Ahmed Assim, Business Development Manager - Field Services

Ahmed Assim

Business Development Manager - Field Services

Schneider Electric

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Diploma, International Trade Marketing
Experience
14 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 5 Months

Business Development Manager - Field Services at Schneider Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2016 to January 2019

- Created services opportunities worth 20 MUSD.
- Capex-to-Opex (C2O) program country leader, interacting with both internal and external stakeholders to attach Schneider Electric services offering to green field projects as well as brown field ones.
- Conducted complete mapping and analysis of country’s UPS installed base and developed a commercial action plan involving dedicated field services sales.
- Defined annual marketing plan (AMP) for ITB business and worked closely with sales team for implementation and achieving the targets.
- Launched a new service center for ITB services in KSA and was responsible for the process from design till implementation, involving all local and regional stakeholders
- Arranged several successful marketing events, across Saudi Arabia, and presented Schneider Electric services offering involving other presenters from the region.
- Helped resolve customer complains through proper addressing of the complain and close follow-up with responsible stakeholder till resolution.

Project Manager at Schneider Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2011 to March 2016

- Managed complex utility projects valued collectively at almost 60 MUSD
- Successfully improved projects’ margin by 2 points on average.
- Effectively communicating with senior management at customers’ and end-users’ sides, in a way that helped me solve very critical issues in assigned projects as well as peers’ projects.
- Exceptionally handled customers’ payments with no accruing overdues.
- Successfully mitigated critical risks throughout the execution phases.
- Achieving highest customer satisfaction levels in all handled projects
- Established a robust communication channel within the end-user (SEC) organization, in a way that benefited Schneider Electric in a multi-dimensional way.
- Resolved many critical customer complaints, mainly attributed to either defective components or delays of some sub-components, through proper addressing of the complaint and close follow-up with responsible internal and external, local and global, stakeholders till resolution.

• Business Development Manager – Education Segment at Schneider Electric
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2010 to September 2011

- Devised a realistic action plan, along with the enabling strategy, for education segment and have worked actively with sales team to achieve the set targets.
- Established a strong networking channel with ministry of higher education-MOHE senior management along with strong professional relations with key personnel from engineering & projects division.
- Targeted key consultants working on MOHE projects and arranged a series of seminars and workshops focusing on Schneider Electric solutions to commercial buildings.

Senior Sales Engineer – Petrochemicals, Oil & Gas Division at ABB Power Systems & Automation S.A.E
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2008 to May 2010

- Actively re-established strong connections with existing key customers.
- Added new customers to the portfolio generating more sales.
- Achieved sales targets contributing positively to the whole division.
- Worked actively with local and global teams to provide customers with best ABB solutions addressing their requirements.

Key Account Manager at Maersk Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2006 to May 2008

• Exports Department -Key customers Account Manager (May 2007)
• Export Management Department - Documentation Management

 Achievements:

 Creating a new invoicing tool that improved dramatically Maersk Egypt performance (mainly, invoicing quality), the real exciting aspect in this achievement was the great teamwork which represented a model for synergy (Team Members included: Egypt Operations Manager - China operations - Egypt Process Excellence Manager).

 Deep understanding of the know-how for using Business Objects reporting system; one of the most valuable created reports is the one used by the documentation team to ensure data quality of timely manifested bills of lading per vessel by ensuring Shipping Instructions (SI) are submitted timely by the customers.

Design Engineer – Technical Dept. at Schneider Electric Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2004 to January 2006

Education

Diploma, International Trade Marketing
  • at American University in Cairo
  • August 2008
Bachelor's degree, - Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical power & Machines Department
  • at Ain Shams University
  • July 2003

-Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical power & Machines Department Overall Degree Good, June 2003.

High school or equivalent, Science & Mathematics Section
  • at The English School Heliopolis
  • July 1998

High School Certificate , Score 99.6 %

Specialties & Skills

Preparation
International Trade
Mathematics
Very good knowledge of MS Windows, MS Word, MS Excel & Internet.
Proficient with Electrical Engineering software (Cyme TCC, zelio soft, Modicon PLC, H-control, Ecodi
Familiar with AutoCAD 2000.
Basic knowledge of computer programming.

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner