Curriculum Vitae Of Xavier Benedito Kuscus
Curriculum Vitae of Xavier Kuscus
Mobile: 078*******
Email: adj1fd@r.postjobfree.com
PERSONAL DETAILS
Surname Kuscus
First Names Xavier Benedito
Gender Male
Date of birth 06 February 1983
Identity Number 830**********
Nationality South African
Residential Address 523 Moore Road, Glenwood
Home language English
Other languages
Speak, read & write Afrikaans & Sotho
Criminal Offences None
Health Very Good
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Secondary Education
School Attended Fakkel High School
Highest Grade Passed Matric 2001
Subjects English
Afrikaans
Mathematics
Science
Biology
Motor Mechanics
Additional Course National Certificate: Wealth Management level 5 ( NQF level 5)
Obtained in 2012-2013
Company: Super Save ConvenientConvenient Store
Period: October 2019 till current
Position Held: Supermarket Manager
Duties Performed:
General management duties in delegating daily task to 14 staff members insuring operations is effective within the various departments, insuring excellence in service to our clients. Insuring all work stations and store rooms are functional according to the health and safety standards with PARAV regulations.
Insuring fruit and vegetables are fresh and shelves with other goods are I appropriately to entice our clients.
Reinforced the company image through cleanliness, merchandise organization, and service.
Assisted management in staffing selection and the hiring and training process.
Demonstrated superior customer service through the fulfilment of customer needs and assistance.
Transformed and remodelled product shelf presentation into a more current and appealing appearance. Scan and handle store merchandise and complete monetary transactions
Provide efficient, exceptional, and friendly customer service and manage complaints insuring our clients needs are met and resolve their concerns or complaints.
Daily stock control and transfers between stores of stock request. Arranging deliveries to our clients and insuring order request are done according to our clients needs and request, within the correct turnaround times.
Reference: Da Rocha
Position: Owner
Contact Number: 011-***-****
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: Fresh Fellas
Period: June 2019 – October 2019
Position Held: Store Manager
Duties Performed:
General management duties in delegating daily task to 14 staff members insuring operations is effective within the various departments, insuring excellence in service to our clients. Insuring all work stations and store rooms are functional according to the health and safety standards with PARAV regulations.
Insuring fruit and vegetables are fresh and shelves with other goods are I appropriately displayed to attract our clients.
Reinforced the company image through cleanliness, merchandise organization, and service.
Assisted management in staffing selection and the hiring and training process.
Demonstrated superior customer service through the fulfilment of customer needs and assistance.
Transformed and remodelled product shelf presentation into a more current and appealing appearance. Scan and handle store merchandise and complete monetary transactions
Provide efficient, exceptional, and friendly customer service and manage complaints insuring our clients needs are met and resolve there concerns or complaints.
Daily stock control and transfers between stores of stock request. Arranging deliveries to our clients and insuring order request are done according to our clients needs and request, within the correct turnaround times.
Reference: Jo
Position: Branch Manager
Contact Number: 011-***-****
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: The Fruit Basket
Period: February 2019 – June 2019
Position Held: Sales Representative/Customer service clerk
Duties Performed:
Reinforced the company image through cleanliness, merchandise organization, and efficient customer service.
Assisted management in staffing selection and the hiring and training process.
Demonstrated superior customer service through the fulfilment of customer needs and assistance.
Transformed and remodelled product shelf presentation into a more current and appealing appearance. Scan and handle store merchandise and complete monetary transactions
Provide efficient, exceptional, and friendly customer service
Reference: Jo
Position: Branch Manager
Contact Number: 011-***-****
Company: Metropolitan Life
Period: October 2018 – December 2018
Position Held: Financial Advisor
Duties Performed:
Conduct needs analysis to understand and enhance client’s financial wellness.
Create financial plans for clients that address their financial wellness needs.
Offer solutions (products) to clients to address their financial wellness needs.
Present information sharing sessions on financial planning topics.
You will spend a fair amount of time travelling to clients.
