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Toronto, ON, CA

• CE Chater Distributors is a South African fresh produce broker specialising in maize, delivering bespoke export/import solutions to customers globally. As a general Business Consultant, I manage the sourcing and.
• Determining product pricing and establishing the key price points that influence consumer behaviour
• Logistics management such as truck routing, detailed transport cost calculation and warehouse management processes
• Change management, involving leading a large-scale change in operational structure and basic functions of AIMS (C.E. Chater client) towards a new method of doing business with it acting as a fourth party logistical.
• Project management, including end-to-end management of small- to medium-sized corporate projects focused around product-based planning
• Report compilation of key performance indicators summarised into routinely updated dashboards, coupled with value added insights into the information, in order to provide improved mid-level management and intelligence.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Leading a team to provide operational sales support to nine country sales management teams. This included:
• Sales support activities including management of national stock levels and providing of merchandising support across several markets
• Retail channel management including monitoring the logistical supply of product and determining channel requirements (merchandising and marketing requirements as well as determining optimal product supply)
• Field force management, consolidation… Show more Leading a team to provide operational sales support to nine country sales management teams. This included:
• Field force management, consolidation of data recorded, ensuring efficient and effective training of field force and providing merchandising direction
• Budget compilation and control for sales operations, costs included channel, merchandising, field force, rebates, etc.

• Providing analytical expertise in support of strategy execution and executive level decision making across the Middle East and Africa region. This included:
• Data and information sourcing, statistical analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis, trend spotting and projections, data mining, predictive model construction
• Decision support through report compilation and presentations
• Project management (scoping, scaling, planning and execution)

• AC Nielsen are a leading global information and measurement company, providing market research, insights and data into consumer behaviour. The role involved conducting market research for a number of clients in the.
• Market research and economic reporting
• Database management and administration
• Product sales and client management
• Coca Cola Account Manager – this involved managing a team of two subordinates, acting as the main face of Nielsen to… Show more AC Nielsen are a leading global information and measurement company, providing market.
• Coca Cola Account Manager – this involved managing a team of two subordinates, acting as the main face of Nielsen to Coca-Cola and was embedded into the Coca-Cola consumer insights team two days a week, with team.

• Sharp Interpack (bought by Groupe Guillin in 2010) was a leading European company producing and selling thermoformed plastic packaging, supplying the FMCG sector primarily (clients include Tesco, Sainsbury’s and.
• General market research
• Providing economic indicators and monitoring business opportunities across European markets
• CRM system build manager

Conducted base level research on macro-economic variables for the African Institute of Economic Modelling (AFRINEM) at the University of Pretoria. This involved:- Literature surveys- Variable determination- Data gathering - Data cleaningActed as a AFRINEM representative to the Gauteng Department of Economic Development monthly Forum.Provided quarterly.

Masters Of Commerce, Macro-Economics, Monetary-Economics

Specialising in Monetary & Macro Economics

Bachelor Of Commerce (Honours), Economics

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Economics, Business Management, Statistics

Activities and Societies: Taekwon-do