Longidare Allen Ephraim
Arusha
Summary
I am professionally qualified in business management, as a farm operator, housekeeping supervisor in hotels and private companies, and in sales and marketing management, with many years of experience. I have achieved a degree in Business Administration and a diploma in Marketing Management at the College of Business Education in Tanzania, a Certificate in Agriculture, a Caregiver Certificate, and an International Driving License, as well as a Forklift Certificate. During my education, I successfully combined my studies with work and other commitments, showing myself to be self-motivated, organized, and capable of working under pressure. I have a clear, logical mind, with a practical approach to problem solving, and a drive to see things through to completion. I'm hardworking and enthusiastic.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Housekeeping Attendant and Supervisor
Ilboru Safari Lodge
Arusha
01.2024 - Current
- Managing the tasks to do, all of which are responsibilities below, and I'm also a part of it.
- Maintaining the cleanliness and organization of residences and offices.
- Skilled at performing basic cleaning duties, deep sanitation, organizing spaces, and tending to general housekeeping tasks in a time efficient manner.
- Committed to providing clients with superior service and satisfaction.
- Provided clients with top-notch cleaning services.
- Cleaned up spills and messes.
- Sanitized floors and surfaces.
- Removed garbage and replaced bags with new ones.
- Vacuumed and buffed floors.
- Change bed linens, towels, and other amenities in guest rooms or private residences.
- To report maintenance issues or damages in rooms to the appropriate team members.
- Restock housekeeping supplies and maintain inventory.
- Laundry duties, including washing, folding, and organizing linens.
- Provide exceptional customer service to guests, responding promptly to requests and inquiries.
- Follow all safety and sanitation guidelines to maintain a safe working environment.
- Participate in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
Business Consultant
Self employed
Arusha
05.2023 - Current
- Fostered strong relationships with clients through exceptional service delivery, and consistent follow-ups.
- Observed systems and staff operations throughout the organization, compiling current and accurate information.
- Offered expertise on employee and business development plans to enhance implementation and routine oversight.
- Negotiated contracts with vendors, ensuring optimal cost savings.
- Identified deviations from standard operating procedures, understanding causes, and preventing reoccurrence.
- Guided clients toward improved organisational structures and better solutions for identified problems.
- Led teams on complex projects to achieve business goals successfully.
- Designed new workflows, resulting in smoother operations and higher output levels.
- Developed complete business plans and operational strategies for new and existing business.
- Increased client engagement by developing and implementing strategic business plans.
- Identified potential opportunities with thorough market research and analysis.
Farm Operator
Likamba Home Farmhouse
05.2023 - Current
- Operational oversight: Manage day-to-day activities such as planting, cultivation, and harvesting of crops, as well as livestock care.
- Staff and team management: Supervise and coordinate the activities of farm staff and workers, ensuring they are motivated and following best practices.
- Financial management: Develop and manage annual farm budgets, track expenses, and monitor financial performance to ensure profitability.
- Maintenance and upkeep: Oversee the maintenance and repair of farm infrastructure, including equipment, buildings, and property.
- Compliance and safety: Ensure all operations comply with relevant legislation, health and safety regulations, and company policies.
- Performance analysis: analysis existing operations, crops, and livestock, and use performance data to recommend and implement improvements.
Stock Controller
LWC Drinks Ltd
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Processing orders, checking that stock levels are consistent, and ordering new products if needed.
- Update computer systems with fresh information about available inventory in order to optimize business efficiency overall.
- Check All Incoming Stocks, Store Stocks Wisely, Create Clear Labels, Track Expiry.
- Maintains a company's inventory, replenishing items according to business needs and implementing purchases, audits, and transfers.
- Maintains purchase and pricing reports, replenishes stock levels, and oversees shipments and internal stock transfers.
- Use sales data to gauge when and how much to restock.
- Coordinates stock control operations with warehouse staff, as well as the sales and finance departments.
- Enters shipping and inventory data in the computer system.
- Utilizes the company's inventory software platform to check in products and compare deliveries to outstanding purchase orders, analyzes supply chain data to ensure the uninterrupted availability of stock.
- UK-based drinks company.
Quality Control Technician
Pinewood Studio (MBS Lighting)
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Quality Control process/functions and within the operation as a whole, along with self-disciplines of systems, processes, procedures within the Operation and the Company.
- Ensure MBSE assets are recorded, accounted for, and properly managed.
- Conducting regular cycle counts, working to scheduled Perpetual Inventory (PI), manage the branding of equipment, identifying incomplete parts and accessories for all assets.
- Check through auditing that all assets are being regularly tested and are functioning properly.
- Assist the preparing and conducting of yearly audits.
- Proactive approach to work/tasks and able to set and upkeep of Operational and Company management standards.
- Ensure all new equipment is correctly coded and branded in an effective manner and following the Company processes and procedures.
- Manage effectively/efficiently the work time and to ensure deadlines are met.
- UK-based film and television studio.
Warehouse Operator
Skala Technical Recruitment Agency (Pinewood MBS Lighting)
08.2021 - 10.2021
- Loaded, unloaded and moved products and materials by hand or using trucks and other equipment.
- Maintained accurate records of all goods received, shipped or transferred between warehouses.
- Received, sorted and stored incoming inventory items according to established guidelines.
- Coordinated with procurement to ensure timely delivery of inbound shipments.
Production Operative
Ragus Sugars Manufacturing Limited
02.2019 - 07.2021
- Production operative jobs in Factory check machinery or parts before the manufacturing process begins.
- Collect and weigh the materials needed for production, carry out checks during manufacturing, close down machinery after manufacturing and clean and maintain equipment.
