Abdulaziz Alqahtani, Marketplace Director

Abdulaziz Alqahtani

Marketplace Director

Quara Holding

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Management Emphasis
Experience
11 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 2 Months

Marketplace Director at Quara Holding
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2021

• In Business:
- Consulting to product heads to build a digital lending app and market place for Quara Holding companies
- Improving revenue and business growth, Post-Signup

• In Operations and Strategies:
- Creating work and process flows and approving wireframes
- Developing strategies for change management to remove barriers between departments to goal achievement
- Developing a digital transformation strategy for all businesses and operation departments and setting goals and CRM to automate most of the manual works to achieve operational excellence
- Owning the merchants and customers experience end-to-end

Ecommerce Consultant (App نوافذ) at Ecommerce Consultant (App نوافذ)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2020

- Providing consultation services to small and medium businesses as well as entrepreneurs.
- Consultant in how to start online businesses and how to grow by utilizing resources, tips, and tricks!
- Book from here:
https://booking.monshaat.gov.sa/profile/consultants/3bb28db7-8ae0-4924-8a35-dde94ac7ab68/abc5025e-f14c-4d05-b5b2-dc8873f98354

Senior Marketplace Manager at Noon.com
  • Saudi Arabia
  • March 2019 to July 2021

• Products:
- noon.com | sivvi.com | kul.com | noonDaily | Mahali

• In Business, Operations and Strategies:
- Created structures and strategic plans for marketplace processes and operations
- Built business digital transformation requirements
- Head of Sellers Onboarding & Training, Help Center
- Managed various projects and departments of Employees Training, Sellers FF and Performance, other internal and external campaigns, and Sellers Community
- Determined how resources should be distributed, ensuring the right amount of work is assigned to the right number of people within the right departments - KPIs.
- Developed and improved seller experience and growth
- Turned data into actionable insights

• In Compliance:
- Oversaw all sellers operations relating to compliance including policies
- Ensured that sellers are onboarded and trained with applicable laws and regulations
- Drafted, reviewed and approved sellers agreements/contracts/other legal documents.

• In Content, External and Internal Partnerships and Communications:
- Head of Arabic content for sellers communications
- Worked across functions with peers in other groups to ensure collaboration for shared goals
- Government relations with MCI, Monshaat, CITC, SDB, and Chamber of Commerce

Operations Manager at Center for Complex Engineering Systems at KACST and MIT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2018 to March 2019
Program Assistant/ Research Affiliate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • United States - Massachusetts
  • July 2018 to March 2019

• Working alongside of KACST
• Managing people and workshops
• Meeting MIT PIs and following up
• Executive assistant to the VP and the JCEP director of KACST during our work at the MIT

Assistant Manager at Operations Manager at Center for Complex Engineering Systems at KACST and MIT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2018 to March 2019

• Working alongside of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Program Assistant
• Managing 9 projects internally
• Assisting the co-director in organizing, planning and implementing strategies
• Providing all types of support to the PIs and Researchers in order to achieve objectives
• Communicating and building/maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Managing events and workshops
• Social media administrator
• Managing operations and motivating people
• Ensuring schedules and objectives are met by employees

Project Manager at MIT Hacking Medicine
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2018 to January 2019

http://hackingmedicine.mit.edu/saudi-hack-2018/

Supply Associate at Careem
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2017 to February 2018

• Offered to be BD/Partner manager
• Managed operations
• Relationship with partners
• Handled weekly/monthly projects
• Redash, tableau, slack, Zaguta, Oracle, Okta, Asana, Excel, and others
• Brought new ideas and attended daily meeting
• Planned and communicated
• Dealt with Captains and fixed issues
• Trained new/potential employees, trainers and captains

Associate at Sheraton hotel downtown Denver
  • United States
  • September 2016 to May 2017

• Provided new process to increase revenue and transfer responsibility to customers
• Created a form and presented system changes to supervisor in order to increase customer satisfaction
• Negotiated supply costs with customers to maintain a professional relationship and company revenue
• Greeted customers and responding appropriately to customer questions and comments
• directed requests and unresolved issues to specialists
•Daily served up to 50+ customers face to face, through phone calls and emails
• Supervised and training new employees
• Met schedules and arranging events/conferences by communicating with hotel employees

Relationship Manager at Alrajhi Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2009 to March 2010

Provided guidance on which stocks to buy and sell for VIP customers
•Explained money management strategies to new clients who had not previously invested in the stock market
•Informed customers of previous stock patterns over the last ten years to provide them a more complete picture of the market
•Collaborated with lenders to enhance customer experience
•Contacted potential customers to follow up with them about their needs, satisfaction and our services
•Communicated to maintain excellent client relationships and grow client base quickly
•Visited VIP customers in their offices to provide full information of financial services and statements

Supervisor and Stock Broker at Alrajhi Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2006 to December 2008

• Accomplished staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring,
and appraising job results; conducting training; implementing enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.
• Completed operations by developing schedules; assigning and monitoring work; gathering resources;
implementing productivity standards; resolving operations problems; implementing new procedures.
• Controlled expenses by gathering and submitting budget information; scheduling expenditures.
• Serviced up to 80 customers per day for high net worth clients
• Purchased and sold stocks for VIP customers in the Saudi Arabian stock market
• Promoted to the VIP branch from the regular branch after 28 months of successes

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Administration, Management Emphasis
  • at University of Colorado Denver, Business School
  • May 2016

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Diploma, Accounting
  • at Riyadh College
  • May 2006

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Specialties & Skills

Leadership
Problem Solving
Innovation
Communications
Bank Relations
problem solving

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Udacity: Data Foundation (2018) Business Analytics (2019) (Certificate)
MIT Sloan: Managing Technical Professionals and Organizations (2018) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2018