Ahmed Abdullah   Al Zahrani, Real Estate, E Commerce, Merchandis Planning & Assortment planning

Ahmed Abdullah Al Zahrani

Real Estate, E Commerce, Merchandis Planning & Assortment planning

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Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, English
Experience
17 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 9 Months

Real Estate, E Commerce, Merchandis Planning & Assortment planning at owner
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since March 2021

Business- TASI - E Commerce

Merchandise Operations Manager and Assortment Planning Manager at Panda Retail Company - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2020 to March 2021

Keep the balance between Sales, Inventory & Profit in the way that achieves customer satisfaction & utilizes the stores space to the maximum.
• Partner with the category managers to review & update assortments of the assigned business units, considering the company strategy as well as space limitations.
• Develop merchandise financial plans of assigned business units to deliver sales, inventory & profit targets & Maximize ROII, in line with the commercial strategy & stores space.
• Define the appropriate approach to develop merchandise planning model for the assigned business units, in accordance with each business unit financials & constrains.
• Maintain assortment database updated with the most recent records, as per the master data file of trading SKUs
• Build & develop assortment plans of all regular, seasonal, promotional and new items, in addition to pre-season & post-season plans.
• Manage the process of item-location status updates in the way that ensures proper system control while executing assortment related data on RMS, in alignment with MDM.
• Work closely with the rest of the merchandising units to manage data updates & provide them with needed data & analytics on their respective areas of interest

Merchandise Operations Manager at Panda Retail Company - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2018 to February 2021

To assits and ensure Auditing, information's, executions, Couching. merchandisie policies, store
layouts and planograms across Panda stores

• Relationships between all stake holders to the Merchandise planning processes requirement
• Ensure compliance and monitor progress on implementations of planograms, floor layout, secondary space, Weekly Promotions in the stores in accordance with commercial guidelines that would enhance the customers shopping experience and sales growth

Merchandising Audit Manager at Panda Retail Company – Savola Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2014 to March 2018

Merchandising Manager - Execution& Compliance ... Oversee service activities performed in store by
Managing dedicated service teams and providing oversight to Factory teams. Manage the work of a team of
Approximately 6 Regional Merchandising team leader in KSA and ultimately between 28 Merchandising
Associates within all stores district.
•Manage Execution & Audits merchandising departments, Conduct routine stores walks, and generate reports,
And develop work plans for the to execute, Set challenging objectives and communicate expectations, Verify
Execution of team's key deliverables, such as project execution Layout & Plano-Gram, Partner with stores
Leadership team on merchandising Layout & Plano-gram activates.
•Escalate and resolve merchandising issues in stores and balance inventories in the district by: Utilizing
Interactive reporting to pull key merchandising and operational reports; interpreting data, developing action
Plans and executing. Performing regularly scheduled store service functions. Partnering with District and
Store Leadership on store performance. Perform regional captainships and project .
•Visits stores &Regional Area Interface with Merchandising Regional Team Leader &Teams and other
Extended functional teams.
•Execute strategic plans for stores, layout & Plano-Gram for all regionals stores to resets.
•Execution & compliance is to ensure that, the stores layout floor and planogram shelves is devised are
Implemented in time in all stores.
•Manage the Merchandising regional team in monitoring implementations planograms in the stores and
Ensure compliance to Commercial guidelines that would enhance the customers shopping experience and
Sales growth.
•Stores Implementation Layout & Plano Gram.
•Compliances Report layout & Plano-gram.
•Maintain layout & planogram after implementations
•Stores Availability report & Missing SKUs
•Provide data basis for merchandising layout & planogram.
•Planogram quality.

Stores Layout Planner at Panda Retail Company - Savola Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2013 to December 2014

Propose new, refit and existing stores for all APU concepts are laid out in accordance of company’s standards in collaboration with the NSO and the commercial teams.
 Communicate the agreed store layout and merchandising plan to operations as per news store opening and refit schedules.
 To work with operations and NSO operating teams in order to ensure store’s are actually laid out in conformance to agreed plans.
 To maximize short and long term space sales and margin productivity by developing and maintaining a macro space allocation model using inputs from the business directors while taking into consideration the company’s strategic direction, growth potential and space productivity between categories.
 Work closely with the planogram teams to capture optimal space requirements per store cluster and keep them abreast of changes in fixture specifications and store layouts etc.
 To work with NSO and commercial team for selection of fixtures appropriate to the merchandising needs of the category while being in conformance to company’s standards.
 To develop, manage and motivate store planners in order to facilitate them to ensure their optimal performance to deliver department objectives.

Regional Merchandising Team Leader at Panda Retail Company - Savola Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2011 to May 2013

Ensure implementation of planograms and o merchandising guidelines in line with Channel Category team.
o Lead the merchandising supervisor in the assigned implementation’s Plano-gram
o Accountable to ensure with stores are follow up & maintained the Plano-gram after implemented.
o Follow up with stores for availability.
o Follow with store about missing Skus
o Mange Plano-gram Implementations

Night Shift Manager at Panda Retail Company – Savola Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 2010 to December 2011

• Ensure that all items are appropriately displayed on shelves and oversee maintenance of store
• Mange store and regulation items, display, delivery, hygiene, staff mange
• Ensuring the store is ready for the daytime hours
• Organising the warehouse
• Dealing with customer enquiries
• Ensuring the store runs smoothly
• Monitoring inventories
• Overseeing deliveries

Head Cashiers at Panda Retail Company - Savola Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2008 to February 2010

• Monitor the work of cashiers on a daily basis
• Create and distribute cashier schedules and till allocation
• Ensure that workload is equally divided between cash registers
• Perform cashier duties during cashiers’ absence or extreme workload
• Supervise the activities of checkout stations on a constant basis
• Handle store operations in the absence of store managers
• Ensure that each customer’s transactions are processed accurately and in a time efficient manner
• Generate and maintain account related reports
• Manage bank deposit activities and make sure that cash is counted accurately at the end of each shift
• Reconcile cash with receipts at the end of each shift and make sure that any discrepancies are managed
immediately
• Identify and address any accounts related problems on an immediate basis
• Train new employees to work as cashiers
• Treasury responsibly
• Store Seals closing & updating

Customer Service at Panda Retail Company - Savola Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2006 to December 2008

• Customer’s service
• Provides pricing information by answering questions.
• Operating a cash register.
• Collects payments by accepting cash, check,
• Verifies credit acceptance by reviewing and recording license number; operating credit card authorization
System.
• Balances cash drawer by counting cash at beginning and end of work shift.
• Maintains checkout operations
• Maintains safe and clean working regulations.

Education

Bachelor's degree, English
  • at King Abdul-Aziz University
  • February 2014

English Language

Specialties & Skills

Planograms
Operation
Management
Merchandising
Leadership
Merchandising
MICROSOFT OFFICE
SCHEDULING
STRATEGIC
Communications
Plano-gram
Merchandising Plan
Managment
Project Planning
Managing Dead line
Customer service
Stores Layout
Time Management
problem solving
operation
negotiation
merchandising strategies
product development

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

CRO : Certificate Retail Operation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2009
Valid Until:
January 9999
CWS : Certificate Work Place Skill (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Valid Until:
January 9999
MDP : Manager Devolvement Program (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999

Hobbies

  • Swimming * Traveling