This curriculum vitae outlines Marie Giani's professional experience and qualifications. She is currently employed as a Project Coordinator at Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd, where her responsibilities include assisting the Project Manager, managing project budgets and schedules, and communicating project status. Previously she held roles such as Executive Assistant, Publishing Manager, and Product Support, demonstrating skills in administration, communication, and project coordination. She has relevant qualifications and certifications in areas such as project management, finance, and digital marketing.

1. Curriculum Vitae: Marie Giani
E-mail address: mgiani@aspenpharma.com
Cell No.: 072 837 4515 | Work Tel No.: 011 239 3584
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Curriculum Vitae
Mariè Giani
Present Appointment: Project Coordinator
Skills Executive Summary
Hard Skills: Planning and Organising Skills Project Coordinator with strong administrative and managerial skills,
Project Budget Tracking who ensures that the people and resources devoted to completing
Financial Acumen goals, are used appropriately. Effectively communicate the project/
program status, issues, expectations and risks, both verbally and in
writing, to project and program stakeholders. Strong communication
Soft Skills: Analytical skills skills contribute to the building of collaborative relationships to benefit
Accurate with attention to detail company objectives. Perform huge array of duties that support the
Approachability success ofa project and to expedite tasks on behalf of Project Manager.
Flexible to adaptto any situation,no matter what is thrown at you. Filling
the gaps and demonstrating initiative. Focus of work is dependent on
specific duties that are assigned by the Project Manager and delivering
on these tasks accurately, efficiently and quickly.
Surname : GIANI Organise the different facets of a project so that the teams can work in
First Names : Maria Magdalena (Mariè) an efficient manner and that project goals are met.
Date of Birth : 1967-02-21 Now looking forward to a making a significant contribution with an
Languages : English / Afrikaans ambitious company that offers opportunities for progression.
Gender : Female
Nationality : South African
Transport : Own
Availability : 30 days
 Project Coordinator and Executive Assistant
 Finance for Project Manager, 2016 – GoSkills Limited (final marks achieved 100 %).
 Diploma in Digital Marketing, 2016 – Shaw Academy (distinction).
 Project Management for Team Members, 2014 – GoSkills Limited (final marks achieved 96 %).
 Microsoft Projects 2010, 2014 - AllaboutXpert (Dr. Theunis Botha – Executive).
 Principles of Marketing, 2002 - Varsity College, Durban (final marks achieved 86%).
 National Typing I, II and III Certificates, 1986 – Germiston Technical College (Part Time – distinction in Typing I)
 National Certificate: Private Secretary, 1985 – Germiston Technical College
 Microsoft Excel – Advanced, 2016 - GoSkills Limited (final marks achieved 96 %).
 Advanced Computer Literacy e.g. MS Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Visio.
 Writing Dynamics, 1997 – AIC Training (Ken Wall).
 Assertiveness Skills for Women in Business, 1996 – AIC Training (Dr Denis Bjorkman & Renate Volpe).
 Management Skills for the Executive Secretary, 1995 - Whitehead and Morris Seminars (Pamela Lake).
 Workshop on Written English, 1994 – Mossgas (Petrogas) Internal Training.
 Executive Management Programme for Secretaries, 1993 - Top Secretary Training (Tertia Borgelt).
E-mail address: mgiani@aspenpharma.com
www.linkedin.com/in/marie-giani-0111b36a
Unit 50, Le Chadone,Sliver Pine Avenue,
Malanshof,Randburg,2194
Cell No.: 072 837 4515 | Work Tel No.: 011 239 3584
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FIELD OF SPECIALISATION
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E-mail address: mgiani@aspenpharma.com
Cell No.: 072 837 4515 | Work Tel No.: 011 239 3584
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 Senior Certificate, 1984 – Goudrif High School, Germiston
Subjects: English, Afrikaans, Business Economics, Accounting, Biology and Typing.
