Haitham  Alsoukhni , Performance and Development Director

Haitham Alsoukhni

Performance and Development Director

Othaim Markets

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
20 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 5 Months

Performance and Development Director at Othaim Markets
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2022

Strategy and Business Development Department

• Lead strategic market assessment to determine optimum locations and positioning to maximize market penetration and revenue.
• Conduct market/industry research and give feedback and recommendations.
• New Location Intelligence and Geospatial Analysis tech.

• Utilize analytic tools to assess business opportunities and leveraging internal and external data.
• Measure and monitor catchment area and cannibalization effects.

• In charge for strategy department.
• Ensure the alignment with Corporate strategy.
• Develop strategic and operational KPIs of all departments, ensuring the compliance with KPI threshold with strategic goal of the corporate.
• Build, review and approve the annual strategic performance plans.
• Monitor, review, and ensure the implementation of strategies and initiatives.

• Manage multiple transformation projects
• Define opportunities of increasing the revenue and maximizing the profit.
• Build financial models and develop strategic assessments to address key business issues, evaluation of new business models, emerging technologies, and innovations
• Organizational Excellence.
• Work with stakeholders to improve the company's strengths and value proposition to develop top and bottom lines.
• Work with stakeholders to develop the optimal operating models that help in achieving the company strategy.

PMO Director at Othaim Markets
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2018 to April 2022

• Monitor the implementation of PMO policies, procedures and the governance of deliverables.
• Built program management principles to ensure the optimal utilization of resources.
• Process optimization, project planning, and seek the highest efficiency of projects to meet the deadlines and financial budgets.
• Assess project conditions, constraints, assumptions, and stakeholders' needs.
• Project planning, milestone management, scope management, and resource forecasting.
• Projects evaluation to ensure they are comply with standards, within budget, meet deadlines, and ensure alignment to strategy.
• Risk identification, analysis, response planning, and manage risk, issue and change resolution process.
• Track and provide project status and audit reports.
• Update and maintain the Risk Log, Action Log, Decisions Log, Issue Register, and Stakeholder Register.
• Facilitate team collaboration and communication.
• Develop a system for contractors and suppliers evaluation.

Projects and Quality Manager - Operational Excellence at Othaim Markets
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2013 to August 2018

• Process Optimization Leader - Cross functional
• Project manager of various initiatives.
• Process characterization, baseline identification and gap analysis.
• Identifying the optimal workflow of supply chain processes.
• Defining, analyzing, and implementing operational solutions within various business categories (production, assembly, etc.).
• Reengineering the layout and storage systems for many distribution centers.
• Monitoring the compliance with policies and standards.
• Lead Continuous improvement and training efforts.
• Problem identification and stakeholders' needs assessment.
• Implementing the principle of Single Minute Exchange of Die.
• Development of SKU data collection system and palletizing.
• Implementing Warehouse Management System (WMS).
• Leverage analytics to drive warehouses' performance, cost optimization and compliance with organizational KPIs.
• Assessing supplier capabilities and monitoring supplier quality to ensure desired levels of performance.
• Implementing Lean principles.
• Monitoring the compliance with policies and standards.

Training / Certification
- Lean Six Sigma Black belt - IASSC
- Minitab17
- Six Sigma Green Belt - IASSC
- PMP training

Achievements
- Resources optimization
- Dramatic reduction in process time.
- Low queue time.
- Negligible error in shipment
- Removing NVA activities
- Palletizing system
- Warehouse Management System (WMS)
- Advanced Ship Notice system (ASN)
- Radical reduction in idle time (SMED)

Projects and Quality Manager - Office of Strategy Management at Hoshanco Holding
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2012 to October 2013

• Project manager and business analyst at Office of Strategy Management (OSM)
• Project manager and business analyst at Office of Strategy Management (OSM)
• Baseline review, needs assessment, and gap analysis to achieve operational excellence.
• Prioritizing Projects according to Strategic Business Objectives.
• Implementing change management plans and participating in various change management activities including scope assessment, planning, execution, evaluation and implementation.
• Management of various projects; website development project (by Wipro), Operation Business Transformation project (by PwC), and ERP project (by SAP).
• Restructuring the processes of HR department.
• Work with all departments to provide adequate training to individuals performing functions affecting quality and demonstrate the appropriate skills and performance results.

