Horse Riding
National Property Development Manager
- Accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Maximise performance by monitoring daily activities and guiding team members.
- Enhance project build deliverables by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
- Clear communication with employees, suppliers and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established project goals.
- Develop and implement business strategies to achieve better project goals and stay competitive.
- Control costs to keep projects operating within budget.
- Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers through account development and valued working relationships.
- Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
- Establish team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
- Successfully managing of budgets and allocation of resources to maximise productivity and profitability.
- Property Management of 140+ retail stores country wide.
- Plan, design, and schedule phases for large projects.
- Develop comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
- Collaborate closely with other senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
- Provide detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
- Negotiate and manage third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
- MANCOM member, liaising closely with other senior managers to ensure the best outcomes for the business.
- Conceptual and New Design strategising with various senior management to develop new ideas and designs for the business.
- Negotiation of special conditions and agreements between Landlords and Stakeholders.
- Extensive travel across South Africa for site inspections and site handovers on projects.
- Overseeing General Maintenance across the business for 140+ stores.
- Development of internal app that allows real time sign off of projects by various employees in the business.
- Investigating problematic electrical consumption usage and costs relating to properties across the business.
- Installation and overseeing of all backup power solutions in the business to curb the negative effect to trade that load shedding has on the business.
- Heading up of the COVID committee during the pandemic with our head of HR.
- Social and Ethics Committee Member
- Health and Safety Vice President for the group.