Specialist – Sales Optimisation/Analytics (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Cape Town, Bellville
Education level: Degree
Job level: Mid/Senior
Company: USB Executive Development

Job description

Vacancy

Specialist: sales optimisation and analytics

The University of Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development (Pty) Ltd, more commonly referred to as USB-ED, is a private company offering leadership and management development (short course) programmes across Africa for both corporates and individuals. USB-ED has a full-time position for a specialist: sales optimisation and analytics reporting to the head of sales. The successful candidate will be based in Bellville (Cape Town). The appointee will be part of a dynamic team, delivering a high-quality sales service to clients, the company and society.

Role purpose:

Reporting to the head of sales, the purpose of the specialist role is to provide specialist support (including administrative support) in respect of programme budget management (with a strong focus on revenue sustainability) to the department in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures. The appointee will be accountable for sales performance optimisation through analytical application, forecasting and reporting on all sales channels and prospective alternative commercial models.

Responsibilities:

Key performance areas include but not limited to:

  • Sales and revenue planning
  • Forecasting and sales performance metrics
  • Sales and financial management reporting
  • Sales dashboards
  • Monthly reporting
  • Contract/budgeting control and planning

Qualifications required:

  • Finance/commerce/statistical degree

Experience and skills:

  • At least five years’ experience working with analytics and strategic reporting in the service industry
  • Working knowledge of detailed budgets and budgeting processes
  • Pricing formulation and negotiation
  • Should have interacted with different management levels in an organisation

Competencies:

  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Confidence and decisiveness
  • Problem analysis and problem solving
  • Negotiation skills
  • Accuracy
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent attention to detail and presentation skills
  • Demonstrated experience with a CRM system and sales tools
  • Learning-oriented and focused on working with teams

Commencement of duties: 1 July 2018

Closing date: 4 May 2018

Application: To apply, please submit your CV to Rochall Daniels on

moc.de-bsu@tnemtiurcer

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Note: USB-ED is committed to equality, employment equity, and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of USB-ED and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but is not limited, to candidates from under-represented designated groups. The job advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for short-listing.

USB-ED reserves the right not to make an appointment

 

Requirements

Experience and Skills:

  • At least five years’ experience working with analytics and strategic reporting in the service industry
  • Working knowledge of detailed budgets and budgeting processes
  • Pricing formulation and negotiation
  • Should have interacted with different management levels in an organisation

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Senior Estimator (Paarl)

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Remuneration: negotiable Basic salary 
Location: Paarl
Type: Temporary
Company: Multi-Color Global Label Solutions

Multi-Color Global Label Solutions, with its African head office situated in the picturesque Boland Winelands, currently offers the following position: senior estimator

The applicant must be bilingual and have exceptional numerate and analytical skills. A relevant tertiary qualification, ± five years’ experience, advanced administrative and computer skills with experience in Prism/Radius MIS and QlikView are requirements for this position. Experience within a similar production environment will count in the applicant’s favour.

The successful applicant’s duties and responsibilities includes, among other:

Leading new work compilation processes

  • Completing contract and tender pricing submissions
  • Maintaining price grids of contract clients
  • Maintaining contract review schedules and driving price negotiations internally
  • Assisting sales team with estimates when required and attending to any estimate-related enquiries
  • Approval of estimate variations
  • Monitoring MIS data outputs for error location
  • Scrutinising production costing and contributing to continuous improvement forums
  • Providing cost analysis for any related requests
  • Compilation of various weekly and monthly reports
  • General MIS user support/problem solving
  • Liaising with MIS service providers
  • Quarterly security review of MIS users and various other tasks related to this position

Multi-Color Global Label Solutions will offer a competitive remuneration package for the correct candidate in this demanding position.

Please apply online at www.m3online.co.za before 9 on 9 May 2018. For general inquiries contact Ilze van Niekerk at M3 Human Capital

Management on 021 863 1444.

Commencement of duties: As soon as possible

Should no feedback be received within two weeks after the closing date, please accept that the application was unsuccessful.

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20 April 2018 – New electronic reporting requirements for Customs clients

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Pretoria, 20 April 2018 – This weekend the South African Revenue Service (SARS) will introduce a new electronic cargo reporting system which will be able to track the movement of cargo coming into and leaving the country. 

