Haitham Sarraj, Brach Manager

Haitham Sarraj

Brach Manager

DP World Logistics

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Science - College of Geology
Experience
18 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months

Brach Manager at DP World Logistics
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since November 2023

Leadership and Team Management:
•Provide strong leadership and guidance to a team of approximately six staff members, including recruitment, training, coaching, and performance management.
•Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, promoting teamwork, accountability, and professional development.
•Delegate responsibilities effectively, ensuring efficient resource allocation and workload distribution.
Operations Management:
•Support in setting up the branch resources, systems and processes.
•Oversee and coordinate all operational activities within the branch, including import/export processes, customs clearance, documentation, logistics, and transportation.
•Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, industry standards, and company policies and procedures.
•Monitor and analyze operational performance metrics, implementing improvements to enhance efficiency and productivity.
Sales:
•Develop and implement strategies to achieve branch-specific sales targets and contribute to the overall growth of the organization.
•Identify new business opportunities, build relationships with clients and partners, and expand the customer base.
•Collaborate with the sales team to develop effective marketing and promotional initiatives to increase market share and revenue.
Customer Service:
•Maintain a strong focus on customer satisfaction, ensuring that services are delivered promptly, accurately, and according to customer requirements.
•Address customer inquiries, concerns, and complaints in a timely and professional manner, resolving issues to maintain positive client relationships.
•Conduct regular customer meetings to understand their evolving needs and provide appropriate solutions.
Financial Management:
•Develop and manage the branch's annual budget, closely monitoring expenses and revenue to ensure financial targets are met.
•Review and analyze financial reports, identifying areas for improvement and implementing cost-saving measures where possible.
•Collaborate with the finance department to ensure accurate and timely billing, invoicing, and financial reconciliation.

Manager of Sales and Business Development at Bahri Logistics
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2016 to March 2023

Develop new business prospects in existing markets or create new markets for goods or services in collaboration with
outside partners.
• Maintained profitability by supporting budgetary planning process and providing investment recommendations.
• Reviewed customer feedback to accurately identify areas of improvement.
• Implemented customer engagement strategy that boosted customer loyalty by 90%.
• Used various prospecting techniques to identify sales opportunities in global market.
• Maximized margin by using effective negotiation techniques.
• Built and maintained customer relationships by scheduling weekly sales calls and site visits.
• Developed new business opportunities that resulted in 65% company revenue growth.
• Established sales targets and developed and implemented plans to meet them.
• Negotiated contracts, securing optimum conditions for business expansion.
• Identified business growth areas, analyzing market and resource data.
• Supported risk management and mitigation at operational, commercial and technical levels.
• Improved company performance by reviewing, analyzing and developing operational processes.
• Devised clear strategy on customer engagement, operational delivery and commercial excellence.
• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders, communicating and meeting contract requirements.
• Monitored plans to meet deadlines, budget and quality standards.
• Sourced services and resources needed, negotiating costs with external stakeholders to ensure project completion. • Resolved customer issues, disputes and claims during pre- and post-contract phases.
• Reported on and executed risk management, identifying, monitoring and valuing risks

Area Sales Manager at CHANNELS / Saudi Telecommunication Company STC
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2014 to February 2016

* Implement a sales technique called "Sale" to make sure that your sales goals are met.
* Provide sales lead and support to reach our sales and business development goals to maximize employee expertise,
quality techniques, and strategic objectives.
* Manage staff motivation and development to maximize and maintain sales performance, profitability, and customer
happiness.
* Create, manage, and maintain connections with new and current key clients to increase data connection sales.
* Inform the workforce about Internet and data services.
* Create and carry out a successful strategic sales plan.
* Prepare sales, cost, and business performance plans and forecasts according to management requirements.
* Make business cases and research prospective new locations.
* Pursue and aim for new clients and sales possibilities, and start an action plan to approach and land new business.
* Analyze the demands of the allocated accounts' businesses and make suggestions for improvements and automation
that would increase profits link together with the business development department
* Report accomplishments to the regional manager and talk about challenges and find out the proper solutions.

Key Account Manager at CHANNELS / Saudi Telecommunication Company STC
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2010 to April 2014

* Review all sales orders to ensure they adhere to the business rules.
* Check the system for the accuracy of activation requests.
* Keep in touch with the operation team to ensure that all system requests are submitted by the SLA deadline.
* Obtain any client inquiries and complaints, and address them with the appropriate departments.
* Launch the archiving program, and then save all order documents.
* Make daily operating and sales reports for the Western Region.
* Take care of directly the western regional IPHONE shop and orders for all STC channels
* Manage the important accounts' clients and produce new sales.
* Increase sales and customer base to meet both personal and business objectives.
* Create estimates for clients.
* Activate all customer orders in the STC systems.
* Obtain client complaints and manage them with the appropriate departments until the problems are resolved.

