GREAT PROFESSIONALS

SHARING THEIR CAREER

JOURNEY

A WorkinAfrica.com story

1. How does a typical day look for

you?

“My day always starts with a report about my

results regarding the sales from the day before. I share this file with my team. I also check the status of the tasks that have been established for the whole week. I make calls to certain customers to make sure they are satisfied with our services or if they have received the emails confirming their orders”

- Jean Louis Doucrou

1. How does a typical day look for

you?

“My day starts with a check in the financial

department – if our clients have paid. Then I

go in the factory to look at clients' orders,

next I go to my office to contact and make

proposals to the different markets”

- Pedro Filipe Figueiredo

1. How does a typical day look for

you?

Rasheed Olayiwola spends his mornings in

meetings with the territory managers and he also works with them on the field, to help them develop. Rasheed also has leadership conference calls. Last but not least, he visits the channel partners to make sure they have the proper stock, afterward he returns to his office to attend other meetings, to write e-mails or other office requirements.

2. What are your main

responsibilities?

Jean Louis Doucrou says that his tasks “revolve

around the development and the implementation of

the business model in a new market, the E-

commerce”. He has to raise awareness of the brand

of the company, the company's products, the way

the system functions. He considers that his job can

be described in three words: Inform, Educate and

Communicate.

2. What are your main

responsibilities?

Pedro Filipe Figueiredo takes care of all the deals

in the company with their international clients, Kevin

Omondi is the man that ensures that Kenya

BixaLimited has a competitive edge when it comes

to technology innovation. Rasheed Olayiwola is

responsible for achieving the sales target in his

area, as well as paying attention to the

development of the market.

3. What is the most powerful

motivator for you at this job?

To keep doing what he does, Jean Louis

Deucrou needs to know his customers are happy because of his work.

Pedro Filipe Figueiredo feels that, if he achieves his objectives and finds new strategies to reach all the markets, he is more than satisfied.

Rasheed Olayiwola likes very much to work with people and to have a very good team, whereas Kevin Omondi loves to be challenged daily at his job.

4. What advice do you give to people that want a career

in your industry or people who want to pursue a similar

career path?

Kevin Omondi: “I would advise you to develop

passion for your job. It will be like fuel and it will

drive you to greater heights.”

Rasheed Olayiwola: “You must be a person focused

towards the people's needs and you must have

passion to help the others meet their goal. A

salesman is a pathfinder, after all.”

5. Where do you see yourself in the

future? What’s your career path?

Kevin Omondi sees himself as the Information

Technology Director very soon and, at some point,

even start his own ICT consulting firm.

Pedro Filipe Figueiredo plans to present a very

good project in a bigger country in Africa in order

to revitalize the cereal culture and to help the

farmers. He really wants to contribute in creating

new opportunities for the industries that are facing

challenges right now.

The professionals

Jean Louis Doucrou is responsible with Sales & Marketing at Cdiscount Sénégal, Groupe Casino France, E-commerce, and he told us that he has a Masters Degree in Marketing Management.

Pedro Filipe Figueiredo is the Director of a Board Advisory in International Markets and he said that he studied Law and International Markets for three years and Chinese Language for two years.

Kevin Omondi has a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and he works, obviously, in IT – he is the IT Service Delivery Executive at Kenya BixaLimited.

And Rasheed Olayiwola is currently working as a Business Manager at Bharti Airtel Networks Ltd.. He studied Economics and Statistics.

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