BRIAN BESSESEN

** **** ******, ******, **** Elizabeth,6-70

© +278*-***-**** €mail: adjhoe@r.postjobfree.com

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Date of Birth : 9th March 1974

Gender : Male

Nationality : South African

Marital Status : Divorced

Identity Number : 74-03-09-50-73-085

Criminal Record : None

Transport : Sold my car / but can get a hired lease car

Home Language : English

Other : Afrikaans – read & write,

Health : Good

SUMMARY

I see myself as a vibrant, Spontaneous and Happy person, I am always on the lookout for a challenge and to learn new things in all kinds of fields & love working with various nationality groups of people.

I pride myself on my organisational skills and am constantly trying to improve on my faults.

My motto in Life to being successful at my work, is to fall in love with what I am doing and have a passion for it, breathe it and especially be true about it.

Positive Energy and being sincere draws people to me. I take a long term view in everything I try doing, because I believe that sustainable success requires uncompromising commitment.

EDUCATION

Matric – 1992 – Victoria Park High School, Port Elizabeth

Subjects : English 1st Language, Afrikaans, Business Economics, Geography, Biology & Woodwork

Sport : Soccer / Athletics - Javelin

HOBBIES / AFTER HOURS INTERESTS

Wing shooting, spear fishing, hiking, yachting, canoeing, scuba diving, camping and hunting.

I also teach spear fishing and give Survival Courses and do Guided Hunting Trips on weekends. I am well experienced with the flora and fauna of the South African Bushveld.

October 2019 – present

I have been presently working for myself doing odd Construction Handyman Jobs, Specialized Crime scene operational cleaning, - of Homicide / Murder / Suicide scenes, Brutal car accidents / Blood Spills / Faecal Matter and Disease / Virus and Bacterial Cleaning.

I also am a Tour guide and I do Survival Courses and Hunting Trips with foreign Nationals and Local South African public.

Work is coming in very erratically and I am battling to survive financially and independantly because of Coronavirus Lockdown.

NB: I am looking for either a permanent Sales Consultant Position or being employed to be a Farm Manager again or become a Tour Guide Operator or a Fulltime Crime Scene Specialist Cleaner.

I am extremely good at what I do and can fit into any role in any company and make a success of it because I am very dedicated and can work very well with people. I am an extrovert and a people’s person.

September 2015 – October 2019

COMPANY NAME : Retail Capital SA (Pty) Ltd

– JHB Branch & then relocated me back to the Eastern Cape in May 2017 to spearhead operations down there

Position Held : Financial Business Consultant

Salary Package : R25 000 CTC, & Commission of 3.2%

Duties :

Responsible for the Marketing & selling of “Money” to companies wanting a quick Cash injection (Merchant Cash Advancing)

Pushing of Sureswipe Integrated Payment Credit Card Service Provider in at all my customers

Offering my customers greater Value with a Sureswipe Gift & Loyalty Programme and give clients access to Business Finance when they needed a cash advance.

Preparing my own Quotations & updating our company’s portfolio & customer data base

Cold canvassing of new potential customers and working on existing re-advancing clients

Training of new Sales recruits for the Business.

In charge of all Contract signing of all the National Franchise deals within the NW, Limpopo & Gauteng Regions

Maintain customer relations through route calls.

Implement Marketing and Sales Strategies.

Ensure promotional activities are achieved as per plan.

Working on Sales Force and uploading information.

Achieve volume and Right Execution Daily (RED) targets.

Reason for leaving:

Resigned to work for myself

Reference: Mr Clinton Foy +44-744*-****** (he relocated to the UK)

August 2012 – end of August 2015 present

COMPANY NAME : Pace Oil cc – Krugersdorp, Gauteng Position Held : Agricultural & Mining Sales Representative

Salary Package : R21 800 basic, Company bakkie, Pension Fund, Medical Aid,

& 5% Commission on all oil sales once over my target

Duties :

Responsible for the marketing & selling of our house Brand of Hydraulic, Factory, Automotive & Agricultural Lubricants

Preparing my own quotations & updating our company’s portfolio & customer data base

Cold canvassing of new potential customers

Manage account services through quality checks

Maintain sales Materials with current product Knowledge

Follow ups done regularly with sales close offs

Maintain customer relations through daily route calls.

Implement Marketing and Sales Strategies.

Ensure promotional activities are achieved as per plan.

Achieve volume and Right Execution Daily (RED) targets.

Manage and develop sales team

Preparing weekly, and monthly sales reports

Doing the monthly stock taking & Participating in sales and company meetings

Participating in company-sponsored sales and technical training sessions

Responsible for developing our customer relationships, including but not limited to : Providing estimates and quotations, Developing new customer relationships within the

market Converting business by working leads obtained from prospecting, trade shows, and Weekly Call Report

In charge of the House Keeping of all the staff’s locker rooms & the factory

From point of sale to the customer – I have to do all my own deliveries – daily basis

Manage & Control Brand Expenditure for the region & for Respective Customers

Represent the Company brand at all Activities & Related events

Doing repetitive Promotions in the Retail chain stores with brand awareness / advertising and erecting promotional display stands

In charge of all the company’s Advertising and guided tours of the factory

Assisting the Accounts department with debt recovery

IS strategy and budget; People and relationship management; Service group contribution; People development.

My own Personal sales targets had been broken month on month, and. I am very dedicated to sales and marketing and will NOT STOP until I know I am better than the BEST.

Reason for leaving:

Working for this Business there was No scope at all for Me to further or develop myself or chance for me to get to a Management position, although I already am doing everything a Manager does – I was not being recognized for it. It was a family owned business.

I left on bad terms, with the sales director – “one of the partners of the business”, he hated me because I spoke my mind.

