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Proposals & Commercial Strategy Lead
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Alistair is one of East and Southern Africa’s fastest growing service companies, providing a variety of self-delivered logistics solutions with core competencies in road freight and operational hire of material handling equipment. The business has gone from strength to strength, growing quickly in both its geographical coverage and variety of services offered to clients. At the moment, the Group employees over 800 personnel, delivers services across sixteen countries and is poised for significant further expansion.
Core Competencies:
- Material Supply
- Customs Clearance
- Road Freight
- Material Handling
- Storage and Warehousing
- Offshore & Onshore Equipment Rental
- Specialized Inspection Services
To be known as the Company that makes Africa work better.
Company Behaviours
Honesty, Customer Focus, Continual Improvement, Humility, and Saf
About the Role
The role oversees a team of pricing analysts and tender coordinators, and plays a hands-on role in high-value projects, strategic bids, and client negotiations.
Responsibilities
Leadership & Management
- Lead and manage the Quotes and Tenders team, ensuring timely and high-quality outputs.
- Mentor and guide the team in understanding commercial drivers, pricing logic, and strategic positioning.
- Develop and maintain internal processes for quote approvals, tender preparation, and pricing governance.
Pricing Strategy & Execution
- Review all pricing submissions for accuracy, competitiveness, and alignment with commercial strategy.
- Make decisions on when to bid, and when to adjust pricing (upwards or downwards) to reflect opportunity value or risk.
- Build and maintain complex pricing models for dedicated or project-specific opportunities.
- Prepare ad-hoc rates as required by business units, operations, or sales leads.
Tender Management
- Oversee the end-to-end tender submission process, ensuring compliance with all requirements and submission of high-quality, persuasive proposals.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to craft compelling reasons for client selection—beyond price alone.
- Lead the preparation and review of responses to tender clarifications.
Client Engagement & Stakeholder Relations
- Engage directly with clients (via email, meetings, WhatsApp) to refine pricing, understand project scopes, and strengthen relationships.
- Represent the pricing function in customer status meetings and support the sales/commercial team during negotiations.
- Monitor upcoming opportunities through close engagement with engineering firms, consultants, and key market stakeholders.
Market & Opportunity Intelligence
- Stay abreast of industry trends, market rates, and future projects in the mining, logistics, and engineering sectors.
- Proactively source intelligence on upcoming tenders and align internal resources to respond effectively.
Skills and Qualifications
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, logistics or supply chain management.
- Proven experience in pricing, commercial strategy, or proposals within logistics, engineering, or related industries.
- Strong leadership capabilities and experience managing small commercial or technical teams.
- Excellent analytical and financial modelling skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage clients and internal stakeholders.
- Proactive, commercially astute, and capable of balancing risk, reward, and strategy in pricing decisions.
Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:20 AM – 4:20 PM, and Alternate Saturdays, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
The Company reserves the right to withdraw from the recruitment process at any time, at its sole discretion. The sharing of any aptitude test, assessment, or invitation to an interview does not constitute an offer of employment or guarantee any future employment with the Company. Candidates acknowledge that progression through any stage of the recruitment process does not imply or ensure an eventual offer of employment.
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Strategic Workforce Planning Specialist
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The incumbent will be responsible and accountable for the facilitation, guiding, directing, consolidation, monitoring and status reporting of SANBS Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) processes, initiatives, actions and implementation plans.
Key Performance Areas
KPA 1: Direct and facilitate, guide & drive SWP in SANBS
- Provide specialists input by facilitating and directing, and driving all SWP processes and activities to ensure consistent application with optimal return for the business.
- Manage the SWP process from start to finish and accept final responsibility of the organization-wide workforce plan.
- Develop and implement the SWP policy, governance and frameworks.
- Coordinate and schedule all SWP processes and activities ensuring alignment with the annual business cycle, leadership and reporting protocols.
- Ensure all divisional SWP plans are timely submitted and comply with the SWP procedures and specifications.
- Support divisions with SWP implementation and actions and proactively advise to ensure optimal return on investment.
KPA 2: Relationship Management
- Strategic partner to the Executives, Senior Managers & Managers within SANBS to support SWP.
- SWP stakeholder relationships management across the Departments and Divisions.
- Support and enable a common SWP understanding in SANBS.
- Ensure integration of all the functions in the SWP process and synergies and opportunities are fully exploited.
