Jacques Hoffmann

Experience

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  Previous Experience

  Mar 1995 - Jul 2001

  Various

  Previous experience of over 4 years; commenced career in 1995 as branch manager and made progressive career advancements as a general manager and conglomerate member while progressively handling diverse responsibilities in the areas of general management and accenting a career within the field - Retail and Health and Fitness Club spaces.

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  IDCS (Vodacom)

  Aug 2001 - Aug 2004

  Regional Marketing Support

  ● Improved marketing and support strategies for a customer base to 435 outlets (IDCS (Vodacom South Africa)).

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  Equal Marketing

  Aug 2004 - Mar 2006

  Sole Proprietor

  ● Established a start-up business from scratch and pioneered revolutionary business strategies achieving sales volumes of 200,000 USD p/a with a client base of approximately 480+ and 16 employees.

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  Primedia

  Apr 2006 - Feb 2007

  Sales and Marketing Manager

  ● Successfully increased the sales and market shared of the key PRIMEDIA Ltd. clients from 2.2m USD to 3m USD.- Account Management-

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  Afrikings

  Jan 2007 - Nov 2010

  Head of Operations

  ● Responsible for increasing the value of outsource contract, introduce new business and diversify business● Pioneered effective operational cost, client service management, marketing & sales strategies while developing competencies of staff to the highest level through skills transfer and management oversight.● Shouldered the responsibility for overall set up and execution of New Business M-PESA Aggregator model (Super Dealer concept) and successfully developed the account into a residual revenue generator for Afrikings. Augmented the aggregator model in each major region● Led to spearheading the growth of M-PESA (Mobile Money)● Successfully expanded support network of customer care agents (Project Shark) all regions within Tanzania.● Developed and implemented strategic national marketing plans with key corporate messages communicated in consideration to regional context and culture. ● Launched an events department and secured a contract (1 Year) for the company to facilitate all events for SABF/SATZ/SAWG/SAHC. Show less

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  Kilimanjaro Productions

  Jun 2010 - Feb 2011

  Consultant

  ● Co-responsibility of launching real time TV show, securing sponsorships and creating profitable business revenue steam via broadcast● Partnered with owner of Kilimanjaro Productions and established business entirely. Spearheaded core business and operationalfunctions and led to phenomenal changes in just two months of involvement. Facilitated broadcast in less than 2 months,sponsorship / advertising space from $12500 p/m to $43,000 p/m. (Recognised for telecasting most popular TV show in Tanzania injust 4 months of launch, resulting in a total of 2, 700,000 viewers daily.) Show less

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  Nokia Siemens Networks

  Sept 2011 - Jul 2013

  Senior Presales Services Account Manager

  - Manage a large sales team and act as a contact for Vodacom Tanzania as a key customer.- Create the sales strategy and oversees the implementation. Responsible for meeting defined sales targets. - Responsible for Services Business from a presales, planning and delivery perspective. - Driving services strategy for the business. Business includes Consulting, Systems Integration, - Managed Services, Hybrid Energy and Network Implementation- Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.● Increased overall profit through cost savings exercises by utilising strategies on hybrid site fuel saving equipment implementation. (€80 million – 5 year Managed Services Contract).● Key contributor to commercial and strategy discussions while assisting in the development and creation of the sales strategy.● Acting as a source of pre-sales expertise, direct contact and lead / supervising solutions engineers in own product / sales area. Show less

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  Brandworx

  Nov 2013 - Mar 2015

  Country Head

  ● Responsible for the establishment of annual, quarterly & monthly sales objectives in coordination with the Company's business plan.● Create the sales strategy and oversees the implementation.● Successfully brought on board new project ($600K), recruited, trained and assigned 40 new head count.● Set up and spearheaded new mobile money agent consultancy project ($240,000 annual value).● Aligning business planning and financial process with performance improvements and risk- management activities.● Addressed the gender balance by recruiting and developing female field, office and account leads.● Increased profit by $400,000 mostly by reducing debt (credit control) and optimizing inventories.● Increased Brandwx client base portfolio. Mining existing clients, increasing client profiles & successfully introducing new business.● Key contributor to commercial & strategy discussions while assisting in the development and creation of the clients marketing, roll-out & sales strategy.● Identified market opportunities, assembled leadership teams, secured capital investment & built business financial infrastructure.● Directing development and implementation of operations procedures & management structures for launches in targeted regions. Define/Map and implement Geological Marketing Campaigns across most regions of Nigeria. National Team Management & Deployment into specific regions based on campaigns• Define road map with clients, review progress quarterly and adjust where needed Show less

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  4C Group

  Sept 2015 - Jul 2022

  Managing Executive

  • Team Composition: Manage and nurture teams in the Information Management, Ecommerce, Unix, DBA, Interconnect, Revenue assurance & Fraud management space• Budgeting: Develop, manage, and execute budgets, forecasts and planning. Budgets achieved year on year• Project Management: My team completed 100’s of technical projects, ranging from medium to highly complexed• Collaborate with Business Users, Project Managers, Product Managers, and other Business Analysts to elicit and gather requirements.• Process improvement: We reshuffled & reorganised the team to eliminate underperforming on project delivery.• Customer account management: Plan and manage infrastructure projects, customer experience management and Service Level Agreements on site and remotely. • Business Development: Source and develop new strategic partnerships, social engagements, and network opportunities that develops to lead generation new revenue streams.• Collaborate with internal departments to execute client campaigns & plan global project deployments• Work with architects & senior engineers to improve specific site infrastructure problems • Sprint planning and sprint forecasting across all squads • Manage prioritization and trade-offs among customer experience, performance and operational support load• Management Reporting and Business Analysis internal & external (client) • Succession Planning with HR and in extension to all staff ensuring personal development plans and KPA’s are communicated and executed• Define Product Roadmap along with Product Owner & ensure it is updated & communicated to Clients• Development & configuration of software platform & testing of IOT device implementation. Data gathering and analysis Show less

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  Qonstrukt

  Jun 2022 - now

  Business Owner

  - Project Management- Waterproofing- Painting- Ceilings Install- Roof Repair