Ehab El-Hefnawy, Data Center Solutions Senior Sales Manager

Ehab El-Hefnawy

Data Center Solutions Senior Sales Manager

Schneider Electric North East Africa

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Diploma, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Experience
14 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months

Data Center Solutions Senior Sales Manager at Schneider Electric North East Africa
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2011 to April 2014

* Responsible for managing Information Technology enterprise business (Data Center Solutions & 3 Ph UPS’s)
* Responsible for setting vision, short term objectives, gap analysis, action plans for IT Business and its implementation.
* Responsible for business development, alliances with other prestigious players in the market
* Responsible for engagement with customer decision makers to influence awarding
* Responsible for customers, end user handling to ensure long term relationship and intimacy
* Responsible for new markets penetration to increase company market share
* Responsible for customer mapping & accounts plans preparation
* Responsible for technical and commercial negotiations till order closing for direct and indirect sales.
* Responsible for achieving sales, profitability and customer satisfaction targets
* Responsible for Schneider Electric IT Business partners, distributors, sales channels technical, commercial support
* Responsible for partners, sales channels management, coordination and follow up to ensure business growth
* Responsible for customers, end user complaints management with partners and all stake holders
* Responsible for ensuring business continuity and quality of service towards customer requests by providing them with both of must be’s and delightful services

Industry, Power Infrastructure Projects Department Manager at Schneider Electric North East Africa
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2007 to October 2011

* Responsible for all industry and infrastructure projects management covering airports, sea ports, transportation, under-ground metro, railway, water plants, factories and mining.
* Responsible for handling & managing projects risks, company profitability, customer relations, team work and experience within responsibilities area.
* Responsible for managing direct reporting team consisting of nine project managers to achieve company targets in industry & Infrastructure segments by dealing with LC, LG, export process, air & sea freight, Incoterms, cross booking and foreign trade agreements like COMESA, EG European agreement, .. etc.
* Responsible for cash flow analysis and financial cost calculations.
* Responsible for detailed monthly reports issuance to analyze order intake, profitability versus planned values, hit rate, forecasted cash flow and propose action plans for weakness points.
* Responsible for providing continuous improvement for the team members’ skills, competencies, independence and empower them towards professionalism.
* Responsible for development vision and mission for juniors to help them indicate career path matching their capabilities and be in harmony with the company objectives.
* Responsible for increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the tender & project management process by new techniques and tools development.
* Responsible for order obtainment & handling process simplification by eliminating double work, bottle necks and non-value added steps.
* Project management division representative for ISO Audit.

Projects Manager at Sector of Export & International Projects at Schneider Electric North East Africa
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2004 to October 2007

* Responsible for export & international projects offers preparation, optimization till contract or tender award.
* Responsible for foreign customers contact to answer any technical or commercial clarification in offer stage & to get and handle any changes or new requirements during manufacturing process.
* Responsible for project planning in terms of production scheduling, raw material & required components availability, LC’s, different types of LG’s issuance and expiry dates, export batches, shipping and vessels booking, custom duties drawback and sales taxes exemption.
* Responsible for projects execution follow-up till client delivery via contacting different departments such as design office, logistics, warehouse, production, purchasing, sales, marketing, research & development, quality assurance, finance, cost control and other Schneider subsidiaries which are acting as suppliers.
* Responsible for periodical progress reports preparation, which monitors actual progress & profitability against planned values including closing report to include all positive and negative points through the project.
** Sample of Projects managed:
* New Doha International Airport - Qatar, 8.4 M USD.
* Cairo Airport (Terminal building 3) - Cairo, 4.2 M Euro.
* Compact substations for Iraq rehabilitation - Iraq, 6.4 M USD.

Field Operator at EDF "Electricite de France" - A company owned by French Government – EGYPT
  • Egypt
  • February 2003 to March 2004

* Responsible for isolation planning for any defected equipment "0.4 & 6.6 & 220KV".
* Responsible for preparing feed back experience reports after outage.
* Responsible for developing electrical systems operating procedures

Projects Manager at Osten Contracting Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 1999 to January 2003

* Responsible for projects tendering according to technical specifications for equipments such as (R.M.U., Transformers, Distribution Boards, ATS., UPS., Generators, dimming Systems, Fire Alarm, etc ..)
* Responsible for projects follow up to get customer satisfaction and company profitability.
* Responsible for preparing detailed shop drawings for field engineers.
** Sample of Completed Projects:
* Al-Rehab Buildings (Phase III) & Al-Rehab Mall (Phase I) - Al-Rehab City.
* Meridian Hotel - Sharm El Shiekh Branch

Education

Diploma, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
  • at Symbios
  • November 2010
Diploma, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
  • at Schneider Electric
  • July 2008
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Power
  • at Faculty of Engineering – Ain Shams University
  • June 1998

- Major in Electrical Power & Automation - Graduation project: Applications on PLC

Specialties & Skills

Business Process Excellence
Business Development
Project Management
Six Sigma
MS Office
MS Project
Project management instructor in Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University “MECA Academy”.
Project management international instructor in Schneider Electric (Egypt, South Africa & Nigeria)
Six sigma instructor in Schneider Electric for orange belt courses

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