COMPANY POSITION HELD PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT
Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd Project Coordinator (Contract) May 2013 to current
www.aspenpharma.com
The Focus Group Executive Assistant (Temping) January 2013 - April 2013
www.focusgroup.co.za
Allied Publishing Limited Publishing Manager | Executive Assistant October 2010 - December 2012
www.alliedpublishing.co.za
Bearing Man Group Executive Assistant | Product Support May 2001 – September 2010
www.bmgworld.net
Mossgas (PetroSA) Executive Assistant June 1991 – April 2001
www.petrosa.co.za
Key Performance Areas with:
Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited, as Project Coordinator
 Assistthe PM in the drafting and issuance ofprojectproposals,RFP’s,tenders,budgets,cash flows and preliminaryschedule s.
 Prepare project organisation and communication charts and project presentation in MS Power Point.
 Attend site meetings with PM. Draft and distribute minutes to projectteam members, and follow-up on action items from minutes.
 Manage and tracked project budget and expenditure. Escalate any concerns to the PM (finance reports, invoicing, payments,
variance reporting,resolve queries,reconciliation and internal control checks, reports from in-house Infor ERP BaaN LN System).
 Work closely with Group Finance Manager regarding Capex/Opex financial matters and resolve supplier queries.
 Track the progress and quality of work being performed by design disciplines/trades.
 Use project scheduling and control tools to monitor projects plans, work hours, budgets and expenditures.
 Effectively and accurately communicate relevant project information to the client and project team.
 Ensure client’s needs are met in a timely and cost effective manner.
 Review project reports from Consultants throughout the lifecycle of the project.
 Issue Contracts, Letters of Intent, Purchase Orders, etc.
 Maintain Contract Agreement Tracking Log.
 Track and manage project scope change requests.
 Establishing and maintaining the project documentation library according to the document structure.
 Prepare substantial completion documents and ensure all required project close out documents are obtained.
 Ensure that projectrelated changes are approved and revisions are clearly identified and available in a central location for access
by project stakeholders (e.g. BOX / SharePoint).
 Keep the Project Manager and others informed about project status and issues that may impact client relations.
 Coordinate weekly/monthly meetings with PM Office and relevant stakeholders (book venues and set-up VC facilities).
 Travel Arrangements: extensive management, planning and coordinating of overseas travel for PM and team members, (e.g.
Forex, Passport, Visitation Letters, Hotel Accommodation, Visas, Appointments, Transfers, Draw up Itinerary, etc.).
REASON FOR LEAVING: Currently employed on a Fixed Term Contract basis. The PMO office recently relocated to Durban, Head
Office and the workload in Johannesburg office has become less. Therefore seeking permanent employment with a company that a llows
me to use my professional experiences in a long term, mutually beneficial relationship.
PROJECT SUMMARY: ASPEN PHARMACARE
The following Projects were assigned to the Aspen Group IT portfolio, for which Project Coordination assistance duties was performed:
1. Project Name : PRJ263 Serialisation
Summary : The Aspen Serialisation Programme is driven by regulatory and legal requirements to track and
trace every individual saleable unit of prescribed products through the use of an assigned unique
serial number.
Duration : June 2015 (5 year term)
Phase Involvement : BudgetTracking for PMO Office (Rand value)
Budget : Capex: USD 3 065 180-00
SCHOOL EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: EXPERIENCE

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2. Project Name : PRJ259 – Frankfurt Expansion
Summary : Hardware expansion (Server, Storage, Network & Facility in the Frankfurt datacenter for the
following three key initiatives: 1) Hosting Oss affiliate workload; 2) Expansion to mitigate current
capacity risk; 3) Transform Datacenter architecture to improve systems availability and disaster
recovery lead times and testing.
Duration : March 2015 to current
Phase Involvement : Start to current
Budget : Capex: R 26 518 819-80
3. Project Name : PRJ153 – GET-IT
Summary : This is an IT Global Expansion Template Project and this will assist to implement an IT solution to
support the Aspen global growth strategy, which will require the start up and integration of various
new businesses into the Aspen business landscape.
