Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Timeline
Generic
Samantha Davies

Samantha Davies

Key Account Manager
Germiston,Gauteng

Summary

Accomplished individual that has obtained over 20+ years invaluable sales, PR, customer service and management experience within the service industry. Extensive background in , HR & operational management procedures. Works well independently or as a Team player & have been successful in positions which require client nurturing & development, in identifying new business opportunities in a professional capacity. Searches' for excellence & places much value on building strong business partnerships to create a platform of trust, integrity, & accountability. Strategic thinker, pays attention to detail, methodical, creative & has respect for human dignity. Problem solving, learning, leading & inspiring others to be the best versions of themselves. Cross Function Team Management, Methodical, Good Time Management, Financial Management, Staff supervision Complex problem solving, Contract Management Human Resources, Procurement Purchasing & Planning

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

International Sales Agent, Sub-Contractor

SOFTWAVE TECHNOLOGIES UK
02.2024 - Current

3.00pm to 12.00am Monday to Friday)

  • Key Functions & Responsibilities:
  • Work with chiropractors and patients globally within various states
  • Call & schedule new patients into various practices for SoftWave discovery treatment
  • Navigate GHL, Slack and Click-up as per internal processes
  • Work closely with Account Managers & Head of Call Centre
  • Scheduling appointments extension to each practice’s front desk operation
  • Schedule appointments on external calendars
  • Follow-up on cancelled and scheduled appointments to reschedule appointment
  • Manager each practices dashboard & ensuring that it is well organized
  • Maintained comprehensive product and service knowledge for accurate, informative customer advice
  • Enhanced client satisfaction by promptly addressing inquiries and providing accurate information on products and services

General Manager

EAST RAND AUTO COMMERCIAL (PTY) LTD
09.2017 - Current
  • (8.00am to 3.00pm))
  • Key Functions & Responsibilities:
  • Manage accounts payable and receivables, raising estimates, invoices, reconciling accounts and processing cash transactions
  • Bank account reconciliation – cash book entry
  • Procurement – buying of all parts, materials & office automation
  • Buying of all office equipment
  • Prepare Management accounts
  • Prepare for yearly audits
  • Negotiating with suppliers
  • Identification of vehicle components
  • Coordinating of collections and deliveries
  • Oversee Workshop establish daily priorities and organize workloads to maximize productivity
  • Manage bookings to optimize team availability
  • Create and amended company policies, suggesting improvements and improving business development
  • Identify issues, analyse information and provide solutions to problems
  • Stock Control – maintain stock levels & stock takes
  • Human Resources – Contracts, hearing procedures, manage grievance reports, quickly resolving and finding appropriate solutions & Payroll
  • Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules, and contract negotiations
  • Formulated policies and procedures to streamline operations
  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development
  • Analyzed market trends and competitor activities to create competitive advantages
  • Managed purchasing, sales, marketing and customer account operations efficiently
  • Identified and qualified customer needs and negotiated and closed profitable projects with high success rate

Marketing Manager & Events Co-Ordinator

MODDERFONTEIN GOLF CLUB
12.2014 - 12.2016

Manage hiring processes by creating job descriptions, advertising on social platforms and interviewing candidates

