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ANTHONY THUIYA

B2B Manager| Agile Team Leader | Chemical & Process Engineer
Wang'uru,Kirinyaga

Summary

Focused, Organized and dependable Sales Team Leader, successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Highly effective mentor driven to assess individual and group performance to implement improvements and set goals. Strong leader with proficiency in growing professional network, influencing decision-makers and devising effective strategies. Collaborative and strategic team leader with robust background in customer and distributor relationship management.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Exports Manager - Central Africa (Francophone)

Diversey Inc
NAIROBI
02.2022 - Current

>Managing The Francophone Central Africa Market leading teams across 8 countries { DR Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Chad, Central Africa Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome & Principe }

> Internal (Diversey) & External Stakeholder management

> Portfolio Management

> Distributor Management

Salesforce Champion & Specialist

Diversey
NAIROBI, KENYA
12.2021 - Current

> Ensure The Team is Salesforce Compliant

> Data validation and clean-up of said data ahead of line manager's reviews with his seniors.

> Act as link (and local support) between team and IT/Finance support

> Training of Team on Salesforce and Youreka

Water Sector - Business Developer

Diversey
MOMBASA, KENYA
10.2020 - 02.2022

> Business Development with a focus on Swimming Pools at the Coast Region

> Stakeholder Management : Engineering, Pool Attendants, Hotel Management, Finance & Procurement departments

> P&L Management


Account Manager - Kenyan Coast Region

Diversey Eastern & Central Africa
Mombasa, Kenya
01.2017 - 01.2022

> Business Development/Territory Management- Hospitality/Tourism, Healthcare, Processed Foods, Industries & Commercial Laundries sectors.

> Helped manage/offer local support to some regional F&B accounts e.g Coastal Bottlers, CarGill, Sea Harvest and Kentaste.

> Secured high-value accounts through consultative selling, effective customer solutions and promoting compelling business opportunities.

>Built and strengthened long-lasting client relationships based on understanding specific customer needs and timely resolution of their issues.

>Delivered engaging and polished presentations to highlight total value propositions and draw favorable competitor comparisons.

> Consistently delivered a high collections % achievement pre-covid and great reversal of bad debts during the pandemic.

>P&L - Achieved over 95% PI implementation, in the middle of the pandemic, to support the organizations' goal of increasing GPs.

Technical Sales and Marketing Representative

Kemia International Ltd
NAIROBI, KENYA
04.2014 - 12.2016

Kemia International Ltd is the official regional agent of Clariant (Swiss Company), which is among the largest Specialty Chemicals companies in the world.

> Technical Sales of : Masterbatches, Pigments & Additives, Industrial Consumer Specialties, Leather & Textile Services, and Oil & Mining products and services.

> Competitor Activity Analysis and Mapping


>Digitized the company's records and introduced them to cloud storage


>Learnt , and implemented, the concept of Value Selling

Wellsite Chemist

Clariant Oil, Clariant
TURKANA, KENYA
07.2015 - 11.2015

> Oil Production Chemist: {I was seconded from Kemia International Ltd during this period} Worked as a Wellsite Production Chemist during the Water Injection Phase of Tullow Oil Kenya's Extended Well Test (EWT) on Amosing 1 and 2A wells.

> The main parameters we were checking were: dissolved oxygen, residual sulphites, bacteria (SRB and GAB) and suspended solids.

> Designing of chemical injection process including: appropriate pumps to use, sampling points & their locations, and injection points & their locations.

> Rigging up: - Setting up our chemical injection system (chemicals, pumps, injection and sampling points) into the set water injection system ready for the chemical injection and analysis.

>Sampling water to be used for injection, checking whether it's within the required specifications, and correct any anomaly using chemicals.

> Make a call on whether water injection process is to proceed or not, depending on whether the water is within specifications or not.

>Keeping a daily log of activities and events.

>Making daily reports on chemical analysis, and injection and making appropriate recommendations.

>Advising the client (Tullow Oil Kenya) on matters used on site.

>Taking regular stock checks of chemicals, test kits and tools in place.

>Rigging down: - Disengaging our chemical injection system from the main water injection system.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical & Process Engineering

Moi University
ELDORET, KENYA
08.2008 - 05.2013

High School Diploma -

Kianyaga High School,
KIRINYAGA, KENYA
01.2003 - 11.2006

Skills

B2B Selling & Management

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Accomplishments

  • Diversey Eastern & Central Africa: ∙ Was in a select team which strategized and executed , successfully, transitioning from overreliance on the hospitality industry to other industries like healthcare, Water Treatment , FSRs and Retail.This helped the company absorb the pandemic shock that hit the hospitality industry, and thus be able to retain all employees at no pay cut.
  • Bad debt recovery - negotiated both internally, as well as with customers to ensure continuous support at the height of the pandemic and all customers had cleared all outstanding by end of year.
  • High Customer retention due to excellent service delivery, and stakeholder management.
  • Consistently grew by 20% year-on-year growth in the last 4 years.
  • Consistently among the top revenue generators in one of the two divisions of Diversey.
  • Consistently among the achievers in collections.A high of 96% collections at one time.
  • Kemia International Ltd: ∙ Increased collections from customers who fail to pay within the stipulated credit period, by about 40%.
  • Successfully completed a customer mapping survey on the East African region.This included such data as their products, production processes, raw material sources and prices.
  • Completed a market research on competitors’ prices and terms.
  • Digitized the documentation process used in the organization.
  • Introduced the concept and adoption of cloud back-up of documents in the organization.
  • Excloosive Ltd: ∙ Made two high value (Ksh 1.7M) sales in my second month of internship at their Waste Water Treatment and Recycling department.

Interests

SAAS , AI

Work Availability

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Quote

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.
Alain de Botton

Timeline

Exports Manager - Central Africa (Francophone)

Diversey Inc
02.2022 - Current

Salesforce Champion & Specialist

Diversey
12.2021 - Current

Water Sector - Business Developer

Diversey
10.2020 - 02.2022

Account Manager - Kenyan Coast Region

Diversey Eastern & Central Africa
01.2017 - 01.2022

Wellsite Chemist

Clariant Oil, Clariant
07.2015 - 11.2015

Technical Sales and Marketing Representative

Kemia International Ltd
04.2014 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical & Process Engineering

Moi University
08.2008 - 05.2013

High School Diploma -

Kianyaga High School,
01.2003 - 11.2006
ANTHONY THUIYAB2B Manager| Agile Team Leader | Chemical & Process Engineer