Ahmed Hammad, Strategic Planning And Execution Manager

Ahmed Hammad

Strategic Planning And Execution Manager

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
High school or equivalent, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Experience
24 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months

Strategic Planning And Execution Manager at Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since March 2022

My mandates:
1- Oversee, support, and guide the execution of the 2021-2025 transformation program to redirect the
organization towards achieving its vision “Global Food Security Leadership”, my mandates include:
- Ensure strategic goals and priorities are aligned, communicated, and deployed across all the
organization elements (structure, culture, processes, systems, talents/leadership, stakeholders, etc.)
- Define yearly strategic themes.
- Update and reflect the situational analysis in the yearly strategic plan.
- Mandate, evaluate and analyze strategic KPIs.
- Ensure strategic alignment with UAE and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi Government and strategic
private partners.
- Draft, monitor and guide 70+ strategic initiatives.
- Monitor and support the deployment of the new restructure.
- Review the responsibilities of the organization units and ensure its reflections on the departmental
operation plans, KPIs (BSC).
- Review and participate in process reengineering activities.
- Evaluate culture impact and design/deploy the new values roll-out plan.
2- Lead two strategic projects, PMO.
3- Participate in several strategic initiatives such as Performance System, Customer Journey, Agriculture
4.0, and Abu Dhabi Genome Blueprint for Agriculture.

Change Management Director at Mohamed Bin Rashid Global Initiative
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2021 to March 2022

Global deployment of The Digital School, one of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global
Initiatives in Egypt, Mauritania, Jordan, and Mexico.

Senior Organization Development Consultant at Coredia Consulting
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • January 2011 to March 2021

• Business Turnaround projects with different scopes: Change Management, Organization Design, Strategic Planning, Capacity Building, Business Analytics, and Leadership Coaching.
• Gathered, documented and modeled data to assess business trends.
• Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
• Restructured procedures to create and execute projects.
• Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
• Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication and resource utilization issues.
• Collected, organized and modeled data.
• Coached business leaders.
• Leveraged on-site observation and personal interviews to identify team and individual strengths.
Project:
o Zain, Executives leadership development program (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) - 2011.
o NetSignature, Turnaround project, Business Development, e-Payment, executive role (Cairo, Egypt) - 2011/2012.
o Nabda Care, Organization Development, Business Development, e-health, executive role (Cairo, Egypt) - 2013-2014.
o Sari Misr, Organization Development, Business Development, Ride Hailing, executive role (Cairo, Egypt) - 2018/2019.
o BasharSoft (WUZZUF & Forasna), Organization Development, Employment, executive role (Cairo, Egypt)

Chief Operating Officer at BasharSoft
  • Egypt
  • April 2019 to November 2020

• 18 months contractual agreement under Coredia Consulting (COO and Chief of Staff): Organization Development and Business Planning.
• Handling marketing, operation and support functions, acting as chief of staff to CEO to handle and orchestrate all leaders in the organization.
• BasharSoft two main platforms: WUZZUF and Forasna.
• Achieving complete turnaround for business hyper-growth target.
• Developed quarterly business plans to evaluate cost projections.
• Refined organizational structure to consolidate, streamline and delineate necessary functions.
• Oversaw operations and coordinated with managers to increase quarterly revenue profitability target.
• Spearheaded change management and strategic turnaround for company during significant restructuring, including reducing employees to cut losses.
• Shaped solutions and approaches by leveraging trends in customer marketplaces and industries.
• Conducted research on emerging trends within industry and capitalized on finds to develop new products, services and strategies.
• Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities.
• Directed technological improvements, reducing waste and business bottlenecks.
• Maintained P&L and shouldered corporate fiscal responsibility.
• Oversaw business-wide changes to modernize procedures and organization.

CEO at Sari Misr
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2017 to March 2019

• One year contractual agreement under Coredia Consulting.
• Under a capacity of CEO, the scope of work was building and running a new service business with a vision to elevate the ride-hailing industry in Egypt.
• Lead all business development activities.
• Drove implementation of new market expansion to propel business forward and adapt to market changes.
• Built productive relationships with industry partners and competitors to support strategic business objectives.
• Monitored use of best practices at all levels and implemented corrective actions to bring employees into compliance.
• Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships, including negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts.

