Ahmed Abdulwasea

Accomplishments:
* Served as thought leader, who lives and breathes collaboration and community spirit, ensured 600-unit owner and all buyers land direct from Kinan or even units’ buyer through sub developer have enhanced life across 2.2 Million SQM Masterplan community.
* Continuous endeavor to bring new ideas of business development. A recurring income project of SAR 250 Million generating annual revenue of ~SAR 20 Million, boutique compound project of SAR 90 Million yielding ~SAR 11 Million.
* Delivered value buying strategy for purchasing of bulky construction material, drove significant year-on-year savings in material unit price from 25% to 35%.
* Contributed to the strengthening of the buying framework - reduced cost of material with upgrade of quality from 20% to 40%.
* Directed Facilities Management initiatives, managed company property / facilities inside our community including security landscape. Managed contracts valued SAR 12 million yearly to register 20% to 25% savings.
* Commanded value chain planning initiatives and pioneered importing from China
* Member of a team which was awarded in innovation competition consistently for 5 years.
* Saved company SAR 60 Million by significantly contributing in special project.
* Considered Subject Matter Expert and appointed as Trainer in Kinan academy for team work, team building and thinking out of the box.
* Member of a team Achieved SAR 300 Million of Land Sales within one month.
* Involvement on Sales strategy, pricing, direct sales transaction and event until execution.
Key Responsibilities:
* Promoted for executive leadership position- articulate the vision, mission and command 3 departments - Customer Care including CRM / Community management including FM / Value Baying for Building material for vertical constriction.
* Shouldered onus for 2 projects, with total area 2.2 million SQM in Jeddah and Riyadh.
* Administering event management, right from establishing annual strategic plans to execution. Leader for 15+ communities’ events, managed everything in house for Jeddah 5 big events with attendance of 15k people each. Assisting with planning for 3 events in Riyadh with 230K attendance.
* Developing and implementing yearly customer journey for Communities and managing customer journey right from buying unit to finishing 10 years warranty.
* Superintended a dynamic team of CS, mentoring them to manage all problem and conflict with Customers for around 600 units, and 2, 000 Land parcels.
* Managing community transform from neighborhood to homeowner associations under MOH.
* Designing preventative maintenance plan for company properties, using an ethos of asset-based and service-based approaches.
* Owning the OPEX/operational budgets agenda, ensuring sufficient cash-flow to meet both short- and long-term operational needs.

 Instrumental in establishing the largest production house for animation in MENA region in 2013. Built the studio/ startup business from scratch, being the first employees have effectively handled lot of strategic planning and execution
 Handled international recruitment, acquired talent from 19+ countries and managed the conflict of culture inside the company with careful thought/ cultural understanding.
 Secured government certifications for newly established company, applied for licenses, permits and registered the business to make it a distinct legal entity.
 Hand-selected to manage the company and deputize as Managing Director since he lived in Jeddah.
Key Responsibilities:
 Commanded Human Capital & Administration initiatives, including functional units of Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, Admin Support and Government Relations.
 Championed development and implementation of Human Capital & Administration strategies and policies ensuring creation of an environment conducive to the attraction, development and motivation of employees to support company in the achievement current strategic goals as well as shape it to meet future challenges.
 Delivered an integrated training & development strategy, drove overall effectiveness of training programs by identifying/ arranging suitable training solutions for employees

 Under my leadership successfully registered robust capital gain and established other income project from 0 to Millions within 1 year.
 Successfully attained 95% of the established Company income target with increasing the profit 34.47%. amid challenging environment - the Dubai economic crises and when the world just started to come back from 2008 economic crisis
 Pioneered cost saving program implementation- embedding cost savings culture in the organization. Substantially reduced operating costs through resize retail store and the closing of an underperforming retail store. thereby mitigating total fix cost by 42% after the Dubai economic crises.
 Commanded strategic planning for all departments especially for purchasing within the retail business.
 Partnered with CFO for enhanced cash flow management.
 Re-furbished the company identity and the stores internal design after 25 years.
Key Responsibilities:
 Donned multiple hats and managed all the company activities including import, export, retail store, warehouse, marketing, finance, procurement, workshop, sales, HR, and business development.
 Functioned as a Growth Agent, endeavored for superlative utilization of organization's resources to enable realization of cost saving, revenue enhancing opportunities, process re-engineering and optimization and people development.

Strategic Management
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