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Elton Gemo

Elton Gemo

General Manager
Johannesburg

Summary

Customer-oriented General Manager with 10 years of experience focused on increasing revenues and expanding margin. Adaptive and deadline-oriented with consistency in executing and completing multiple projects in high-stress environments. Meticulous leader and strategic planner with comprehensive managerial acumen, offering vision and motivation.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

General Manager

Prestige Solutions Group
06.2016 - Current
  • Manage a $1,000,000 a year plus client portfolio
  • Biggest contracts: Total Energies / BP / Vodacom / WFP / UNOPS / IOM / Grindrod / Red Cross / UNICEF / Heidelberg Cement
  • Develop strategic general plans for optimized productivity
  • Monitor financial performance, set budgets and controlled expenses to provide financial stability and long-term organizational growth
  • Formulate and implement internationally acceptable policies and procedures to streamline operations
  • Recruit and on-board key staff that can contribute to seamless commercial operations
  • Identify key opportunities in the market that can bring the company exponential growth
  • Provide guidance to team members in order to align them with company objectives
  • Training senior staff in accordance with company policy and Guideline Handbook
  • Oversee day to day operations, assign weekly performance goals and ensure their completion
  • Cultivate strong relationships with clients, vendors, and partners to ensure long-term success and loyalty

Chief of VIP Customer Division – Business Depart.

MOVITEL
04.2015 - 05.2016
  • Leading sales & marketing affairs for high revenue corporate clients (LTV – Lifetime Value) - minimum of 30 interactions a day
  • Identification and persuasion of big companies and institutions to market services - minimum of 1 a day
  • Running market surveys to better situate our company in relation to competitors
  • Managing Business Depart. Man-power (recruitment, promotions and demotions) - aprox. 85 staff members
  • Transformation of objectives into strategies into tasks that increase productivity weekly in a fast-changing telecom
  • Environment (working under pressure)
  • Reporting Depart. results to the BOD of the company
  • New product creation to suit ever-changing needs of potential customers (while low CAC – Customer Acquisition Cost)

Branches Supervision Manager – Corporate Depart.

MOVITEL
08.2014 - 04.2015

Leading and orientation of 6 Branches in the country (TET,GAZ,INH,MOC,NIA,CAB) in all sales related techniques to achieve monthly targets of $20,000 monthly

  • Evaluation and appointment of the best suiting candidates for the role of supervision of each branch
  • Strategizing in order to enhance competitiveness as a major player in Mozambique
  • Formulation of daily sales reports on company performance for the company Directors
  • Dealing with all affairs of corporate clients: sales / complaints / meetings / more

Sales & MKT Consultant

MGZ Services
10.2013 - 07.2014
  • Implementation of new marketing strategies to increase our market scope
  • Creation of commercial packages that stood out in the market place to better attract clients
  • Monitoring, controlling and optimizing of expenses of creating sales vs
  • Sales revenue
  • Meeting monthly sales targets set by General Manager

Assistant Secretary

ISCTEM Business School
01.2010 - 05.2010
  • Interpretation and translation of documents (English-Portuguese-Spanish)
  • Participation in the creation of the ‘Empresa Junior do ISCTEM’ (EJI), which promoted creativity and innovation in students
  • Creation of incentives to motivate the youth to participate in I.B.S initiatives
  • Supporting the promotional team with new event ideas and promotional techniques

Events promoter

Street Kingz Ent.
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Part of an event promotions team that became very well-known and successful in Maputo
  • Development of efficient marketing strategies for our events
  • Enhancing the fundraising and profitability capabilities of our events
  • Attracting and motivating diverse clientele towards attending our events

Education

Primary School - Spanish Curriculum

Escuela Primaria Conrado Benitez Garcia
Havana, Cuba

Secondary School - English Curriculum subsidiary of the University of Cambridge in England

Maputo International School (M.I.S)
Maputo, Mozambique

Bachelor of Business Management -

St. Philomena’s College
Mysore, India

Honors Graduate in Financial Management -

Universidade Técnica De Moçambique
Maputo, Mozambique
01.2014 - 03.2016

Certificate - Supply Chain Management

University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Certificate - Small Business: Growth & Management

University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Certificate - Fundamentals of Financial Management

University of Cape Town
Cape Town

Skills

  • Financial Projections
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Strong commercial capability
  • Good marketing techniques
  • Competence to work independently and as a group
  • Proactivity and dynamism in problem solving
  • Extensive sales experience with multi-level interactions
  • Ability to work towards target under pressure
  • Stringent negotiation skills
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel / Word / Adobe / Microsoft / iOS

Certification

Supply Chain Management - University of Cape Town

Personal Information

  • Age: 33
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Mozambican

Software

IOS

Powerpoint

Word

Excel

Adobe

Timeline

General Manager

Prestige Solutions Group
06.2016 - Current

Chief of VIP Customer Division – Business Depart.

MOVITEL
04.2015 - 05.2016

Branches Supervision Manager – Corporate Depart.

MOVITEL
08.2014 - 04.2015

Honors Graduate in Financial Management -

Universidade Técnica De Moçambique
01.2014 - 03.2016

Sales & MKT Consultant

MGZ Services
10.2013 - 07.2014

Assistant Secretary

ISCTEM Business School
01.2010 - 05.2010

Events promoter

Street Kingz Ent.
01.2007 - 01.2010

Certificate - Supply Chain Management

University of Cape Town

Certificate - Small Business: Growth & Management

University of Cape Town

Certificate - Fundamentals of Financial Management

University of Cape Town
Supply Chain Management - University of Cape Town
Small Business: Growth & Management – University of Cape Town
Fundamentals of Financial Management – University of Cape Town

Primary School - Spanish Curriculum

Escuela Primaria Conrado Benitez Garcia

Secondary School - English Curriculum subsidiary of the University of Cambridge in England

Maputo International School (M.I.S)

Bachelor of Business Management -

St. Philomena’s College
Elton GemoGeneral Manager