The paperless cargo reporting system will bring an end to one of the last remaining paper-based processes in SARS. It will provide Customs officials with the capability to track goods from beginning to end.

Chief Officer of Customs and Excise, Teboho Mokoena, says the electronic reporting system will expedite the processing of legitimate trade and improve the management of risk for goods coming in and leaving the country.

Customs clients impacted by the new electronic reporting system include shipping lines, airlines, the national rail carrier, road hauliers, freight forwarders, port and airport authorities, terminal operators, wharf operators, transit shed operators, licensees of depots and registered agents.

South Africa will be following international trends with the introduction of ‘advance reporting of containerised cargo’ destined for South African ports. This reporting requires carriers and forwarders to submit ‘advance loading notices’ to SARS Customs at both master and house bill of lading levels, 24 hours prior to vessel departure.

The implementation of the electronic reporting requirements falls under Customs’ Reporting of Conveyances and Goods (RCG) project, which is one of three main pillars of SARS’s New Customs Acts Programme (NCAP).

Since the Customs Control Act and Customs Duty Act were published in the Government Gazette in 2014, much work has been taking place in SARS to finalise Rules to the Acts, develop the required systems and ensure trade readiness for the implementation.

As the new Acts will only be operationalised on a date yet to be announced by the President of the Republic, it was decided to introduce certain elements of the new legislation under the current Customs and Excise Act, 1964.

The first phase of NCAP to go live is RCG, albeit under the current 1964 Act. Under RCG, it will be mandatory for all cargo reporters in the air, sea, rail and road industries and involved in the movement of international cargo to submit reports to SARS electronically.

One of the benefits to trade of electronic cargo reporting is that it will save on costs involved in paper reporting. For example, carriers can spend hundreds of thousands of rand a year just in the paper and administrative costs associated with submitting paper manifests to SARS offices.

The impact on land clients will be minimal as most road carriers have already been submitting electronic reports since MPR was introduced in 2016.

However, for many sea and air modality clients, who have never submitted electronic reports before, the implementation may take more time to get used to.

During the go-live SARS will have an Operations Support Centre which clients can contact by emailing OSC@sars.gov.za.  For more information, click here.

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Senior Architecture Specialist – Applications (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: Basic salary 
Location: Cape Town
Type: Permanent
Reference: #1804330
Company: Datafin Recruitment

Environment:

A leading petrochemical company seeks the expertise of a highly skilled senior architecture specialist (applications) to join its team. The successful incumbent should have an NQF Level seven degree or advanced diploma in computer science, information science, computer engineering, information technology, engineering, commerce or other related fields with eight years application architecture experience.

Duties:

  • Provision of application architecture frameworks, principles, patterns, roadmaps and governance:
    • Create and maintain the overall application architecture and related governance by developing and applying architectural frameworks, principles, patterns, policies and governance models to ensure applications are used optimally to automate business processes and functions effectively.
  • Evaluation, selection and design of the application related components of projects and other initiatives lead:
    • Oversee application architecture quality by ensuring projects and other initiatives enabled by application products and services follow application architecture and governance frameworks, principles, patterns and best practices to maintain design quality standards, ensure that applications are shared and leveraged optimally and prevent unnecessary time, effort and cost impacts associated with duplication, complexity and inefficient use of applications across the organization.
  • Application portfolio building and maintenance:
    • Establish and oversee the application portfolio by identifying, updating, categorizing, reviewing and publishing the current inventory of application products and services for the use of stakeholders and to enable effective reporting and analytics on applications to support decision making and planning.
  • Lead the analysis of application requirements and make recommendations:
    • Oversee application requirements gathering and analysis by coaching and guiding solution architecture and system specialists on analysis and design tasks related to specific solutions and making design recommendations to maintain an optimised, cost-efficient and functionally effective application architecture across the organisation.

