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Self-employedEntrepreneur
Mar. 2024
BoltRegional Manager, East and Southern Africa, at Bolt
Jan. 2023 - Jan. 2024
BoltCountry Manager at Bolt
Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2022
Deloitte ConsultingData Science Manager
Apr. 2020 - Aug. 2021Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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.
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.
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.
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
RHI ConsultingIndustrial Engineer (Vacation work)
Nov. 2012 - Mar. 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.
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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