Experience

QuickBiz Consultants

• South Africa

• Business Development Consultant

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  • Carrying out sales forecasts and analysis and presenting the findings to senior management/the board of directors. • Achieving customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. • Creating opportunities for new product/ service by networking. • Developing quotes and proposals for prospective clients. • Analysing prevalent market conditions for company and clients • Discussing promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department. • Conducting research on market trends of company’s products/services. • Developing goals for the development team and business growth and ensuring they are met. • Increasing the value of current customers while attracting new ones. • Developing the business sales and marketing strategy. • Consulting, advising, and creating programs to fill the gaps between actual situations and desired ones. • Preparing presentations for potential clients. • Researching and identifying new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets. • Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange meetings. • Reviewing and monitoring strategies of the company as it regards sales, advertising, marketing, and other related fields of business. Show less



Alaska Tanzania

• Tanzania
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing Manager

  • Jun 2020 - Jan 2022

  • Strategizing and implementing campaigns leveraging both traditional (collateral, print advertising, direct mail, etc.) and digital (social media, digital advertising, websites, email, etc.) marketing tactics. • Analysing budgets, preparing annual budget plans, scheduling expenditures, and ensuring that the sales team meets their quotas and goals. • Developing materials, presentations and other marketing communications for launches, campaigns and other product and service marketing efforts as well as sales meetings, tradeshows and events. • Developing and implementing effective communication strategies that build customers’ loyalty programs, brand awareness, and customer satisfaction. • Accomplishing marketing and sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing, and • Collaborating with designers, product marketers, sales professionals, external influencers and industry experts to produce relevant content that meets the needs of both key stakeholders and our audience, also supports marketing goals. • Identifying marketing opportunities by identifying consumer requirements; defining market, competitor's share, and competitor's strengths and weaknesses; forecasting projected business; establishing targeted market share. • Evaluating advertising, merchandising, and trade promotion programs; developing field sales action plans. • Improving product marketability and profitability by researching, identifying, and capitalizing on market opportunities; improving product packaging; coordinating new product development. • Meeting marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions. • Providing guidance to the product management team and cross-functionally to teams such as customer service, sales excellence, customer development and operational excellence, to help shape local marketing strategies. Show less



Game Discount World (Tanzania) Ltd - Mlimani Shopping Mall

• Deputy Administrative Manager

  • Nov 2018 - May 2020

  • Maintaining administrative staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities as well as ensuring daily optimum stuffing level is maintained. • Ensuring the company procedures and policies relating to the cash office are adhered to, always. • Performing bookkeeping duties such as preparing checks for payables, reconciling bank accounts and updating accounts receivables. • Maintaining and updating client database, securing confidential files and forwarding documents to select recipients. • Ensuring through the Checkout Manager all credit cards sales are correctly processed according to the procedure manual. • Organising special corporate functions and coordinating with different suppliers or teams involved in department’s special events. • Ensuring that the training, development, and motivation of staff in store is implemented as well as coaching and mentoring store managers to ensure that all staff are encouraged to maximize their capability. • Maintaining supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies. • Updating suppliers’ transaction database and reviewing invoices/purchase orders forwarded by accounting office. • Ensuring through cash office supervisor that the access to the main cash office is restricted to authorized team only. • Planning, scheduling, and promoting office events, including meetings, conferences, interviews, orientations, and training sessions. Show less



Osaka Constructio

• United States
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Administrator

  • Jan 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Contributing operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, quality and customer-service standards; resolving problems; ensuring internal auditing is okay, identifying business trends. • Coordinating new contracts and amendments to existing ones (including interns and consultants), also ensuring proper maintenance and serving as primary liaison with utilities and local government agencies, such as fire, police, NSSF, TANESCO, OSHA, DAWASA, and health & safety agencies. • Accomplishing staff results by communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures. • Responding to phone calls, emails and letters, and connecting them to the proper departments if they are for specific departments rather than administration. • Planning, scheduling, and promoting office events, including meetings, conferences, interviews, orientations, and training sessions. • Handling minor financial transactions for the office, such as collecting rental payments and deposits, issuing receipts, invoicing, billing, and budget tracking and purchasing needed supplies. • Maintaining administrative staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities as well as ensuring daily optimum stuffing level is maintained. • Conducting clerical duties, including filing, answering phone calls, responding to emails, and preparing documents. • Working closely with Managing Director and management team to set and implement policies, procedures and systems and to follow through with implementation. Show less



BRAC Microfinance

• Branch Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Creating, implementing, and evaluating the branch’s business plan; designing and implementing financial performance plans, strategies, and any other operational activity.• Ensuring all employees handle their clients’ activities in an accurate, unbiased, and profitable way, following high ethical standards when performing financial transactions.• Overseeing approvals of loans, lines of credit, and other fiscal plans.• Building and maintaining strategic ties with the community, as well as networking with existing and potential customers to establish long-term, trustworthy relationships. • Adhering to high ethical standards and comply with all regulations/applicable laws.• Bringing out the best of branch’s personnel by providing training, coaching, development, and motivation.• Conducting and monitoring visits to collection points as planned at least once to each Loan officer per week to verify client numbers and cross check loan officer’s registers and reports.• Preparing and assisting to regional manager to cooperate fully with all internal and external audits.• Setting quarterly and annual performance targets and conduct performance evaluations for loan/credit officers. • Completing regular internal reports fully and on time including monthly financial, outreach and portfolio reports.• Assigning, overseeing, and monitoring administrative and financial tasksAnalysing office activity and employee performance, identifying trends, and making appropriate recommendations and adjustments to current work methods and systems Show less

• Credit Officer

  • Jun 2013 - Dec 2015

  • Creating, implementing, and evaluating the branch’s business plan; designing and implementing financial performance plans, strategies, and any other operational activity.• Ensuring all employees handle their clients’ activities in an accurate, unbiased, and profitable way, following high ethical standards when performing financial transactions.• Overseeing approvals of loans, lines of credit, and other fiscal plans.• Building and maintaining strategic ties with the community, as well as networking with existing and potential customers to establish long-term, trustworthy relationships. • Adhering to high ethical standards and comply with all regulations/applicable laws.• Bringing out the best of branch’s personnel by providing training, coaching, development, and motivation.• Conducting and monitoring visits to collection points as planned at least once to each Loan officer per week to verify client numbers and cross check loan officer’s registers and reports.• Preparing and assisting to regional manager to cooperate fully with all internal and external audits.• Setting quarterly and annual performance targets and conduct performance evaluations for loan/credit officers. • Completing regular internal reports fully and on time including monthly financial, outreach and portfolio reports.• Assigning, overseeing, and monitoring administrative and financial tasksAnalysing office activity and employee performance, identifying trends, and making appropriate recommendations and adjustments to current work methods and systems Show less