Asia Sharif, Board of Director Senior Operations Officer

Asia Sharif

Board of Director Senior Operations Officer

Bin Shihon Group

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Management
Experience
17 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months

Board of Director Senior Operations Officer at Bin Shihon Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since January 2021

Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress, and work with other department to make sure that they have got the details as it should be.
» Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors to assure that it has been done on time.
» Ensure that all tasks, cases and projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
» Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, and ensuring technical feasibility.
» Ensure resource availability and allocation to each task and project.
» Manage changes to the daily tasks, cases, and responsibilities using appropriate verification techniques.
Follow up with all the pending tasks with other departments to ensure adhering to deadlines.
» Facilitate and coordinate all the tasks given by BOD executive assistant.
» Create and maintain all the comprehensive and needed documentation for each task and case.
» Meet with analysts and BOD executive assistant to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each project
» Attend regular meetings, working with teams to achieve the targeted goals.
» Facilitate all the required process and procedures need for ERP project.
» Track project performance and analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals
» Attend training as required to maintain proficiency.
» Perform other related duties as assigned from the BOD executive assistant.
» Develop spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs

Executive Assistant/ Project Manager at Khashoggi Holding
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2018 to January 2022

“Khashoggi Holding - PEMCO & MEKNAN“ Admin. Operation Manager/ EA 2018 - Present
Khashoggi Holding invests in services and solutions from the energy & power, entertainment and restaurant, to legal consultancy and other services. In KH, I provide a comprehensive support for CEO (Vice Chairman), managing team of 9 members and work in partner with sales, finance, workshop and other business groups.
a) Key Achievements with PEMCO:
- Acquiring the classification certificate (3rd degree) for the first time in co.’s history.
- Extracted all commercial and legal papers including: Commercial registration, municipality license, civil defense certificate, etc.
- Successfully negotiating contracts and getting it signed.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Supervising day-to-day operations of the administrative department and staff members.
Executing the strategic vision of the CEO office throughout the company.
- Work with management members to develop long-term action plan.
- Manage CEO business, calendar, travel arrangements, client management, and logistics.
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills and work effectively within a complex and rapidly changing organization to simultaneously manage a wide range of active projects.
- Maximize value through contract negotiations with key vendors.
- Monitor admin budget spending with attention to budgetary constraints.
- Create and communicate a variety of materials, including correspondence, procedural manuals, job descriptions, and other materials for marketing purposes.
- Responsibilities to perform a variety of duties with changing priorities and deadlines.
- Decision-making and prioritization to effectively allocate resources.
- Ability to independently exercise appropriate judgment, set priorities, and execute decisions.
- Manage business development and marketing activities.
- Handle and safeguard sensitive and confidential information.
- Oversee facilities services and supplies ensuring they are properly maintained.
- Overseeing special projects and tracking progress towards company goals.
- Work with lawyers to ensure that the business complies with government regulations.
- Initiatively take over responsibility once arise.




b) Restaurants Operation & Entertainment with AlMeknan Development Co:
Key Achievements:
- Extracted all commercial and legal papers including: municipality license, civil defense certificate, Trade Certificate, Permanent work certificate, coast guard permissions, Islamic port clearance etc.
- Profitably manage the floating restaurant operation.
- Successfully managing the opening preparation for the new restaurant.
- Acquiring Media Import & Distribution License from General Authority of Audiovisual.
- Extracted all commercial and legal papers including: Trade Mark registration, Commercial registration, municipality license, civil defense certificate, etc.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Managed restaurant operations including guest services, staff performance and theft prevention.
- Manage and analyze overall operation and define ways to build sales, profitability, guest counts, and effective cost controls.
- Procured all bar inventory and restaurant supplies.
- Coordinating with suppliers, contractors, and maintenance and deep cleaning companies.
- Planned, organized and successfully executed number of planned events to attract clientele and increase restaurant popularity.
- Managing purchasing budget efficiently and leveraged vendor relations to obtain best pricing.
- Established marketing strategies that would create greater value and promote demand
- Responsible for staff scheduling and payroll.
- Developed different profitable menu.
- Developed and designed the restaurant's web site which increased total sales.

Project Officer/ Executive Assistant at Dar Al Hekma University
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2014 to December 2017

» Designing effective electronic and physical filing system for the department.
» Defining procedures for protection, retrieval, and disposal of records.
» Developing the strategic goals and action plans of projects.
» Formulating department’s structure and preparing framework for members.
» Handling the whole quality assurance process.
» Leading the process of acquiring the National Accreditation for the department.
» Creating forms, templates, and developing manuals.
» Proposing internal policies and enforce special procedures.
» Preparing reports, statistics and applications on school and division level.
» Monitors annual budget by tracking expenditures and monitoring petty cash.
Duties and responsibilities:
» Conducting orientation sessions for the new faculty and staff.
» Attending major strategic meetings.
» Recording, transcribing, and distributing minutes of meetings.
» Organize office operations to ensure that the projects are executed on timely basis and in an efficient manner.
» Maintain employee confidentiality by keeping personnel records secured.
» Preparing achievements reports of the department.
» Producing high level correspondence and translating documents.
» Initiatively accept ownership for accomplishing new tasks with high degree of professionalism.

Office Manager at King Abdulaziz University - SAFEA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2012 to November 2014

» Assist the CEO with his daily schedule and duties.
» Attending major meetings, taking notes and distribute meeting minutes.
» Carrying out specific projects and research.
» Identifying new business opportunities related to education development.
» Producing letters, reports, correspondence and presentations.
» Handling travel arrangement including airline bookings and hotel reservation.
» Liaising with clients, suppliers and other staff.

Management Assistant at Chinese Consulate
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2007 to February 2012

 Assisting seven management members, providing full range of support within different specialties.

Researcher at Statistics Centre of Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2006 to September 2007

Collect and analyse data and information which needed by Dubai government to make informed political, social and economic decisions.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Management
  • at Univerity of Dubai
  • January 2012

Courses accomplished: - International Business Management - Production & Services Operations Management. - Strategic Management - Money and Banking - Emerging Issues in Management - Investments Analysis - Business Negotiating Skills - Total Quality Management - Advanced Organizational Behaviour - Principles of Financial - Critical & Creative Thinking

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
  • at American College of Dubai
  • September 2007

Specialties & Skills

General Business Administration
Project Management
Quality Assurance
Strategic Leadership
Accreditation
Leadership Skills
Ms Office
Cretical & Creative Thinking
Total Quality management
Strategic Management
Business Negotiation Skills
Business management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Beta Gamma Sigma
  • Honored student
  • April 2010
Beta Gamma Sigma
  • Honored Student
  • May 2011
LinkedIn
  • Member
  • January 2010
Society for Advancement & Management
  • Member
  • May 2011

Training and Certifications

Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Development Program (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2016
Using APA Style in Writing Papers (Training)
Training Institute:
DAr Al Hikma University
Date Attended:
April 2015
Duration:
4 hours
Reinventing the Vernacular Event - Certificate of Appreciation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
Participating in creation of "Guinness World Record" (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2015
Corporate Social Responsibility between future and reality (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2014
The art of selling: a lesson from entrepreneur” (Training)
Training Institute:
DAr Al Hikma University
Date Attended:
April 2015
Duration:
4 hours
The Young Future Energy Leaders Program (Training)
Training Institute:
MASDAR, Dubai, UAE
Date Attended:
January 2012
Duration:
32 hours

Hobbies

  •  Reading books ▪ Sewing