Khalid Fouzan

 Effectively steering the planning process to optimise cost and service, aligning forecasted business demand with appropriate production, inventory and deployment strategies.
 Leading the sales and operations planning process as well as supply chain optimisation initiative.
 Administering and coordinating the continuous improvement initiatives relating to manufacturing process.
 Coaching and providing support to the planning and new products resources.

 Developed and proposed effective marketing strategy with sales and the production plant.
 Developed and implemented yearly marketing plan (products, allocation, pricing) as part of the annual business plan.
 Led sales forecast processes (monthly and quarterly) while consolidating individual forecasts developed by the sales team.
 Identified new product/grade development opportunities; evaluated and executed new product/grade launch initiatives in collaboration with the production plant.
 Proactively participated in all technical trials for machinery suppliers or new customers in cooperation with technical team.
 Allocated products and inventory to individual markets, thus maximising profitability on an ongoing basis.
 Defined minimum netbacks and prices for each region/grade; also conducted meetings with the client to negotiate contracts. Tracked and reported marketing performance (e.g. profitability, netback).
 Led product sales on spot markets in cooperation with sales team.
 Initiated and coordinated necessary measures in case of product shortages.
 Conducted regular visits to all active markets.