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Meritocracy focused

Leading 7 reps in a fast paced, high pressured enviroment. Duties revolve around managing sales KPI execution of the team, spending time in trade reinforcing customer relationships, formulating annual, quarterly and monthly plans, leading and managing rep's careers. I have learned to work under oressure, leadership and communication skills. I have also learned how important meritocracy is, hard work will always yield results and rewards. I enjoy leading people and executing team concieved plans. The innovative nature of the business always keeps work interesting. Learning how to lead was challenging, motivating 7 people to work towards the same goal requires patience and consistancy.

Pros: Many opportunities for growth
Cons: No work life balance

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24 hr operation

- nned to be available all the time - 24 hr operation - people management - IR management - cost management - 3rd party management - volume driven - targets to be met - adrenalin rush

Pros: fast paced experience
Cons: little time for your family

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Great Life trainer

Working in this business has taught me a lot about life in general. It taught me how you need to be able to adapt to new situations, pick up knowledge quickly while working in new environments and always staying learning. I moved from sales to corporate after my first 4 years with the business. My 4 years in sales were spent learning a lot about sales and leading people in the direction you want. The time I have spent is CA has been about curtailing all that knowledge to my new job and selling the business, not just our products. Mostly I enjoy the interactions with the different people, even though some are harder than most. A down side would have to be the manner upper management has handled our recent merger. Not enough clarity and linking new direction to real life for me. But mostly the lack of clarity is my issue. I have always found people follow easier when the way is mapped out in its entirety, rather than small chunks. This is not a universal truth, but it worked for me in most cases

Pros: Great opportunity for promotion
Cons: uncertainty about business direction

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Great learning curve.

great company to work for. Great learning opportunities created. Wonderful, success driven individuals. Great team effort. Results driven culture. High flyers recognized and rewarded

Pros: Great knowledge exposure and learning opportunities
Cons: Long working hours

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Excellent learning environment

Meet challenges everyday. You learning how to handle pressure. Meeting new people everyday with different characters. I enjoy helping customers and also merchandising. I do learn new things every day.

Pros: Yes
Cons: Yes

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Excellent curve of learning

I am a passionate, dedicated and hardworking individual with the ability to give every effort to my tasks. I am also reliable and like challenges. My time working in chemistry, microbiology laboratory and brewing control room has taught me to cope under pressure, to interact effectively with others, to plan and organize and to and to analyze situations in critical and creative ways. I have good communication skills (verbal and written). My key competency included an analytical analysis that includes calibrations of equipment’s in QC laboratory in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOP) and calibration schedule.

Pros: Great opportunity to learn more about quality
Cons: small chances of career growth

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Passionate about providing service

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Pros: Great opportunity for growth
Cons: Far from home

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Challenging experience but quite great to learn a lot from people with different cultures,beliefs

Challenging experience but quite great to learn a lot from people with different cultures,beliefs. There's a lot of pressure but one has to be alert and assertive in order to overcome that pressure. Every now and then, there are changes made from the top and it cascades down to everyone.

Pros: Great opportunity and rewarding after hardworking
Cons: Shift work. Certain shift patterns

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Advance engineering mathematics and process control, design. Autocad plant simulation

South African Breweries is part of the ab inbev company. It is known as one of the greatest brewery worldwide. With 7 Breweries in South Africa. I work as brewer and I deal with process transport e.g Filtration and Centrifugation process. Meeting quality specifications and achieving all these through VPO system.

Pros: Process engineering
Cons: Unknown

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Perfect starting place for great industry exposure

I am working shifts and we are a team consisting of 12 individuals. Every section of the plant depend on the other and therefore communication is essential. Typical day at work involves running the process, reacting to deviations and involving the shift artisan to help solve them. Problem solving is emphasised since it stops problems from re-occurring. It is shift work and proper hand over to the next is a must.

Pros: Learning the brewing world and trainership are available
Cons: Working shifts is sometimes exhausting when helpng out if the other member is sick for a longer time

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