Management Consultant at SA Cargo Services (2025-02 – Present)
- Sourcing and securing new business
- Setup and start up of new operations per contracts
- Rate and price negotiations
- Contract / tender costings and submissions thereof
General Manager at Camper Van World (2024-01 – 2024-10)
General management of factory, production of 8 motor homes per month for both the export and local market
- Staff compliment of 45
- Budgets & planning
- HR of staff
- Hiring and training of staff
- Procurement
- Shipping of export units to Australia
Engineering Procurement & Stores Fleet controller at Sundale (2022-11 – 2023-12)
Director / General Manager / Operations Manager at Emonti Transport Logistics Services (2006-08 – 2023-11)
Start up business from scratch. Multi billion-rand value of import and export cargo managed monthly. Mercedes and Transnet supplier.
- Business development and key account management - Grew turnover from R 25 000 per month to R730 000 per month within 6 months (Service orientated business)
- Key account and businesses development of large international and local clients - presenting to international and local clients board of directors
- Staff compliment grew from 25 to 85 members within 6 months
- Creating a positive working environment, staff were upskilled and trained accordingly
- Development of a concise disciplinary code of conduct and the management thereof
- Initiated daily action meetings to address issues or concerns that may have arisen during the previous shifts
- Upliftment of staff on jobs well done and update the teams regarding ETA and other operational and administrative activities
- Management of staff over 3 shifts over 24 hours / 6 days a week
- Marketing and presenting to companies in search of business
- Completion of pricing and costing of tenders and RFQs ensuring profitability and adherence to the relevant SLA
- Development, implementation and management of various SOPS according to the clients SLA. Most of these SOPs and considered best practice and currently still in use
- Complete shipping experience
- Bills of entry, customs tariffs, INCO terms, pre clearances of cargo, import, exports, stevedoring, port captaincy, ship chandelling ships agency functions, husbandry services, marine surveying, customs stops and examinations, state and other relevant required certification
- Customs clearance, ensuring all invoices, certificates were on hand to ensure a timeous customs clearance
- Management of on time delivery and addressing short falls
- Payment of Tariffs and cargo dues
- Customs clearance of vessels crews
- FCL and LCL container management experience
- Management of the complete change in Mercedes Benz South Africa factory MHE fleet. This included import from Germany, customs clearance, destuffing of containers assembly of 152 Jungheinrich MHE, facilitating the building and implementing of the battery bays
- Development of MHE maintenance schedules, ensuring all factory departments were not without the necessary equipment to operate optimally
- Road carriers and transport logistics
- Overseeing the discharge and loading operation and addressing all issues not complying to Ships owners' instructions and SOPs, limiting liability and risk to the ship's owners
- Road hauling cross border regulations, weight and sequence loading to ensure on time delivery and safe delivery of cargo
- Key Account Management and ensuring compliance with the clients SLA and exceeding expectations by setting new benchmarks
- Financial management. Compilation and management of annual budgets and forecasts. Invoicing, debtors creditors and payroll
- Costing of tenders and contracts
- Development, implementation and management of business plans
- Implementation of cost centres to allocate income and expenses per operation or contract
- Management of numerous operations simultaneously ensuring each operation was successful, sufficiently equipped with staff and equipment. These operations were each costed out separately to ensure profitability
- Management of assets and ensuring optimal returns on investment
- Cost saving initiatives
- Development and upskilling of management and workforce
- All staff were trained and upskilled by me, no staff were poached from opposition companies
- SWOT Assessment of opposition and ETLS to ensure the business was ahead of market
- Limiting liability, risk and exposure and ensuring on time delivery
- LIFO/ FIFO warehouse procedures
- Management of 7 remote warehouses
- Integration from a manual paper warehouse inventory to an EDI system operation
- Warehousing management of 3000 fully built-up imported vehicles and 7000 FBU export vehicles
- Creating, implementation and management of warehouse stock, indicating precise location to ensure accuracy and effective picking and timeous movement of selected cargo
- Ensuring all cargo was in optimal condition to ensure no time delays
- JIT, JIS delivery and application of Kazen policies
- SKD, CKD, FBU cargo experience
- Consolidated container management
- Service providers and supplier management
- KPIs SLA and standard operating procedures
- Building loads for road carriers
- Performance reviews of staff and vendors
- Managed all aspects of general business management, from HR, Financial, marketing and complete operations management of various clients SLAs
- Stuffing and destuffing of containerised cargo
- Key contact between vessel agents, clearing and forwarding agents, customs, road freight carriers and OEMS
- Ensuring an on-time delivery and shipment of cargo limiting risks to all parties concerned
- Shipping schedules and updating ETAs
- Ensuring a quick vessel turn around
- Ensuring all export cargo was in the stack/ staged before the stack was closed for shipment
- Ensuring all clearing and customs issues were resolved prior to an import shipment
- Capable of diverse personal relations: able to wear both white and blue collars and interact at optimal level
- CCMA, labour law related issue and disciplinary hearings
- Develop a disciplinary code of conduct including the relevant disciplinary actions
- Fuel management of all company vehicles
- Making the necessary amendments to the financial related issue and implementing actions. i.e. staff layoffs, optimal use of equipment and movable assets
- SHEQ compliance, management and compliance thereof
Senior Import Controller / Mercedes Benz Supply chain representative at Safcorpanalpina / Bidvest (2000-04 – 2006-07)
Seconded to Mercedes Benz Supply chain.
Fleet Sales Executive / Sales Manager at Hyundai / Wheels Africa (1997-01 – 2001-03)
Operations Supervisor / Functions Controller at Mustard Catering, UK (1994-01 – 1996-11)
