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South Africa

At Epson, I lead the Southern Africa Sales & Marketing operations, driving the growth and development strategy for the Consumer and B2B Business. The emphasis is focused around delivering new business opportunities, maximising current partner landscapes and enduring a profitable, sustainable long term business model.Leading a successful and passionate team of sales and operations managers with a customer centric approach, driving market share growth and developing new routes to market. My… Show more At Epson, I lead the Southern Africa Sales & Marketing operations, driving the growth and development strategy for the Consumer and B2B Business. The emphasis is focused around delivering new business opportunities, maximising current partner landscapes and enduring a profitable, sustainable long term business model.Leading a successful and passionate team of sales and operations managers with a customer centric approach, driving market share growth and developing new routes to market. My passion remains unearthing new talent and seeing people grow and develop there careers. Show less

Johannesburg South Africa

At Epson, I lead the Consumer business by managing the sales and marketing strategy for the channel. This is being achieved through driving a profitable sales business model and focused strategy across the range of Consumer Printer, Projector and Scanner products.My role includes leading a successful team of Key Account, Business and Marketing Managers as well as the retail execution team while developing and implementing short and long term strategies across our retail, online and… Show more At Epson, I lead the Consumer business by managing the sales and marketing strategy for the channel. This is being achieved through driving a profitable sales business model and focused strategy across the range of Consumer Printer, Projector and Scanner products.My role includes leading a successful team of Key Account, Business and Marketing Managers as well as the retail execution team while developing and implementing short and long term strategies across our retail, online and independent partners such as Massmart, JD Group, Takealot etc as well as our distribution partners in Tarsus, Mustek etc. Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

At Samsung Electronics, I headed the Mass Retail and Furniture business by managing the sales and retail strategy for the channel. This is being achieved through driving a profitable sales business model and focused strategy across the range of Audio Visual products.My role included leading a successful team of Key Account Managers and developing and implementing short and long term strategies with our retail partners such as Massmart, House & Home, OK Furniture, Hirsch, JD Group and… Show more At Samsung Electronics, I headed the Mass Retail and Furniture business by managing the sales and retail strategy for the channel. This is being achieved through driving a profitable sales business model and focused strategy across the range of Audio Visual products.My role included leading a successful team of Key Account Managers and developing and implementing short and long term strategies with our retail partners such as Massmart, House & Home, OK Furniture, Hirsch, JD Group and Edcon. Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Mar 2012 - Mar 2015MICROSOFT (PTY) LTD, RETAIL SALES and MARKETING DIRECTORDirectly responsible for conceiving and fulfilling the profitable sales, marketing, retail and distribution strategy across all Microsoft retail products including Xbox, Windows, MS Office and PC Hardware. Managed the sales, marketing and in store merchandising for all products categories in addition to nurturing positive and productive executive relationships with retailers and distributors… Show more Mar 2012 - Mar 2015MICROSOFT (PTY) LTD, RETAIL SALES and MARKETING DIRECTORDirectly responsible for conceiving and fulfilling the profitable sales, marketing, retail and distribution strategy across all Microsoft retail products including Xbox, Windows, MS Office and PC Hardware. Managed the sales, marketing and in store merchandising for all products categories in addition to nurturing positive and productive executive relationships with retailers and distributors. Led and developed the competence and performance of 23 team members through mentoring and performance coaching towards achieving targets. Key achievements:Accountable for a portfolio budget to the value of R770 million. Achieved MEA Retail Sales and Marketing Shine award as well as the EMEA Polaris award for best individual contribution in sales and marketing. May 2008 - Mar 2012MICROSOFT (PTY) LTD, SALES LEAD - RETAIL SALES and MARKETINGPersonally accountable for the sales forecast and budget for Xbox, Windows and MS Office software, computer accessories and peripherals.Planned and budgeted for the allocation of marketing and development funds as well as formulated and effective in store strategy. Led, directed and developed a team of three account managers in addition to forged and grew strategic business partnerships at retail and distributor level.Retail account base included the JD Group ( Incredible Connection & Hi-Fi Corporation ), Massmart ( Game, Makro & Dion Wired ) C N A, Musica & Look & Listen, Regwoods Group ( Toys R Us & Reggies ) BT Games and IT Breadth.Distributor account base included Comztek, Tarsus, Axiz Workgroup, Mustek and Prima Interactive. Key AchievementsAccountable for the portfolio budget to the value of R500 million.Achieved the Incredible Connection Most Innovative Supplier Award as well as the Microsoft EMEA Polaris Award for the best sales and marketing team performance, Show less

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (PTY) LTD, SALES MANAGERFeb 2004 - Apr 2008 Oversaw the Mass retail portfolio for Samsung accounts in South Africa including Massmart ( Game, Makro & Dion Wired ), House & Home, Hi-Fi Corporation and Pick n Pay.Ensured the successful fulfilment of sales forecast and budget, stock forecasting, co-op expenditure as well as promotional activities. Key AchievementsAccountable for a portfolio budget to the value of R400 million.Achieved the… Show more SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (PTY) LTD, SALES MANAGERFeb 2004 - Apr 2008 Oversaw the Mass retail portfolio for Samsung accounts in South Africa including Massmart ( Game, Makro & Dion Wired ), House & Home, Hi-Fi Corporation and Pick n Pay.Ensured the successful fulfilment of sales forecast and budget, stock forecasting, co-op expenditure as well as promotional activities. Key AchievementsAccountable for a portfolio budget to the value of R400 million.Achieved the Directors Award as well as the People's Award for outstanding performance.May 2002 - Jan 2004SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (PTY) LTD, AREA SALES MANAGER - Gauteng & Mpumalanga.Managed the pricing, margins, forecasting and co-op advertising and budget for the region covering accounts with various Independents, discount and chain stores.Led and developed a staff count of seven sales representatives, monitored performance and provided mentoring on sales strategies towards improvement. Key AchievementAchieved the People's Awards for the best sales and marketing division.Sep 1998 - Apr 2002SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (PTY) LTD, SALES AGENT - East Rand & Mpumalanga.Prepared monthly and annual sales budget in addition to managed in store product displays, general merchandising, arranged promotions and updated product knowledge.Nov 1997 - Aug 1998SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (PTY) LTD, INTERNAL SALES TEAM LEADERLead and managed seven internal sales staff members as well as processed orders, assigned stock and assisted the sales manager.Key AchievementAchieving Internal Sales Consultant of the year award.Jan 1997 - Oct 1997SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (PTY) LTD, INTERNAL SALES Show less

Imm, General Sales, Merchandising And Related Marketing Operations

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