Strategy and Management Consultant – Freelance
DAAM Group
Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months
DAAM Group is a business process improvement, management, and financial consulting firm with 750+ successful projects, across 500+ clients.
Notable Career Highlights:
- Developed the mid-term strategy and completed the internal restructuring for 3 major public sector companies operating in the infrastructure sector. The Minister of Water Resources & Irrigation's office acknowledged the project's results and success.
- Conducted 6 consecutive rounds of “competency-based” assessments for mid-to-senior and managerial level employees of Banque Misr during the period 2016-2019.
Notable Career Highlights:
- Achieved 85% adherence to the industry’s best practices by leading a restructuring project for the company’s business cycle and organisational structure.
- Reduced material costs by 15% by introducing new suppliers and negotiating better contracts with them.
- Increased the company’s profits before taxes by 4.5% within 1 year through better pricing strategies. Successfully maintained the new profit margin for the next 2 years (until FY 2020).
- Achieved the target of 90% on-time delivery of projects (up from 65% previously) by introducing a new Project Management role within the Commercial Department.
- Secured 2 trade financing facilities and 2 financial leasing contracts for the company.
- Decreased the cost of finance by 35% through proper cash flow management procedures
Notable Career Highlights:
- Led the setup of the company’s marketing and sales strategy including identifying and targeting new business opportunities, together with analysing the sales data.
- Completed a restructuring of the company’s HR and Admin practices and ensured the company’s compliance with all legal requirements, thereby reducing the administrative costs by 50% and the legal HR/personnel penalties by 100%.
GfK Egypt is a multinational market research agency.
Notable Career Highlights:
- Successfully retained a key account that was officially being cancelled by introducing non-standardised solutions to the client and training the data analysis team on new statistical data analysis methodologies.
- Led the teams for the Cement, Telecom, Banking, and Automotive sectors.
TEPCO Group is a group of 5 companies producing electricity distribution boards, sheet metal, and medium voltage insulators.
Notable Career Highlights:
- Led the setup and launching of 2 new subsidiaries from the business plan phase until becoming fully operational.
- Participated in the commercial and legal negotiations for obtaining licenses to produce new products from Schneider Electric France and other multinational companies.
- Led the team responsible for the selection of the new ERP system for the company.
A B2B consultancy firm with three core business units: Marketing Consultancy, Market Research and Strategic Business Planning, and Retail Consultancy.
Notable Career Highlights:
- Designed and implemented the market research plan for Egyptian Steel Factory (حديد المصريين) in 2009.
- Led research projects constituting almost 40% of the research unit’s revenue in 2010. Specialised in the real estate, steel, and cement sectors.
With minor specialisation in Economics
