Dennin Smith

Experience

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  Forest High School

  Apr 1992 - Dec 1995

  Teacher
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  Montrose Primary School

  Jan 1996 - Dec 1997

  Teacher
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  Recruit

  Jan 1998 - Aug 1998

  Supply Teacher
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  Key Training

  Sept 1998 - Dec 1998

  Trainer
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  Catalyst Training

  Jan 1999 - Feb 2001

  Senior Trainer
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  New Horizons Training

  Sept 2001 - Feb 2003

  Senior Trainer
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  Damelin

  Mar 2003 - Jul 2003

  Lecturer

  Lecturing in project management, systems design and analysis and visual basic programming

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  ITO Focus Technology

  Aug 2003 - Sept 2005

  Director

  Establishment of a new business offering for the ITO Focus group of companies and developing franchised business unit across the country

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  Fulcrum Business Solutions

  Feb 2006 - Feb 2008

  Training Manager

  Training Manager and Senior EPM Consultant Responsibilities: Management of the training department, development of training material and curriculum, consulting to corporate clients Note: Fulcrum Business Solutions merged with UMT to become UMT SA

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  UMTSA

  Feb 2008 - Aug 2010

  Training Manager

  Training Manager and Senior EPM Consultant Responsibilities: Training Manager - Management of the training department, development and review of training material and curriculum, Senior EPM Consultant - Consulting to corporate clients on project management, Project Offices and Enterprise Project Management. Assisting with pre-sales product demonstrations.

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  Coca-Cola

  Sept 2010 - Oct 2017

  Management of the Procurement Program Management Office (PMO) for the EMEA region. Responsible for implementing the company's procurement strategies, providing project support, and building capabilities within the procurement team. I provided training and support on specialist and generic skills with the aim of building capabilities to enable the collaborative procurement model for the Coca-Cola Company. Through the PMO I :• Implemented the companies collaborative procurement strategies and implemented global best practices• Ran skills assessments and built capabilities within the team• Provided on boarding and mentoring new hires with 30-60-90 day focus areas• Managed the impact of change, within teams and brought about by changes in business structure• Supported the EMEA Regional Procurement Director• Provided updates to the Marketing Procurement Director• Monitored project progress to ensure that the regions were on track to deliver against their marketing and Opex productivity goals. • Reviewed risks and how they might impact the delivery of project savings.• Worked with cross-functional teams, and offered leadership and support to procurement managers in 6 Business Units across Africa, Europe and the Middle East• Worked with finance associates, senior leadership team members and with other key project stakeholders Show less Management of the Marketing Procurement PMO.Established the Marketing Procurement Project Office within the five business unit of the Eurasia-Africa Group (EAG). My role was to set up a new PMO and lead the adoption and integration of a disciplined and collaborative project management approach within Group Procurement. Worked with procurement managers, finance associates and senior stakeholders in various countries (South Africa, Kenya, Turkey, Middle East and Russia) and provided support, training and mentoring on the company’s procurement model and the process to validate savings achieved through marketing procurement projects. I supported the Group Procurement Director to:• Build capabilities within the team and establish global best practices with procurement.• Managed change• Monitor and track progress of the portfolio of projects the Procurement team were involved with. • Monitor savings against productivity targets and report accordingly. • Review resource needs across the projects. • Support preparations for status updates with Leadership teams. • Provide project management support. Show less Management of the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO).I joined Coca-Cola to establish the Marketing Project Management Office (EPMO), to develop and draft the policies and procedures, and manage the implementation of the project management tool (Microsoft EPM). Planned the change management process to introduce a new way of working to teams involved. I worked with cross-functional teams to develop timelines that led to the improvements in timings and built an understanding of the cross-functional tasks needed to bring a marketing campaign to market. Through the PMO I supported the project community in:* Training and mentoring on project management skills, Microsoft Project and Microsoft EPM. * Establishing project management best practices* Creating of project plans. * Reviewing of timelines and risk assessments.* Reporting on project progress to stakeholders. The PMO supported both locally based project managers and internationally based PMsOperational Excellence Manager - Management of the Operational Excellence (OE) process:The Business Unit decided to implement Operational Excellence (OE) as a business improvement methodology and I was made OE Manager to help lead the process of establishing OE within the business. In this role I supported cross-functional team working on improvement projects. Show less

