Karam Bou Karroum, Business Development Manager

Karam Bou Karroum

Business Development Manager

Mr. Valet Parking Solutions L.L.C

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Marketing
Experience
10 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 3 Months

Business Development Manager at Mr. Valet Parking Solutions L.L.C
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2022 to May 2022
Business Development Manager at Valet & Parking Services (VPS)
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2019 to December 2021
Operations Supervisor at Tewtel Group of Companies
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2016 to November 2019

Responsible for
• Supervising a team of seven drivers and one administrative assistant
• Supervise daily operations and increasing efficiency of workers for various growth-oriented programs.
• Developing plans, supervising various departmental meetings, and participating in various growth-based campaigns.
• Analyzing and ensuring better results to fulfill all business requirements.
• Evaluating performance to ensure appropriate steps to guarantee loss prevention.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable laws and company policies.
• Administering all indoor performance in department through efficient coaching and monitoring.
• Preparing regular reports, performing audit on various operations, and evaluating processes as per business requirements.
• Coordinating internally with Head of Teams for work related to workshops, Body & Paint, and sales administration
• Coordinating external work and ensuring fast and ultimate levels of service
• Organizing all work related to Port
• Proposing potential clients and set work plan accordingly
• Liaising with Sales Team pertaining cars to be sent and withdrawn to and from Dealers
• Setting and monitoring Sales Targets
• Ensuring safety and routine maintenance of towing cars
• Monitoring all work-related paper work
• Monitoring towing cars through navigation system

Sales Supervisor at Food and Drug Corporation SAL
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2015 to May 2015

Responsible for,
• Supervising and coordinating the daily sales operations within a specific geographical area
• Maintaining good relations with current and potential clients and develop the best means to meet their demands
• Suggesting efficient means for sales performance optimization
• Ensuring the proper implementation of the established sales policies and procedures
• Controlling the sales representatives’ performance through the comparison of targeted vs. actual productivity per brand and customer
• Coordinating with the direct superior on advertising or promotional campaigns to improve the sales operations
• Monitoring all collection related matters in coordination with sales representatives or collectors
• Monitoring the efficient and orderly shelf exposure and product pricing
• Preparing periodic progress reports related to the area sales operations
• Ensuring the optimal sales and distribution of each brand by the sales representatives
• Resolving any issues occurring while delivery
• Continuous follow up on competitor’s prices and sales strategies

Sales Supervisor at Dairy Khoury & Co
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2013 to January 2015

Responsible for,
• Supervising sales transactions in three different regions
• Aligning and coordinating tasks for distributors in these regions
• Continuous follow-up with distributors and managing to resolve all kinds of issues they face in the market
• Continuous follow-up with current customers, recruiting and managing new customers
• Preparing new sales contracts for new customers and renewing old contracts for current customers
• Presenting market reports to the higher-level management on daily and weekly basis
• Preparing casual meetings for distributors once a week to report any new updates in the market and with the customers
• Performing PEST and SWOT analysis on quarterly basis
• Managing issues occurring with distributors and customers
• Continuous follow-up with new updates in competing brands and coming up with appropriate solutions to retain a high level of competitive advantage

Sales Distributor at Dairy Khoury & Co.
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2012 to August 2013

Responsible for,
• Distributing dairy products to groceries and supermarkets according to customers’ orders
• Ensuring first in first out to ensure no expiries.
• Displaying products in an organized way applying the planogram
• Retaining and managing customer relationship
• Meeting sales target

Procurement Administrator at Material For Advanced Technology SARL
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2012 to July 2012

Responsible for,
• Contacting suppliers to provide appropriate material as per customer’s request
• Preparing Enquiries and Quotations
• Continuous follow up with customers
• Marketing agent’s products
• Creating a data base for all customers and suppliers
• Handling Petty Cash expenses

Sales Associate at M.H Alshaya
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2011 to November 2011

Responsible for,
• Meeting sales targets
• Handling Cashier operations
• Delivering and checking merchandise coming from warehouse (Inventory Management)
• In Store Analysis - product movement trends and consumer behavior
• Supervising product display in store
• Client servicing and offering proper buying decisions based on clients’ needs and expectations

Internship at PAC Beirut Duty Free
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2010 to August 2010

Responsible for,
• Meeting sales targets
• Client Servicing and product selection consultant
• Inventory Management
• Promoting
• Marketing Analysis and consumer behavior analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree, Marketing
  • at Hariri Canadian University
  • August 2010

Specialties & Skills

Sales Management
Customer Service
Team Management
Consumer Behavior
Handling pressure, meeting deadlines, and delivering tasks as per requirements
Team leadership
Interpersonal Skills
Communication, Network and Negotiation skill
Strong critical and analytical skills
Ability to handle multiple tasks
Problem solving and organizational abilities
Time Management
Superior knowledge of warehouse and fleet operations, strategies, and implementation
Business Communication Skills
Applying principle of differentiation and segmentation to plans

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Swimming & Motor Sports