International Business Director
Serviam Africa PTY ltd
Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months
Head of International Business
Drive Distributor Sales and New Business across Africa
Specialised focus in New business partner vetting and conducting due diligence to ensure the right cultural and value fit is achieved.
Responsible for the day to day running of the African Business and strategic planning as well as marketing for future growth internationally and across the MENA countries and BRICS areas.
Area Sales Manager
- South Africa Coastal Region (Government & Private)
- SADC Region (Africa) plus East African Region
Drive budgets, Sales Administration, Achievement of Sales Targets, Growth, Margins, Pipeline and forecasting of business development projections.
Sales Training of internal staff and external in country distributor sales teams.
Ministerial Relationship Management in each country.
Business Development and Key Relationship Management
Africa and South Africa.
Started as a rep, won rookie rep of the year once and rep of the year twice and got promoted within to Product Specialist.
A dual Sales and Marketing Function with dual reporting lines.
I was then promoted again to Regional Manager and then Area manager.
Worked my way into the Marketing and Sales manager position, until I returned to South Africa after failing to secure a permanent work permit.
Branding of new products and marketing of existing companies and their products and specified launches into specific target markets...
Top Achiever in branding & launching of new products, meeting Targets and Budget requirements.
marketing and sales representive, started with a small client base of 32 clients and built my base up to 122 over a 3 month period. Thereafter i moved into a key accounts position whereby my job was to maintain business and grow market share through a variety of innovative marketing stratergies.
Started From the bottom and helped build up the business from a small company trying to break into a competitive market to a large and fully established brand name in the industry. I took up a position in a marketing company back in South Africa
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