Bashir Khan

Highly experienced facilitator, consultant and coach with strong interpersonal characteristics.

Excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills. A team player: teaching, training, assisting and sharing of knowledge, the ability to work with and lead a team. A genuine love for people to help them grow and develop.

The ability to work on his own, showing foresight, the ability to see the big picture. The ability to ensure positive and complete outcomes to projects, tasks and deliverables.

The ability to negotiate and develop business. Developing rapport, and motivate, the ability to work with clients in the best interest of the organisation. Excels in applying organisational principles to drive strategic outcomes and results.

He specializes in securing of new business across all service lines, project management of projects won, as well as strategic, financial and operational management of the company. He ensures that high quality business proposals are compiled and sent to designated company’s both in the private and public sector at large. At Absa, he managed the Affinity Partner portfolio comprising of twenty (20) co-brand partners, honing in on: project management of partners, profit and loss analysis and understanding, including payments to partners; management and negotiation of contract and terms, as well as management of internal and partner relationships. During his tenure, he identified underperforming and poor portfolios and brought them to management’s attention such as Cointel, Meeg Bank and Altron.

Other initiatives included profit and loss management and analysing the silver card portfolio, as well as rationalising the total card portfolio. Additional responsibilities include the P&L management of garage cards. In addition, his experience includes business development for new deals, a large telecommunications company and other business development projects.

His experience has also centered on the use of global best practice and international standards (i.e. – The Business Lab SA, Absa & Deloitte) from an auditing, accounting and client relationship perspective. In addition to having sound people and interpersonal skills, his competence here is business & executive coaching, business support, business growth development, contract management, fee and price negotiation, resource management and business control and ensuring mutual benefit for contracting parties in terms of the mutual goals and outcomes.

An essential trait here is the ability to work both on his own, and as part of a team. As people development and motivation are high on his list of values, he enjoys being part of helping people grow, develop and reaching their full potential.