Shawaal Blankenberg
The definition of a sale is to satisfy a need, but it takes a wide awake salesperson to satisfy a need you didn’t know you had! Shawaal arrived on the scene around three years ago and almost immediately took the whole product category under his wing and set about remerchandising and restocking the branches with the correct product at the correct stocking levels and at the correct time of the year, all of which had a dramatic improvement on product category turnover.
Aside from performance as a salesperson, he is a pleasure to have instore especially taking into account sheer Quality of work, Dependability and flexibility in assisting and arranging stocking logistics and promotional activity, Initiative in identifying issues and opportunities and acting on them, Interpersonal relations and teamwork, both in his relationship with management as well as floor staff, and Added value to the organisation in spearheading optimum supply and merchandising based on multiple sell-through data.
The Award is well deserved!