- Close working relationship with Learning & Development to ensure the training matrix is active and supports all the SWP processes and actions.
KPA 3: Management of the SWP Annual Scenario Planning processes
- Facilitate, direct and coordinate the annual SWP scenario planning process per department ensuring consistent application across SANBS.
- Custodian of SWP templates and tools, ensuring templates and tools are reviewed when required to support efficiencies and effectiveness.
- Ensure efficient scheduling and communication to support timely delivery.
- Consolidate all divisional scenario plans in the SANBS plan, clearly articulating time, deliverables, actions and accountability.
KPA 4: Monitoring of SWP action plans, implementation
- Proactively monitor the implementation and progress on all SWP action plans and identify potential opportunities to improve when required.
- Interpret, provide input and revise (if necessary) divisional action plans, if no longer serving the organization.
KPA 5: Reporting
- Consolidated SWP Reporting: Quarterly & Annually, ensuring accuracy and timely reporting.
- Develop and submit reports detailing the link to business performance and quantify impact.
- Develop reports associated with the 5-year strategic plan time horizon of the organization.
KPA 6: Up-to-date, accurate data and information management for SWP
- Implement and ensure all information utilized on the SWP system and/or database/s is up-to-date and accurate.
- Quality assurance checks and audits of information on a regular basis to ensure accuracy, relevancy and up-to-date information.
- Ensure a procedure to maintain all information sources utilized effectively.
- Develop appropriate and efficient systems to ensure accurate data management.
- Interpret the SANBS workforce data and provide recommendations to senior leadership.
KPA 7: SWP Stakeholder Management
- Support a consistent and common understanding of SWP across SANBS by developing communications for utilization by the Executives and Managers.
- Draft SWP messaging and communication to support SWP implementation.
- Drive change management to ensure strategic alignment with all relevant stakeholders in the process.
KPA 8: Risk Management
- Identify potential early warning SWP risks and propose mitigating actions for approval and implementation.
- Assist and support internal and external auditors by submitting correct data and reports.
- Ensure organization-wide adherence to SWP policy and procedures.
- Integrate SWP risks into the broader organizational strategic risk register.
KPA 9: Continuous Improvement and quality management
- Identify opportunities to improve SWP and business processes at appropriate intervals.
- Proactively identify opportunities and potential synergies across the business with skills planning and integration to talent mapping processes.
- Incorporate SWP opportunities into the SANBS quality management system.
- Track and monitor process improvements actions.
KPA 10: SWP Governance
- Ensure SWP policies and procedures are up-to-date and support the business needs and requirements whilst adhering to labour laws and legislation.
- Ensure SWP templates are reviewed timeously to support efficiencies and effectiveness of SWP operations.
- Ensure a common understanding of SWP processes and procedures across SANBS.
Cognitive Skills
- Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Management Control.
- Project Management.
- Change Management.
- Holistic / Big Picture.
- Judgment and Decision making.
- Problem solving.
- Planning, Organizing and Monitoring.
- Knowledge of ER theory, concepts and best practice.
Personal Skills
- Ethical behaviour.
- Excellence Orientation.
- Resilience and stress management.
- Self-Management.
- Customer Service Orientation.
- Confidentiality.
- Resourceful.
Interpersonal Skills
- Communication.
- Conflict Management.
- Knowledge Sharing.
- Organizational Awareness.
- Relationship Building.
- Teamwork.
Professional Technical Skills
- Systems Competence.
- Business and Financial Acumen.
- Best Practice Thinking.
- SWP Practice.
- Business process understanding.
- Presentation and Business writing skills.
Leadership Skills
- Practical Execution Management.
Education
- Degree in Business, Strategic Management, Human Resources, Industrial Psychology or equivalent.
- Honors degree will be an advantage.
Experience and Knowledge Requirements
- 5 to 8 years relevant experience.
- Proven track record in the application of analytics in decision-making.
- Advanced Excel and data management skills.
- Understanding of the strategic management principles and processes.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of strategic human resource management.
- Excellent understanding of operational business activities and relationship to manpower planning.
- Excellent understanding of skills development.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of strategic workforce planning.
- The ability to translate business needs and requirements into practical people solutions.
- Knowledge of Labour Legislation.
- Advanced knowledge of information technology systems (SAP preferred).