- Preparing Paper work, Operating Machines, maintaining standards of health and safety, hygiene and security in the Warehouse.
- Ensuring product has been tested to the laboratory with the standard ingredient.
- Driving Forklift in the Warehouse, including loading and uploading trucks, and lifting sugar and Syrup.
Warehouse Operator
Abacus Agency
06.2018 - 01.2019
- Operated forklifts to transport goods within the warehouse.
- Managed inventory by tracking stock levels and organizing storage areas.
- Loaded and unloaded shipments efficiently using pallet jacks and hand trucks.
- Assisted in training new warehouse staff on safety protocols and procedures.
Chief of Business Center
Halotel Tanzania (Viettel Tanzania)
01.2015 - 08.2017
- Manage the flow of goods in physical and on the system from the company to the branch and from the branch to the business center and dealers in his/her branch.
- Monitor and ensuring goods availability in the business centers and dealers, allocating and transferring goods to the canters and dealers, make sales to dealers and to take care of full innovation and responsibility of Branch sales target.
- Making sales plan in order to ensure sales staff they do sales.
- Intensive knowledge of Reaching Centers Target, Doing the Market visit to ensure stock availability, Market visibility and awareness of the product to the customers.
- Conduct sales training to area sales staff and team leaders.
- Monitoring and ensuring that all business centers they recruit Team leaders POS and freelancers in their assigned areas.
- Making sure there is availability of voucher to our P.O.S (POINT OF SALE) and all our product include sim card and proceeding with customers registration, doing direct sales to Team leaders and Agents.
- Monitoring of Company's site if there is enough network, so that customers can enjoy the services also to evaluate all activities from the competitors and see what they do day by day.
- Make sales report on daily, weekly and monthly.
- Doing any other arising task from the Branch Director.
- Manage the distribution branding and promotion materials to enhance visibility and build consumer/ dealer royalty.
- Identify requirements for trade promotions.
Business Development Coordinator
Airtel
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Drive the channel management team and ensure distribution expansion (DOD & WOD) that will boost market penetration.
- Planning and implementing market activities to ensure Gross Adds and Net Adds improve and further increasing in CMS.
- Achieve both Revenue and CMS targets, Direct distribution and availability of stocks at retail outlet.
- Recommending sites as required across the clusters.
- Business Development Coordinator at Shinyanga and Bukombe responsible for generating revenue by closing sales.
- Sales products and services to customers, to execute sales support activities and sales orders in line with departmental guidelines and procedures, to ensure timely and correctly delivery of products to the customers.
- Deduction of customer's off-air time and adequate management information on sales performance and stock level.
- Achieve revenue and sales targets within the assigned area, Develop action plans aimed at achieving targets.
- Coordinates the distribution of Airtel products within the Cluster, to ensure continues availability.
- Support the dealer, Aggregator and Distributor in developing action plans geared towards the achievements of the agreed targets.
- Monitor they performance against the targets, Recruit and support retailers Continues potential market.
- Being responsible for generating revenue by closing sales to deliver against M-Commerce revenue targets through effective management of the consumer to consumer (C2C), Business to Business (B2B), and Consumer to Business (C2B), Business to Consumer (B2C) network or as the project requires.
- Prepare Airtel money sales report on daily, weekly and monthly sales, optimize M-Commerce Airtel image by Branding and merchandizing.
- Being in charge of all sales and distribution activities, identifying market intelligence and competitors' activities.
Education
Certificate of Agriculture -
Agriculture & livestock College
Arusha, Tanzania01.2025
Certified hospitality housekeeper -
Arusha Institute of Hospitality & Management (AIHM)
Arusha, Tanzania01.2025
Bachelor of Business Management - Business Management, finance, Accounting, administration, HR
College of Business Education
Tanzania01.2012
Diploma in Marketing -
College of Business Education
Tanzania01.2008
Skills
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Organized
- Self-motivated
- Hardworking
- Enthusiastic
- Inventory management
- Financial analysis
Certification
- UK Driver's Licence AM/B/BE/f/kq, UK
- Tanzania Driving Licence Class E, Tanzania
- Certificate of Agriculture, Agriculture & Livestock College, Arusha
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, College of Business Education
Accomplishments
- Maintained high standards of cleanliness and organization in residences and offices, enhancing client satisfaction.
- Efficiently managed inventory and restocked housekeeping supplies, ensuring smooth daily operations.
- Provided exceptional customer service as a Housekeeping Attendant.
Personal Information
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Tanzanian
- Marital Status: Single
Languages
- Swahili
- English
- Swahili
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Housekeeping Attendant and Supervisor
Ilboru Safari Lodge
01.2024 - Current
Business Consultant
Self employed
05.2023 - Current
Farm Operator
Likamba Home Farmhouse
05.2023 - Current
Stock Controller
LWC Drinks Ltd
05.2022 - 05.2023
Quality Control Technician
Pinewood Studio (MBS Lighting)
10.2021 - 04.2022
Warehouse Operator
Skala Technical Recruitment Agency (Pinewood MBS Lighting)
08.2021 - 10.2021
Production Operative
Ragus Sugars Manufacturing Limited
02.2019 - 07.2021
Warehouse Operator
Abacus Agency
06.2018 - 01.2019
Chief of Business Center
Halotel Tanzania (Viettel Tanzania)
01.2015 - 08.2017
Business Development Coordinator
Airtel
01.2013 - 01.2015
Certificate of Agriculture -
Agriculture & livestock College
Certified hospitality housekeeper -
Arusha Institute of Hospitality & Management (AIHM)
Bachelor of Business Management - Business Management, finance, Accounting, administration, HR
College of Business Education
Diploma in Marketing -
College of Business Education