Key Account Manager at Public Telecommunications Company – Bravo
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2007 to April 2010

* Align the department's business plan with the corporate goals.
* Examine the customer contracts through the sales department and send them to the activation department.
* Obtain client complaints and fix any problems.
* Send monthly bills to consumers for payment.
* Visit the closed accounts to persuade them to return by offering a unique deal and a new SLA.
* Follow up with bad-debt consumers to collect all owed sums.
* Manage the important accounts' clients.
* Identify new clients, entice them to use our services, and lure them away from other service providers.
* Create estimates for clients.
* Obtain client complaints and address issues raised by customers.

Trainer and Sales supervisor at Ruby KSA - a direct sales company of highly innovated ironing system
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2005 to February 2007

* Training new sales representatives on the sales skills and the way of public selling a company's product especially.
* Supervising on the sales representatives graduates from the training course and follow their performances.
* Management of the Telemarketing department.
* Organize weekly meetings for sales representatives to discuss the achievements and develop the level of sales.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Science - College of Geology
  • at King Abdul Aziz University
  • June 2006

Specialties & Skills

Partnership Management
Global Logistics
Developments
operations
B2B Sales
Implementing many professional presentations.
Strategic Selling
Leadership
Partnership Management
Solution Selling
Sales Operations
Microsoft office
Strategic Planning
Marketing Strategy
Business Development
Negotiation
Team ManagementTeam
logistics management
logistics planning
logistics

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Saudi Quality Council
  • - Member of Saudi Quality Council
  • January 2018

Training and Certifications

Project Management Reinvented for Non-Project (Training)
Training Institute:
LinkedIn
Date Attended:
January 2023
Duration:
3 hours
Business Acumen (Training)
Training Institute:
TTM Associate
Date Attended:
July 2019
Duration:
32 hours
Large Account Management Process (Training)
Training Institute:
Miller Heiman Group.
Date Attended:
April 2019
Duration:
32 hours
Finance for Non-Finance Managers (Training)
Training Institute:
MEIRC center
Date Attended:
February 2019
Duration:
32 hours
Shipping Document Awareness Session (Training)
Training Institute:
Watson Farley & Williams
Date Attended:
November 2018
Duration:
16 hours
Methods of Management of Sales and Time Management (Training)
Training Institute:
561 training center.
Date Attended:
April 2010
Mastering Leadership and Management (Training)
Training Institute:
MEIRC center
Date Attended:
August 2018
Duration:
24 hours
Strategic Selling (Training)
Training Institute:
Miller Heiman Group
Date Attended:
April 2018
Duration:
24 hours
Leading Self (Leadership Fundamentals) (Training)
Training Institute:
Center for Creative Leadership
Date Attended:
November 2017
Duration:
24 hours
Conceptual Selling (Training)
Training Institute:
Miller Heiman Group
Date Attended:
October 2017
Duration:
24 hours
ISO 9001:2015 certification (Training)
Training Institute:
LRQA Training center
Date Attended:
December 2016
Duration:
18 hours
Effective Performance Appraisal Interview (Training)
Training Institute:
Spearhead Training center
Date Attended:
December 2016
Duration:
16 hours
Introduction to Shipping (Training)
Training Institute:
Lloyd’s Maritime Academy
Date Attended:
November 2016
Duration:
40 hours
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Training)
Training Institute:
Franklin Covey Middle East
Date Attended:
November 2014
Duration:
16 hours
Performance Management (Training)
Training Institute:
AMERICAN CONSULTING EXPERTS CENTER
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
16 hours
English (Training)
Training Institute:
British Council - Cairo
Date Attended:
August 2001
Duration:
40 hours
Development of methods of selling to the sales representative (Training)
Training Institute:
Allianz Institute for evaluation and development.
Date Attended:
August 2007
Duration:
30 hours
Computer (Microsoft Office, Windows, Word and Excel) (Training)
Training Institute:
Computer Language Center – Jeddah
Date Attended:
May 2000
Duration:
40 hours
Middle Management Leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
AMERICAN MANAGEMENT CENTER & ASSOCIATES
Date Attended:
June 2012
Duration:
10 hours

Hobbies

  • Nautical sports