General Manager
ARKAN
Total years of experience :23 years, 9 Months
ARKAN activities include support and consultancy services for local vehicle distributors on Sales & Marketing techniques.
Having worked with TOYOTA and spending over 5 years in the Oil & Gas industry our experience and professional network of contacts allows us to facilitate B2B and B2C sales and marketing activities for our selected clients.
ALJ (ATLAS) are the distributors of Japanese Brands Daihatsu, Subaru & HINO in Sudan.
They had a huge stock of aged stock and decided to appoint me as the joint Marketing & Sales Manager (replacing two independent department managers).
We managed to re-launch the brand and clear the aged stock (over 3yrs old units) with in the 11 months. Further to that we introduced the HINO trucks back into the market during the worst economical situation.
We reduced the Marketing (OPEX) by over 60% by using target based marketing and smart media services such as SMS, Social Media and B2B techniques.
Samasu Group was a conglomerate operating in the Oil & Gas industry, Medical Industry and General Trade.
I acted as the senior engineer and later prompted to the Business Dev. Manager in charge of Global Oil & Gas agency acquisition for selected project implementation.
We acted as the local agents for SINOPEC, PETROCHINA, SINOCHEM, as well as numerous other renowned companies.
I was also the team leader for the Medical subsidiary, acquiring Roche Diagnostics as the leader of Medical equipment in Sudan.
I designed and implemented with each specific subsidiary the groups overall Market strategy for Product or Service penetration.
We travelled world wide to acquire agencies for Sudan and the region Oil & Gas industry.
I have a huge network of International companies with close personal relations.
I joined Golden Arrow (Toyota) as the After Sales & Service Manager. I was responsible for Workshop Management (Daily follow up) of the workshop facility and staff, including Warranty, Corporate service contracts.
I was responsible for handling all client issues and client retention.
I was certified by TOYOTA as Dealer Evaluator (TSM-Kaizen).
This job had huge exposure as at the time the UN was entering Sudan for work and the target vehicles where Toyota.
Dukes Services UK, was engaged in Warehouse Management, employing foreign nationals whom worked Part-Time during the peak seasons in the UK. My job was to seek leads and negotiate temporary staffing contracts with the large local distributors such as Sainsbury and Wincanton Logistics.
I was also responsible of allocating group housing facilities via our sister company (Dukes Estate Agency) .
The daily duties included client follow up, staff scheduling and general duties.
Our school MAP (Mechanical, Aerospace and Production Engineering), The engineering discipline taught was focused on Management, International Law and Finance to empower us with business skills to become Talented Managers and Entrepreneurs.
David Game College, was private institute accredited by Cambridge University, teaching Cambridge Information Technology and Providing the Examination Centre from which we gained our certificates. Levels taught (PIttman and Cambridge IT), all successfully gained FIRST CLASS