THE final instalment of this year’s Jauhari Series takes place on Tuesday (Oct 22), with the fireside chat featuring Shafie Shamsuddin, the president-director and chief executive officer of PT Trans Retail in Indonesia.
The Singaporean business leader was named the outstanding chief/senior executive (overseas) of the year at the 2016 edition of the Singapore Business Awards, which is co-organised by The Business Times and DHL.
The 54-year-old will speak at a fireside chat titled ‘Growing and learning from setbacks’. The session will be an opportunity for youths to hear first-hand how he navigated numerous challenges over the course of his career in the retail industry.
The Jauhari Series is a monthly dialogue session supported by the government’s feedback unit, Reach.
The event will be conducted in English, and is open to all youths between 18 and 35 years of age. It will be held at the Working Title cafe at Lasalle College of the Arts along McNally Street.
Overcoming setbacks
Shafie struggled academically when he was in junior college, failing his first-year examinations there. He later went on to complete his degree at Nanyang Technological University.
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He joined Carreour Singapore as a management trainee. When he was just 35, he became the first Asian CEO of Carrefour in the company’s history.
He went on to lead Carrefour in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and was also based in Paris as executive director of global talent management and organisational development with Carrefour Group.
He admitted, however, that success did not come his way easily as being the company’s youngest CEO at the time brought about its own set of challenges.
“Being a young CEO can be challenging, as my employees in Malaysia were not confident of my ability to lead given that I am not French and had zero experience as a CEO,” said Shafie, who received the Berita Harian Achiever of the Year Award in 2010.
He was able to win over their trust with his commitment and ability to fulfil promises to make changes when necessary, and to restart the company’s expansion and growth plans.
Shafie is now in his second stint at Jakarta-based PT Trans Retail (he was formerly at the company from 2013 to 2019), having assumed his current position in January this year. He now manages nearly 100 multi-brand stores across Indonesia under the Transmart and Multimart brands.
Shafie also serves as chairman of Siti Khadijah Group, an Islamic fashion and lifestyle brand. Over the years, his other corporate roles include being a senior independent non-executive director at Petronas Dagangan Berhad, and the group managing director and CEO of AEON Group Malaysia.
The previous guests at the Jauhari Series include former Singapore president Halimah Yacob and SingPost’s Singapore CEO Shahrin Abdol Salam.
Those interested to attend Shafie’s session can register at https://go.gov.sg/omgxbh-6.
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