Experience

Mitsui & Co Europe PLC

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Development Manager (Minerals & Metals)

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  •Build and maintain knowledge of the business to be able to identify potential opportunities to add value through commercial transactions.•Identify, evaluate, and recommend commercial opportunities in the minerals and metals space (mostly in Southern Africa) to support potential transactions.• Assess strategic fit with the business through assessment of the commercial viability of opportunities (e.g. markets, economics, etc), financial evaluation and carry out due diligence on counterparties to potential transactions. •Highly involved in the Risk Management process prior to trade activities to identify, evaluate and prioritise potential risks. Application and establishment of credit lines as risk mitigation measures.• Support decision-making by sourcing the necessary region/country-specific, commodity or other analysis and undertake opportunity screening, monitor trends and analysis of proposals brought by banks and third parties. Show less

• Business Development Associate

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  • Building market position by locating, developing, defining, and closing business relationships with a variety of stakeholders. • Developing strong relationships with stakeholders such as financial institutions, NGOs, OEMs, contractors, the government, etc…• Identifying trendsetter ideas by researching different industries and fields. • Locating and proposing potential business deals by contacting potential partners in Mozambique and abroad.• Discovering and exploring new business opportunities within Mozambique and the region.• Examining risks within the Mozambican context to make calculated business decisions. • Actively seeking to close new business deals by coordinating requirements; developing and negotiating contracts; and integrating contract requirements with business operations.• Protecting Mitsui’s value by keeping crucial information confidential.• Enhancing Mitsui’s reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests.• Exploring several opportunities to add value to job accomplishments Show less



Sisonke, Lda.

• Maputo, Mozambique

• Manager

  • Jul 2015 - Jan 2019

  •Engage with senior management regularly to seek new business opportunities. Established a mobile forum to share ideas, discuss daily issues, and decide on strategies to secure new business, retain current customers and ultimately increase market share and presence; •Engage with relevant governmental and private entities to seek potential business opportunities and information to increase profitability. Some of these stakeholders include: MIREM, MINEDH, CNESE, STAE, MINFIN, TVM, NWETI (government and NGOs), local banks (Barclays, Societe General, Standard Bank and BCI); •Constant market research and analysis of the business environment, as a means to seek new opportunities and to add value to the country’s economy’; • Attend seminars, workshops and conferences as a company representative with the focus on addressing the current politics surrounding the use of mineral resources, and to understand how local companies can position themselves to be a credible and reliable supplier to provide services to the Oil & Gas industry such as Anadarko, ENI, etc; Show less



Ozmozis

• Mozambique

• Business Analyst

  • Jun 2014 - May 2015

  •Involved in the procurement process for the consultancy services for the development of the Mining and Gas Technical Assistance Project (MAGTAP), SESA. Amongst many other topics in the industry, this SESA touched on the importance of Nacala Logistics Corridor, to connect the Moatize coal line to the Nacala port; •Constantly gathering information and reporting on environmental and rural development topics. Information was gathered by engaging with key stakeholders including governmental institutions such as ministries, institutes, provincial directorates; •Conduct primary and secondary research on specific subjects related to Mozambique such as: economic, social, legislative, as well as political developments; •Assist and support consultancy activities, mainly in the areas of Oil & Gas, engineering, policy development, environmental impact assessments, mining and other governmental initiatives supported by donor agencies such as the World Bank (for the development corridors SESA), DFID, and etc.,; •Highly involved in the procurement process for the consultancy services for the development of a Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA), for 7 development corridors in favour of the Ministry of Transport and Technology. The development corridors taken into account were: Maputo, Pequenos Libombos, Beira, Zambezia, Nacala, Mueda and North-South corridors; •Assist on the review of daily procurement possibilities for OzMozis’ long time partners (Cardno and Aurizon), through newspapers, emails, e-procurement sites. Such possibilities were summarized, shortlisted and presented to senior management. Opportunities were geared towards the transport and infrastructure sectors (specifically railways for Aurizon), oil and gas, environmental impact assessment and rural development; •Create and maintain a record of key stakeholders contacts, gathered in seminars, meetings as well as networking events; Show less