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As Head of Cloud Solutions at Altron Digital Business, Natasha Bezuidenhout’ s role involves leading and implementing a multi-cloud strategy and cloud solutions for Enterprise, Mid-Enterprise, and corporate customers.

This position oversees a team of skilled professionals, ensuring vendor alignment, effective programme management, and structured sales processes to drive cloud adoption. A strong focus is placed on transactional excellence by leveraging Marketplace solutions to streamline procurement and cloud consumption.

By delivering key cloud infrastructure services across professional and managed services, the team supports customers throughout their digital transformation journey, utilising best-in-class technologies to optimise business outcomes.

What are your strengths and abilities that you bring to the above role?

Bezuidenhout’ s role requires a strategic mindset, leadership skills, and extensive expertise in cloud

solutions. There is also a need to be able align multicloud strategies with business objectives, as well as driving vendor partnerships, programme management and scalable sales approaches.

Key strengths required in this role include building high-performing teams, fostering innovation, and ensuring operational excellence. Strong stakeholder engagement is also needed to ensure that cloud benefits are clearly articulated and aligned with customer goals.

The role also needs to drive a focus on delivering transactional efficiency through Marketplace solutions accelerates cloud adoption. The ability to simplify complex cloud technologies, build strong relationships, and drive digital transformation ensures customers maximise the value of their cloud investments.

The most rewarding part of Bezuidenhout’ s role is building meaningful relationships with customers and vendors.

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