About Me

Curriculum Vitae

Morris Buliva

P.O Box 32282-00600 Nairobi, Kenya

Telephone no: +254 722 530 190Email: [email protected]

Personal Profile
Diversely skilled and executive leader offering distinguished career in strategic planning, policy and budget development and global operations leadership for organizations. I am adept at facilitating growth by developing various levels of organization and building cohesive teams, and collaborate effectively with senior management to align defined objectives to achieve mission-critical results. Strong contributions creating and executing effective recruiting, training and performance optimization strategies as well as leadership development. I also have ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and facilitate a harmonious team environment conducive to organizational efficiencies and overall metrics improvements.I aim to add value through designing, directing and managing company-wide process of management, learning and development, all of which facilitate organization effectiveness and growth.

Education
1998 – 2000
Masters of Business Administration
USIU Nairobi
1986 -1990
Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine

University of Nairobi
1981 – 1985
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education
Jamhuri High School Nairobi

Skills
§  Communication Skills: Excellent at verbally communicating effectively with teams inside and outside the organization and maintaining good and professional working relations.

Organization and Planning: A highly organized individual who handles all tasks in a methodical and timely manner. Very good at planning, reviewing, strategizing and running operations.
Interpersonal and Teamwork: Relates and works very well with people from different cultures and backgrounds. Possesses excellent team work skills which have enabled me establish and maintain effective working relations.
Priorities and Decision Making: A successful track record in setting priorities; keen analytic, organization and problem solving skills which support and enable sound decision making.
Analytical Skills: Recognizes areas of weaknesses requiring improvements and makes recommendations to the management for consideration, approval and implementation.
Coordination and Supervision: Proven ability to Coordinate, manage and monitor the workings of various departments in the organization.
§  Leadership Skills: Proven ability to Lead and manage operations team to deliver a culture that supports and contributes to the strategic objectives of the organization and meet approved service standards.

Flexibility and Adaptability: I am a flexible team player who thrives in environments that require ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple concurrent tasks. I am also very positive, resilient and open to new ideas.

Work Experience
2016 to date
African Queen Enterprises
Position: Managing Director

Responsibilities:

§  Setting the strategic direction of the organization as well as being involved in the business development of the organization.

§  Providing some products that are not easily found in the market.

§  Improving on the products that they already have.

§  Engage with a board of experienced healthcare workers who help in thinking through the objectives of the organization.

Achievements

§  Successfully set up the organization which after one year of operations is breaking even. We are looking at increasing our employee base from the current 6 to 10 by the mid of this year. Our client base has grown in leaps and bounds
2011 – 2016
Woman Care Global / IPAS
Position: Africa Sales Director

Responsibilities:

§  Collaborated with the board to ensure that the strategic direction of the organization is well aligned to the objectives of the organization well-articulated to the implementers of the strategy.

§  Developed and rolled out projects which were successful in increasing the access to contraception in women of Africa.

§  Coach, mentor and leader of a core team within the organization as well as distributor partner’s teams across Africa.

§  Initiated cross organizational teams in the reproductive health arena to come up with strategies that would reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Africa.

Achievements

§  Increased the awareness, accessibility, availability and affordability of various forms of contraception in women and thus lowered the maternal mortality numbers in the African countries evidenced by the Domestic health surveys (DHS) conducted yearly in each country.

§  Identified, recruited and trained partners within the various countries whom the organization engaged with to effectively deliver on the objectives.
2007 – 2011
General Electric
Position: Senior Key Accounts manager

Responsibilities:

§  Set up the healthcare business unit for East Africa to ensure that the foot print of the organization increases within the east Africa region.

§  Principal liaison person of the organization’s healthcare division for east Africa engaging with both public and private healthcare sector to improve accessibility and affordability to high end diagnostic equipment and tests.

§  Lead both internal and partner run employees to create a seamless organization that is pulling in the same direction

Achievements

§  Set up the first fully equipped and privately owned and run diagnostic facility in Mombasa and Kisumu as well as introduced and set up the first digital public run facility in Nairobi.

§  I grew the foot print of the organization 10 fold to become a market leader in the medical diagnosis field due to the exceptional customer satisfaction and efficiency of entire teams of technicians, financiers, clinicians and other players involved under my stewardship.
Other Positions Held
§  1996 – 2007:Senior Regional Manager at Novo Nordisk A/S

§  1996 – 2007:Junior Sales Representative at Novo Nordisk A/S

Referees
John F. Ogumbo
Managing Director, Baylem Limited
Telephone no: +254 733 238 519
Email: [email protected]

Monica Oguttu
Managing Director, KMET Kisumu
Telephone no: +254 701 839 115
Email: [email protected]

WanguiMuthigani
Maternal and Child Health Lead, Ministry of Health, Nairobi
Telephone no: +254 725 510 510

Email: [email protected]