Samantha Smit

Experience

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  Jumbo Cash and Carry

  Sept 2002 - Sept 2003

  Personal Assistant

  My position at Jumbo was that of Personal Assistant to the Operations Director. My duties included screening all calls to the Director and taking necessary messages. Typing of all memos to the 6 stores for the Director, drawing up schedules, minutes of meetings and hearings.

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  Makro SA

  Sept 2003 - Feb 2007

  Training Officer function:o Compile and ensure that all training timetables are kept to with regards to our management & staff training.o Compile monthly training programmes and communicate to staff.o Update files for staff training records.o Compile ABET (Adult Based Education Training) timetables.o Hold monthly meetings with HIV/AIDS committee & minuteo Promote in-store activities to create awareness of the Wellness Programmeo Provide induction training for all new permanent employeeso Conduct training needs analysis to identify skills gaps in each departmento Compile annual training plan for the store (Workplace Skills Plan)o Assist line mangers in drawing up individual development plans for each staff member.o Ensure that all training is recorded and registers updated (HR manage computer training programme)o Obtain feedback from line managers concerning training and developmento Facilitate CBT (Competency Based Training) courses e.g. Customer Satisfaction, Shrinkage Awareness, Telephone Skills, Be Safeo Updating of notice boards regularlyHR Officer functions:o Processing the sick leave of the staff in the store and updating the sick leave registero Managing staff uniform (issuing of uniforms to staff, ordering stock, informing payroll of deductions, ordering of name badges)o Updating store organogramo Conducting pre-employment checkso Arranging and conducting interviewso Recruitment admin including letters of regret and letters of appointmento New starters and leaver’s paperworko Observe disciplinary enquiries to ensure procedural fairnesso Planning year-end function for staffo Filing of personnel fileso Monitoring of staff advances, staff loans, staff purchases and home loanso Provide counselling services on personal, training and career matters Show less

  • Training & HR Officer

    Mar 2005 - Feb 2007

  • Personal Assistant

    Sept 2003 - Mar 2005
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  Style Appointments (now Retail Solutions)

  Mar 2007 - Mar 2008

  Project Manager

  o To manage the staff at both of my projects which were Checkers Hyper Roodepoort and Checkers Hyper Sandton City.o I had a total staff compliment of 214 staff members at both projects combined.o Manage all disciplinary of all the staff members, including conducting of disciplinary enquiries.o Interviewing, appointing and training of all new staff.o Drawing up manning plans for each week taking in to consideration the budgets of the client (Checkers)o Managing and keeping all staff member’s personnel files updated.o Visit the head office in Benoni weekly to collect payslips and do the various filing that needs to be done in the personnel files, attend disciplinary enquiries. Show less

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  Bathusi IT Business Solutions

  Apr 2008 - Jan 2011

  Office Administrator

  o Taking all telephone calls from customers and creating job sheets for the technicians to see the customers.o Capturing these job sheets once completed onto the accounting package “Accknowledge” which is a web based accounting package.o Creating customer invoices, and sending these to customers.o Placing stock orders with suppliers.o Capturing stock received from suppliers and creating Goods Received Invoices.o Creating monthly contractual invoices for customers and email and post these to the customers.o Making sure all customers follow up jobs are completed by technicians.o Capturing PAYE and UIF on SARS website for payment.o Capturing payments from customers and to suppliers on Accknowledge system.o Capture weekly time sheets from technicians.o Capturing petty cash.o General filing of customer contracts, invoices from suppliers. Show less

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  Makro SA

  Feb 2011 - Jan 2021

  HR Advisor

  The main purpose of my job is to optimise human capital through the implementation and management of operational plans in line with Division HR strategy in order to deliver consistent business objectives.

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  Massmart

  Jan 2021 - now

  HR Manager: People Partner Operations