Training / Certification
- Finance for Non Financial

Achievements
- SOP
- Organizational excellence principles
- Websites content.
- SAP system realization

Quality Manager at Middle East Specialized Cables (MESC-Jordan)
  • Jordan - Mafraq
  • June 2006 to June 2012

• Operation optimization and quality leader
• Implementing methods to inspect, test and evaluate products and testing equipment.
• Ensuring the compliance with quality standards, industry regulations and customer requirements.
• Process characterization and development of quality standards, Procedures (SOP), inspection, test plans (ITP), products specifications, production parameters tools.
• Ensuring the correct implementation of International Standards and renewals of certificates (ISO, BASEC, JQM, ASTM, IEC)
• Implementing root cause analysis and create a culture of error prevention instead of defect detection.
• Participating in cross functional teams to continuously improve processes and ensuring highest machine efficiency and waste reduction.
• Implementing the principle of Single Minute Exchange of Die.
• Maintain a corrective and preventive action system to analyze and correct nonconforming conditions and complaints.
• Product quality planning - work with design and process engineering on the design, development and processing of new products to ensure robust Quality Function Deployment, test method development/implementation, qualifications, design reviews, and risk mitigation.
• Assessing supplier capabilities and monitoring supplier quality to ensure desired levels of performance.
• Implementing Lean Manufacturing principles.
• Creating the culture of internal customer among all processes.
• Set annual performance targets for individuals and the team and conduct performance reviews.

Training / Certification
- MBA
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor
- Inspection and testing
- Lean manufacturing
- Creativity and Innovation Leadership

Achievements
- Near zero customer complaint
- No defect in Work in Process (WIP) or Finished Goods Warehouse (FG).
- Low scrape at setup
- Lean manufacturing: 5S, standardized work, Kaizen
- Radical reduction in set up time (SMED)

Senior Maintenance Engineer at Middle East Specialized Cables (MESC-Jordan)
  • Jordan - Mafraq
  • August 2004 to June 2006

Job Role: dramatic change in maintenance principles.
• Project manager of plant expansion.
• Creating preventive maintenance program.
• Implementing Total Productive Maintenance principles.
• Maintaining the highest availability of production machines
• Calibration and validation of testing instruments.
• Reviewing and revising maintenance standard operating procedures and documentation.
• Repairing failures and breakdowns in electronic systems including programmable logic controller (PLC), control boards, voltage frequency inverters, CCTV, communications, and others electronic and electrical systems.
• Designing the electronic systems and their networks in the plant.
• Supervising the accomplishment of daily activities of maintenance plans.
• Calibrating and validating testing instruments and meters at quality testing lab and measuring equipment fixed on manufacturing machines.
• Developing standard operating procedures for maintenance department including safety, breakdowns and preventive maintenance.
• Following the availability of spare parts in the store, checking the quality and compliance of purchased spare parts.
• Testing the newly received electronic components such as PLCs, AC inverters, DC drivers, multimeters, digital scales, thyristors, and others.
• Training the technicians on the new measuring equipment and systems.
• Ensuring the achievements of key performance indicators of the department.
• Working with quality department to ensure the compliance of maintenance department with ISO 9001 and BASEC requirements.

Training / Certification
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- AutoCAD
- Calibration and Adjustment
- Advanced MS Excel

Achievements
- Create a culture of preventive maintenance.
- MTOR, MTBF KPIs

Field Maintenance Engineer at Quqa Group
  • Jordan - Amman
  • December 2003 to June 2004

• Maintenance & Sales of office equipment (faxes, printers, copiers & scanners) indoor and outdoor.
• Implementing Routine and Preventive maintenance programs.
• Following emergency break downs.
• Monitoring spare parts quality and stock value on daily bases.
• Responsible on new machines installation.
• Leading maintenance team in installation activities.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Yarmouk University
  • August 2010

Thesis: Reengineering Manufacturing Processes: The Case of Jordan New Cable Company (JNC).

Bachelor's degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
  • at Yarmouk University
  • September 2003

Activities and societies: Tutorials for students

Specialties & Skills

Process Improvement
Development
Lean Six Sigma
Data Analysis
Strategic Projects
Process characterization
minitab
data analysis

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Engineers Associate
  • Member
  • September 2003
Saudi Council of Engineers
  • Member
  • January 2013
Engineers Australia
  • Member
  • September 2018
Engineering New Zealand
  • Member
  • October 2019

Training and Certifications

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
SGS
Date Attended:
January 2018
Duration:
70 hours
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
SGS
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
60 hours
HV Cable Type Test: On job Training (Training)
Training Institute:
KEMA
Date Attended:
March 2011
Duration:
120 hours
PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2021
Valid Until:
September 2027
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2020
Valid Until:
August 2026
Six Sigma Black Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2018
Valid Until:
April 2024
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2016

Hobbies

  • Driving