General Manager at NabdaCare
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2013 to October 2014

• Establish an e-health platform to shape the healthcare industry years to come.
• Building the first medical records on the cloud with several unique and specialized mobile applications.
• Drove year-over-year business growth while leading operations, strategic vision and long-range planning.
• Launched NabdaNet e-health management software system.
• Supported regulatory compliance by overseeing all audits to verify protocol adherence.
• Developed effective business plans to align strategic decisions with long-term objectives.
• Managed budget implementations, employee reviews, training, schedules and contract negotiations.
• Organized budgets, oversaw P&Ls and achieved margin targets consistently to stay on track with growth plans

Management Consultant at SKOPOS Consulting
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2008 to December 2010

• Culture Building, Leadership Development, Organization Assessment, Organization Engagement.
• Support Zain Telecom strategic vision across its global footprint (KSA, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, and Group headquarter in Bahrain).
• Evaluated diverse organizational systems to identify workflow, communication and resource utilization issues.
• Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions.
• Reviewed internal systems and organized training plans to address areas in need of improvement.
• Increased employee satisfaction and motivation through training classes, meetings and special workshops.
• Evaluated current processes to develop improvement plans.
• Leveraged on-site observation and personal interviews to identify team and individual strengths.
• Helped develop proactive and successful business policies to meet changing demands.
• Restructured procedures through coordination with OD Team to create and execute projects

Senior Management Consultant at Logic Consulting
  • Egypt
  • January 2007 to March 2008

Unilever: Lean mega project to enhance Unilever supply chain across Egypt (6 factories in Cairo and Alexandria).
•Project with the Egyptian Government: Business Process re-engineering.
•Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations.
•Produced detailed and relevant reports for use in making business decisions.
•Improved communication at all levels and transformed client culture into more productive atmosphere.

Intelligence Officer at HSBC
  • Egypt
  • January 2007 to September 2007

and improve back-office operations and business processes using Lean solutions and Six Sigma methodology.
•Work with regional Six Sigma team in building lean mindset within HSBC Egypt.
•Analyze and construct HQ Strategy Dashboard.
•Analyzed and collected various forms of data.
•Applied new and advanced tools and techniques to intelligence cycle, addressing complex challenges with emphasis on data analytics and data visualization.

Metrics and Estimation SME Leader at HP
  • Egypt
  • January 2005 to January 2007

the organization for CMMI maturity level 3/5.
•Build, track, and maintain projects performance metrics, dashboard, and the estimation repository.
•Coach project managers to ensure adherence to standards and sustain productivity improvement initiatives.
•Led corporate-wide initiatives to help guide enterprise and business level goals.
•Conducted data system studies to prepare documentation and specifications for proposals.
•Performed ad hoc deep-dive analyses for specific business problems.
•Collaborated with senior management and business line management to identify and prioritize new concepts for development and launch.
•Marked charts and graphs to record results and prepared and delivered presentations, training and briefings required by contract.

Specialist
  • January 2000 to September 2005

Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt, Egypt
•Develop Digital Modules.
•Quality Assurance for analog and digital simulation platforms.
•Optimized system and platform performance capabilities in most efficient, practical way possible.
•Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
•Mapped process activities to identify shortfalls and propose options to rectify operational inefficiencies.

Education

High school or equivalent, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
  • at The American University In Cairo
  • January 2007

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Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at The American University In Cairo
  • January 2007

Diploma, VLSI
  • at Information Technology Institute
  • June 2000

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Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics
  • at Ain Shams University
  • June 1999

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Specialties & Skills

Strategic Planning
Business Transformation
Organization Development
Executive Coaching
HR Strategy
AUTOMATION
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PLANS
COACHING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES
INNOVATIVE
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
MEETING FACILITATION
Organization Design
Strategic Planning
Change Management
Process Engineering

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