Firas Abugharbieh, Sales Account Manager

Firas Abugharbieh

Sales Account Manager

BITIS

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, MIS/E-Business
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Sales Account Manager at BITIS
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2015

Managing a portfolio of accounts
Open new Accounts in Public, Private, and Telecom sectors
Create Sales Forecast
Acheive Sales Targets
Using an existing network contacts to generate new business
Managing the work of account executives
Ensuring necessary actions are undertaken by the account team
Attending client meetings
Maintaining and expanding relationships with existing clients

Sales Manager at Sedra IT Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2018

Manage the Sales Team

Generating leads and Manage Sales for new and existing customers

Account Manager at Jathwa
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2016 to March 2018

Generating leads and Manage Sales for new and existing customers

IT Solutions Sales Manager at Huawei Technologies Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2014 to August 2015

- Manage the team of Junior Solution Sales Managers
- Generate new leads in dedicated key accounts
- Collect customer requirements and design the IT solutions accordingly
- Support the Account Team to achieve targets by correct positioning for the IT Solutions and make it easy for the Account Team to sell IT products and solutions
- Competition analysis, and market planning
- Arrange for workshops and support in events

Senior Associate / Risk Assurance at PwC
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • November 2012 to May 2014

- Work in risk assurance projects for IT, Telecom and Revenue Assurance.
- Perform risk based reviews of critical processes and procedures.
- Perform risk assessment for clients.
- Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the clients departments to reorganize the tasks’ processes and procedures.
- Define Fraud and revenue leakage types within the telecom industry and suggest the solution for both.
- Create Dashboards.
- Create final audit reports.
- Suggest and create organization structures for IT and Telecom clients.
- Follow-up with clients from IT and Telecom on the finalized projects.
- Communicate with PwC clients to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Give training for junior staff and help in staff development.
- Define scope of work and assist in creating the proposals for Telecom and IT Leads.

Senior Auditor/Advisory at KPMG - Alfozan and Alsadhan
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2009 to February 2012

-Work in advisory projects for IT and Telecom industries
-Make Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the clients departments to reorganise the tasks’ processes and procedures.
-Define Fraud and revenue leakage types within the telecom industry and suggest the solution for both.
-Give training for junior staff and help in staff development.
-Communicate with KPMG clients to ensure customer satisfaction.
-Follow-up with clients from IT and Telecom on the finalized projects.
-Suggest and create organisation structures for IT and Telecom clients.

Billing Team Leader at Kulacom - one of MABCO group
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2008 to December 2009

Main Responsibilities:
- Billing implementation project by setting up and modify required customization to fit business requirements, contacting billing vendor, coordinate between internal departments with the billing vendor and prepare the hardware environment for the billing system’s installation and configuration.
- Managing systems, IT Infrastructure and Billing teams which are responsible for Domain Controller, MS Exchange, AAA, Databases, DNS and Billing.
- Work as a project manager for the implementation of all applications and systems by defining resources and time schedules.
- Support WiMax project in both business and technical areas.
- Responsible of assessing applications, systems and hardware, comparing between different vendors and buying the suitable applications, systems and hardware for the company.
Main Achievements:
- Implemented systems like Domain Controller, DNS, MS Exchange and AAA.
- Reduced the costs of the H/W required for implementing systems by negotiating with vendors and changing the requirements without affecting the availability and reliability of the systems needed
- Evaluated new systems and technology in order to pick the right systems which fit the needs of the company.

IT Applications Admin at Batelco Jordan
  • Jordan
  • April 2005 to March 2008

Main Responsibilities:
- Billing System Administration, Generating requested reports, maintaining the applications up and running, monitoring the servers’ statuses.
- Administrating core systems like RADIUS and Sales Force.
- Working on revenue assurance with the Finance department by customizing the reports and holding meetings with commercial people to discuss the customers statuses and data
- Support WiMax project in both business and technical areas
- Ensure systems security
- Take daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups
Main Achievements:
- Improved systems availability and reliability by reconfiguring main parts of the systems in Billing and RADIUS.
- Worked as a key person in a project to reduce the payments Batelco Jordan pays to their main competitor (Orange) because of inaccurate data in both sides by cleansing the data and working as an active team member in the project
- Integrated the RADIUS server with Sales Force and with the Billing system in order to shorten the operations time when doing transactions on the customers, prevent duplications and reduce users’ mistakes
- Worked on data migration project from old billing system to a new one whose structure is totally different
- Worked with marketing department on projects related to customers segmenting, refining and creating new offers and creating new services

Technical Support Engineer at STS Jordan
  • Jordan
  • October 2004 to April 2005

Main Responsibilities:
- Planning for Monitoring Systems and/or Security systems in the Buildings, Malls or universities.
- Responsible for the implementation team.
- Responsible for customer’s satisfaction by meeting the deadlines of the project and contacting customers in the proper way.
- Drawing the blueprints for the project using AutoCAD

Education

Master's degree, MIS/E-Business
  • at AABFS
  • September 2008

GPA: 79.6%

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Philadelphia University
  • September 2004
High school or equivalent, Scientific High School
  • at Omarieh High Schools
  • July 2000

With Grade of 87,3%

Specialties & Skills

Revenue Management
Billing Systems
IT Audit
Systems Management
Fraud Prevention
MS Office
Internet knowledge
SQL Server
RHEL (Red Hat Enterprize Linux)

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

FIDE - World Chess Federation
  • Player
  • September 2014
ISACA
  • Pro. Member
  • December 2014

Hobbies

  • Chess