Belal Abdo, Marketing & Development Manager

Belal Abdo

Marketing & Development Manager

Media Advices DMCC

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, business management
Experience
25 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 2 Months

Marketing & Development Manager at Media Advices DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2011 to April 2019

Duties & responsibilities:
As a Sales Manager:
- Managing a sales team, selecting target customers/areas, monitoring collection, follow up designs, preparing quotations.
- Achieving sales targets and increasing revenue from new and existing customers, this includes accurately forecasting business and market needs, formulating and implementing sales strategy.
- Preparing and closing big campaigns for VIP companies and media agencies.
- Deliver sales training courses
- Generate accurate and timely reports on sales activity and performance.

As a Marketing Manager:
- Creating offers to attract new customers, promote the offers using creative ways and the new technologies.
- Achieving partnership agreements with different service provider especially important media to promote our product through them.
- Studying all the competitors weakness/power strategies used and preparing plan to succeed and lead the market.
- Supervise and develop the distribution methods, receiving sales reports from selling points and making sure the sales grows.

As a Business
Development & Branding:
- Building the company's brands through wide varieties studded advertising campaign on base current level reached and look forward.
- External and internal market study to find methods to maximize sales.
- Establish branches of external market.
- Studying the current situation and presenting a report with all facts and solutions for development.
- Contributing to the ongoing creative and strategic development of existing and future plans.
- Marketing requirements needs research and suggesting new line (product) to generate new revenue which helps future industry developments and trends.

Achievement:
 The Company achieved to gain great number of important customers.
 The Company Reached to higher success through customers’ satisfaction.
 Success in the Company’s growth due to real hard work.
 Sales Income increased more than 12 times during the past years.
 We established extra three main success activities.
 The company had increased my salary three times because of my achievement.
 The company had uprated me to higher position because of my achievements.

Marketing & Development Manager at Awesome Group FZ LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2006 to November 2011

Duties & responsibilities:
As a Sales Manager:
- Managing a sales team, selecting target customers/areas, monitoring collection, follow up designs, preparing quotations.
- Achieving sales targets and increasing revenue from new and existing customers, this includes accurately forecasting business and market needs, formulating and implementing sales strategy.
- Preparing and closing big campaigns for VIP companies and media agencies.
- Deliver sales training courses
- Generate accurate and timely reports on sales activity and performance.

As a Marketing Manager:
- Creating offers to attract new customers, promote the offers using creative ways and the new technologies.
- Achieving partnership agreements with different service provider especially important media to promote our product through them.
- Studying all the competitors weakness/power strategies used and preparing plan to succeed and lead the market.
- Supervise and develop the distribution methods, receiving sales reports from selling points and making sure the sales grows.
- Measuring customers’ satisfaction through impression research (FAQ), and solving all deficiencies.
- Participation with important and major national/international exhibitions.

As a Business
Development & Branding:
- Building the company's brands through wide varieties studded advertising campaign on base current level reached and look forward.
- External and internal market study to find methods to maximize sales.
- Establish branches of external market.
- Studying the current situation and presenting a report with all facts and solutions for development.
- Contributing to the ongoing creative and strategic development of existing and future plans.
- Marketing requirements needs research and suggesting new line (product) to generate new revenue which helps future industry developments and trends.

Sales/marketing manager & development manager at Satellite Advertising & Production
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2000 to March 2006

Company's Activities:
Graphic designing, printing, magazine advertisement, radio-TV commercials, web site advertising/designing, and billboards. advertisement.





Duties & responsibilities:
- Delivering sales training courses.
- Managing and sales, collection, design follow up for sales staff.
- Following the targets with sales staff daily & finding needs for them and keep it as an award if they reached the target as a way to motivate them for reaching the highest sales target and making sure that reached.
- Making a good relation with government sector for having orders when they have.
- Creative gifts to our regular customers to solidifying the relation.
- Direct sales and marketing for (VIP) clients and media agencies.

Achievement:
 I made relations with major governments agencies in the UAE that kept our company in the main selected list if there is any requirement.
 Sales Income increased for more than 3 times of what has before.
 I made several contracts with well-know companies which gave us a good reputation in the market.
 The company had increased my salary one time because of my achievement.

Sales & marketing manager at Council of Saudi Chambers
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 1996 to April 2000

Company's Activities:
Council of Saudi Chambers it’s a government and the head of all 23 chambers of commerce, its owned Saudi directory for commercial & industrial services, and the main business was selling ads inside the directories.

Duties & responsibilities:
- Delivering sales training courses.
- Selling ads inside the directory.
- Managing sales, collection, design follow up for a team consisting of 20 salesmen.
- Direct sales and marketing for (VIP) clients and media agencies.

Achievement:
 Sales Income increased more than 6 times during the last 4 years.
 I won a medal for the best sales in all 23 branches.
 I won a full holiday as a gift from the company in a press conference due to tripling the target sales.
 The company had up rated me to higher position because of my achievement.
 The company had increased my salary one time because of my achievement.

Office Manager for the (Sheakh Abdullah Al Dahlawi) and his companies’ coordinator at National Panasonic
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • February 1994 to November 1996

Company's Activities:
They are the main agent for National Panasonic and all kind of home appliances.



Duties & responsibilities:
- Conduct market survey.
- Follow up and coordinate with all branch managers and sales managers’ daily activities.
- Coordinate with our suppliers.
- Direct visit to our and clients showrooms and to make sure our product line in the best visible point and reporting all the resorts.
- Coordinate with clients owners and their sales stuff and keeping the relations.
- Making sure our product line is the 1st target of sale with client sales stuff.
- Taking decisions for all company needs and making sure work moving smoothly.
- Caring and adjusting of Sheakh schedule.
- Reporting to the managing director with all major updates.

Education

Bachelor's degree, business management
  • at Science and Technology University
  • October 2001

continuing by correspondence study

Specialties & Skills

Government
Branches
Management Science
Marketing
Unique inciting skill for sales management.
Ability to find methods to maximize sales & market any product
Word, excel, and internet
- Good knowledge in UAE & GCC markets
In addition, I wined of a medal for the best sales fo all branches from Council of Saudi Chambers
Planning, Marketing Study & Finding Solutions or New Ideas
- Ability to conduct sales & marketing training courses
Companies’ competition challenges & leading company to success

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Hobbies

  • Football, Group Camping, Skydiving, Reading and Travelling
     Sales Income increased more than 12 times during the last 6 years.  I won a medal for the best sales in all 23 branches.  I won a full holiday as a gift from the company in a press conference due to tripling the target sales.  The company had increased my salary three times because of my achievement.  The company had upgraded me to higher position because of my achievement.