Donna James

Self Employed @Mindful Marketing

💸 MarketingBusiness Owner🗿 HR🐦 Design🧨 Consulting🧮 Education

I am an experience business owner and project manager by expertise. I am able to build strong connections as well as partnerships not only with influential individuals but small businesses as well as large corporations over time. A marketer at heart, I specialise in event and promotional concept design, experiential marketing, strategies, graphic design, digital and social media marketing. With more than 20 years of experience in the industry, including facilitating, consulting and management, passion for all things marketing still drives me. I conceptualised and led numerous successful Social Responsibility Projects for Coca-Cola from Feeding Schemes in rural areas, to "Save the Rhino" projects I currently own my own businesses : (Which can operate without me) Mindful Marketing PTY Ltd, which offers marketing services to small and medium businesses as well as large corporations. A perfect total marketing solution for businesses who don’t have an in-house marketing department or large enterprises that need targeted solutions and outside consultant. I am a keen facilitator of all topics and have extensive knowledge from my different vocations and vast fields of study. I freelance as a soft skills facilitator, as well as topic-specific technical training for a number of training institutes ranging from private colleges, universities as well as corporate entities I am a published writer of a technical skills book (IT Related) and worked as an Editor for Intersoft Publishing House in 2002 - 2003.

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Work Background

Self Employed : Mindful Marketing Pty LtdOwner | Director

Jun. 2014White River / NelspruitBusiness Owner Responsible for Operations, Marketing, Finance and all other aspects of the business. Marketing Company includes Strategy, Brand Management, Public Relations, Digital and Social Media Marketing, Concept Design, Creative, Event Management, Experiential, Advertising and more. Clients Include : Innibos National Arts Festival, Spar, Nandos, Brightrock and others...

SPAR LulekaniCo-Owner

Dec. 2016PhalaborwaLiving the Retailer Dream and Still managing my Mindful Marketing Passion...

Unigrad CollegeLecturer & Corporate Training Facilitator

Sep. 2014 - Nov. 2016NelspruitPart Time Lecturer at Unigrad Subjects Include : Sales Management, Human Resources Managment, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Marketing Corportate Training Facilitator Courses Include : Motivation, Team Building, Management, Event Management, Negotiation Skills, Presentation Skills, Administration and so much more....

Coca-Cola FortuneRegional Trade Marketing Manager

Sep. 2006 - May. 2014Mpumalanga Area, South AfricaOver and above my list of roles and responsibilities below, I headed up the South African Leg of the FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour. I coordinated Coca-Cola Activities in two Host Cities Namely : Polokwane & Nelspruit. Developing strategies and marketing programs is a strength and absolute first love for me. Innovation and Creativity come naturally and allow me to come up with unique, relevant and successful campaigns. Manage Special Events Teams across Limpopo & Mpumalanga region Managing & coordinating of all National Promotions Launching New Products and all National Promotions across territory Coordinating all Marketing Materials per promotion Tracking and analysis of promotions Market Research and Consumer Behaviour studies Writing of Newspaper Reports for both External and Internal papers and newsletters. Developing and designing regional/local promotions Brand Management of Total Portfolio Liaison between Bottler and Coca-Cola South Africa Heading up Public Relations for region Managing Marketing Budget of 18.1mil Managing Corporate Social Responsibility projects for Region Assist coordination of CSR Budget for Mpumalanga Leading On Premise Sales Team Driving Sales Target for On Premise Channel Develop Picture of Success for SubTrade Channels within On Premise Ensuring Execution of Picture of Success for On Premise Channel Monitoring and Ensuring Penetration of strategic On Premise packs Ensuring and driving Cooler Verification Ensuring and driving implementation of RED where necessary

Coca-Cola FortuneSpecial Events Team Leader

Jun. 2006 - Aug. 2006Polokwane Area, South AfricaPlanning, Organising and Booking Events Managing Special Events Budgets Marketing Management Consumer Behaviour studies Managing Team of 7 Wages and People Management Representative for Retail Academy Representative & Presenter of School Tours for Retail Academy Promoted to Regional Promotions Manager - Later to become Regional Trade Marketing Manager!

Coca-Cola FortuneRegional Project Manager

Mar. 2006 - Jun. 2006Polokwane Area, South AfricaIdentifying Gaps in the Market Market Research and Analysis of Markets Consumer behavior Studies Representative for Retail Academy Representative & Presenter of School Tours for Retail Academy Managing Projects  Feeding Scheme, Schools Discovery Channel Learning  Bottles of Opportunity – Business Builder Training Project

Coca-Cola FortuneSales Stats Clerk

Oct. 2004 - Feb. 2006Polokwane Area, South AfricaOpening & Maintaining Outlets on SAP Compiling & Tracking of Weekly & Monthly Sales & Penetration Reports Compiling General Daily Sales Enquiry Reports Compiling of Outlet Lists (Weekly) Daily Updating of Sales in Stock Files Daily Monitoring & Weekly Compiling of PDA Reports Compiling Minutes of Weekly DOP Meeting Representative for Retail Academy Representative & Presenter of School Tours for Retail Academy Organiser of “Coca-Cola Kids Camp” (Own Initiative) Organiser of “Coke Supports CANSA @ Shavathon” (Own Initiative) Assistance with organizing Company Day 2005 Design of Presentations on request Promoted to Regional Project Manager

CS Education SolutionsBranch Manager

Mar. 2003 - Feb. 2004Nelspruit Area, South AfricaAll Managerial duties & responsibilities Planning and Co-ordinating of Training Schedules Strategic Planning & Quarterly Branch Review Presentations All Financial Administration & Basic Bookkeeping All Sales and Marketing for Nelspruit branch (Including Cold Canvassing) Project Management & Report Writing Responsible for All Marketing, Promotions and Sales Client Liaison & Support Market Research regarding alternative training providers, course materials, other training related services Design of all marketing material for the Nelspruit branch. This included logos on T-Shirts, Flyers, Brochures and course handouts. Interactive Website Design Database Development & Maintenance for Course Booking procedures. Retrenched - Company Closed Down

CS Education SolutionsInstructor

Nov. 2001 - Feb. 2003Midrand, JohannesburgTraining of all Microsoft desktop applications on all levels Taking feedback from students on a monthly basis through the Course Evaluation Marking Exams & Exercises Co-ordination of Schedules and training facility Pre & Post Class Assessments & Evaluations

Tshwane University of TechnologyLecturer

Aug. 1998 - Dec. 2000Nelspruit Area, South AfricaFacilitating Computer Practice Class Course Development Compiling Exams for Nelspruit & Polokwane Campus Marking of Exams

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