Overview
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Thomas Bechard

Grand Bay

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

Cuisine Integrale Ltd.
03.2018 - Current
  • Administration: Establish the project’s program of works
  • Coordinate contractors, clients and the company’s ends of business
  • Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings
  • Providing administrative support as needed
  • Operations: Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures...
  • Ensuring project deadlines are met
  • Determining project changes
  • Undertaking project tasks as required
  • Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective
  • Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable
  • Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
  • Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project
  • Key achievement: In my role as a Project Manager, I have significantly honed my organizational and planning skills while strengthening client relationship management and further building confidence in my abilities
  • I take immense pride in my accomplishments, with my greatest achievement being the successful leadership of multiple high-profile hotel and restaurant projects, ensuring total client satisfaction in line with P.O.W
  • Standards
  • Among these projects, I had the privilege of overseeing the renovation of prestigious five-star properties such as LUX
  • Resorts & Hotels and Paradise Cove, as well as the construction of state-of-the-art kitchens from the ground up
  • The opportunity to orchestrate and direct these complex initiatives has not only been incredibly fulfilling but has also solidified my self-assurance in my capacity to lead and deliver exceptional results
  • Each project, whether large or small, has been a steppingstone in refining my craft and expanding my expertise
  • Today, I feel more equipped than ever to take on even greater challenges and continue driving excellence in the projects I lead

Tractor and Equipment Sales Manager

SMAG Limitée
05.2017 - 03.2018
  • Administration: Establish and adjust selling prices by monitoring costs, competition, supply and demand
  • Implement national sales programs by developing field sales action plans
  • Monitor and prepare KPI's
  • Prepare quotations and monitor sales income
  • Operations: Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
  • Ensure targets are delivered through people management, performance review, reward and individual recognition
  • Manage, develop, coach, control and motivate the sales force to develop their skill to ensure that a high professional standard is achieved and monthly sales target and KPI target are met
  • Visit customers and potential customers alongside sales executives
  • Chase leads and following up on opportunities to generate sales
  • Attend trade meetings and industry conventions
  • Identify emerging markets and market shifts while being fully aware of new products and competition status
  • Key achievement: Being employed as a Sales Manager, I've learnt an enormous amount about the world of sales and acquired new skills in communication, mechanics and customer service
  • I however consider my greatest achievement to have been the ability to quickly adapt to a new environment and challenges; reaching the six months mark, my department had already sold over ten implements and two tractors

Operations Supervisor

Velogic Haulage Services Ltd
02.2016 - 02.2017
  • Administration: Monitor fuel efficiency in vehicles
  • Monitor vehicles' movements (such as speeding and geofence) through GPS applications
  • Build work plans and roasters for operatives
  • Monitor and ensure that tonnage and trip quota of every lorry is respected on a daily basis (KPI's) as well as ensuring the budget is made
  • Control the quantity and values of tires used
  • Operations: Manage crews and lorries to fulfill corporate client requirements
  • Keep clients updated on work progress, breakdowns and actions to remedy
  • Monthly inspection of all vehicles to ensure they are up to standard
  • Routine daily inspection of employees, to ensure dress code and attitude is up to standard
  • Reprehend operatives who have not been up to standard or not met their daily objectives
  • Manage on site supervisors, giving them precise information and guiding them through so that work is done seamlessly
  • Make sure procedures are respected on and off site
  • Manage activities for Indian Oil, Lafarge, UBP and Omnicane
  • Key achievement: Having managed over 35 vehicles and 140 operatives and 2 supervisors during the 2016's crop season was sizable personal achievement
  • Dealing with constant pressure from clients and breakdowns but remaining calm and composed, meeting all targets set out and having the recognition from all sides was a big milestone in my professional and personal growth

Road Transport Officer

Associated Containers Limited
06.2015 - 02.2016
  • Administration: Monitor fuel efficiency in vehicles
  • Monitor vehicles' movements (such as speeding and geofence) through GPS applications, to liaise with the supplier
  • Monitor trips, servicing and fitness
  • File and follow insurance procedures
  • Operations: Monitor the fleet by making constant spot checks and on-site inspections
  • Liaise with garage for vehicle repairs and follow up
  • Pre-Fitness vehicle inspection
  • Investigate on accident and incidents, presence on site required
  • Interact with operatives and making sure all tasks are completed smoothly
  • Perform daily alcotests on operatives and staff
  • Ensure the wear of standard personal protective equipment
  • Key Achievement: With the help of the IT department, I managed and designed reports for the internal IT system, such as automated fuel efficiency reports, automated servicing reports as well as automated fitness, insurance and road tax alert reports

Trainee

Associated Containers Limited
01.2015 - 06.2015
  • Administration: To learn how to monitor fuel efficiency in vehicles
  • To learn how to monitor vehicles' movements (such as speeding and geofence) through GPS applications
  • To learn how to monitor trips, servicing, fitness
  • To learn about insurance procedures

Transport Coordinator

Associated Containers Limited
09.2014 - 01.2015
  • Administration: Monitor fuel efficiency in vehicles
  • Monitor vehicles' movements through (such as speeding and geofence) GPS applications, to liaise with the supplier
  • Monitor trips, servicing and fitness
  • File and follow insurance procedures

Timeline

Project Manager

Cuisine Integrale Ltd.
03.2018 - Current

Tractor and Equipment Sales Manager

SMAG Limitée
05.2017 - 03.2018

Operations Supervisor

Velogic Haulage Services Ltd
02.2016 - 02.2017

Road Transport Officer

Associated Containers Limited
06.2015 - 02.2016

Trainee

Associated Containers Limited
01.2015 - 06.2015

Transport Coordinator

Associated Containers Limited
09.2014 - 01.2015

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