BASSEL HAMMOUD, Sales Manager

BASSEL HAMMOUD

Sales Manager

ITS

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
16 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 0 Months

Sales Manager at ITS
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • November 2014 to October 2016

➢ Developing sales objectives/key goals with respective staff in the team and provide counselling, guidance, and support to drive product sales.
➢ Managing growth in sales by developing plans jointly with Account Managers, Account Executives and related team members for customer contact efforts.
➢ Responsible for coaching others within the sales organization on product applications and sales techniques.
➢ Leading a team of sales personnel and be responsible and to assist sales personnel to negotiate and close orders, so as to enable them achieve targets.
➢ Identifying additional sales activities, training, or materials necessary to accomplish specific product sales in key accounts or markets and also to ensure selling to new customers.
➢ Performing analysis on region opportunities and create forecasts for sales results.
➢ Providing product specific customer feedback (i.e., product features, functionality, competition, and possible sales results) to product line managers, Company management, or customer service personnel as appropriate.
➢ Responsible for identifying and continuously improving activities that can affect customer perceptions.
➢ Providing recommendations for expense budgets and managing expenses to the budget plan.
➢ Assisting or ensuring payments with respect to invoices are collected in time from customers.

Major Account Manager at Zayani Computer Systems
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • February 2007 to October 2014

HP, Cisco, Acer, McAfee, Microsoft, Fortigate, VMware, EMC,

Job includes:
➢ Managing a portfolio of accounts.
➢ Drive effective account planning for the assigned customer base and ensure that plans are aligned to both revenue and strategic outcomes for business.
➢ Drive customer and partner satisfaction through understanding customer needs, providing responsive service to customer issues, integrating partners into the sales process and building relationships with key customer contacts.
➢ To ensure attainment of revenue and associated targets for the territory.
➢ Coordination between the Product / Business Managers and Clients.
➢ Ensure that CRM tool is kept up to date with account activities, opportunities and contacts details.
➢ Identification and qualification of product and solution opportunities leads within managed accounts.
➢ Identify, plan and implement reaction to competitive activity as identified through relationships with accounts and partners.
➢ Using an existing network of industry contacts to generate new business.
➢ Leading and training other members of the account team.
➢ Managing the work of account executives.
➢ Leading project management activity.
➢ Ensuring necessary actions are undertaken by the account team.
➢ Delivering sales presentations to high-level executives.
➢ Maintaining and expanding relationships with existing clients.

IT Division Manager at Capital Group Bahrain
  • Bahrain
  • March 2006 to January 2007

HP, CANON, INTEX, EPSON, XEROX, TARGUS
Responsible for all sales Activities and researching for new clients.
Marketing, Purchasing processes and final close, as well as Quality Control.
Execution of business development action plans.
Looking for new interesting product range and Brands.
Provision of new ideas, which will bring clients with diverse interests.
Educating our clients on what the IT Solution has to offer.
Reporting to the Managing Director.

Sales and Marketing Engineer at Almazroui Advanced Technology
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2005 to February 2006

SOCOMEC, AIREDALE, ALCAD, PALMA, EVERFOCUS, DYNASTY, PERKINS, THORN, ORTEA.
Provide business development and sales activities, manages the research of new leads and clients contacts to identify and prioritize potential customers.

Arrange meetings with prospective clients and provide Technical support when needed with the anticipation of wining new business and customer’s satisfaction.

Responsible for all sales process and final close, as well as Quality Control.

Prepare and execute business development action plans including the development of proposals, presentations and brochure materials.

Electronics Head of Technicians at EMCO Electro-Mechanical Company
  • Lebanon
  • January 2004 to January 2005

Microcontrollers programmer, Computers marketing and maintenance, Assembling of UPS, AVR, Installation projects.

Consulatant at Scandinavian Hospital Services (SHS AB)
  • Lebanon
  • May 2004 to July 2004

In the Clinical Engineering Department,
Surgical instruments Consultant, Medical Gases Control systems.

Computers' software at Lebanese Army
  • Lebanon
  • August 2002 to June 2003

Military Service as a sergeant in the Lebanese army:
-Internet news coordinator in the Ministry of defense - Lebanese army.
-Collecting and entering the daily army news to update the army website.

computers and electronics at Matrix Computers and Electronics
  • Lebanon
  • January 2000 to March 2002

- Assembling and Repairing of Computers and its parts
- Software Programmer
- Networking Services (installing and maintenance)
- Customer Services (indoor and outdoor)

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Rutherford University
  • August 2005
Bachelor's degree, Computer Sience
  • at Bir Hasan Technical Institute
  • July 2003
High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at Amlieh Technical High school
  • June 2001

Specialties & Skills

Military
Action Planning
Purchasing Processes
Computers: Software and Hardware
Electronics (general, power, industrial)
Software, Hardware, Internet

Languages

English
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Arabic
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