Charity Simakani (MBA)

Meridian Travel Solutions is a travel management company, offering superior services to companies that wish to get maximum value from their travel budget. Duties: -Providing sales and administrative support involving efficient handling of top and confidential agreements. -Supporting the sales team in attaining sales targets. -Providing inputs and ideas into marketing enterprises and subsequently promote them and monitor responses. -Preparing monthly, weekly or daily sales analysis. -Updating the status of sales order in the database. -Collecting, analyzing, evaluating and accounting the information in order to increase productivity of sales. -Monitoring the trends and evaluating the performance assessed against monthly sales goals. -Promoting the facilities of the organization to fresh and existing customers through a proactive approach. -Coordinating and responding to all requests of internal meetings. -Maintaining a healthy relationship with existing customers while opening up fresh customers.

Based in Dubai the company is contracted by UN and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Middle East and Africa to provide support services to military and civilians serving in these politically unstable countries- Afghanistan and Sudan Duties -Creating and managing relationships with the company's internal and external customers. -Analyzing the company's customer base and coming up with best strategies to provide the services. -Ensure maximum exposure of the business at all times to target audience.

The company is one of the leading car rental companies in Zimbabwe. Duties: - Plans, direct, and coordinate marketing activities Impala Car Rental. - Spearheading the sales & marketing function for the company. -Manage effectively car rental operations. -Drawing up business proposals and budgets. -Establishing, developing and maintaining effective relationships with all strategic stakeholders within and outside the company. -Sourcing Clients from different sectors. -Opening and closing rental agreements -Making Quotations -To attend Tourism functions and meetings

I specialized in the following Subjects: - Accounting 1 and 11 - French - Entrepreneurship - Communication The Job entailed: -developing and implementing new methods of teaching to reflect changes in research; - designing, preparing and developing teaching materials; - delivering lectures, seminars and tutorials; -assessing students' coursework; -setting and marking examinations; - supporting students through a pastoral/advisory role; - undertaking personal research projects and actively contributing to the academic research board at the institute.

- Human resources management -Administration and other ad hoc duties.

Performing duties in several departments such as Finance, Marketing, Client Services, and Operations: -Primary focus within the Hospitality Department. -Participating in various training experiences with particular emphasis to the hospitality and tourism industry. - Preparation of viable project proposals to submit to donors and relevant authorities. -Analyzing human resources needs in the tourism and hospitality industry and coming up with strategic measures to aid in manpower development such as short term or long courses or changes in curricula at tertiary level. -Preparation of course outline for short term courses and marketing the courses -Skilled preparation of reports and audio visual presentations.