Business Development Manager specialist in China & head of buying
MarkaVip
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :17 years, 5 أشهر
- Find new sourcing for tech and luxury products from China
- Build tech team in Shenzhen to identify and collect the latest products in the market to offer them on MarkaVIP
- Initiated and closed strategic partnerships with major Chinese tech and fashion websites
- Support designers by finding the best way to produce with best value for money
- Manage all communication between MarkaVIP and Chinese vendors
- Follow up with shipments, ensure high net margins and make sure that quality standards are met
- Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing annual budgets, scheduling expenditures, analysing variances and initiating corrective actions
- Negotiate and revise Chinese and English agreements with Chinese vendors
- Support company's senior management by helping improve sales from China through building long-term relationships in order to grow revenue
- Develop and foster relationships with suppliers while driving lower costs and superior performance
- Acquire new suppliers from China and negotiate payment terms
- Support senior management in augmenting sales strategies in Chinese market
- Manage pre-allocated budgets
- Work closely with operations team to support strategic sourcing projects, ODM/OEM projects and strategic customer bids from China and Hong Kong
- Manage sourcing deals, contracts, delivery and quality for a complete procurement cycle, ensuring the commercial and cost saving benefits are realized at the P&L level and ensuring on-time delivery with Chinese suppliers
- Acquire sales relationships in China to increase business volume while retaining existing ones
- Analyse competitive market activity and trends
- Provide input to plans and strategies for a business unit, department, or projects of internal clients
- Give recommendations for determination of financial goals of business units or departments.
- Create customer data base, define customer demographics in the Chinese market
- Develop business for a wide range of high quality products between China and the Middle East
- Save cost in subcontracting jobs and improve efficiencies or better quality resources for project teams, departments, or business units
- Identify prospects and build rapport with existing customers
- Liaise with operations team to support strategic sourcing projects, ODM/OEM projects and strategic customers from China and Hong Kong
- Review and negotiate supply contracts, subcontractor agreements, and other terms and conditions (Chinese and Arabic)
- Manage projects against plan and objectives to ensure commitments are met by monitoring, assessing, and resolving variances in budget, timing or quality of work
- Maintain relation between Chinese engineers and Egyptian management
- Support senior management in augmenting sales strategies in Chinese market
- Manage pre-allocated budgets
- Work closely with operations team to support strategic sourcing projects, ODM/OEM projects and strategic customer bids from China and Hong Kong
- Manage sourcing deals, contracts, delivery and quality for a complete procurement cycle, ensuring the commercial and cost saving benefits are realized at the P&L level and ensuring on-time delivery with Chinese suppliers
- Acquire sales relationships in China to increase business volume while retaining existing ones
- Analyse competitive market activity and trends
- Provide input to plans and strategies for a business unit, department, or projects of internal clients
- Give recommendations for determination of financial goals of business units or departments
- Support senior management in augmenting sales strategies in Chinese market
- Manage pre-allocated budgets
- Work closely with operations team to support strategic sourcing projects, ODM/OEM projects and strategic customer bids from China and Hong Kong
- Manage sourcing deals, contracts, delivery and quality for a complete procurement cycle, ensuring the commercial and cost saving benefits are realized at the P&L level and ensuring on-time delivery with Chinese suppliers
- Acquire sales relationships in China to increase business volume while retaining existing ones
- Analyse competitive market activity and trends
- Provide input to plans and strategies for a business unit, department, or projects of internal clients
- Give recommendations for determination of financial goals of business units or departments
Personal assistant to the Chinese Minister of Communication and Industry
- Assist tourists and guide them through the major monuments and sights as well as other places of interest in Egypt
- Give comprehensive information about the destinations, including historical, cultural, economic and social aspects
- Translate works for more than 100 companies in China and the Middle East
- Interpreter at fairs like Canton Fair, Hong Kong Electronic Fair etc.
Bachelor degree in Chinese language, Faculty of Alsun (languages), Ain shams University, Egypt (including 1 year studying Chinese in Zhejiang university in China)