Basem Al-Akal, Business Development Manager

Basem Al-Akal

Business Development Manager

Al-andalus software development

Location
Palestine - West Bank
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineer
Experience
14 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months

Business Development Manager at Al-andalus software development
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • My current job since April 2015

Taking care of marketing strategy, branding, product pricing, public relation sales & CRM

Loyalty & Retention Sr. Specialist at Watanitya Palestine
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • April 2012 to January 2015

Development and management to loyalty and retention activities for new and existing customers through automated actions that will result in increased levels of customer retention and enhance usage, thus enhancing ARPU.
This were achieved through both proactive and reactive retention and engagement tactics with customers.
Main Responsibilities and duties:

•Develop loyalty and retention Strategy
•Develop retention roadmap to decrease churn rate, hence increase market share.
•Develop loyalty roadmap for better customer engagement to increase CLTV.
•Manage loyalty and retention offering
•Product Management and product launch.
•Launch & Manage Wataniya Mobile loyalty program (pointing system).
•Monitor loyalty earning/burning activities and conduct the proper actions
•Data analysis to understand and manage loyalty, retention Programs.
•Using data analysis from Marketing intelligence and performance to develop suitable retention activities.
•Contribution to update sales commission scheme.
•Manage loyalty & retention budget.
•Development & implementation of churn prediction techniques.
•Customer base monitoring for activation, disconnection and follow up on related issues.

Consultant at Ooredoo Group HQ
  • Qatar - Doha
  • September 2013 to December 2013

I had been invited to Short term assignment for knowledge sharing with Ooredoo group operators where I had contribution in loyalty and retention strategies, and also I contributed in Monitoring Ooredoo Maldives rebranding process

Project Manager at Wataniya Palestine
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • May 2011 to September 2013

Beside loyalty and retention role I was responsible on management of cross functional projects like Gaza Project, loyalty Project and Rebranding where my efforts includes all Project phases from initiation, planning, follow up on implementation, monitoring and closing. And below main duties had been conducted:
•Manage Rebranding project by setting up the project strategy, planning, dependencies, resources preparation, RFPs and POs.
•Managing commercial Planning for corporate expansion (Gaza Project).
•Building project plans using MS Project tool connecting dependencies and milestones.
•Manage budget and gain approvals on charters, plans, POs….etc.
•Manage weekly meetings for active projects addressing issues and propose solutions
•Follow up on pending issues with cross functional teams to ensure on time delivery
•Prepare weekly, monthly reports for OPCOM regarding running projects
•Processes optimization.

Business Analyst at Wataniya Mobile
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • May 2009 to April 2011

I was responsible to review Wataniya business processes and to define gaps and opportunities to unify all processes mapping and documentation using corporate unified methodology.
Here below main tasks during the role:

•Create unified template for process mapping
•Business Processes improvement for customer touch points processes (Customer care, Billing & Collection, Sales)
•Time to Market Process enhancement
•Requirement gathering, UAT scenarios for knowledge base management system.
•Gap analysis exercises
•SharePoint administration.
•Customer experience Project Management focusing on customer journey touch points.
•Process workflow Automation.
•Contributions in Wataniya launch Preparation

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineer
  • at AL-Quds University
  • July 2007

Comuter Engineering from Al-Quds University in Palestine I got Arab bank scholarship I got University award to conduct training course in Egypt in 2007 I got Honor degree of 86% in graduation project

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Customer Retention
Customer Loyalty
Process Improvement
Process Mapping
MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Visio, Outlook, MS Project)
communication, report writing, and presentation skills.
Ability to work under pressure and in fast pace environment.
Problem-solving skills.
Self starter
Result oriented
Follow up skills
Attention to details

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

CBOSS Business Intelligence Certified User (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
MArketing & Sales Strategies (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2008
Valid Until:
August 2008
Soft Skills Comunication (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2009
Valid Until:
June 2009
CCNA-Part II (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
CCNA- Part I (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2006
Valid Until:
December 2006
GIS Analysis (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
June 2012
SAP Business Object and Dashboards (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
January 2013
E-TOM Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
April 2012
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012