Michelle Joubert’s career journey from personal assistant to national manager

Michelle Joubert is G4S South Africa’s National Logistics & Procurement Manager. Finding good quality value for money is central to her role.

As Michelle explained: “I enjoy planning and coordinating new site startups and price negotiations. I also take the lead in innovative cost saving drives.”

Michelle was appointed to this managerial role after working her way up through the business. Her first position was as Personal Assistant to the Regional Director.

She said: “I started off in the Business Development team. They were energetic, focused and kept me on my toes – they formed and moulded me into the person that I’ve become today and made me realise that teamwork and collaboration go hand in hand.”

Michelle’s drive and determination saw her go on to receive a number of promotions and move across different business functions. Her roles included Office Administrator, Logistics Administrator, and National Fleet Manager where she managed and maintained 800 vehicles.”

Prior to her latest appointment with its national focus, Michelle was a Regional Logistics Manager, with responsibility for managing and overseeing the regional procurement and logistics, facilities management, and fleet management functions.

Benefiting from training and development

Michelle credits the training and development she was able to access at G4S as a central reason behind her strong career journey, and why she has chosen to stay with G4S for more than 20 years.

She said: “G4S believes in training and developing its staff and I always raised a hand for all development and internal courses.”

She has undertaken courses in business writing, time management and advanced PowerPoint to name a few.

Michelle adds that she’s also learnt a lot of life lessons from her time at G4S.

“Believing in yourself, creating your own opportunities, listening more, caring about your staff and remembering that everyone in your team matters are all things that I try to practice on a daily basis,” she noted.

“Believing in yourself, creating your own opportunities, listening more, caring about your staff and remembering that everyone in your team matters are all things that I try to practise on a daily basis.”

Michelle Joubert

National Logistics & Procurement Manager