Elanie De Villiers

• Daily internal communication between pack house, packaging and dispatch.
• External communication to clients and shipping agents
• Negotiation of the best prices with clients
• Knowing your export market requirements
• Maintained documentation, detailing assignments, in-progress work and completed project milestones.
• Oversaw budget allocation for marketing initiatives, ensuring cost-effective spending and financial accountability.

The following points was part of my daily tasks

• Maintaining complete documentation and records of all purchasing activities.
• Maintained key item stock levels and wrote or expedited purchase orders.
• Communicate with vendors regarding inventory needs and negotiated prices to maintain profit margins.
• Sourcing new vendors and onboarding them.
• Forecasting purchasing trends and improved merchandising strategies.
• Present big season strategies to top management for the new season and source the best product from our Vendors.
• Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and competitive pricing.
• Developed new strategies to reduce purchasing costs and maintain quality standards.
• Analyzed bids, troubleshot discrepancies and performed other necessary purchasing functions, managing balanced budget, and supporting customer satisfaction.
• Analyzed and reviewed reorder report recommendations for daily and weekly replenishment, making recommendations on product offerings based on consumer data.
• Trading on a daily basis based on sales.
• Deciding on marketing material for the following season and tracking of the process.
• Traveling overseas to look for new trends.

• A mobilizer brings the people together, build trust, encouraging participation and facilitating discussion and decision-making.
• Skills I learned in my years of working as community mobilizer are marketing, respect, understanding that different people have different views and very good communication and people skills.
• I was in charge of organizing functions for the funding of CANSA as well as doing health talks, radio interviews and hosting events for the 8 surrounding towns in my area.

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