Duration : June 2013 to July 2014
Phase Involvement : Start to end
Budget : Capex: R 33 426 343-00 Opex: R 26 458 101-00
4. Project Name : PRJ165 – LMS Deployment (Launch Management System)
Summary : Aspen Group Launches requires a launch management solution to collect, maintain and
communicate new product launch information. To enable Group to plan, monitor and manage the
in-time launching of a product to caputre the market at the most desirable selling price.
Duration : September 2013 to January 2014
Phase Involvement : Start to end
Budget : Capex: R 2 823 958-00 Opex: R 1 722 044-00,per annum
5. Project Name : PRJ168 – NDB Nightingale, France
Summary : Aspen Holdings acquired a GSK factory in France of which the factory ERP system, other
applications and people need to be transitioned to Aspen.
Phase 1: GAP analysis of business processes and functions currently in use by French Factory.
Phase 2: Vendor engagement and prototype planning and build activities to enable the factory
transition execution to start on 1st
November 2013.
Phase 3: Transition of all factory systems to Aspen by April 2014.
Duration : September 2013 to January 2014
Phase Involvement : Start to end
Budget : Capex: R 181 322 106-00 Opex: R 3 435 879-00,per annum
6. Project Name : PRJ211 – Project Bloom
Summary : Creation of exchange environment for the Factory in France (Project Bloom), the exchange
environment must host 1051 users. These users will be in OSS, USA and Japan.
Duration : September 2013 to June 2015
Phase Involvement : Start to end
Budget : Capex: R 12 878 454-00
Key Performance Areas with:
Allied Publishing Limited, as Publishing Manager
 Generate Year on Year Sales Analysis to enable Commercial Manager to present to Proprietors e.g.:
(Actual Paid) Average Percentage Variance 2011 vs 2012 (supply and sale).
Number of Outlets, Sell-outs and Returns Analysis.
Retail Market Share Analysis.
Top Selling Geographical Areas/Outlets Analysis.
These reports were generated for the following publications: Citizen, The New Age, Junk Mail Products,Mail and Guardian,
Economist,Bloomberg,Blou Magazine, Isolezwe,etc.
 Plan, setand manage staffperformance objectives through performance discussions, to improve and/or maintain individual staff
performance.
 In conjunction with Commercial Manager, compile and execute individual staff development and overall staff bench plans to
improve team capability and ensure continuity.
 Responsible for the management of eight staff members/Publishers, within the Commercial Department.
 Generate focus reports for assigned publications from, IPS System, for publishing allocation purposes.
 Follow Commercial Dept. procedures to ensure efficient distribution of newspapers and magazines.
 Monitor Publishers individual performance and ensure publishing is done accurately and timeously.
 Update sales reports on weekly and monthly basis.
 Regular weekly feedback to Key Accounts Managers and Commercial Manager on all titles.
 Evaluate factors that will influence future sales and publish accordingly.
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 Regular meetings between Commercial and Operations to monitor shorts,returns and refusals – mustprovide inputand feedback
on title related issues arising.
 Ongoing correspondence with Proprietors to establish print orders and other requirements.
 Constant interaction with departmental staff to plan and discuss weekly publishing requirements.
 Compile Annual Sales Budgetfor Commercial titles and submit to Financial Department, timeously to enable them to meet their
time line for budget submissions.
 Financial accountability for budget.
 Reports compiled accurately and timeously.
Key Performance Areas with:
Allied Publishing Limited, as Executive Assistant
 To provide effective and efficient Administrative and Executive Assistant supportto Manager.
 Taking minutes at Sales Meeting, distribution thereof.
 Arrange and set-up conference calls for Manager with overseas proprietors.
 Make necessary calls on behalf of the Manager as required.