  • Procurement PMO and Best Practices Director, Europe, Euraisa & Africa

    Mar 2015 - Oct 2017

  • Procurement PMO Manager, Eurasia & Africa

    Jul 2014 - Mar 2015

  • EPMO and OE manager

    Sept 2010 - Jun 2014
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  MultiChoice Group

  Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

  Project Manager

  Multichoice Africa, Randburg, South Africa (Regional Role)Project Manager (Jul 2018 to Dec 2018)Project management of the Phoenix 1 project. Phoenix 1 was established to develop and implement an automated offer provisioning tool for the Customer Value Management teams based in Africa.Managed the soft launch of the working components of the tool in Zambia.Managed a focused 8 week ‘Reboot’ process within the main project to assess the viability of continuing with aspects of the project and to provide senior management with accurate information in order to make the necessary go/no-go decisions about the future of the project. Responsibilities included:• Project management of the Phoenix 1 project. • Reviewing the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management.• Maintaining a detailed work plan which incorporated the resource requirements from various functions within the organisation.• Determining the ongoing resources requirements to complete the project.• Identifying solutions to issues raised within agreed timelines.• Establishing the communication schedule to update stakeholders, and other appropriate staff in the organization, on the progress of the project.• Reviewing the quality of the work completed with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that it met the project standards. Show less

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  Mondelēz International

  Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

  Project Analyst

  Developed the process for tracking the rollout of Windows 10 to 17000 in-scope users based in the 600 locations across the world.Developed the set of dashboards used to track progress across each region and each site.Responsibilities include:• Development of a master data file and process used to plan and track user upgrades in locations around the world.• Support for project team members in each region.• Understanding resource requirements.• Development of project dashboards used to track progress across each region and across each site.• Development of the project communications tracker to assist the communications team with a single view of communications that needed to go out to users each day.• Supply daily updates of users who have scheduled their upgrades as well as updates on who has been upgraded to Windows 10. Show less

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  MultiChoice Group

  Feb 2020 - Mar 2021

  Project Manager

  Multichoice Africa, Randburg, South Africa (Regional Role)Project Manager (Feb 2020 - present)Project management of two key projects* CVM Enhancements and Outsourcing project. * Audit ComplianceThe CVM Enhancements and Outsourcing project has 2 work streams:* Ensuring that enhancements are made to the Campaign Management tool in line with business requirements and to automate current manual processes to reduce reporting times, increase capacity and generate additional revenue. * Implementing the Campaign Management tool at outsource partners in Angola, Mozambique and Zambia in order to improve customer campaigning capabilitiesThe Audit compliance project focuses on implementing changes within the PMO based on the findings from the internal audit team. These changes are designed to improve PMO governance, build a high performing team and improved project delivery . Responsibilities included:• Project management• Reviewing the scope of the project in collaboration with senior management.• Maintaining a detailed work plan which incorporated the resource requirements from various functions within the organisation.• Identifying solutions to issues raised within agreed timelines.• Establishing the communication schedule to update stakeholders, and other appropriate staff in the organization, on the progress of the project.• Reviewing the quality of the work completed with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that it met the project standards. Show less

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  Mondelēz International

  Mar 2021 - now

  Management of the Innovation and Productivity function. Ensuring that Innovation and Productivity projects are executed on time.Tracking of Innovation Sufficiency against BU targets Initiation and project management of key Innovation Projects for the Business Unit, in order to bring new products or new packaging to the market. Working with cross-function teams of internal and external stakeholders across a range of projects and a range of categories.Tracking and reporting on project progress. Focused on building a consolidated view of all cross-functional elements required to bring marketing initiatives to trade and improve on time execution. Improve agency engagement through the Agency Engagement Model in order to improve tracking and approval of key agency deliverables.Tracking of BU Innovation Project Sufficiency for the upcoming 3 year cycle.

  • Project Change Development Manager - Innovation

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Innovation Manager - Gum, Candy, Beverage, Meals

    Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Marketing Project Manager

    Mar 2021 - Jul 2023