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JANE MAZIMBA

Lusaka

Summary

Results driven marketing leader aiming to build strategic, successful campaigns to drive profits, increase market share and cement industry dominance for demanding customers. High performance manager with proven skills in project management, team building, stakeholder relations and campaign optimization. Bringing 12 years of experience to the commercial head role to drive institutional initiatives and aim for exceptional results.

Multi Award winning Personal Finance Educator and Financial Literacy Advocate.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AGENCY TRAINING MANAGER

PRUDENTIAL LIFE ASSURANCE ZAMBIA
2022.02 - Current
  • Develop and offer training support to high performance Life Insurance Sales Teams across the country
  • Facilitate and support the new Agents on-boarding by curating highly targeted training around mindset shift, marketing, selling, and pitching skills to Prudential's wealth consultants and sales agents
  • Enable the growth of agents through the leadership Career path from independent consultants to leaders who run highly effective and peak performing sales teams.

RELATIONSHIP MANAGER - PUBLIC SECTOR

NATSAVE
2020.05 - 2022.01
  • Managed the assigned Public Sector Portfolio within the Corporate Banking Department which involved growing the public sector business in terms of the loan book, liabilities, customer base and income from the bank's target market segments.
  • Grew public sector portfolio to include collections accounts from Zambia Revenue Authority, National Pension Scheme, Ministry of Community Development, Higher Education Loans and Scholarship Board among others.

CORPORATE ANALYST

NATSAVE
2018.08 - 2020.06
  • Worked to help set up the new corporate banking department and handled the technical aspects of the selling and relationship management functions such as conceptualizing reports, creating portfolios and coming up with processes on how the department would function.
  • Drafted presentations outlining various strategic initiatives for executive management team review.
  • Researched industry trends, best practices, and new technologies related to the company's operations.

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

NATSAVE
2015.01 - 2018.08
  • Marketing and promotion of the bank's products and services to raise the bank's market profile and increase customer attraction.
  • Created sales strategies to promote advertising offerings and motivate larger deals.
  • Planned and organized public relations and promotional events.

RETAIL SALES AGENT

NATSAVE
2012.07 - 2014.12
  • Conducting of retail sales activities to grow the retail customer base of the bank.
  • Conceptualized an innovative way of quickly creating and on-boarding rural farmers’ accounts in the field during the Food Reserve Agency payout activities, leading to the onboarding of over 7000 new rural in one week. This has since been adopted as standard practice for off-site recruitment and payouts.
  • Facilitated the collection of over K144 million from individual FRA farmers during the crop marketing in season.

Education

MBA - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS -

UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
01.2018

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -

DMI ST. EUGENE UNIVERSITY
01.2011

ABMA DIPLOMA - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -

NIEC SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
01.2005

GCE O LEVEL -

D.K. TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
01.2004

Skills

  • Portfolio Management
  • Marketing Strategy Development
  • Development of financial education materials.
  • Key Relationship Management
  • Strong industry networking
  • Conceptualization and Innovation of financial products.
  • Business Development
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Exceptional communicator

Certification

  • 2021, INVESTMENT ADVISORS AND STOCKBROKER CERTIFICATION, SEC, LUSE VIA ZIBCT
  • 2022, GOOGLE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTICATION, Coursera
  • 2023, INSURANCE AGENTS' CERTIFICATION, ZIBCT
  • 2023, CERTIFIED TRAINER FOR THE KASH PROGRAMME, PRUDENTIAL GROUP

Activities

  • AUTHOR of the Financial Literacy handbook titled Catching F.I.R.E - Weekly money suggestions to get you on the journey to Financial Freedom and Early Retirement.
  • Personal Financial literacy Coach helping organizations achieve their employee wellness goals by providing customized financial literacy workshops, coaching sessions, and masterclasses to their staff members.
  • Won the Bank Of Zambia Governors Award for he Exceptional Individual Contribution to Financial Literacy three times consecutively in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
  • 2021 TEDx Lusaka Speaker on the concept of Financial Independence Retire Early (F.I.R.E) as a concept for young people to change Africa's Economic Narrative.

Languages

English
Proficient
C2

Timeline

AGENCY TRAINING MANAGER

PRUDENTIAL LIFE ASSURANCE ZAMBIA
2022.02 - Current

RELATIONSHIP MANAGER - PUBLIC SECTOR

NATSAVE
2020.05 - 2022.01

CORPORATE ANALYST

NATSAVE
2018.08 - 2020.06

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

NATSAVE
2015.01 - 2018.08

RETAIL SALES AGENT

NATSAVE
2012.07 - 2014.12

MBA - INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS -

UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -

DMI ST. EUGENE UNIVERSITY

ABMA DIPLOMA - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION -

NIEC SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

GCE O LEVEL -

D.K. TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL
  • 2021, INVESTMENT ADVISORS AND STOCKBROKER CERTIFICATION, SEC, LUSE VIA ZIBCT
  • 2022, GOOGLE PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTICATION, Coursera
  • 2023, INSURANCE AGENTS' CERTIFICATION, ZIBCT
  • 2023, CERTIFIED TRAINER FOR THE KASH PROGRAMME, PRUDENTIAL GROUP
JANE MAZIMBA