Experience

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  Main General Trading Co. Ltd

  • South Sudan

  • Operations and Business Lead

    • Nov 2019 - Present
    • South Sudan

    Key Contributions:• Partner with Operational Heads of Departments to understand current and future spend requirements and ensure delivery of operational efficiencies and cost initiatives underpinning various project forecasts.• Support all planning activities for operations, delivering Budget, Long-range plans, re-forecasts, and monthly rolling forecasts.• Lead reviews of quarterly performance and provide guidance and insight to drive decision-making.• Understand and challenge KPIs to be able to articulate key operations in spend and to drive cost efficiencies including process end-to-end understanding.• Provide oversight over various logistical analysis deliverables.• Understand logistics and purchasing processes by being involved in regular market visits and communicating with the operations teams.

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  Juba Express Money Transfer

  • South Sudan

  • Business Development Manager

    • Sep 2019 - Present
    • South Sudan

    Key Contributions:• Develop and execute ‘go to market’ strategies that grow our partnerships and client database as fast as possible. These include Banking institutions, UN agencies, INGOs, and Government Ministries that require financial solutions.• Identify, build, and manage a pipeline of well-diversified leads that require cash transfer, cash drops, and cash distribution solutions for their various projects.• Manage simultaneous conversations with various stakeholders, internal and external, across long and short sales cycle deals. Invest and nurture these relationships to influence and create long-term value for all parties• Developing cash transfer systems (biometrics/voucher sol) for our various clients, especially NGOs for facilitating cash distribution services for either physical cash, NFIs, or FIs.• Ensuring organizational compliance by preparing timely operations reports for submission to management and stakeholders• Formulating policies and procedures on professional development, benefits, performance management, and training.• Developing voucher systems for our clients to facilitate various distribution needs.• Facilitating market research for our Cash distribution/ product distribution for clients and coming up with reports on various determinants e.g. Number of households, needs, market accessibility, geographical locations, and security risks just to mention.• Demonstrate strong judgment skills to scope and size opportunities, supported in a data-driven way, whilst identifying where the highest return on investment comes from and deciding how and where we should spend our time.

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  Logistics Link Ltd

  • South Sudan

  • Operations Manager

    • Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
    • South Sudan

    Key Contributions:• Providing technical advice and supporting the implementation and monitoring of agreed security actions and procedures • Manage a comprehensive activity plan for the designated project(s), including resource needs analysis, time frame and regularly generating reports regarding the entire process and advice on challenges and expected ways of mitigation.• Completing and maintaining required documentation for sourcing of supplies from inception of RFQs to PO and delivery- Overseeing the whole sourcing process. Especially on asset acquisition.• Actively follow up on requests, expectations, and needs reported during project implementations, ensuring consistent and structured feedback from the other departments and their partners/stakeholders• Maintain an overview of the regional context with a view to the strategic development of new projects.• Develop, in consultation with the head office, customer care, and fleet department, an implementation strategy that is appropriate to the country context and strategy on an appropriate, cost-effective, and realistic logistics management plan.• Coordination of shipments in transit from pick up to delivery handling all the paperwork, outlining time frames, and allocations of drivers in accordance with the project needs.• Acting as the image of the organization in various capacities representing its interests on different platforms where outlining mission objectives is required by stakeholders/partners• Strategically manage and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of Operational Support Services through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support and business functions• Long-term planning including an initiative geared towards operational excellence.• Application for tax exemption requests, extension of bonds, and undertakings for tax-exempted shipments.

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  Cee Express South Sudan ltd

  • South Sudan

  • Operations

    • Apr 2014 - Jul 2015
    • South Sudan

    Key Contributions:• Ensure timely and accurate processing and documentation of procurements: the process, ensure accurate paperwork and a supply chain as described in the Field Procurement Manual.• Ensure procurement records systems are well managed and maintained.• Ensure the warehouse procedures (where applicable) are followed as described in the Warehouse Policy and Procedures Guidelines.• Establish and maintain a pipeline of supplies to South Sudan overseeing the logistical aspects of the operation.• Supervise the fleet management team and ensure that systems are in place to track maintenance schedules, fuel usage, and vehicle scheduling as described in the Field Fleet Management Guidelines.• Maintain service contracts.• Liaise with finance to ensure compliance and payment schedules.• Oversee tracking of all assets to ensure accurate record keeping of Cee Express assets, including exceptional items that require registration and movement tracking, in accordance with the company’s Asset Management plan.• Coordinate logistics (non-program) aspects of material aid projects and associates.

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  Fursys kenya ltd

  • Kenya

  • Site Logistics Coordinator/ Project management

    • Jun 2012 - May 2013
    • Kenya

    Key Contributions:• Manage project development from initiation to closure and take full responsibility for it all.• Be accountable for project results.• Work with Project stakeholders to complete project charter outlining scope, goals, deliverables, required resources, budget, and timing.• Complete the work breakdown structure to estimate the effort required for each task.• Provide a project schedule to identify when each task will be performed.• Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders• Act as mediator between stakeholders and team members.• Resolve any issues and solve problems throughout the project life cycle• Effectively manage project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved with project change request forms.