Gabriel Chami, Continued

Gabriel Chami

Continued

Continued

Location
Lebanon
Education
High school or equivalent, Business
Experience
30 years, 4 Months

Share My Profile

Block User


Work Experience

Total years of experience :30 years, 4 Months

Continued at Continued
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since January 1994

(Please mention month) 2010 - Present with St Jude Hospital
Concurrently working as Volunteer :

Key Responsibilities :
• Responsible for instituting daily scheduled activities in the hospital, greeting patients and their family members as they come in the hospital thereby introducing them to the hospital and its staff.
• Efficiently monitored, instructed, motivated and interacted with patients as they participate in therapeutic activities thus evaluating the hospital environment and ensuring children's safety during various activities/ special programs.
• Liable for noting names of patients attending the hospital on the volunteer patient list alerting child life specialist of any specific concerns consequently abiding by HIPAA laws.
• Instrumental in providing bedside support to the children as directed by the child life specialist, researching fundraising opportunities and granting writing and internet research for children with cancer both on medical and social sides.
• Maintaining files and databases, submitting periodic reports to the senior management and undertaking other administrative duties.

Owner/General Manager at Women Clothing Boutique
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since January 1994

Key Responsibilities :
• Designing and implementing strategic business plans to advance the business' mission and objectives and promote aggressive revenue, profitability and growth as an organization.
• Maintaining creative boutique layout, developing appropriate plans for execution of promotional activities to enhance product visibility and make shopping at the outlet a pleasurable experience for customers.
• Strategizing, managing and expanding entire business area as per organizational goals/ strategies. Supporting rapid sales growth through development and implementation of promotional activities with a high level of efficiency, quality and cost effectiveness.
• Ascertaining problem areas, focus points on productivity, profit, business development and personnel growth. Envisaging and devising long term strategic plans by focusing on achievement of set targets.
• Formulating revenue/expense goals for the boutique, ensuring defined goals are met through appropriate planning/organization of staff, stock management and expenses for short/long term success.
• Sustaining close relations with customers, ensuring prompt attendance to complaints, thereby effecting process modifications as per feedback and soliciting referrals through superior customer management.
• Establishing and communicating boutique goals/ results to employees, delegating workload, actively supporting employee growth, upheld cooperative policies to motivate employees thereby increasing efficiency and providing strong leadership and effective management to encourage cooperation and teamwork.
• Keeping close tabs on market dynamics and competitor activities and devising effective sales/marketing strategies to counter the same. Collating information and formulating strategies to optimize performance parameters and business outputs.

Education

High school or equivalent, Business
  • at College Notre Dame De Jamhour
  • February 1988

Specialties & Skills

Business Development
Customer Service
Achieving Targets
Driving Revenue
Business Planning
Employee Performance Management, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Merchandising
Leadership, Team Building, Motivation, Communication, Ability to work under pressure
Analytical Ability, Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving, Time Management
Business Planning, Strategic Sales and Marketing, Driving Business Growth, Customer Service
Revenue Generation, Standardized Policies and Procedures, Customer Relationship Management
Computer Related Skills: MS Office and Internet Usage
Sales Analysis and Forecasting, Target Setting and Achievement, Contractual Negotiations

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Memberships

Variation
  • Manager
  • January 1994