For Maude Modise, her blood is the yellow and pink of Shoprite. She is the overall supervisor for enterprise and provider improvement at Shoprite.
Modise, who grew up in Mabopane, Pretoria, was a Shoprite bursary recipient and obtained a BCom accounting diploma at North West College, after which she joined Shoprite’s graduate programme as a trainee accountant in 2014.
Her roles have included monetary supervisor at Shoprite’s distribution centre in Johannesburg and divisional monetary supervisor for USave Gauteng.
Her present function noticed her play a pivotal function within the current launch of Shoprite Subsequent Capital, a enterprise division devoted to capacitate and develop commercially-viable SMMEs to additional the retailer’s continued efforts to provide small suppliers entry to the market.
She can also be chargeable for the group’s improvement of small and medium companies to provide them entry to the market, enhance native procurement and create jobs.
She says her management type has modified over time.
“I’m outcomes pushed, so although I’m a collaborative chief who listens to different folks’s views and opinions to succeed in the very best end result, however typically being a pacesetter requires unpopular selections – selections which can be finest for the enterprise, its folks and stakeholders.”
She says she regards Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Brenda Fassie as probably the most influential South Africans of all time.
“They refused to be bowed by the various challenges they confronted, and their brave defiance remains to be deeply inspirational immediately.”
She is at the moment listening to a number of amapiano and Burna Boy, however her go-to music for any temper is Sam Smith.
She says the Shoprite Group offers many alternatives for progress, particularly to these workers who yearn for progress. “I’ve risen via the ranks from trainee accountant to monetary supervisor at Shoprite’s Distribution Centre in Gauteng and divisional monetary Supervisor for Usave Gauteng earlier than being promoted to my present place. There are numerous expertise improvement and coaching programs and we’re all the time sharing information, expertise and finest practices to strengthen the enterprise.”
She loves being lively and makes time for issues like going to the health club as a result of it additionally helps with “my well-being and psychological well being”.
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