of all company welders to the American Welding Standard D14.9.Participating in the pressure testing of hydraulic cylinders as per specifications.Obtaining on-the-job knowledge of company processes, services, and products.

Maintaining the company's SYSPRO ERP system.Creating Bills of Materials for required items and uploading stock codes for new items.Maintaining customer and supplier contracts.Costing products and performing inventory control.Utilising reports from the company database as well as Microsoft Excel.Managing the Barco monitoring systems, including performing machine-network connectivity, planning, and machine setup.Serving as site IT technician.Compiling monthly meeting presentations.Overseeing production efficiency through data analysis and reporting conclusions in daily meetings.Supporting the Financial Manager during month-end roll-overs.Supporting colleagues by solving problems within their operational functional duties.Ensuring the camera inspection unit’s maintenance and connectivity. Ensuring product quality by analysing specifications and general data.Reason for leaving: pursuing new opportunities.

Accurately processing passengers through the check-in process on the PRS and Sabre systems.Announcing check-ins and boarding calls.Boarding and disembarking passengers efficiently, managing the team on duty to complete their shift duties at the arrivals and departures departments. Assisting special-need passengers and children. As SLOW Lounge host, duties included all administration and the recording of clients per shift.Ensuring the lounge was neat and tidy at all times as well as processing all British Airways qualifying frequent flyers, First National Bank, and Rand Merchant Bank Wealth Clients.Implementing company policies and procedures as the need for them arose.Reason for leaving: pursuing new opportunities.Achievement: British Airways Golden Ticket Award for Outstanding Customer Service.