 Ensure that all travel arrangements are correctly processed in line with the administrative / financial procedures.
 Produce professional reports,correspondence and presentations for the Managers as required.
 Type accurate correspondence, reports etc. (100% accuracy, 90 words per minute within agreed time frames).
REASON FOR LEAVING: Reevaluated my career goals and decided a publishing/media environmentis not where I could be challenged
and grow, and therefore considered employment in a corporate environment.
Key Performance Areas with:
Bearing Man Group, as Executive Assistant to Directors
 Provide full Administrative and Executive Assistantsupportfunction to Directors.
 Diary Management: updated and maintain MS Outlook electronic diary on behalfof Directors.
 Establish and maintain an accurate Filing Systems and DocumentManagementSystem for Department.
 Travel Arrangements: extensive management,planning and coordinating ofoverseas travel for Directors,(e.g. Forex, Passport,
Visitation Letters,Hotel Accommodation,Visas,Appointments,Transfers,Draw up Itinerary, etc.).
 Produce professional documentation e.g.reports,correspondence and presentations for the Directors as required.
Key Performance Areas with:
Bearing Man Group, as Product Support
 Expediting of Orders/Enquiries overseas suppliers for price and delivery.
 Place orders on Kerridge system with overseas suppliers for: Sumitomo (Cyclo, SMSR and Paramax), Dorstener, Dinamic Oil
and Stober.
 Prepare reports on outstanding orders for discussion with overseas suppliers when visiting SA.
 Manage Paramax Installation List, for inclusion in tender submissions.
 Assisting Quality Manager and Technical Staff in compilation of Data Packs to be presented to customers in a professional
manner (Data packs include: approved QCP, Drawings, Test Results, Release Notes, Maintenance and Service Manuals).
 Custodian of Petty Cash.
 Issue disciplinary notifications, according to Company procedures and HR policies.
 Arrange Product and Company promotions.
 Assist in events/campaigns for exhibitions and demonstrations to Target Customers .
(e.g. Electra Mining, Customer Open Day).
Catalogues / Posters / Promotional / Advertising / Marketing Material:
o Order corporate promotional items (e.g. stationery, corporate clothing, etc.)
o Prepare above with assistance of Brand / Product Managers.
o Issue all marketing material to BMG Branches.
o Control stock and place necessaryorders from overseas suppliers and local printers.
Presentations / Proposals:
o Generate Word and PowerPointpresentations for new potential customers.
o Ensure that slides are relevantand up to date, liaise with Marketing Division for this information.
o Presentation for regional meetings held every quarter.
Training:
o Create and compile BMG Drives product training manual on all products for Brand / Product Managers.
ISO Implementation:
o BMG has implemented a Quality Management System based on ISO 9001:2000 standards.
o Assisting Quality Manager in this area:
 Distribute Quality Policy Manual and keep procedures up to date.
 Distribute and ensure that staff conforms to new procedures.
 Liaise with Quality Manager with regard to control copies, document references.
 Schedule ISO meetings / Arrange Suppliers Forum / Manage non-conformance register.
REASON FOR LEAVING: Interested in a position where Icould gain more experience and responsibilities,to move my career into a more
professional direction.

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E-mail address: mgiani@aspenpharma.com
Cell No.: 072 837 4515 | Work Tel No.: 011 239 3584
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1. Mr Ockert van Rooyen (Project Manager, Aspen Pharmacare Holdings, Group IT)
Company : Brighthouse (Dimension Data)
Tel. No. : (011) 575 0200
Cell No. : 082 908 4333
2. Ms Freda Bezuidenhout (Circulation Manager Retail)
Company : AVUSA Media for Allied Publishing
Tel. No. : (011) 471 4219
Cell No. : 082 503 6676
3. Mr Dave Russell (Technical Director)
Company : Bearing Man Group
Tel. No. : (011) 620 1572
Cell No. : 082 456 1550
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