You will perform an end to end function which include client analysis, financial wellness analysis, diary management and administration.
Metropolitan provides Financial Wellness solutions that meet the needs of middle and low-income clients.
Our products include funeral insurance, health, savings, hospital cash-back cover, retirement solutions and life insurance.
Interested in finance/sales/service, demonstrated through their previous work experience or studies.
See financial advice as a career and invest in it.
Have a clear understanding of the role.
Understand and adapt approach to meet the needs of the client
Reference: Lincoln Collins
Position: Branch Manager
Contact Number: 087-***-**** or 074-***-****
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: Private (Personal venture)
Period: May 2018 – 31 August 2018
Position Held: Healthcare Advisor
Duties Performed:
Building and maintaining business relationships with clients
Scheduling and attending meetings
Discussing and assessing clients' current and future insurance needs
Researching insurance policies and products
Negotiating policy terms and costs with insurance providers
Arranging insurance cover for clients with the insurance provider
Undertaking general administrative duties
Marketing services
Reference: Xavier
Position: Health Advisor
Contact Number: 078*******
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: Sasfin Bank
Period: May 2015 – 31 March 2018
Position Held: Healthcare Consultant
Duties Performed:
Employer healthcare consultant, assisting their employees with their scheme related queries, advising them on wellness providers and various medical scheme options according to the member’s needs.
Accounts manager for at 15 different employer groups with mainly Medical scheme aid and employer wellness initiatives. Providing financial advice on medical aid and wellness partners. Assisting with employer induction sessions, scheme reviews employer programs and alternative insurance options in the market.
Client presentations with corporate health reviews, organising wellness day bookings at various employers.
Assisting with administrative queries via e-mail, assisting certain members with telephonic financial advice, on the various medical aid plans of Discovery Health and Vitality.
Monthly meetings at employers and presentation servicing reports on quarterly basis to management and executives on service offering from Sasfin as their business partner.
Reference: Mrs. Charleen Rix
Position: Head of Healthcare
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Contact Number: 079*******
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Company: Discovery Health
Period: October 2014 – 28 February 2015
Position Held: Health Advisor Telesales
Duties Performed:
Leads sales calls, getting client appointments to get new clients on Discovery Health medical scheme
Assisting members with telephonic financial advice, selling various medical plans of Discovery Health and Vitality.
Achieving minimum of 6 – 8 sales daily.
Achieving 1.7 million API monthly
Reference: Mrs. Thobeka Rasmeri
Position: Team Leader
Contact Number: 011-***-****
Company: Discovery Health
Period: July 2012 – October 2014
Position Held: Marketing Associate/ Trainee Business Consultant
Duties Performed:
Assisting various broker panels with Sales and Marketing support, being; Alexander Forbes Health, Healthcare solutions, Assagai Strategic Investments, internal leads broker panels, with all Health New business processes.
Presenting Discovery health medical aid options at various employers that included new business implementations, new employee induction session, explaining the various Discovery Health medical aid option & Vitality to members.
To resolve complaints and queries fairly and in accordance with policy and procedure and to provide feedback to Brokers, Employers or Franchises.
To deal with escalated queries from Managers in Health and to resolve these queries and provide feedback verbally and written within agreed Service level Agreements.
Working according to set targets. Building and establishing relationships at all levels with external partners and internal departments to facilitate expeditious resolution of queries.
Leads calls, making client appointments to get new client on Discovery Health.
Marketing coordinating events, such as road shows for various advisor and employer groups.
Top Achiever 2013/2014 as trainee business/market associate in Corp Sales.
Reference: Mrs. Louise Steyl
Position: Operations Sales Manager
Contact Number: 011-***-**** / 083-***-****
Company: Discovery Health
Period: May 2010 – July 2012
Position Held: New business Executive Relationship Manager and Assist Team Leader
Duties Performed:
To resolve highly escalated complexed queries from Franchises, Brokers and the public professionally according to the required procedures and within agreed SLAs.
Assist team leader with 5 New business Executive relationship managers with complexed escalated queries.
