Ansie Meyer

• With Business Unit Management Functions & SHEQ Systems, Assist GM of Business Unit Management; ie Supplier Management, Strategic projects, Forecasting with Major suppliers, Daily Dashboard reports, SHEQ Safety file implementation, Burial Capacity increase project, Sec 189 restructuring
• Structure planning and roll out
• SHEQ Risk Management o Develop & implement a fully integrated Safety, Health, Environmental 7 Quality
• Strategy for the Group o Develop, review and monitor SHEQ objectives and targets
• Work with Snr Management and Staff to implement SHEQ Strategy
• Provide assurance & audit role
• Develop SHEQ Risk management plan in line with Group risk to measure, eliminate, reduce and control risks
• Legal Compliance o Ensure full legislative compliance ie OSHAS Act 85
• Ensure compliance with all legal requirements regarding ISO14001:2015,
• ISO9001:2015 and ISO45001:2018 and others applicable to the business
• Liaison, Reporting & Communication o Investigate all accidents and incidents from a H&S perspective and report on outcome to management
• Advise line managers and assist with implementation of new and existing
• SHEQ related legislation
• Manage SHEQ Awareness programmes
• Manage overall SHEQ system and Budget Control functions o Direct personnel in safe working practices as per applicable legislative requirements
• Draft SHEQ departmental Budget and manage all expenses in accordance
• Strategic budget planning and control function for SHEQ department
• Establish and Chair required SHEQ Committees
• Provide Monthly, Quarterly and Annual report updates on progress and maintenance of SHEQ Management systems and requirements.

• CEO) (330 staff reporting to this role, Annual Revenue
• R199mil and GP R104mil – Dec20 to 1Aug22
• DUTIES:
• Business Strategy Development o Design and implement business strategies, plans and procedures
• Develops strategies to identify prospective customers, strategic partners and collaborative relationships that will drive revenue growth, market penetration and, profitability
• Set comprehensive goals for business performance and growth
• Formulate appropriate strategies aimed at enhancing Burial Services operations and ensuring that all aspects of the business functional areas are fully integrated and effectively managed to achieve Two Mountains objectives
• Oversee daily operations of Burial Services Business Unit
• Collaborate with direct reports and the executive team to develop a comprehensive strategy and provide the effective and inspiring operating leadership necessary to grow Burial Services Business Unit
• Evaluate performance by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics
• Establish and monitor performance reporting systems. Conduct regular meetings with Burial Services General Operations Managers and Branch Managers to ensure that business priorities are clarified and implemented
• Take a lead in high-priority crises.
• Monitor the funeral services rendered in all areas by visiting the cemetery where the services are conducted to ensure that the funeral materials are utilized effectively & that funerals are conducted in a required standard as per the Burial Services SOP
• Responsible for checking all the burial orders for all branches every week after the funeral services of the specific week to check if the clients were satisfied with the services rendered by Two Mountains
• Financial Management o Develop, in collaboration with the GCEO and the Group Financial Manager, an annual operating plan that supports the Two Mountains’ long-term operations strategy
• Develop and control the Burial Services operations budget to ensure that Burial Services has all the resources required to meet its objectives within agreed financial parameters and to maintain the financial strength of Burial Services Business Unit
• Develop and present accurate financial performance reports.
• Attain the financial objectives of Burial Services through effective management of people, products and service, including a focus on the revenue and profit components.
• People Management; Lead, coach, develop, and retain high-performing general management team, with an emphasis on developing capacity in burial management strategies and operations
• Ensure that employees have clearly defined roles and role expectations and function as a cohesive team
• Establish policies that promote company culture and vision
• Foster a corporate culture that promotes ethical practices, customer focus and service and encourages individual integrity
• Develop and maintain the Burial Services structure and processes and provide for effective management succession for all internal operations
• Stakeholder Management; As a member of the EXCO Team, contribute to the formulation and implementation of Two Mountains Group strategy
• As requested by the Board, attend meetings of the Board and its Committees and present the information necessary or relevant to the Board or such Committee for discharging its duties
• Operate in partnership with and build effective relationships with the management and executive team, as well as employees at all levels to ensure that there is effective co-ordination of all company activities in support of Two Mountains objectives.

SHEQ Systems Consultant

DUTIES:

· Establish business opportunities for new Consulting division.

· Conduct Risk Assessments

· Assist with implementation of ISO standard programs

· Ensure Legal Compliance in line with OHS Act & Regulations

Sales Manager

DUTIES:

· Building relationship with new and existing clients

· Generating new lead sources and expand target customer base.

· Create and nurture high performance sales team and lead them to generate and hit revenue forecasts and meet customer needs.

· Build internal relationships with staff

· Upskilling and development of sales staff

· Managing of Business Development Consultants (6 reps)

· Sales Budgets & Forecasts

· Setting Sales Targets

· Compiling Sales Reports for Sales Director

· Presentations for clients

· Serve as MANCO member

· Assist with COVID-19 Requirements implementation

• Establish new business opportunity
• Meeting with potential clients to assist with quoting
• Administrative duties

• Establish new business opportunity
• Develop Operational Procedures & Processes
• Draft all Operational documents for business
• Establish Website with developers with all Company IP documents
• Compile CRM data base for marketing purposes
• Establish relationships with potential and current client base to promote and grow business opportunity
• Draft Business Plan for Finance purposes
• Liaise with suppliers to establish all equipment requirements & needs for business
• Forecasting & Budgeting. Business Costing Model
• Establish structure & strategic plan for business growth
• Compile SLA & other client contract documents with Legal team
• Establish all operational requirements for the business & manage all processes with regards to Marketing strategy as well as Operational Strategy.

