Planning Head
Magrabi Retail
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Oct 11 - Present Planning Head - Buying and Merchandizing department
o Commercial strategies design and implementation
o Product management and brands development
o Budgeting (Sales, Margins, mark downs, provision, rebates)
o Commercial agreements formulation and Vendors Management
Feb 09 - Oct 11 Senior Planner - Buying and Merchandizing department
o Merchandise planning & assortments development
o Promotions and ROI financial assessment
o Replenishment planning (SAP retail - Material Management)
o Performance analysis and reporting over SAP business objects (Web Intelligence) and SAP business warehouse (Analyzer)
Sept 03 - Jan 07 LEONI wiring systems, Supply Chain Department.
Scope: 4 factories serving the world's biggest automotive manufactures (Land Rover,
Ford, Aston Martin, Cummins etc.)
Product: Wiring Systems and Cables
Title: Planning Supervisor
o Leading a team of senior central planners technically &administratively.
o Workflow organization & individual performance assessment
o Developing target agreements, qualification matrices &training plans.
o Assisting in projects' budgeting. Issuing the company’s sales plan.
o Customers’ behavior analysis highlighting inconsistent demand patterns, wrong schedules or overbuilding versus agreements.
o Judging current freight routes &following up on quality issues &delivery problems.
June 05 - May 06 Title: Senior Central Planner
o Responsible for monitoring the individual performance of a team of central planners.
Coaching / evaluation of new participants.
o Assessing the planners in case specific decision making &problem solving.
o Inventory management, liability &obsolescence control.
o Handling introduction of new products to Egypt site and modifications to already existing products upon the customer request
Sept 03 - June 05 Title: Central Planner
o Develop production plans based on demand forecasts as well as labor
&equipment capacity.
o Route cause analysis for any production stoppages together with setting
contingency plans, preventive &corrective actions for the future.
o Priority setting against products &customers through production bottlenecks.
o Reasonable allocation of resources meeting different parameters at peak
periods or shutdowns.
Feb 03 - Sept 03 Misr International Bank, Retail Department
Responsible for handling withdrawals, depositions, checks payments, saving accounts
manipulations &all the other over-the-counter financial transactions.
MBA Final Thesis: The Impact of Brand Awareness, Customer Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty on Consumer’s Price Sensitivity of Luxury Products – Case study on Egypt Grade: A
2001 - 2002 Diploma in Software Development from the Information Technology Institute (ITI) A scholarship funded by the IDSC & the Ministers' Council. Graduation Project: Analysis, design and implementation of a web based computer system controlling the entire daily financial &administrative transactions of a governmental fair held by the Ministers' Council for durable goods on credit terms.
1998 - 2001 B.Sc. Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University. Faculty of Economics & Political Sciences, English Section. Major: Economics - Minor: Statistics Cumulative Grade: Very Good Graduation Research: "Multinational Companies and whether they are contributing to the Development Process in the Third World Countries." Graduation Research Evaluation: Very Good.
1997 Ramsis College for Girls, Cairo. Secondary Stage Certificate (Math Section) Grade: 101.7%