Requirements:

Minimum qualification, accreditation and experience:

  • NQF Level seven degree or advanced diploma in computer science, information science, computer engineering, information technology, engineering, commerce or other related fields Architecture Certification e.g. TOGAF
  • Eight years of application architecture experience including design, analysis and implementation of complex solutions with five years in project management or leading design and implementation initiatives

Advantageous qualification, accreditation and experience:

  • Honours/Postgraduate Diploma.
  • Certification in specific applications e.g. SAP, Microsoft
  • Application development and workflow products e.g. SharePoint, Service now, .Net
  • Microsoft and/or SAP applications.
  • Enterprise Content Management systems e.g. SharePoint and OpenText
  • Application development methodologies e.g. Agile, Scrum, waterfall.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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When applying for jobs, ensure that you have the minimum job requirements. Only SA Citizens will be considered for this role. If you are not in the mentioned location of any of the jobs, please note your relocation plans in all applications for jobs and correspondence. Please e-mail a word copy of your CV to taryn@datafin.com and mention the reference numbers of the jobs.

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Unhealthy relationship between employee wellness expectations and reality

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While many employers recognise the role they have to play in influencing good employee health, most are not employing strategies that best enable these outcomes.

A survey, which covers more than 900 employers across the EMEA region, in 25 industries and covering 2.7-million employees aims to identify the key health issues employers are facing as they develop their people risk strategies, including the opportunities and challenges.

The majority of employers overwhelmingly recognise the importance of having a well-defined, well communicated health and wellbeing programme and that there is a correlation between employee health and their performance, and 100% of South African firms agree that they have a role to play in positively influencing good employee health.

Nearly 70% of overall respondents either have a specific budget in place, or plan to have within the next two years, to fund health initiatives.
Most employers seem to have a good idea of the types of health and wellbeing issues they need to focus on, for example, lifestyle risks, and financial, physical and/or emotional wellbeing. Stress and mental health issues are the primary concern of 72% of South African respondents.

Yet, in spite of this recognition of a correlation between health and employee performance, many organisations do not appear to be implementing strategies that best enable these outcomes, and the prevalence of health programmes of all types is lower than two years ago.

Only 40% of employers say they have a defined health strategy in place, the same as 2016, and even fewer (36%) have a clear view of the impact (including cost) of the health issues in their organisation.

No budget

The key barriers to running or implementing successful wellbeing programmes include having no budget or a budget that is not deemed enough, having limited resources, or not being able to measure the effectiveness of any initiatives.

Only 22% of employers use data to support their health and wellbeing strategy, and just 17% of South African employers measure ongoing success of their health programmes.

Less than 40% of employers rate their health and benefits communication to employees as good.

Top HR issue

The survey also finds that attracting and retaining talent is the top HR issue in 2018, overtaking increasing productivity and employee performance, which has dropped to the number three concern since the last survey in 2016. Improving engagement and morale is the second highest ranked concern.

“In spite of these obvious concerns, South African firms appear less proactive in offering almost all types of health initiatives. Programmes addressing stress and mental health in particular are the least likely to be provided. Putting in place more structured programmes to address this would seem a good investment,” says Gavin Griffin of Aon Employee Benefits in South Africa.

“Although South African respondents are more confident in their health and benefits communications than many others in the survey, low utilisation by employees has jumped into second place when they are asked to rate the obstacles to health initiative success. This is often a symptom of poor or ineffective communications and a review of current communications programmes would be a worthwhile exercise.”

Senior PHP Developer (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: negotiable Basic salary 
Location: Johannesburg
Education level: Degree
Job level: Senior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #LV40425-2018
Company: e-merge IT Recruitment

Job description

We are looking for a talented senior PHP developer with extensive experience, to work for an international company within the tourism and leisure industry. The ideal candidate would be passionate about PHP technology, have knowledge of the current tech trends and can handle pressure.

Requirements

Knowledge, skills and expertise:

Major tech stack:

  • PHP 5.6
  • PHP Frameworks: CodeIgniter, Laravel, PyroCMS
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • HTML
  • CSS3 +Responsive
  • CSS Frameworks: Twitter Bootstrap.
  • JavaScript
  • JavaScript Frameworks: jQuery, Kendo UI
  • GIT – for source control via bitbucket

Integration services and endpoints:

  • SOAP Web Services, REST, LDAP
  • Google Maps, TripAdvisor – integration

Qualifications: 

  • 10 to 15 years’ experience
  • IT related diploma/degree/certificate

Added advantage skills and experience:

  • Linux + Windows
  • Redis – caching server
  • MongoDB – caching + logging database
  • Apache
  • IIS7.5
  • ColdFusion
  • SASS

If you are ready to take your career to the next level, then this may be the right opportunity for you!

