Ghada ElShalkany, Assistant research director

Ghada ElShalkany

Assistant research director

Jetro

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, graduate studies
Experience
14 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months

Assistant research director at Jetro
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2016

Conducting industry researches to identify the opportunities in the market.
Accelerate startups with services enable them to understand the middle east region for specific industry.
Connect and direct Japanese innovations towards towards the appropriate local business partners.
Organize Japan pavilion at Gitex north star, select the qualified companies, provide the appropriate acceleration services and on board them in the UAE market.
Internal research papers and articles to highlight new opportunities for Japanese companies to penetrate the market.

Market Research Manager at Feedback Market Research
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since January 2014

• Meeting the clients to discuss the research brief and suggest the appropriate methodology for the research to achieve the required objectives.
• Plan the project execution, arrange the required resources and schedule the time-plan for the project.
• Design the research tools and develop questionnaire that will effectively fulfill the required data.
• Brief the internal teams about the project tools and methodology.
• Preparing clear and crisp reports that deliver the needed information and recommending the needed actions.
• Adding value to research reports and other business documents through semantic improvements, actionable solutions to marketing issues, innovation in thinking and insights that will help our clients in achieving their business objectives.
• Presenting reports and findings to the clients and recommend actionable improvements.
• Work closely with the management team to raise the profile of FeedBack by delivering high quality research and client servicing.
• Work closely with the management team on business development with more and new clients to increase our service platform.
• Extending assistance to other teams wherever necessary.
• Trouble shooting on research projects, wherever necessary.

Associate Research Manager at FeedBack
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • July 2014 to January 2015

-Understand the clients' business issues and develop research proposal with the appropriate methodology that will solve the issue and to get the information they need from holding the research.
-Managing quantitative research projects and ensuring that all client requirements are met.
-Preparing clear and crisp reports that deliver the needed information and recommending the needed actions.
-Adding value to research reports and other business documents through semantic improvements, actionable solutions to marketing issues, innovation in thinking and insights that will help our clients in achieving their business objectives.
-Work closely with the management team to raise the profile of FeedBack by delivering high quality research and client servicing.
-Extending assistance to other teams wherever necessary.
-Trouble shooting on research projects, wherever necessary.

Senior Market Analyst & Consultant at Marketeers Research and Consultants
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2008 to January 2012

* Working as Senior Market Analyst & Consultant, at 'Marketeers Research and Consultants' - since June 2011 till now
• Worked as project manager for different types of researches for local & int'l accounts'
• Working on methodology improvement & excellence, to optimize processing time and increase quality of reports provided to the clients.

Market Analyst & Consultant at Marketeers Research and Consultants
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2008 to June 2011

* Worked at 'Marketeers Research and Consultants' for market research services as Market Analyst & Consultant - since September 2008 till June 2011
• Design questionnaire format that best serve the research objective through which we can collect the required data,
• Utilize primary data collected from the market to initially understand the market and customers,
• Had worked with advanced statistical tools to analyze, explore, and demonstrate problems in the market,
• Highlight the grounds where problems really exist, through KPI analysis, AND;
• Preparing reports with clear problems identification and prominent recommendations to solve the problems.

Education

Master's degree, graduate studies
  • at Edinburgh Business School - American University in Cairo
  • October 2015

* Post-graduate studies Currently studying Edinburgh MBA program - provided through American University in Cairo - to acquire MBA degree from Edinburgh Business School.

High school or equivalent, Business Administration
  • at Cairo University
  • June 2008

Studied at the Faculty of Commerce - English section - Cairo University. Major: Business Administration. Grade: Good. Year of graduation: 2008.

Bachelor's degree, Business adminstration
  • at New Orouba Language School
  • July 2004

Thanawia Amma: New Orouba Language School, 2004, scored 93%.

Specialties & Skills

Questionnaire Design
Market Research
Design Methodology
Marketing
Consultancy Services
PROJECT MANAGER
MARKET RESEARCH
Data Analysis
Startup acceleration

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
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