Sales Representative Rep
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ACUMEN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT (PTY)LTD
PERSONAL DETAILS
Surname: Van der Merwe
First Names: Rudi
ID Number: 750**********
Date of Birth: 2 May 1975
Nationality: South African
Driver’s License: Code B (Own Transport)
Residential Area: Benoni
Languages: Afrikaans, English
Current Salary: R30K Nett
Expected Salary: An Improvement
Availability: Negotiable
Position Applying For: CHEMICAL SALES REP
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
High School: Welkom College
Highest Grade: Grade 12 (1994)
Modules included: Entrepreneurship, Computer Practice, Information Processing, Career Orientation, Business Afrikaans and Business English
Other Courses include:
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2002/004277/07 Directors: J Swanepoel, A Hefer.
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Von Holy Consulting, Food Safety Foundations (2010)
Von Holy Consulting, Pre-Requisite Programs (2010)
Von Holy Consulting, HACCP Foundations (2010)
Kemklean, Handwash for Life (2009)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Employer: Cleaning World
Period: February 2024 - Present
Position: Sales and Technical Rep
Reason for wanting to Leave: Seeking stability; month-to-month Contract. After leaving QSA Brands, Rudi continued with his Auctioneering business. Employer: QSA Brands
Period: June 2022 – January 2023
Position: Sales Representative
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Responsible for continuous development and expansion of new business.
Liaise with Sales Director to forecast sales targets.
Organize and plan daily visits to clients to ensure adherence to sales targets.
Organize and plan monthly targets in order to meet business objectives.
Arrange meetings with clients, to introduce products.
Call on clients according to planner.
Continuous liaison with clients, to ensure customer satisfaction.
Exceed customer needs.
Conduct checks of clients operation, to ensure correct procedures.
Compile reports for clients after checks.
New Business development.
Reason for Leaving: Better prospects.
Please note that between January 2017 and April 2022, Rudi ran his own Auctioneering Business.
Employer: Kemklean Hygiene Systems
Period: January 2013 – December 2016
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2002/004277/07 Directors: J Swanepoel, A Hefer.
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Position: Sales Consultant
Area covered: Carletonville, Rustenburg, Mooinooi, Brits, Swartklip, Amandelbult, Thabazimbi, Steelpoort,
Burgersfort, Klerksdorp, Free State
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Responsible for continuous development and expansion of new business.
Liaise with Sales Director to forecast sales targets.
Organize and plan daily visits to clients to ensure adherence to sales targets.
Organize and plan monthly targets in order to meet business objectives.
Arrange meetings with clients, to introduce Products.
Call on clients according to planner.
Continuous liaison with clients, to ensure customer satisfaction.
Exceed customer needs.
Conduct checks of clients operation, to ensure correct procedures.
Compile reports for clients after checks.
New Business development.
Hygiene and chemical training.
Reason for Leaving: Opportunity to start his own business in Auctioneering.
Employer: R & A Engineering
Period: September 2011 – November 2012
Position: Sales Executive
Areas covered: Rustenburg, Carletonville, Mooinooi, Brits, Rosslyn, Lichtenburg, Swartklip, Amandelbult, Thabazimbi,
Barberton, Middelburg, Nelspruit, Steelpoort,
Burgersfort, Atok, Komatipoort, Pongola, Richards
Bay, Durban, Port Shepstone, Botswana
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Calling on existing clients.
New Business development.
Looking after Customer needs.
Attending site meetings.
Working with mining contracts.
Reason for Leaving: Retrenched; Company experiencing financial difficulty.
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2002/004277/07 Directors: J Swanepoel, A Hefer.
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Employer: Kemklean
Period: July 2009 – August 2011
Position: Sales Consultant
Areas covered: Carletonville, Rustenburg, Mooinooi, Brits, Swartklip, Amandelbult, Thabazimbi, Steelpoort,
Burgersfort
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Responsible for continuous development and expansion of new business.
Liaise with Sales Director to forecast sales targets.
Organize and plan daily visits to clients to ensure adherence to sales targets.
Organize and plan monthly targets in order to meet business objectives.
Arrange meetings with clients, to introduce products.
Call on clients according to planner.
Continuous liaison with clients, to ensure customer satisfaction.
Exceed customer needs.
Conduct checks of clients operation, to ensure correct procedures.
Compile reports for clients after checks.
New Business development.
Hygiene and chemical training.
Reason for Leaving: Better offer.
Employer: Goldfields Management Engineering Co (Pty) Ltd
Type of Business: Precision Mining Engineers Design, Manufacturing and Supplier of Mining Equipment. Manufacturers
of all rolling stock.
Period: November 2005 – June 2009
Position: Sales Representative
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Finding of new clients, keeping existing clients satisfied.
Going underground when needed.
Attending site meetings, in order to be invited to tender on certain products/ items.
Responsible for continuous development and expansion of new business.
Call on clients according to planner.
Reason for Leaving: Better offer.
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2002/004277/07 Directors: J Swanepoel, A Hefer.
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Employer: RS Components SA
Type of Business: Electronical, Mechanical and Electrical suppliers worldwide (137 000 products)
Period: December 2004 – October 2005
Position: Territory Manager: North West
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Daily, monthly reports, attending monthly sales meetings.
Serving the Mining and Private Industries and the Food Market industry.
Organize and plan daily visits to clients to ensure adherence to sales targets.
Reaching of monthly targets, call on clients according to planner.
Responsible for continuous development and expansion of new business. Reason for Leaving: Better offer.
Employer: Reng Engineering, Rustenburg
Type of Business: Manufacturing and repairing of hoppers for wheels, skip guides, roller brackets dolly wheels, loco
wheels, rubbers, buffers
Period: January 2002 – November 2004
Position: Sales Representative
Client listing: Thabazimbi, Molino, Free State, Pietersburg to Burgerstad, RPM, Lonmin, Atok, Messina Platinum,
Steelpoort (the sole Sales Rep)
Duties & Responsibilities included:
Duties: Finding of new clients, keeping existing clients satisfied.
Organize and plan daily visits to clients to ensure adherence to sales targets.
Reaching of monthly targets, Going underground when needed.
Call on clients according to planner.
Reason for Leaving: Better offer.
Employer: Dept of Health & Welfare
Period: January 1995 – December 2001
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2002/004277/07 Directors: J Swanepoel, A Hefer.
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Position: Buyer/Stock Controller/ Administrative
Officer
Acumen Resources Development (Pty) Ltd Reg. No. 2002/004277/07 Directors: J Swanepoel, A Hefer.
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