Reference Number for this position is LV40425-2018 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a salary is market related with share options.

The time for change is now! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates. Email Liza on

az.oc.egrem-e@azil

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Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!

If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

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Development Manager (Johannesburg)

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Remuneration: negotiable Negotiable depending on experience 
Location: Johannesburg
Education level: Degree
Job level: Senior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #LV39789-2018
Company: E-Merge IT Recruitment

Job description

To manage the deliverables and development of software and/or maintenance team(s) to deliver on day to day tasks to address client requirements in line with the company’s business and information technology strategy.

Duties will include:

  • Manage financial and business results 
  • Manage stakeholder relationships 
  • Manage internal processes 
  • Manage self and team        
  • Manage transformation and innovation 

Requirements

Qualifications:

  • Matric
  • Foundation of Personal Leadership programme (FPL) or equivalent
  • Degree/diploma
  • Proficient Certification in relevant technologies

Experience required:

  • Managing a team of people 
  • Measuring client satisfaction 
  • Working with clients to solve client problems 
  • Investigating and reviewing processes to improve client satisfaction 
  • Mentoring others 
  • Providing constructive feedback to employees 
  • Communicating job requirements and performance standards to others 
  • Conducting performance feedback meetings 
  • Checking performance data to measure employee performance 
  • Managing industrial relations 
  • Assuming a leadership role 
  • Participation in Recruiting and staffing 
  • Managing business risks 
  • Problem solving 
  • Facilitation 
  • Conflict management 
  • Solution leadership 
  • Continuous improvement of entrusted assets

If you are ready to take your career to the next level, then this may be the right opportunity for you!

Reference Number for this position is LV39789-2018 which is a contract position based in Johannesburg CBD offering a salary is negotiable on experience.

The time for change is now! e-Merge IT recruitment are specialist niche recruiters with a wide range of positions available. We offer researched positions with top companies to strong technical candidates. Email Liza on

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Check out our website www.e-merge.co.za for more positions that might be right for you!

Do you have a friend who is a technology specialist? We pay big cash to you if we place a friend that you sent us!

If you haven’t heard from e-Merge IT within two weeks of your application, please consider it unsuccessful for this position.

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Senior Manager – Tech Product Development (Highveld, Centurion)

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Location: Highveld, Centurion
Reference: #180420-2
Company: Telkom

The Senior Manager within Technical Product Development is responsible for leading a team of highly qualified specialists in a particular domain to achieve the business objectives of the department. Domains and services include but is not limited to: Broadband and Network Services domain: Internet services, Broadband networks, Non-Voice services and TPD IP LABs. IP Services domain: IP networks, L2 and L3 VPN networks, hosted services, cloud services, security services, Managed ICT services, LAN services and customer premises services. Unified Communications and Special Projects domain: Multimedia, UC, CSS, Voice, VoIP, SIP, SDPM (Specific Design PM). Business Engagement Responsible for the strategic and operational planning of the technical product development function in the organisation. Serves as the interface between customer-facing entities (e.g. sales, marketing and product) and the various technical areas (e.g. networks and IT) for the development of new and the enhancement of existing products, services, solutions and capabilities. Ensures that the end-to-end development process flow is optimized to facilitate value to all business stakeholders, i.e. from product or service conceptualisation to launch (technical readiness, and beyond, including the highest tier of on-going support.
Directs activities of engineering staff engaged in preparing project plans, designs, cost estimates and specifications for developmental, experimental, maintenance, modernization and rationalisation programmes to determine the most feasible approach to technical problems, solutions support and associated improvements. Analyses performance records, relevant product and technology strategies, processes and physical operations and submits report of findings to management. Delivers technical input to sales engagements, general technical consulting, RFP responses and develops customer specific solutions (CSS) when required by business.

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