Project manager
El Kekhia Group
Total years of experience :17 years, 4 months
Recently joined in the packaging department; starting a new line of shirt/shoe boxes and Luxury paper bags production for garment manufacturers. I handle all the sales & operations for El Kekhia Group packaging facility leading a team of 45 employees.
• Supervise all procurement of raw materials & logistics to ensure delivery of quality products on-time to customers.
• Responsible for budgeting & controlling budgets and cash disbursements of packaging project and also handling financial reporting to upper management.
Oct.2013 Key account executive
present Gulf Trading and Refrigerating company (part of
Al Ghanim group, Kuwait)
• Joined Al Ghanim Group, as a key account executive in the FMCG division (GTRC) who are distributors of Mars, Kraft, Colgate/Palmolive, Phillips and others. I was part of the out of home division, selling all the company's food and beverage products to non- retail businesses.
Accomplishments: Handled a monthly sales target, that included criteria such as sales volume, SKU variety & collections. i achieved my target of 80K $ starting my first month after the training period and grew up my accounts to reach 120k $ by the time i left Al Ghanim.
• Started as a sales exec. handling 10 medium-large customers in the garments industry. Grew my accounts overtime to become 40 % of total turnover.
• Started up the flexo printing project in 2009 with a team of five; to print care-instruction labels in house. Handled all the projects' sales, operations and finances.
• The biggest challenge i faced in the project is to set up the whole work procedure for the team that I began with, starting from the design of the labels to the actual packing and on-time delivery. This system is still used in the company to date.
Accomplishments: Started a small project from Greenfield to a print house with 60 + employees and a Turnover upward of 1.5 mil. $ yearly. Growing our customer base consistently even through tough times (our turnover grew more than 10% yearly for the past 6 years with a few exceptions)
July 2006 PepsiCo Egypt
August 2006 Sales Representative
Conducted daily sales meetings as an intern in the sales department, under the supervision of experienced sales account managers.
June - September 2003 Sales, Accounting and production
• Trained at Mainetti Egypt Ltd. A branch of Mainetti worldwide a
leading company in the manufacturing of garment hangers.
• Worked during training in sales, accounting and production departments.
• Trained at Mainetti Turkey for 2 weeks during August 2003 in the production department.
June 2011 Master of Business Administration, the American University in Cairo, Major: Marketing, GPA: 3.83.
2007 Bachelor of Arts, Faculty of commerce (English section), Ain Shams University, Major: Accounting, Grade: Good 2003 Thanaweya Amma, Thebes language school, Cairo, Egypt. Maths Section, Grade 95%.