Ahmed Halawa, Senior Export Manager

Ahmed Halawa

Senior Export Manager

House Covers Industries

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Senior Export Manager at House Covers Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2019

• Reporting to export director and top management.
• Supervising and managing export sales activities.
• Generating sales in targeted regions according to company strategies and executing the required action plans to reach company export target.
• Quoting prices to existing and new customers according to company prices strategy to achieve the company annual profitability target.
• Maintaining good relation to existing customers and handling all their comments and complains.
• Supervising all export documentations including export orders, samples requests and export shipment documents.
• Supervising proforma invoices, prices and export payment and shipping terms according to company strategies and policies.
• Forecasting annual export sales to existing customers according to our product seasonality and available production capacities.
• Developing new products, designs and colors according to new export markets demands.
• Monitoring customer’s payments and credit limits according to agreed payment conditions.
• Representing my company in international and national exhibitions and generating participation report, visitor’s list and exhibition product demands analysis.
• Executing all company exhibition participation procedures with EDA and directly with exhibition organizers including stand payments, stand layout, product display and product shipping to the exhibition.
• Monitoring with factory departments the executing of export orders in production and make sure to meet all promised shipping dates.
• Approving export shipment documents before dispatching them to banks and customers.
• Providing trainings and advises to team members to improve export sales performance.
• Reviewing warehouses stock levels and generate sales action plan and export promotions to existing customers.
• Preparing export reports and trends to export sales, export trends analysis and export team performance evaluation to export director and top manager.

Export Manager at Top Rock Co.
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • January 2017 to August 2019

• Reporting to top management and company owner.
• Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships.
• Quoting prices to existing and new customers according to company prices strategy to achieve the company annual profitability target.
• Monitoring with factory departments the executing of export orders in production and make sure to meet all promised shipping dates.
• Approving export shipment documents before dispatching them to banks and customers.
• Follow-up for collection of payment.
• Monitoring customer’s payments and credit limits according to agreed payment conditions.
• Preparing export reports and trends of export sales to the top management and company owner.

Export Sales Manager at MAC Carpet ( Oriental Weavers Group )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2013 to December 2016

• Presents and sell company products and services to current and potential clients.
• Prepares action plans and schedules to identify specific targets and to project the number of contacts to be made.
• Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships.
• Identify and resolve client concerns.
• Communicates the new product service opportunities and special developments to the customers.
• Participate in marketing events such as trade shows and marketing events.
• Follow-up for collection of payment.
• Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, etc.
• Reporting to export director.
• Supervising and managing export sales activities.

Customer Service Specialist at MAC Carpet ( Oriental Weavers Group )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2012 to May 2013

• Resolve customer complaints via phone or email.
• Assist with placement of orders, refunds, or exchanges.
• Work with customer service manager to ensure proper customer service is being delivered.
• Follow communication procedures, guidelines and policies
• Investigating customer complains making the necessary root cause and corrective action plan to avoid repeating any problems again with the customers.

Planning Specialist at MAC Carpet ( Oriental Weavers Group )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to July 2012

• Follows-up on the production plan and ensure implementation.
• Follows up actual production performance VS. Standard performance.
• Works closely with local / foreign purchasing to ensure having the materials on time.
• Measures Monthly stock level for raw & packing materials.
• Follows-up on the warehouses inventory levels and monitor all raw and packing transactions.
• Making sure each operation meets shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Prepares of annual, monthly and daily production schedules
• Prepares of annual and monthly materials requisitions.

Sampling Follow-Up Coordinator at MAC Carpet ( Oriental Weavers Group )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2008 to December 2009

• Notify internal departments of delivery arrivals.
• Unpack and examine incoming shipments, reject damaged items, record shortages and communicate with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
• Coordinates the pick-up of parcels being shipped through DHL, TNT, FedEx and Aramex.
• Follow and track the shipments being shipped from the company with the courier companies through their websites.
• Recording the daily shipments to the software programs of each company based on the most convenient courier for each shipment.
• Review and choose the suitable courier for each shipment based on the cost, delivery days and good service received from each courier company.
• Make daily reports and updating it with the actual status of each shipment and send it to the related departments.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics
  • at Tanta University
  • September 2007

BSC in Science and Education in Mathematics field from Tanta university in 2007

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Customer Service
Strategic Planning
Operations Management
Sales Management
Microsoft Office Applications
Dealing with Oracle Systems
Computer skills
PDF Applications
Internet browsing
Social media programs

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

English Course (Training)
Training Institute:
ROOTs Academy
Date Attended:
August 2016
Duration:
72 hours

Hobbies

  • Watching Football