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Entrepreneur
Self-employedEntrepreneur
Feb. 2024
Regional Manager, East and Southern Africa, at Bolt
BoltRegional Manager, East and Southern Africa, at Bolt
Jan. 2023 - Jan. 2024
Country Manager at Bolt
BoltCountry Manager at Bolt
Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2022
Data Science Manager
Deloitte ConsultingData Science Manager
Apr. 2020 - Aug. 2021Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Strategy & Consulting - Manager
AccentureStrategy & Consulting - Manager
Dec. 2019 - Mar. 2020Johannesburg Area, South Africa•Led a Strategic Cost Reduction project to deliver R100 million in savings for a large global retailer.
Strategy & Consulting - Senior Consultant
AccentureStrategy & Consulting - Senior Consultant
Mar. 2018 - Dec. 2019Johannesburg Area, South Africa•Designed the compensation and incentive model for a leading global CPG to reduce spend and deliver savings of $2.5 million per year (7% reduction) while driving correct distributor behaviour and ensuring long term distributor partnership. •Led the analysis, design and optimisation for the downstream distribution network for a leading global CPG based in West Africa to realise 24% cost savings ($28.5million over a 3 year period) •Designed an operating model to deliver an In-house Ad Agency for a leading global consumer packaged goods company to realise operational synergies and save R50 million per annum. •Designed and defined the value proposition and metrics for an e-commerce point of sale platform, to be rolled out globally, for a leading global consumer packaged goods company.
Industrial Engineer
Novus Holdings Ltd (previously Paarl Media Group)Industrial Engineer
May. 2015 - Aug. 2017Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Managed and implemented a project that reduced a downtime category by 25%. Achieved this through process redesign, data analysis, RCA & implementation of SOPs. • Project Management and implementation (R 20 million project) – Installing new equipment, conducting market analysis and product spec. Lead project from inception to commissioning. • Reduced supplier costs by 20% through effective tendering, procurement and drafting legal documents. • Eliminated production mistakes by designing and implementing poka-yoke systems to reduce operational mistakes and inefficiencies. • Systems and IT – Data management and data validation, building of reports for data analysis, debugging and creating solutions for production and business related problems. • Continuous improvement – Data analysis to identify root causes and create and implement solutions. • Process flows – mapping the business value chain for the group, to better understand and improve processes and employee performance. • SOPs – Standardising of procedures across the group. Including the management of the project and people assigned to assist in the project. • Decosting – Analysing the financial impact of operations against set targets and identifying crucial improvement areas. • Group responsibilities (across 4 plants) include; procedure and best operating practices alignment across all 4 plants. Data and information monitoring and improving across all 4 plants. Helping the various plants align to the group operations framework and strategy. • Drafting of tender documents worth R500 million. • Conducting training on the systems and reports introduced to the business • Reduce year on year waste by 1.5% • Attain 99% data accuracy.
Industrial Engineering Graduate
NampakIndustrial Engineering Graduate
Jan. 2014 - Apr. 2015Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Increase production throughput at a machine by 30% • Using SPC to determine reliability and consistency of in house chemical process • Conducting simulations to improve production throughput • Time and motion studies to identify and exploit bottlenecks • Determining the root cause of the variance in financial waste vs recorded waste • Management of services department
Industrial Engineer (Vacation work)
RHI ConsultingIndustrial Engineer (Vacation work)
Nov. 2012 - Feb. 2013Parktown• Optimization of business model; • Time and Work Studies; • Data capturing using excel spread sheet; • Development of algorithms • Attending project planning meetings; • Process engineering; • Software development.
Junior Consulting Engineer (Vacation Work)
Volition Consulting ServicesJunior Consulting Engineer (Vacation Work)
Jun. 2012 - Jul. 2012Johannesburg Area, South AfricaWorked on the woolworths supply chain. Did time and work studies. Performed data capturing and data proccessing. Recomendations into improving the woolworths supply chain.

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