  • Building & maintain relationships of existing Customers -Retaining customer base
  • Regular visits to customers
  • Negotiation of contracts
  • Tender preparation and submission
  • Identifying Customer needs – up selling of other products & Services
  • Engage with customers to better understand needs and deliver excellent service
  • Maintaining data base – cash customers (±1300 and growing)
  • Identifying of new business – Target Companies with-in industry (fleets)
  • Assisting Sales rep with new leads
  • Boost sales and improve customer satisfaction by providing attentive, personalized client services
  • Demonstrate outstanding product knowledge to achieve high customer satisfaction levels
  • Address and resolve complex customer complaints in calm, efficient and friendly manner
  • Assist with marketing – website content
  • Driving products, services & specials – core talk, bulk emailing & telephone calls
  • Dedication to achieve results and improve operations
  • Collaborated with General Manager on standardization, design and production of marketing materials
  • Crafted marketing plans based upon extensive research and prospects targeting
  • Completed strategic competitive analysis by assessing strengths and weaknesses of competitors
  • Conducted research & development on existing & emerging golf days to highlight benefits and attract retention
  • Signing up of new members
  • Create File for each member – File Management
  • Put all members on golf systems (SAGA, Pastel & In touch)
  • Handle all member resignations
  • Kept membership data base up to date (± 780 members)-Full details of members
  • Making appointments - to see potential Corporate Companies/Fund Raising Committee’s for
  • Golf Days & Corporate Memberships
  • Negotiating with Events Managers
  • Signing of contracts
  • File management (Soft & Hard Copies)
  • Designed & kept the website up to date (Calendars/Major Events) (WordPress)
  • Advertising in various publications
  • Electronic newsletters weekly to all members
  • Designing of posters
  • Sending bulk sms’s to members reminding them of upcoming events
  • Festival of Golf – call potential sponsors & follow up on payments
  • Created, updated and maintained website (word Press)
  • Consulted with clients to obtain their extensive understanding of their visions, needs and requirements for event requirements
  • Coordinated catering for events, managing tasks including selecting menus, watering holes
  • Quickly addressed issues occurring within events, solving with smart and efficient solutions to maintain smooth operations
  • Sourced and booked all requirements for events, including entertainers, photographers and speakers
  • Used excellent organization, multitasking pro active approach when arranging event
  • Gathered event requirements, including, budgets, catering, competition for day, scorecard capture and event timelines through face-to-face client meetings
  • Held operational meetings for each department to know their department responsibility to ensure event was successful
  • Follow up on outstanding payments
  • Assist Ladies Section with events

Director

SCIOVISTA (PTY) LTD
01.2009 - 11.2014
  • Operations, Human Resources, Marketing & Financial

Key Account Manager

AIR PRODUCTS SA
10.2007 - 11.2008
  • After sales service for dedicated customers
  • Draw up & extensive negotiating of contracts with customers – according to company policies & procedures
  • Assist engineering department with projects. Outline gas lines with measurements and technical drawing for Engineering project team
  • Understanding customers’ requirements or issues – proposed solutions
  • Work out price adjustment & submit to customers monthly as each customer had own prices – SEIFSA indices used – communication to relevant departments
  • Work closely with Credit Department – long overdue accounts, made decisions on stop supply
  • Re-engaged with dormant accounts, increasing revenue
  • Frequently visited customers to maintain positive & productive relationships (20% office - 80% outbound)
  • Looked at market growth opportunities and making corresponding recommendations
  • Identifying Customer needs & changes of applications (Co2 Welding to Argon)
  • Handling customer complaints (CCR or NCR lodged) follow up’s done
  • Safety audits done on customer sites (Apt’s completed) handed to SHE Manager
  • Area allocation: East Rand, Far East Rand, Pretoria, Brits, Mpumalanga
  • Swaziland, Mozambique & Botswana (±80 customers)
  • Assist all sales reps – identifying new leads
  • Sell Telemetry to 100% of client bases (80% achieved)
  • Price increases reach profitable OROI/PBIT (100% achieved)

Executive Assistant

MYRAID MEDICAL
09.2006 - 09.2007
  • Head Hunted)
  • Co-ordinate training sessions – Lunch included
  • Prepare training material
  • Planned & organized events (year-end function for group)-with awards ceremony
  • Organize all travel arrangements (Local & International)
  • Designed brochure for Group of Companies
  • Set up of website
  • Payment requisitions done for various companies; co-ordination of payments completed monthly
  • Sourcing of Tenders, completion of all tender documents with relevant information & submitted from all relevant departments