- Up-to-date knowledge and understanding of new developments and strategies in Human Resources, transformation, high-performance cultures and change environments.
- Exposure and experience in/to a unionized environment.
- The ability to inspire, influence and create a positive work environment and atmosphere.
- The ability to understand, respect and work with all levels, different management styles, different personalities, work approaches, and cultures.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Experienced with MINING, ENGINEERING or MANUFACTURING Sectors
TENDER Documentation & Submission experience - ESSENTIAL
* Minimum 8-10 Year's experience in SALES & MARKETING
* Willingness to Travel into Africa and Aboard
* Strong Background in SALES MANAGEMENT
* Proficient in CRM Tools, Microsoft Office & Digital Lead
Generation Platforms
Duties include:
* Sales Target Achievement
* New Business Acquisition
* Market Research & Analysis
* Developing growth strategies
* Identifying new business opportunities
* Maintaining Client Relationships
* Presentations/Pitches
* Proposal & Contract Management
* Experienced in TENDER Documentation & Submission -
Compulsory
* CLEAN CRIMINAL RECORD - will be verified
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#J-18808-LjbffrBusiness Development Consultant
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- Interested in working for an innovative company that has been in operation for 30 years?
- With a friendly, relaxed, and supportive culture?
- Clear career paths and professional development opportunities?
Opportunity details
This is a junior position for a graduate with some b2b sales or a motivated sales executive looking to move into a more consultative sales role. The right candidate will have some sales experience, likely in some form of b2b sales role, approximately 1-2 years max.
Starting as the junior sales executive in an established team, you will work alongside other Sales leaders.
What You’ll Do
- Source and identify brand new clients.
- Engage new clients by face to face.
- Work within a team of senior sales leaders to hit and exceed targets.
- At least one year’s sales experience in a B2B setting.
- Hard working and committed with an excellent work ethic.
- Pro-active, persuasive & confident.
- An ability to understand client’s needs and adopt a tailored approach.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional income structure.
- First-rate training, support and guidance with daily exposure to leadership development.
- Flat structure with excellent career progression - promotion is invariably internal.
- Relaxed, work hard, play hard environment.
Business Development Manager
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About Us
Integrity360 is the largest independent cyber security provider in Europe, with a growing international presence spanning the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. With over 700 employees, across 12 locations, and six Security Operations Centres (SOCs)—including locations in Dublin, Sofia, Stockholm, Madrid, Naples and Cape Town—we support more than 2,500 clients across a wide range of industries.
Over 80% of our team are technical experts, focused on helping clients proactively identify, protect, detect and respond to threats in an ever-evolving cyber landscape. Our security-first approach positions cyber resilience as a business enabler, empowering organisations to operate with confidence.
At Integrity360, people come first. We invest heavily in learning, development and progression, fostering a dynamic culture where innovation, collaboration and continuous growth are at the heart of what we do. If you're ready to take your cyber security career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you.
Do you have great relationships, do you excel at opening doors, building pipelines, and closing strategic deals?
We're seeking a results-driven, ambitious, and dynamic Enterprise Sales Executive to join our high-performance team. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.
Responsibilities
- Drive new business development across enterprise clients in South Africa.
- Build and maintain strong, long-term customer relationships with decision-makers and key stakeholders.
- Understand and align with each customer’s cybersecurity strategy and procurement processes.
- Manage the end-to-end sales cycle, from lead generation to close.
- Collaborate with vendors, distributors, and internal teams to deliver tailored, best-fit security solutions.
- Maintain a healthy and accurate sales pipeline with regular forecasting and reporting.
- Create and present compelling proposals and value propositions.
- Conduct regular business reviews and strategy sessions with key accounts to drive opportunity and expansion.
- Meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue and margin target.
Requirements
- 5+ years' proven track record in enterprise sales within high-end IT, technology, or cybersecurity solutions
- Self-motivated, target-driven, and relentless in pursuit of new opportunities
- Strong presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proficient in MS Office and CRM tools (Salesforce)
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team environment
- Existing network and strong client relationships across enterprise or corporate sectors
- Experience selling solutions such as Crowdstrike, Microsoft, Netskope, Next-Gen Firewall technologies, or similar is a strong advantage
- If not already in cybersecurity, a genuine passion for the field and a solid understanding of the industry is required.