Profile: Jan Bouwer and Bongani Magudulela, Directors Search Partners International

AltoPartners, the international alliance of independent executive search and leadership consulting firms, is proud to welcome two new Partners to the Search Partners International (SPi) team in Johannesburg, South Africa. Search Partners International is the exclusive AltoPartners alliance member firm in South Africa. Jan Bouwer and Bongani Magudulela join Search Partners International as Associate Directors in the firm and together bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise in key industry sectors. Both Jan Bouwer and Bongani Magudulela are recognised as assets to both their local team as well as the global AltoPartners alliance.

Jan Bouwer’s career started as an IT Professional at a leading Iron and Steel manufacturing company. Thereafter he joined Andersen Consulting, today Accenture (a Global NYSE listed company), where he had an impressive 23 year career as management consultant. During this time at Accenture he was involved in various multi-year transformation projects. These projects had an immense impact on how citizens interact with government and also how technical solutions are adopted and utilized by a huge and diverse client base.

As Managing Director within Accenture, Jan had overall responsibility for the Health and Public Sector business within South Africa and also as industry lead for Government Enterprise Solutions in Europe and Africa. Jan’s role entailed stakeholder engagement, business development within a portfolio of clients, sales delivery and revenue delivery. In addition to his extensive project experience within government, including the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury, he has also run and managed accounts within the Justice and Public Safety sector, the financial industry and the manufacturing industry.

Jan believes in strong and enduring client relationships and has managed to develop and maintain client relationships that lasted throughout his career at Accenture. Jan holds a BCom (Informatics) degree from the University of Johannesburg, graduating in 1987. He is a recent addition to the executive team of Search Partners International, but brings with him vast knowledge and experience of the Management Consulting, IT and Public Sector Industries.

With over 18 years’ experience in the Human Resources industry, Bongani Magudulela has extensive skills in HR, training and development and board/Executive consulting within the natural resources and infrastructure sectors. Bongani’s career began with his positions at Exxaro and Kumba Resources, where he developed his skills across all facets of HR, particularly within industrial relations and strategic staffing formulation. In 2000 he joined Arcelor Mittal as a Human Resources Manager for the steel making unit at their Flat Steel operations, responsible for their full HR Spectrum while actively driving and supporting their business development strategy through client-oriented service delivery initiatives.

It was Bongani’s move to the Ferro Atlantica Group where he enhanced his skills in training development. Proving to be a valuable member of the team, Bongani was promoted to an operational position as Executive Manager SHERQ and Continuous Improvement. The key focus of his role was to ensure product quality and to act as the customer representative for silicon and silica fuel clients from USA, Japan, Middle East and Europe.

In 2010 Bongani went back to HR joining Fraser Alexander Tailings Division as a senior HR Manager and ten months later he was promoted to be the HR Director for the division in charge of the entire HR function across operations in South Africa, nine African countries, South America and Australia. Involved in interactions with internal and external stakeholders to leverage relationships, Bongani supported the MD and EXCO across all HR matters through strategic leadership advisory activities.

Bongani joined SPi in July 2015 as an Associate Director. Bongani holds a B Admin Degree in Industrial Psychology and Marketing from the University of the Western Cape and a B Com Honours in Human Resources from the University of Cape Town. He has completed a programme in Social and Labour Law from the University of the Western Cape.

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