Sarah White

Commercial Intern for ZURU Edge (FMCG) for the baby division.

Responsibilities:

• Working with local teams to review commercial proposals.
• Analysing in-market sales data to understand areas of over/underperformance and provide recommendations on actions.
• Reviewing and analysing global distribution opportunities to inform business development prioritization.
• Supporting the development of content for global brand presentations and pitches.

Highlights:

• Managed a small team in the ZURU India division to identify areas of business development globally.
• Successful market analysis of NPD sales performances to provide recommendations of sales strategies and created a presentation to national buyers.
• Led a team of commercial interns to do weekly business development performance analysis' and reported this to management with recommendations.

Elected board governance position on Student Association Executive, which represents 46,000 students to the highest decision making bodies at the University.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing financial performance of the association, managing a $2 million budget.
• Compiling minutes and agendas for Executive and Advisory Board meetings.
• Participating in the governance of AUSA's entities (UBIQ, Shadows, bFM, Property Trust), as well as a trustee of the AUSA Investment Trust.
• Communicating and servicing students when they come into our offices and being able to represent their interests to the Univeristy.

Highlights:

• Successfully negotiating and securing an additional $250k in funding.
• Updating and passing a new Constitution, requiring strong understanding of the Incorporated Societies Act.
• Distributed over $400k in grants to club organisations.
• Strong event planning and coordination through running the largest O-Week in the country and multiple events throughout the year for 46,000 students.

Part-time employment in the Verification team performing customer checks on applications applying for finance.

• Developed strong technical skills of computer systems and understanding of NZ's CCCFA laws.
• Worked in a project team to develop a benchmarking tool in line with the CCCFA laws.
• Developed strong communication skills with external clients and dealers, being able to problem solve and meet varying requests based on the customers' credit checks.
• Trained new team members on customer checks and company software systems due to a high productivity rate and communication skills.

Assisted with both administrative and operations tasks such as the designing and creating of our new consumer and business finance applications.

• Worked alongside the legal and operations teams to interpret and apply the relevant internal changes as a result of the new CCCFA laws.
• Developed the benchmarking procedures for consumer customers, and created the formulas and templates, which was adopted company wide for lending staff to use on a daily basis to assess customer's affordability and suitability, while compiling with CCCFA laws.

Casual Receptionist at the Giltrap Group Head Office.

Responsibilities included:

• Scheduling staff and external meetings
• Answering phone calls on the behalf of Giltrap dealerships across the country and communicating with customers and understanding their specific needs.
• Welcoming external guests to our offices and assisting as appropriate.
• Managing and maintaining office inventory, as well as any administrative tasks as needed.

Developed strong customer experience and communication skills, being the welcoming first impression to the Giltrap Group. As well as strong problem solving skills, being able to assist specific vehicle problems.