Abdullah Sahel Jamal Al-Lail, Customer & Product Marketing Director

Abdullah Sahel Jamal Al-Lail

Customer & Product Marketing Director

STC Specialized

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
14 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months

Customer & Product Marketing Director at STC Specialized
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2018

STC Specialized is the national operator for Critical Communications Solutions serving both Businesse segment and Public Protection and Disaster Relief segments (PPDR)


Formulating the Marketing Strategy for Mission Critical Communications as well as orchestrating the Customer Value Management (CVM) and Loyalty programs in addition to Product Marketing ROI and Offerings.


2019 Achievements:

1- Successfully delivered a AOPs for the cash cow categories over PMR and LTE networks.
Such as Connectivity, Push-to-Talk ( PTT ) (e.g. TETRA, iDEN and FORUN platforms).

2- Successfully developed -and still enhancing- the strategic portfolios with GSM / LTE ingredients that led to increase the Top-line revenue by 10% on monthly basis in 2019.

3- Optimized the cost by 30.7% vs. 2019 Target and increase the bottom line revenue by 13% mostly generated by connectivity / PTT categories.

4- cooked and coordinating strategic alliances and partnership with other stc companies to elevate the business and penetrate new market place

Omnichannel Marketing Projects at STC Specialized
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2020

Sometimes, Innovation is a technology driven and, sometimes, Customer Experience is so.

Projects like:
- Digital Experience
- Digital Transformation ( DT DX )

Senior Manager - VIP & National Consumer Marketing at Zain KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2016 to May 2018

Supervising Voice Postpaid/Hybrid Products Category such as Device Plans, Shabab packages, mass packages (e.g. 29, 99, 199, 349, 749 and Khateer).


Achievements:
1- Revamping & Enhancing Voice Postpaid Platform
2- Mega Promotion (Triple Data Offers, X5 Data Offer)
3- Postpaid Device Plan
4- Launching CONTROL category (Endorsed Brand name for voice packages under ZAIN brandrd house)
5- iPhone 7 & Samsung Galaxy S8/+ Offer
6- Enhancing the following postpaid packages in terms of data and social media features: projects 29 Postpaid/ 29 Control / Shabab 130 / Shabab 249 / 349 Postpaid
7- Launching postpaid Data Over Voice bundles (DoV)
8- Introducing Online Sales Lead program for VIP & Direct Sales Channels
9- Indexing a growth of ~126 points Market share for the Voice Postpaid Segment in less than a year during 2017.
10- Achieving -in coordination with Device and MarCom teams- a growth of +180% in terms of handset sales in 2017.
11- Increasing the customer base on Hi-tier postpaid package by +35%.
12 - Launching Postpaid & Control mega offer in March 2018 (voice category)

Brands: Shabab rate plans, Khateer, Control rate plans, Other Generic postpaid rate plans.

Retail Marketing Senior Manager at Colgate Palmolive Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2015 to May 2016

National Retail Marketing Senior Manager (Customer and Consumer Marketing for GCC BU)

During my assignment, Colgate Oral Category market share increased from 4% to 11.9%. Furthermore, the Share of shelf has become ~15% reflecting the high off take rate inside the Modern & Drugstore Channels.

Category Brand Manager at Unilever
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2014 to April 2015

handling Category Management projects, besides my core assignment in category operations. This role is essential
to leverage Unilever customer engagement approach, as well as, total category growth plan. The main focus was on Panda, Nahdi Pharma,
Dawaa, Pharma, Carrefour and Danube Hypermarkets. During my stint, I managed to build a sales & insights data base to the top accounts,


Achievements:
• Increase the market share from 25% to 33%.
• Develop and implement customer/channel marketing category plans based on category and shopper insights to grow market share within category.
• Achieving +10 Growth in Market Share
• Successfully rationalize and optimize the Portfolio based on the value add and potential ROI

Brands: Dove, Rexona, Axe, Vaseline, Ponds and Fair & Lovely

Trade & Shopper Insights / CMK at IATCO and P&G
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2010 to April 2014

Managing Marketing & Sales Project.
Conducting Marketing & Business Analysis and Research.
Cooperating with P&G Consumer & Market Knowledge ( CMK )
Managing 3 Marketing Units
Trade & Shopper Insights (T&Si) for Fem-Care & Baby-Care & Beauty-Care
Shopper-Based-Design (SBD)

Coop Trainee at Saudi Hollandi Bank (SHB)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2009 to October 2009

Handling Accounts in Treasury Department and Corporate Banking

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Prince Sultan University
  • June 2022

in 2020, I started the MBA program @PSU

Bachelor's degree, Industrial Management - Marketing
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
  • February 2010

Marketing Economics Finance Accounting Management Operations Management

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Marketing Research
Managing Groups
Marketing Mix
Business Development
SPSS PROGRAMME
SAP System
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Negotiation Skills
Solving Problems

Languages

English
Native Speaker
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

KFUPM
  • KFUPM Alumni
  • December 2009

Training and Certifications

Several Business & Personal Training (Training)
Training Institute:
CLD - AbuDawood Group
Date Attended:
May 2010
Several Business Trainings & Workshops (Training)
Training Institute:
Proctor & Gamble - P&G
Date Attended:
April 2013

Hobbies

  • Reading & Learning
  • Martial & Mixed Martial Arts
  • Travelling
  • Educating my Society, Charity
  • Grilling Steaks