Marius Rademan is a South African male born in 1972. He has over 12 years of experience in sales and account management roles within the fruit and vegetable industry. His experience includes managing key accounts, developing sales strategies, and leading sales teams. He has a proven track record of achieving sales targets and growing accounts. His referees include past employers Pacmar and Fruit & Veg City who can speak to his job performance and accomplishments.
1. Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Details:
Name : Marius Rademan
Sex: Male
Nationality: RSA
Date of birth: 18 June 1972
2. Contact Details:
Physical address: Bassonstreet 20 Porterville 6810
Phone number: 0736244894
Email: mariusrademan1@outlook.com
3. Education Information
Languages: 1) Afrikaans and 2) English
Gr 12
Management Certificate/UNISA 1994
Course in the Introduction to Marketing Management Certificate/UNISA 2010
4. Employment History
Fruitime Ltd (Pty) August 2002-March 2003
Pacmar Ltd (Pty) 03 May 2003 current: 12 years
5. Job Title
2003: Customer Care & Maintenance Representative:
Fruit & Veg City WC, EC, EL, FS and NC
2008: Key Accounts Supervisor:
Fruit & Veg City WC, EC, FS and NC
New Product Development Project Manager
2012: Key Accounts Supervisor Fruit & Veg City WC and EC
Freshstop Caltex National
Operational Manager: Pick & Pay, Shoprite/Checkers and Spar Western Cape
2014: Accounts Manager: Food Lovers market Coastal
Fruit & Veg City Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and KZN
Freshstop Caltex National
Operational Manager Pick & Pay Western Cape
Managing CMS agents for PnP Western Cape
2015: Rhodes
House brand manager (Spar, PnP, Shop/Checkers and FLM)
Food lovers market account manager
Spar Western Cape operational manager
6. Tasks & Responsibilities
Manage the sales agents to achieve customer service objectives, sales volumes
and value objective
To train and motivate the sales agent teams to deliver world class service
To drive and achieve agreed sales targets for the company
2. Manage and lead sales teamand service
Formulate sales reports, sales forecasts and sales budgets
Help develop and implement sales strategies
Manage multiple stores field operations
7. Sales Meetings
Conduct regional sales meetings with clients and agents on a monthly basis
Attend monthly sales and marketing meetings internally
Review sales objectives and sales actions against company sales standards
Recognise great achievements in sales, clients and agents
Act on non-delivery of sales and sales issues when necessary
Set monthly objectives pertaining to sales achievement and growth
Arrange promotional programs, activities and events with F&V buyers
Conduct sales performance review internally and externally
Set and agree targets and objectives for the next month F&V buyers
Coordinate price changes and the actions required with F&V buyers
Coordinate new launches and re-launch activity with F&V, Pacmar, design
company and agents
8. Customer Review:
Complete a quarterly review with top stores/performers to discuss sales versus
sales targets and objectives
Achieve regional objectives for sales and profit performance
Identify opportunities going forward, coming out from the review
Record and brief sales teamon the agreed actions
Set timelines for all goals and objectives
9. Compile Reports and Documents
Forward all reports to agents senior management and internal National Sales
Manager
Identify issues monthly by monitoring, measuring, managing and holding
relevant people accountable
Manually adjunct actions for promotional activity and track actions daily
Discuss actions with sales teamdaily and summarise weekly
Ensure everyone gets a copy of the monthly sales brief document and written
expectations for the month
Observe trade actions via trade visits and warehouse visits
Launch specific drives and sales & marketing activities
Ensure you brief senior management on key points at monthly meetings or via a
monthly report
Effective management of all damages, short dated and expired stock in the trade.
Provide formal feedback back into the business on all queries and feedback from
SGX. Investigate all claim
Monthly trade report to be submitted
10. Sales Strategy
3. Participate in formulating regional sales and season strategies
Achieve sales objectives by contributing sales information and recommendations
to strategic plans and reviews, preparing and completing action plans and
Implementing customer service standards, resolving problems, completing
checks and audits, identifying sales trends, determining sales
Determine annual sales and profit plans by forecasting and developing annual
sales targets for regions of control, projecting expected sales volume and value
for existing and new products and customers, analysing trends and results, assist
in establishing pricing strategies, assist in recommending selling prices,
monitoring costs, competition, supply and demand
Accomplish sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing and
evaluating merchandising and trade promotion programmes, as well as
developing field sales actions plans
Provide information by collecting, analysing and summarising data and trends
11. Customer Service
Achieve company customer service objectives
Identify and implement improvement areas for added value opportunities by
store via agent representative
Capture key dates and actions for opportunity plans
Seek approval from the store owner or buying office and direct your team
accordingly
Coordinate events and activities, brief your team about expectations, execution
and support the can expect
Take immediate action on non-compliance to time sensitive activities that will
cost the company
Regularly review customer service levels with key customers
Build a solid professional relationship with key clients, F&V buyers and agents
Understand day to day demand and supply issues and keep the sales team
informed
Be aware of any issues that may compromise business in your area
Build a relationship and interact with the demand and supply team
Stay up to date with sale information, promotional programs, and stock
availability, launches, planograms, and price point strategies, long term
negotiated activity F&V buyers
Employ proper in store housekeeping strategies to ensure stock is always in a
saleable condition via agents
Identify problem stores and implement actions to improve
Professional dress and conduct at all times
Become familiar with relevant company policies
Handle customer and consumer issues within your areas of influence
Effective store visits daily, weekly and monthly
Effective management of POS material requirements regionally
Visit and mange SGX on a weekly basis
4. 12. Account/Customer Standards
Ensure sales agents are trained on account standards and understand what is
expected and ensure account standards are maintained
Set realistic monthly objectives to achieve account standards
Ensure your team has the tools to achieve expectations
Do weekly trade visits to ensure teams are implementing retail/operational
excellence
Spend 80% of working time with sales teams in the trade/field
Address poor performance timeously and deliberately
Recognise good performance
Effective relationships with all customers and agents
13. Leadership
Manage the region/s within time and budget
Plan, select, develop and maintain suitable manpower capabilities for the
function
Develop, lead and maintain a motivated and high performance team/agents
Identify and timeously address functional related problems and opportunities
Build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders, clients, buyers, agents
14. Achievements & Business Building Projects
Employee of the month: July 2009, August 2014
Fresher’s PET range, Fresher’s 5lt bag in box
Revamp of Fresher’s to Food lovers PET and 5lt bag in box
Ama-zing Green island and Ginger/lemonade
F&V WC 2014 – 2015 growth 7%; F&V KZN 2014-2015 growth 26%
Pick & Pay WC 2014-2015 growth 20%
Spar pet range and 5lt
Pacmar house brand pet and 5lt
15. Referees
Pacmar
Fritz Brink 072 973 8256
Barry Pretorius 072 522 1383
Fruit & Veg City 0215312377
Brian Robberts
Marius van Heerden
CMS Western Cape
Marthie Botha 082 775 5107
Penta Western Cape
Stephen Scott 0824573104