November 2008 – August 2012

Company Name : Instruweld Welding Centre

Position Held : Technical Sales Manager

Duties :

Recruit new Industrial gas users / customers

Up selling to existing customers - welding machines & consumables

Provide technical support / demos to customers

Deliver & collection of welding machines for repairs / service

Prepare / draft weekly reports i.e.: whereabouts, new customers, business obtained & projective sales

In charge of all housekeeping of the entire Business and work shops

Prepare quotes and do full credit application forms with clients

Repairs to LP Gas equipment & gas manifold systems

Placing orders with suppliers for our general stock holdings

Orchestrate logistics – 7 drivers

Assisting with banking, collections of outstanding monies & getting the company’s post

Monthly cylinder stock taking reports at customer’s premises

Held the position for Top Sales in the company for 2 years straight.

Reason for leaving:

Head hunted by one of my clients, and was offered a better package

(011-*******) Reference: Mr Graham Mansfield

March 2008 – September 2008

Company Name : Rentokil Initial (SA) (PTY) Ltd

Position Held : Hygiene Consultant / New Business / Customer Care Duties :

Recruit new customers (cold canvassing)

Reading site plans, meetings with architects & She Managers

Prepare / draft weekly sales reports

Every Friday afternoon we did role playing / queries, complaints customers would throw at us and how we were going to handle the situation of NO’S and turning NO’S into YES’S!

Up selling / up grading existing sales agreements into bigger and longer contracts

Continuous training in Hygiene and safety rules and regulations Achievement :

Top salesman for the Kya Sands West Rand branches, 2 months consecutively amongst 14 sales consultants and Top salesman in Gauteng in July 2008.

Reason for leaving :

Kya Sands Branch re-located / joined with Pretoria East Branch which was too far for me to travel each day

(011-***-****) Reference: Mrs Debbie Geoffreys

February 2008 – relocated to Johannesburg from Port Elizabeth

February 2005 – January 2008

Company Name : Air Temp Air conditioning & Refrigeration Position Held : Sales Manager

Reason for leaving : Relocated to Johannesburg Duties :

Recruit new customers,

Handling Maintenance Contracts, and up selling / upgrading of new air conditioners

Site meetings with Architects, Ordering new stock from suppliers in Johannesburg & Durban,

Prepared / quotes with all calculations involved with Air ducting, Assisting of banking (041-***-****) Reference: Mr Mike Hilmer

April 2003 – January 2005

Company Name : Steiner Hygiene (Bidvest Group)

Position Held : Key Accounts Manager Reason for Leaving : Too much internal Politics Duties :

Responsible for upgrading / up selling newer hygiene equipment / services to existing customers

Daily meetings with She managers and or architects

Prepare quotes, read architectural drawings, and draft up rental contracts

Continuous sales training of new and improved hygiene equipment and methods of practice

Monthly stock take

Weekly role play situations of how to overcome negatives from customers and turn them into Positives.

(041- 487 0810) Reference: Mrs Linda Hague

June 1999 – March 2003

Company Name

:

San Francisco Coffee shop Port Elizabeth

Position held

:

Co-owner

Reason for leaving

;

Sold my shares to my partner

Duties

:

Front of house manager

Hiring & firing of staff

Training the waiters & staff to be more proficient

Doing health & hygiene courses with all my staff and training them

Ordering from suppliers

Advertising campaigns

Designing the menus

Banking & doing the wages

Collecting companies post & doing the cash ups

April 1995 – May 1999

Company Name : Easigas Centre (Pty) Ltd – Port Elizabeth

Position Held : Sales Manager, Foreman & Technician

Reason for leaving : Bought shares in a coffee shop

Duties :

Cold canvassing of new customers

Preparing all the quotes

Doing the invoicing & Filing

Welding up all broken equipment in and around the premesis

Ordering bulk LP Gas deliveries from Shell & ordering all consumables

Loading & Off Loading of the Trucks & Bakkies

Site meetings with architects, reading plans and building up of gas cages

Installing LP Gas manifolds, geysers, kitchen appliances and fireplaces

Doing deliveries

Assisting with the banking & collecting the company’s post

Help with debt collecting

Stock taking

Hiring of staff and sitting in on the meetings with the labour unions & shop stewards

Draughting gas plans with the help and assistance of the Fire department (041-***-****) Reference: Gavin Akom or 041-***-****

February 1993 – March 1995

Company Name : VAN RENSBURG’S SALEM TOMATOES & CHICORY PLANTATION FARM

Position Held : Farm Manager

Reason for Leaving : The Owner: Mark van Rensburg moved - Zambia

Duties : Minimised costs – better purchasing skills,

Assisted with transport delivery from the fields to the Pack houses

Managed a large work force of 103 labourers

Did all the forecasting & budget predictions of crops grown & cultivated

General handyman work carried out: plumbing problems, welding & repairing broken plant equipment, building work, tiling, etc.. (Just not electrical work done)

Stock taking of maintenance Equipment, lubricants, safety wear, etc. in the stores

Payments of wages & time keeping

IN Charge of all the house keeping with the staff’s quarters & their locker rooms

Health & Hygiene courses taken & implementing them with the staff

Sitting in on all the staff related union meetings

Ensured high company policies & standards were maintained through correct training of the staff & implementing them, with correct procedures put in place

EXTRA STUDIES

East Cape Training Centre : Gas welding & cutting, Mig / CO2 Welding

Plasma cutting & Arc Welding

Scubaventures (NAUI) : Open water 1 Advanced Diver

Master Diver & Sea Rescue Diving Wreck Diver & Shark Diving

Total School of Health : Aromatherapy, Reflexology

Steiner & Rentokil : Health & Hygiene studies - internal courses Sales & Marketing courses were done through the various companies I have worked through.

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