Director Business Transformation - Member of the board of directors at Gandour
Gandour
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :18 years, 5 أشهر
Head director of the Business Transformation Office of Gandour Group of Companies and member of the Board of directors for South-Central Asian operations
* Hold responsibility of corporate level financial and operational performance of all Gandour group entities (including but not limited to global P&L adherence, all Gandour Group budgets, cashflow per entity and accumulated corporate level, etc…)
* Act as an advisor for the company owners and senior executive staff on all fronts of business
* Identify and lead the business case formulation, evaluation and implementation of all solutions for process improvements and change management alongisde identification of better practices and their full integration within the Gandour business process framework
* Drive long-term vision setting and strategic outlook for the Gandour group
* Oversee all acquisitions, mergers and partnership of the Gandour Group to ensuring finding viable M&A targets or potential partners. Draft and execute M&A integration and absorption strategies
* Oversee all Gandour business entities performance, formulate and implement integrated business planning scenarios per entity, ensure appropriate budgeted P&L adherence and sustainable business model evolution ensuring the right initiatives are undertaken and the benefits are being fully realized throughout the enterprise
* Conduct corporate level monthly management business reviews in all Gandour entities, and report back performance results to the board of directors on the monthly basis
* Plan and execute company business model evaluation, evolution, optimization including but not limited to P&L and portfolio optimization and rationalization, cost centre optimization, operational model evolution etc....
Head of the Business Transformation Office of Gandour Group of Companies
*Established the company Strategy layout framework setup with multiple scenarios per Gandour entity, both long term and short term, with their execution and evaluation plans to enable the Gandour group to identify any risks towards its current business model and adapt if necessary
*Communicate, propagate and ensure execution of corporate strategies originating from the Strategy layout framework and related objectives with all Gandour entities
*Conduct corporate level monthly management business reviews in all Gandour entities, and report back performance results to the board of directors on the monthly basis
*Plan and execute company business model evaluation, evolution, optimization including but not limited to P&L and portfolio optimization and rationalization, cost centre optimization, operational model evolution etc....
*In charge of the Gandour digital transformation, functionally and operationally leading all IT departments and all large-scale IT projects as well as dictating forward looking IT strategies in line with corporate strategy
Gandour is a group of FMCG manufacturing companies with factories in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and India
• Chief enterprise architect in the Business process transformation project with Gandour, spanning across full end to end Value stream implementation
• Facilitated the implementation of SAP core functionality modules (FICO, BPC, GRC, MM, IM, SRM, CRM, SD, PM, PPPI, QM, BI) as well as SCM (supply chain management), Ariba, Human Capital Management and S&OP (sales and operations planning) all based on HANA Enterprise Cloud technology with total project value exceeding 20M USD
• Migrated the outdated Lotus Domino/Notes infrastructure to fully cloud supported Office 365 including Outlook online to reduce operating costs by 38% (see case study published by Microsoft under publications)
• Ensured License compliance with all major vendors across the group in all countries we operate in
• Fully designed and constructed a Tier 3 data center to facilitate for the private cloud environment between KSA, India, Lebanon and Egypt including converged networking, high performance server farms with SSD arrays, high speed connectivity with multiple fallback links and fully redundant data center environment
• Successfully ideated, implemented and maintained the following value streams : Integrated business planning (IBP), Assets and Financial governance (AFG), Recruit to Retire (R2R), Corporate compliance management (CCM), Consumer to Idea (C2I), Idea to concept (I2C), Concept to product (C2P), Product to consumer (P2C), Integrated planning and control (IPC), Procure to Pay (P2P), Supply chain collaboration (SCC), Supplier relationship management (SRM), Market to Lead (M2L), Opportunity to Order (O2O), Order to Cash (O2C), Channel Management (CM)
• Responsible for full business dictionary and business portfolio population of business processes, procedures, metrics (PI’s, KPI’s and KRI’s) and PACOM (process, automation, culture, organization, metric) gaps, facilitation of continuous improvement methodology, assessment of business impact of the evolution of the business model
• Established the leadership system for the marketing department including branding strategies, human capital induction and go to market approach, refurbished the financial reporting system from the business capability viewpoint in order to assure transparency across the group and help advance business to a record high in profitability rating
• In addition to the above held the functional responsibility of all IT departments across the enterprise directing project implementations of various solutions in accordance with the business strategy and value stream execution (ERP, best of breed applications and communication platforms)
• Facilitated the transition transformation from a family company business model to a medium/large enterprise covering multiple areas of expertise spanning across multiple departments and policies, procedures and business processes
Dell Inc. - Zagreb, Croatia May 2009 - Dec. 2010
Enterprise Solution Architect / System Engineer
• Facilitated creation of all solution architecture for Enterprise sized customers across multiple business environments
• Directly contributed to system design of enterprise solutions on a corporate level
• Held the responsibility of a primary point of contact for business model development for Enterprise customers
B.net - Zagreb, Croatia Dec. 2008 - April 2009.
Customer Support Team Leader for Internet and VOIP services (VIP segment)
Leading ISP provider in Croatia
• Created and headed the customer support team for VIP (government and high value) customers support in excess of 5, 000 customers
• Directly contributed for market penetration efforts and establishing a market leader in the Croatian ISP market
Peach - Presence Research in Action (http://www.peachbit.org/) April 2007 - Jan. 2009.
Database Architect
Panasonic - Zagreb, Croatia Jan. 2006 - May 2007.
Junior System Analyst
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical engineering and computing April 2009. BSc in Computer and electrical engineering - GPA 4.34/5.
University of Cambridge Level 2 Certificate in English (Certificate in Advanced English) June 2004.