Office Manager/Finance Assistant/Store Controller/Key Account Manager

JOHANNESBURG TRUCK & TRAILER
03.2000 - 07.2006

Husband sold shares

  • Organizing & purchasing of office equipment
  • Petty cash control – recon done weekly
  • Process applications, credit checks, open accounts & welcome letters
  • Collect from Debtors book (book value 1.5million) cash flow projection to OD & MD
  • Reconciliation of accounts – follow up on short payments-resolved before next payment
  • Books prepared for year-end audits
  • Requisitions prepared for payments with recons
  • Prepare weekly and monthly salaries
  • Load online payments and release
  • Cash book done daily
  • Cell phone accounts reconciled – 22
  • Fuel account reconciled – 8 vehicles
  • Procurement of stock – auto electrical, foundation brakes & repair kits for air valves
  • Negotiating with suppliers & finding new suppliers– price control & discounts
  • Allocation of stock – store room & mobile units
  • Prepare for annual stock takes, preparation sheets, count stock - input to system
  • Create new part number & bin location
  • Job cards – opened, followed up with technician on parts, handed to sales department for invoicing – follow up on order numbers when required
  • Maintained excellent team relationships by proactively helping others with complex problem-solving tasks.

Assistant

BARCLAYS OFFSHORE BANKING
04.1995 - 02.2000

Help husband establish his business)

  • Screening of calls
  • Diary management (Double Diary)
  • Help clients where possible (account queries)
  • Recon Local & International travel expenses
  • Notification to clients in Africa (Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mauritius & Nigeria) - letters sent & placed ads in local newspapers
  • Designed Sales Data report - Targets vs actual sales (for each sales person) – sent report to London & Offshore Centres weekly & monthly reports
  • Assessment organized – Offshore Johannesburg expanded into SA, offices were opened in KZN & CTN
  • All candidates flown to JHB for interviews and overnight stay
  • Assisted in opening of offices in KZN & CTN
  • From location to all office requirements
  • Offshore stationery (brochures) ordered from Kent & distributed through Africa
  • Compiled & Typed Policies & Procedures for Offshore Personal Bankers outside of the UK
  • Dealt with DHL – all documents were sent to JHB office from other centers – consolidated & kept records
  • Organized Offshore Centres Year-End Function

Personal Assistant

  • Financial Manager – Myriad Medical
  • Planning & organizing meetings
  • Screening Calls & Emails – reply to emails when required
  • Typing of documents & Sales reports
  • Sourcing & ordering stationery, including office equipment
  • Assisted MD with property contracts - leasing, invoicing (Owned commercial property)
  • Handle all maintenance for buildings
  • Worked closely with debtors & creditors clerks (recon assistance)
  • BD CREATIVE

Senior Personal Banker

  • Barclays Offshore Investment
  • Sold money market accounts to customers – Account opening to closure
  • Maintain existing customer relationships
  • Assist back office with transactions – payments to London & New York
  • Assist customers with transfer of funds
  • Assist customers with further investment
  • Spoke to international centres daily to assist customers with queries
  • Trained Junior PB – new products, pricing of products, what questions to ask customers & how to gain their trust
  • Kept product pricing up to date & distributed to all SA Centres
  • Maintained strict confidentiality and discretion when processing sensitive data and information.

Education

High School Diploma -

Edenglen High School
Edenglen, Gauteng
01.1987 - 12.1992

Skills

Strong Written & Communication Skillsundefined

Affiliations

Edenglen High School Matriculated - December 1992 Subjects: English, Afrikaans, Geography, Home Economics, Biblical Studies, Art Pass: University Entrance LANGUAGES English – Excellent Writing/ Reading/ Conversational Afrikaans – Average Writing/ Reading/ Conversational CONTACT

Timeline

International Sales Agent, Sub-Contractor

SOFTWAVE TECHNOLOGIES UK
02.2024 - Current

General Manager

EAST RAND AUTO COMMERCIAL (PTY) LTD
09.2017 - Current

Marketing Manager & Events Co-Ordinator

MODDERFONTEIN GOLF CLUB
12.2014 - 12.2016

Director

SCIOVISTA (PTY) LTD
01.2009 - 11.2014

Key Account Manager

AIR PRODUCTS SA
10.2007 - 11.2008

Executive Assistant

MYRAID MEDICAL
09.2006 - 09.2007

Office Manager/Finance Assistant/Store Controller/Key Account Manager

JOHANNESBURG TRUCK & TRAILER
03.2000 - 07.2006

Assistant

BARCLAYS OFFSHORE BANKING
04.1995 - 02.2000

High School Diploma -

Edenglen High School
01.1987 - 12.1992

Personal Assistant

Senior Personal Banker

Samantha DaviesKey Account Manager