Maria Abboud, Business Program Manager

Maria Abboud

Business Program Manager

Microsoft

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, Masters in International Business
Experience
10 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 3 Months

Business Program Manager at Microsoft
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2012 to February 2017

• As a Business program Manager within Microsoft IT I leverage my IT and business acumen to deliver sales processes, data insights, and tools that enable Microsoft sellers to deliver across 100+ subsidiaries.

• Drive effective landing of various capabilities across subsidiaries and partner to improve the users end to end experience and productivity. Involved in major projects like Dynamics CRM Online, Partner Connect, Customer planning, lead management and modern tele sales.

• Drive the adoption of the listening mechanisms (Uservoice, Yammer, listening tours & OfficeHours) and influence the global IT roadmap based on employees feedback

• Strong business engagement and partnership with stakeholders to drive adoption and NSAT of priority applications and improve the field users end to end experience and productivity

Marketing-Commercial Strategy at ALFA -Orascom telecom
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2008 to October 2012

• Plan, coordinate and perform marketing research and market development projects within the commercial strategy department.
• Design survey instruments and coordinate the collection of internal and external marketing data (Data warehouse/PLSQL).
• Market and Competitive Trends Analysis
• Assess the performance of key metrics (eg. Subs, ARPU, pricing changes) to recommend product launches and strategic positioning.
• Setting marketing roadmaps, modeling product and services and specifying target segments.
• Pricing schemes, business cases, planning and launching of new offers/promotions/price plans
• Analyze Revenues and costs and flag opportunities and threats to senior management
• Evaluate the effectiveness and profitability of customer acquisition and retention offers, programs and campaigns
• Segmentation, traffic analysis, Geo Marketing analysis and Churn analysis
• Leverage key insights based on detailed analysis to support recommendations on strategic changes in direction.
• Budgeting, Forecasting, Actual versus Budget Analysis.
• Interact effectively with other departments (sales, Finance, Customer service…) to support marketing objectives.

User Experience Officer/Project Management at Bsynchro IT and Business Consultancy
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2007 to December 2008

• Project Management: Coordination with clients, assessing requirements, implementation and training over various business applications mainly in accounting, insurance, reinsurance, banking, banc-assurance, web-solutions

• Creating User guides for Business solutions and Business Intelligence solutions,
feasibility studies, functional requirements and process reviews

Internship at AIMS
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2007 to June 2007

Assisting clients in the ERP solution usage

Internship at Intercontinental Bank of Lebanon
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2004 to July 2004

Training on Client relationship and customer service

Education

Master's degree, Masters in International Business
  • at Bordeaux Mangement School
  • September 2009
Master's degree, MBA
  • at Notre Dame University
  • September 2009
Bachelor's degree, Business Computing
  • at Notre Dame University
  • September 2006

Graduated with Magna Cum Laud- High Distinction 3.5 GPA

Specialties & Skills

Metrics
Market Development
Detailed Analysis
Marketing Research
International Business
Ms Office

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
January 2011
Marketing for customer Segments (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Valid Until:
October 2010
Telecoms Mini MBA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
January 2009
Communication and Interpersonal Skills (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
January 2010