Business Unit Manager
CurrentMobile Campaigns: Telkom Heita, Telkom Fixed Line, MTN, Cell C, AUTOPAGE, Virgin, Mweb. Vehicle Tracking Campaigns: Altech Netstar, Matrix. Various VAS Network campaigns.Over the past four years, I have been responsible for the effective functioning of these campaigns within my Business Unit. This includes all activities across the value chain, summarised as follows: Legal – agreement negotiation with the Principal / Network; Sales – deal preparation, coordinate agent recruitment, training, and motivation of the sales team; QA – set-up a team of agents to support the sales initiative, ensure compliance during the sales process; IT – briefing the development specifics required for system integration, ensuring accessibility to the system and management reports; Data – negotiate the supply of pre-approved data, as well as correct data profiling exercises; Operations – ensure the Network business rules are incorporated into a comprehensive business process, allow the admin team to process orders at optimally; Stock Management – forecasting and ordering of stock required and the management of monthly stock turns/stock ageing exercises; Customer Care – ensure the in-bound support team provides quality customer care; Marketing – full brief and management of the brand with the Brand Managers support (DNA, CI, CRM collateral to support the process flow, POS); VAS – id the correct VAS to attach to sales, ensure performance. In addition, set the annual budget and stretch targets, work with Finance to track the annual and monthly performance.Maintain a healthy relationship with the teams working for the Network and / or Service Provider. Source and manage the relationship with third party call centres (3pcc) that sell product on behalf of the BU – same process as above.Maintain relationships with outsourced suppliers, including both marketing and the product and logistics companies (Samsung, Nokia, Ingram Micro and AMC).