Bashar Bahra, CRM Specialist

Bashar Bahra

CRM Specialist

dubizzle

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Master in Business Administration (MBA)
Experience
14 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 5 Months

CRM Specialist at dubizzle
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2014

As a CRM Specialist I work on the CRM system (Silverpop) to leverage its set-up in building deep relationships with our users, and support the marketing team in achieving its business objectives for customer retention & engagement.

One of the major roles is planning and executing email communication campaigns across all countries (UAE, Egypt, Saudi, Qatar and Oman) & verticals (Properties, Motors, Items for sale and Jobs).

Operations Executive at Bond for Traffic Solutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • May 2013 to December 2013

Client Name: Department of Transport (DoT), Abu Dhabi, UAE

Project Name: Road Vehicle Traffic Counting System

Project Scope: Bond for Traffic Solutions is responsible for on-site equipment location surveys, system design, supply, installation, commissioning, testing, training, documentation, operation and maintenance of all associated works providing a fully functional traffic counting system at designed locations in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Duties and Responsibilities:

- working and managing the CRM System (SalesForce)
- Provide periodic and on-request data reports about the traffic counts, speed, headways and vehicle classification to DoT.
- Extract traffic trends through Inbound and Outbound traffic flow analysis.
- Maintain system availability on the application (RiverComm)
- Plan, monitor and carry out the periodic and preventive maintenance the CRM (SalesForce).
- Coordinate and follow-up with the site maintenance team to ensure the SLA performance.
- Managing spare parts stock level.

Business Development and MIS Manager at Redai Group, Syria
  • Syria - Damascus
  • September 2009 to January 2013

09/2009 - 01/2013 Redai Group, Syria.
Business Development and MIS Manager

Business Development Responsibilities & duties:

- Outside Business Development: includes establishing cooperation and business channels with providers and clients, providing new ideas to the organization, seeking new brands to be adopted, seeking new market areas & locations for expansion, etc.

- Inside Business Development: includes setting up new procedures for staffing, working hours (shifts), staff costume, materials, etc.

MIS Duties and Responsibilities:

- Managing the CRM system
- Responsible for strategic direction, planning, Implementation, running of the organization’s IS functions,
- Analyse computer system needs for management information and functional operations.
- Manage and implement IS projects; ensure that the organization’s strategic goals and business objectives are achieved.
- Keep informed of changing IS technologies and trends.
- Coordinate with the Marketing Dept. to make use of New Media technologies as a marketing platform.
- Manage information technology resources for the business.
- Create reports that allow the company to get information on daily business activities
- Keep records and information about deals with clients.
- Analyse data to project market trends.

Trainer at International Business Institute
  • Syria - Damascus
  • January 2012 to January 2013

Delivering Business area and Soft skills Training Courses (Part Time)

Training Subjects:
Business area:
- Management
- Family Business Management.
- Management Information Systems.
- Entrepreneurship (Business Creation).

Soft Skills area:
- Leadership skills.
- Negotiation Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Communication Skills
- Train of Trainers (TOT)

Education

Master's degree, Master in Business Administration (MBA)
  • at Autonoma University of Barcelona with the Higher institute of Business Administration
  • June 2013

Institute of Business Administration, Syria (Joint Program) Master of Business Administration (MBA). Some selected courses: - Management Information Systems (ERP, CRM, SCM) - Operational Management - Leadership Skills - HR Management - Business Communications

Bachelor's degree, IT Engineering
  • at University of Kalamoon
  • January 2009

Some IT related courses: - System Analysis and Design. -Operating System. - Multimedia Systems. -Programming (C++, C#). -Data Base (SQL, Oracle). -Networking & Data Transmission. Some Business related courses: - Management Information Systems (MIS). - Project Management. - E-commerce & Web Programming. - Organizational Behavior.

Specialties & Skills

Training
Project Management
Vendor Management
Team Leadership
CRM software
TRAINING
system support
Presentation
Communication
Negotiation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

iGive Initiative
  • Founding Member, Team Leader and Soft Skills Trainer
  • June 2011
MyDoctor Initiative
  • Board member/ Marketing team lead
  • July 2014

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
Valid Until:
December 2016