Ashraf Atef

-Responsible for all sales and Marketing activities inside and outside Egypt

-Develop and hiring the suitable candidates.

- Responsible for preparing the market study and preparing the annual commercial activities reports and budgets.

- Analyze and open new markets and have the authority to decide which markets we should enter and which exhibition we should and participate.

- Inform the production and quality departments with the required quality in different markets and help in releasing the required documents.

Achievements: We organize the internal workflow, we put the strategies for export, and we help in opening new markets outside Egypt (Germany - Romania - Jordan - Morocco) and we still continue in opening new markets, otherwise we deal with new clients inside Egypt.

Create and implement the Export plans and Strategies also classify the world into regions

Follow the new and accelerated laws of Export and import to be ready for any changes in the process

Prepare and construct the budget needed to achieve the department plans and discuss with CEO the budget plan, also prepare the commission schedule to discuss and approve with top management

Handling all existing clients and retain the lost clients, also ensuring the optimal level of marketing strategies and select the suitable market channel to every country

Identifying the new business opportunities and dealing with new channels and platforms

Managing the export team and handling with them all client’s issues, also teach them new methods to achieve the department goals

Set the department goals and targets and tailored the plans to every region to achieve it

Deal and manage all the banking issues and helping in prepare the required documents

Study the market needs and classify the clients into categories

Cooperate with different departments to achieve the sales process, specially the production, quality and finance departments

Attending local and abroad fairs and exhibition also select the suitable and useful exhibitions to attend and participate

Visit the target and Actual markets to be sure that everything is running according to the plan

Achievements: we built the Export department in the company and we become the first Egyptian company to Export semi dried dates to USA, we open new markets in Morocco, France and Turkey.

o Responsible for Opening new markets for our products (Water-Based Flexographic Inks)
o Make the contacts and the correspondence with the embassies and collecting the data including the new economics and politics
o Make the suitable studies the Internal and external studies for the business analysis to help our agents to fulfill the targets
o Serve and Manage the regions and help our agents to achieve their targets by giving them the technical, sales, and Marketing support and learn and observe any changes that may occur in this regions in-laws and regulations
o Responsible for Russia and CIS countries regions, also as an additional region East Africa and Saudi Arabia.
o Serve and Help in directing the west African Region with our Branch (Factory) in Ghana, Controlling the sales, and help in solving the technical problems by handling these issues with the clients and the central technical support.

o Responsible for Opening new markets for our products (steel pipes) in Africa
o Make contact with the Embassies and collecting the latest data including the new economics and politics laws.
o Handling all customer inquiries and complaints
o Following up shipments from the factory warehouse to the customers.
o Make an annual schedule sales plan and delivery plan every month.
o Contacting the Customs and get the regulations of the new law

Responsible about opening new markets for our products ( Chemicals - Petrochemicals - Fertilizers - and recycled Plastic )
Handling all customer inquiry and complaints
Issuing invoices and packing for the shipments
Contracting with forwarding agents
Following up shipments from factory warehouse to the customers.
Make follow up to client's orders with planning and stores
Make annual schedule sales plan and delivery plan every month.
Make customers databases and simply analysis.

o Make a database for clients who need our main product (fresh fruits and vegetables)
o Make follow up to client's orders and Make schedule plan to export the orders every month
o Follow up the farms and the stations, and be sure of quality and quantity
o Contacting and contracting with forwarding agents
o Follow up with clients the quality after delivered
o Make a list to supplier and divide it into (sole, prefer, general)

o Make a database for clients who needs our main products (Potatoes)
o Follow up with local & foreign buyers
o Follow up client's orders and request quotations
o Responsible for all of the exhibitions inside Egypt and outside and make a contract with buyers
o Searching through different search engines and sources for new buyers