Delegated queries accordingly within team and liaising with various service team’s managers within Discovery Health to insure team resolved queries timeously within agreed SLA and operation procedures.
To ensure that queries that are unable to immediate resolution are followed up and resolved in line with the agreed SLA.
Liaising with irate calls timeously from clients and brokers unable to be resolved by specialist consultants/underwriting call centre telephonically.
Providing feedback to CFO and Service Manager daily insuring provider relationship were managed within the New business operations.
Dealing with email queries sent to CRM work pools, in providing feedback within work pool SLA.
Managed balance within the team and addresses under performances and worked with my team leader in improving query routing and better resolution with other service team within discovery health.
Star award winner 2011, top 40 best performers within Discovery Holdings.
Reference: Mrs. Gadija Bagus
Position: Team Leader Coach
Contact Number: 083*******
Company: Discovery Health
Period: April 2007-April 2010
Position Held: Service Consultant/Service Specialist
Duties Performed:
To resolve inbound queries from Franchises, Brokers and the public professionally according to the required procedures and within agreed SLAs.
To ensure that queries that are unable to immediate resolution are followed up and resolved in line with the agreed SLA.
Answering inbound calls timeously and making outbound calls
Dealing with email queries where necessary
Coordinating own and team’s administration
Ensuring that customer satisfaction is constantly attained
Adhoc functions where required and necessary
To keep abreast of product knowledge through continued professional development and learning
Data capturing
Maintaining accurate details of all queries
Keeping stakeholders informed with regard to their queries.
Top performer 2009/2010 each quarter and completed high performers programme for junior leaders.
Reference: Mrs. Gadija Bagus
Position: Team Leader Coach
Contact Number: 083*******
Company: The Bombay Bicycle Club London UK
Period: 1 March 2005 – 31 January 2007
Position Held: Restaurant/ Store Manager
Duties Performed:
Maintaining Restaurant duties such as maintaining bookings and private events. Running front and back of restaurant,
General stock taking, insuring general staff maintain professionalism with clients.
Training new staff member, waiters, kitchen porters.
Insuring orders served appropriate time, and client needs were always met.
Assisting various franchises, where store were not doing well, in assisting with better stock management, proper portion servings, and minimum food wastage.
Insuring staff count was in line with days of week, as over staffing or understaffing had great impact of client restaurant experience, including budget planning.
Achieved top store manager for 2004
Reference: Mr. Jerome Barnard
Position: Manager
Contact Number: 004*-****** 5086
Company: International SOS
Period: March 2002 – November 2004
Position Held: Call Distribution Agent
Duties Performed:
Assisting with various emergency call distributions, dependant on client’s needs.
Emergency assist services Police, Ambulance dispatching.
Case management agent, assisting with roadside assistance, home assistance and locksmiths.
Following up service providers, and client insuring service needs were met.
MY MOTIVATIONAL LETTER
I hereby submit my application for your perusal with confidence that I am the suitable candidate for the above-mentioned position. The attitude, ambition and capabilities that I have prompted me to apply for this position. To obtain a responsible position at a company where my level of knowledge of providing service excellence, would allow me the opportunity of the required experience and accomplishments necessary for me to further my career, is providing service excellence to clients, as a brand ambassador according the duties and responsibilities by management as the service provided, meeting their expectation
I believe that I am a versatile worker able to tackle any job or problem to the best of my knowledge. My strongest quality is my ability to adapt to situation and to apply myself logically. The experience and aptitude that I acquired to deal with large volumes of irate and petrified clients on a daily basis gave me a whole new meaning on the word well -developed problem-solving and listening skills. My self-reliance has been valuable to me in the sense that I now have a holistic view of life and am able to bring my experience to any task, completing it with a strong commitment.
I believe that a successful person is the one who works up to or near their full potential. The only thing you can ask of any person to do is to do their best no matter what they choose to do, in the game of sports or in the game of life. With one of my attributes being an avid and fast learner hence I am feeling confident that I can make a productive contribution to any organization and confident that I am the person you are looking for.