Pamela Ramagaga
New Business Manager, Glenrand M.I.B. Limited
I love challenges and I am at the stage in my career where I am still yearning for new challenges. I have been a short term insurance broker for more than 15 years servicing my clients (many different sectors over the years) and now solely New Business from Corporate SA and the Public Sector. I believe I can add great value wearing a 'client’s hat' being on the other side of the negotiating table. I have seen what most clients need and most have resorted to making the finance person an insurance person thus dependent in bulk on their broker or insurer. This expertise should be in-house thus a composite look at all business risks. I love what I do and with that comes my passion for it.
Pamela Ramagaga's Professional details
Current Position(s)
New Business Manager | New Business | Glenrand M.I.B. Limited
Randburg, South Africa | 2009 - present
Accounting, Banking and Finance
I run the new business development - public sector specific nationally represented within our 13 branch network in South Africa. I liase with our international partner where necessary on prospects which require such overseas capabilities. I am on a yearly contract renewable based on attained annual budget of twice what I earn total cost to company.
Previous Position(s)
Accounting, Banking and Finance
I owned my own Short Term Insurance Brokerage and Risk Consultancy Firm based in Bramley, Johannesburg from 1 April 2008 to 11 May 2009. I consulted from small to medium scaled companies in mostly the Johannesburg area. I received my FSB license in June 2007.
CEO | Owner | Mashikwana Day Spa
Bramley, South Africa | 2006 - 2009
Medical, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals
I ran this business whilst fully employed at Marsh SA Ltd. This is an industry I enjoyed for my own relaxation and turned into a passion of how I could make it different, carving it to what I liked as a client based on the principle that the "client is king". I purchased a house, 65 Silwood Road, in Bramley and turned the entire house into a Beauty Spa including an in house hair salon catering to all hair types and resourced it accordingly. Our services ranged from body massages, facials & nail care. I had a boardroom I used to rent out to some of my industry colleagues for their own meetings. I ran Mashikwana Risk Consulting from the same premises utilising the Spa's growing client base for their own company & personal insurances.
Divisional Manager | Marine and Energy | Marsh SA Ltd
Johannesburg | 2007 - 2008
Accounting, Banking and Finance
I ran the Marine and Energy accounts representing South Africa whilst my reporting line represented Middle East and Africa. My clients were the likes of Total SA, Total Coal, Total Commercial Services, Masana Petroleum, World Wide African Investment Holdings excluding Afric Oil, Magalies Water, Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.
Account Director | Strategic Growth Industries | Alexander Forbes Limited
Johannesburg | 1995 - 2005
Accounting, Banking and Finance
My last position was as an Account Executive within the Strategic Growth Industries. I handled Corporate and globally placed accounts within these industries ranging from Media to Hospitality. I had a smashing career at Alexander Forbes and loved every minute. I moved solely because I needed to have new experiences, read somewhere that if employed for more than 10 years with a company you tend to be unemployable thus the main reason for my move of which same message I gave to my MD at the time.
Educational history
Secondary
Woodmead High School, Johannesburg (1990)
Tertiary
Johannesburg | 2000 - 2002
Bachelor of Commerce - Insurance, Risk Management, Corporate Finance and Investments
Achievements
Other Achievements
eTV | Great Expectations | 2008
We were interviewed twice to present at the show "Great Expectations" one to do with Spa treatments whilst pregnant and the other "what is best for baby and mom from a cosmetic / product perspective.
Cosmopolitan | National distribution | 2006
We were featured again in their section of how best to advertise your business. We had a quarter of a page on how, where and which way best to advertise a small emerging busines in South Africa.
Cosmopolitan | Nationally | 2005
Mashikwana Day Spa was featured under the enterpreneur section of their edition which is a monthly write-up.