Regional Manager: Northern and Gauteng Region

DUTIES:

• Determining branch operational practices to ensure it meets required objectives, adhering to legal compliance, SETA, as well as Quality Management System and Environmental Management System requirements.

• Complying with marketing and sales campaigns by implementing brand campaigns and meeting budget and sales objectives.

• Overseeing regional employee interviews, hiring, and disciplining.

• Performing regular regional office visits as to ensure compliance.

• Compiling weekly sales reports for Senior Management.

• Forecasting annual training schedules.

• Maintaining regional budgets and analysing monthly costs to review actual costs.

• Increasing regional revenue year-on-year by 15%.

• Building and maintaining key client relationships.

• Adhering to and communicating company policies and procedures, guidelines, as well as organisational and operational requirements.

• Full financial and Debtor management.

• Building and maintaining the company sales strategy.

• Effectively utilising income generating staff.

• Managing operations by applying strategic planning and the use of available resources.

• Successfully managing all assets and operational processes within the region.

• Effectively overseeing office administrative related operations.

• Managing Supplier relations.

• Managing recruiting, objectives setting, coaching and performance monitoring of sales executives.

Key Account Management:

DUTIES:

• Employ all necessary sales strategies to ensure annual targets are met.

• Develop close business relationships with key stakeholders at each client.

• Present sales, revenue and expenses reports and realistic forecasts to the management team

• Secure SLA’s with all Key account clients. Monitor Service Delivery levels.

• Achieving growth and hitting sales targets by successfully managing sales teams. Design and implement a strategic sales business plan that expands company’s customer base and ensure strong presence.

• Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs

• Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status.

• Maintain CRM database by capturing all client specific information, generating quotations and updating status of orders on a weekly basis.

Service Business Process Development Manager

DUTIES:

• Developing and implementing service process improvements utilising Six Sigma related methodologies.

• Guiding business project teams to improve critical functions driving financial and operational results.

• Identifying business process and efficiency improvements.

• Overseeing various business improvement projects.

• Ensuring the required processes is in place in order to identify process obstacles.

• Maximising the value of financial benefits generated by improvement projects.

• Recruiting, developing, and leading project team members.

• Developing and organising project plans and business cases.

• Auditing implemented projects to ensure sustained improvements.

• Utilising team talent and leadership potential as part of Personal Development Action Plan (DAP’s).

• Achieving team balance scorecard targets as well as project timelines and deliverables according to project contracts.

• Adhering to Personal Development Action Plans (PDAP’s) of self and direct reports.

• Continuously achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).

CATERPILLAR (Bought over by Barloworld) and Bucyrus Africa (Bought over by Caterpillar), South Africa÷ October 2006 to February 2014 (8 years)

Strategic Projects and Business Process Analyst/Manager

DUTIES:

• Overseeing various sustainable development projects, i.e. a sustainable development budget of ZAR R6.6 million.

• Successfully managing strategic management projects, i.e. Establishing a new head office facility move to Linbro Park with a capital expense of ZAR11 million.

• Analysing and documenting organisational processes and assisting with the development of organisational policies.

• Applying techniques to analyse process performance, identifying performance gaps, and recommending improvement solutions.

• Assessing data, including customer’s feedback and engagement issues for trends and opportunities to improve process quality.

• Conduct regular process quality audits.

• Providing business process engineering and re-engineering expertise.

• Collaborating with IT teams to provide leadership for merging people, processes, and technology.

• Supporting strategic business objectives.

• Identifying critical quality metrics related issues, data collection, reporting, and measurement systems.

• Enabling strategic business objectives and encouraging innovative solutions to business problems.

• Increasing customer satisfaction and strengthening client relationships.

• Overseeing awareness training on Quality Management Systems processes to employees ensure top performance.

DBT Africa (Bought over by Bucyrus) & Bucyrus (Pty) Ltd, South Africa÷ October 2006 to February 2014 (8 years)

Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Manager

DUTIES:

• Successfully introduced an improvement reporting process based on the Heinrich Bird model to incorporate continuous improvement efforts by involving the entire workforce and resulted in various cost savings.

• Successfully implementing and maintaining Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Management Systems according to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001, and ISO 9001 standards.

• Preparing accurate monthly departmental management reports.

• Overseeing the effective inspections of relevant appointees.

• Performing regular Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Management System audits.

• Acting as Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Management System Management Representative/Control Officer.

• SHE Committee Chairperson Appointee.

• Controlling document retrieval according to OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 requirements.

• Maintaining registers and managing and reviewing Safety, Health, and Environmental incidents, customer complaints, corrective actions, preventive actions, and product non-conformances until completion.

• Providing complaints status feedback to customers.

• Acting as Lead Auditor on Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Systems and EHS Operational Global Lead for South African facilities.

• Performing annual internal audits as per OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and global requirements as well as surveillance audits on potential Suppliers and annual approved Supplier audits.

• Coordinating audit teams and annual audit schedules.

• Preparing the generation of required procedures, forms, and work instructions.

• Reporting on Safety, Health, and Environmental related issues to relevant authorities.

• Controlling all Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality related external specifications, codes of practice, and legislation to ensure latest revisions are available.

• Ensuring resource availability fort Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Control.

• Managing the performance of Quality Control Inspectors and Safety, Health, Environmental, and Quality Data Controllers.

• Assisting with the identification of training needs and development of training programmes in collaboration with the Materials Manager.

• Generating annual department budgets and managing expenses.

• Procuring consumables and equipment required by the department.

• Preparing accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual Global Management reporting.

• Reviewing Global procedure updates.

• Performing self-audits based on Global audit requirements.

• Preparing quarterly presentations to Global Top Management regarding statistical analysis based on Incident reporting systems & Management Achievement Programs (MAP).