Telesales/Sales Consultant at Bidvest Waltons (2025-09 – 2026-02)
- Develop and execute tailored sales strategies that align with each accounts needs, aiming to increase multi-category product uptake.
- Build trust-based, long-term relationships with decision maker.
- Conduct day to day sales calls.
- Customer service.
- Pricing Negotiations and closing of sales.
Customer Care Co-Ordinator at Oryx Energies (2023-01 – 2025-07)
- Accurate capturing of orders onto the ERP system and send confirmation with ref numbers.
- Amend and update orders accurately and timeously upon customer requests.
- Conduct daily planning/stock allocation for the next day's packed deliveries in conjunction with Logistics department and respective Depots and Sales Manager if required.
- Proactively contact customers for Purchase Orders for the new month.
- Take Ownership of customer queries/complaints and resolve withing set SLA, keeping customer informed throughout.
- Logging Off, and follow up upon these items.
- Extensive Liaison with other departments to close off items promptly.
- Record New Sales Leads.
- Capture and send out pro forma invoices and payment follow ups.
- Mitigate risk of false/fraudulent /incorrect /duplicate orders by analysing and monitoring orders.
- Weekly updating of bulk forecast per SLA for following week's anticipated demand.
- Consistently seek and communicate ways to improve customer satisfaction, add value and improve controls.
Customer Service Representative at FlySafair (2019-01 – 2022-11)
- Receive calls from customers/passengers.
- New flight bookings and quotations.
- Deal with problems such as delays, cancellations, and flight changes.
- Responding to social media queries and website queries (face book/twitter/Hello Peter).
- Work in a team and longer than normal hours (shift work).
- Deal with confidential information.
- Systems and Website assistance (troubleshooting)
- Compile reports.
- Maintaining SLA 's.
- Processing online payments.
Customer Relations Consultant at Altech Nupay (2017-04 – 2018-12)
- Terminal (speed point) troubleshooting and technical repairs
- Terminal Software upgrades.
- Terminal test transactions
- Logging customer cases and follow up on resolving the case.
- Billing and customer settlement queries
- Change of banking details notifications
- Abstract daily, weekly, and monthly reports
Specialized Sales Representative at Heineken South Africa (2016-03 – 2017-03)
- Customer Base: Non key Accounts (Taverns, Pubs, Bottle Stores Route to Market, Cash and Carry)
- Processing orders and returns of goods on SAP.
- Logging customer cases on CRM and follow up on resolving the case.
- Ensure accuracy on order placement and confirming all out of stock items.
- Receiving daily delivery report and communicate with the customer accordingly.
- Contact customers for orders on 48-hour call queue
- Build unrivalled customer partnerships by putting the customer at the centre of everything.
- Track delivery as per customer request to ensure the order is delivered on time and with no errors.
- Log all distribution queries with IML and RDM's
- Building rapport with customers to create positive foundation for selling conservations.
- Building deep understanding with customers' needs and motivations to tailor our selling plans.
- Creating and delivering compelling sales messages that meet needs of our customers.
- Knowing when and how to close sales whilst leaving the customer satisfied.
- Creating a perfect outlet execution to enable Heineken to win at the point of sale.
- Ability to use tools of the trade effectively and responsibly.
- Promotions and Activation
Specialized Sales Representative at BrandHouse Beverages (2008-02 – 2016-02)
- Key Accounts: Makro and Game Liquors
- Maintain and develop business with new and existing customers.
- Identify opportunities for developing our business.
- High level reporting capabilities
- Planning customer calls, setting specific objectives.
- Identifying and resolving customer service issues
- Adhering to policy and procedural requirements
- Forecasting insight & knowledge
- Confirm receipt of all orders placed via specialized orders team.
- Log all queries through the appropriate channels.
- Service Levels maintained at 90%+
- All orders confirmed / read back to ensure a high level of accuracy to Rand value, stock availability, expected delivery dates, lead times and discount information.
- Customers contacted and kept up to date on progress of their orders and confirmation prior to delivery.
- Regular assessment/validation of outstanding pallet recon account – Ensure customers are communicated to and understand the process.
- Available on the Specialized orders queue
- Pricing issues
- New SKUs updated on a regular basis.
- Direct exports procedures
- Identify opportunities to challenge and change procedures to drive business profitability.