Abdulrahman Alrashed, CPMM, PCM, Marketing and Strategy Consultant

Abdulrahman Alrashed, CPMM, PCM

Marketing and Strategy Consultant

Elixir Business Consultancy

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
20 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months

Marketing and Strategy Consultant at Elixir Business Consultancy
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2013

Specialized in Marketing and strategy consultations:
- Marketing strategy
- CSR strategy
- E-marketing strategy
- Knowledge strategy

My responsibilities in each client engagement include:
- Develop integrated and strategic client solutions
- Identify business opportunities and lead development
- Develop specific tactical action plans to leverage market opportunity
- Agree and align success measures with clients
- Develop functionally coordinated plan with specific initiatives, timelines and executions with clients
- Target and manage contract renewal with existing clients
- Decide and agree the solution packs to best grow the client (part of the contract)
- Initiate contacts with new potential clients and assist partners in initial meeting to close deals
- Evaluate efficiency to reach results by comparing the actual efforts and time spent to the initial agreement
- Supervise or work with clients on implementation
- Structure responsibilities of the engagement teams
- Supervise implementation

Independent Consultant at Multiple Companies
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • August 2011 to November 2013

- Conducted over 15 consultation projects with companies of different sizes in multiple industries
- Offered consultations in the fields of branding, marketing strategy and product development for companies such as Cisco Inc., Datanatics, Smith & Nephew Inc. and Hillsborough county literacy council
- Conduct multiple market research studies in B2B, B2C and B2G markets

Brand Manager at Elm Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2009 to June 2010

- Managed four of the company biggest brands
- Developed a new brand architecture for the company
- Supervised over seven marketing campaigns
- Launched two new brands
- Launched a nationwide training program for Saudi Ministry of Health electronic gate
- Managed outside agencies through campaign development, brand identity creation, advertising
campaign, sales material
- Redesigned the sales-marketing communication process to ensure proper value delivery and
integrated communication
- Designed and implemented customer visit programs to overcome the gap between the
development and the commercial sides of the brand
- Crafted the social media strategy for my brands along with brand personality guidelines

Accountant at National Paper Products Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • June 2007 to April 2009

- Took part in the implantation of Microsoft AX ERP system
- Computerized the checks issuing process that replaced the manual process
- Handled product costing
- Worked closely with the planning team on supply chain logistics
- Took responsibility of the local and foreign payables

Customers Care Officer at Digital Future (Ariss Software Inc.)
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • March 2003 to May 2007

- Led a team of four employees to serve company goals
- Conducted multiple market research to enhance sales techniques and quality of after sale
services
- Developed segregation methodologies to better align resources
- Increased customer retention by 13% in Ariss software - Khobar branch, from 53% to 66%
- Developed a model that successfully reduced delivery costs

Event Manager (Seasonal) at Horizon Lines Group
  • Other
  • February 2003 to April 2006

- Managed over five exhibitions in different cities around Saudi Arabia
- Took responsibility of supervising the exhibition teams, forecasting revenues, preparing action plans and monitoring exhibition expenses and payables
- Prepared review reports to the management

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at University of Tampa
  • December 2012
Bachelor's degree, Marketing
  • at University of Bahrain
  • December 2008
Diploma, Accounting
  • at Dammam Technical College
  • September 2007

Specialties & Skills

Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Brand Management
Product Design
Market Research
Social media marketing
Public speaking
Team leadership
Training delivery
Planning and metrics
Data analysis
Market research

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Spanish
Beginner

Memberships

American Marketing Association
  • Active Member
  • January 2010
Beta Gamma Sigma international honor society
  • Lifetime member
  • November 2012
The Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM)
  • Active member
  • March 2010