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Mohamed Al-Saad, Projects Manager

Mohamed Al-Saad

Projects Manager·IICE,

Saudi Arabia

Bachelor's degree, business administration

Work experience

Total years of experience: 29 years, 5 months

Projects Manager

November 2023 - Present

IICE,

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

November 2023 - Present

• Led the implementation of PMO processes and methodologies, ensuring successful project delivery across
departments, resulting in improvement in project completion rates and clear image to the board.
• Assist companies in feasibility studies, business plans, strategies, projects, and business development.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Management

Business Development Manager

October 2022 - October 2023

Al-Bassam Group,

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

October 2022 - October 2023

• Establish training institute strategy and business plan to increase awareness in training and culture sector.
• Propositioning group in market and revamp its market demand through revision of current operation
management and marketing/sales process.
• Partner with industry experts for stronger level of tenders acquisition.
• Lead as SME for corporate communication and business process.
• Review budget quarterly, biannual, and yearly.
• Find gaps in the operation and address them.
• Create process driven culture, encourage knowledge sharing environment.
• Strategic partnership with experts in industry to widen capabilities and readiness for challenging tenders.
• Transformed financial plan to include future expectation and target income.
• Develop Marketing plan and strategically select methods, instruments, and times.
• Improved strategy and process of readiness by at least 25% of new training business.
• Strategic growth planning for vision 2030 in training and culture sector.
• Revenue streams from potential customers, new targeted sectors and clients.
• Communicate with team as well as potential customers and make it as operational process.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Management

Business Development Manager

October 2022 - May 2023

Al-Bassam Group

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

October 2022 - May 2023

Establish training institute strategy and business plan to increase awareness in training and culture sector.
•Propositioning group in market and revamp its market demand through revision of current operation management and marketing/sales process.
•Partner with industry experts for stronger level of tenders acquisition.
•Lead as SME for corporate communication and business process.
•Review budget quarterly, biannual, and yearly.
•Find gaps in operation and address them.
•Create process driven culture, encourage knowledge sharing environment.
•Strategic partnership with experts in industry to widen capabilities and readiness for challenging tenders.
•Transformed financial plan to include future expectation and target income.
•Develop Marketing plan and strategically select methods, instruments, and times.
•Improved strategy and process of readiness by at least 25% of new training business.
•Strategic growth planning for vision 2030 in training and culture sector.
•Revenue streams from potential customers, new targeted sectors and clients.
•Communicate with team as well as potential customers and make it as operational process.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Management

Project Manager

April 2014 - October 2022

Al-Hussan group

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

April 2014 - October 2022

Identified and developed business with ARAMCO King Abdulaziz Center for World Cultures (Ithra) while improving future public programs and awareness of current running projects.
•Contribute to negotiations, bidding, budgeting, and proposal writing of contracts/projects conducted by Ithra.
•Enhance overall operational efficiency by assessing and mitigating potential risks.
•Prepare and control marketing and sales budgets (project/operational) with focus on reducing additional costs.
•Assess customer training or human capital investment requirements and develop persona for each industry accordingly.
•Build and strengthen long-term professional relationships with clients for repeat business while delivering new innovative products and services.
•Modernized overall marketing materials, project events, offers, and promotions within resources and budgets to enhance business awareness.
•Acquired new and retained existing clients by providing excellent customer service.
•Able to perform to high standards in a high-pressure.
•Ensured maximum client satisfaction by providing excellent customer service and managing complaint/compensation.
•Established and managed sales process/cycle for sales force and new team members, including sales skills development plan and CRM with focus on driving business growth.
•Led successful launch of new services/products to market to increase revenue growth.
•Achieved significant profit, saved cost by 30%, and secured 60% more contracts through successful negotiations.
•Analyzed domestic market and segmented industry services to create robust marketing approach for training industry.

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Management

Projects Manager

April 2014 - October 2022

Al-Hussan Group,

Dammam, Saudi Arabia

April 2014 - October 2022

• Identified and developed business with ARAMCO King Abdulaziz Center for World Cultures (Ithra) while
improving future public programs and awareness of current running projects museums and cultural.
• Contributed to negotiations, bidding, budgeting, and proposal writing of contracts/projects conducted by
Ithra.
• Enhanced overall operational efficiency by assessing and mitigating potential risks.
• Prepared and controlled marketing and sales budgets (project/operational) with focus on reducing additional
costs.
• Assessed customer training or human capital investment requirements and developed persona for each
industry accordingly.
• Build and strengthen long-term professional relationships with clients for repeat business while delivering
new innovative products and services.
• Modernized overall marketing materials, project events, offers, and promotions within resources and budgets
to enhance business awareness.
• Expand new and retained existing clients by providing excellent customer service.
• Able to perform to high standards in high-pressure.
• Ensured maximum client satisfaction by providing excellent customer service and managing
complaints/compensation.
• Helped the team to understand and visualize strategic objectives and goals.
• Led successful launch of new services/products to market to increase revenue growth.
• Achieved significant profit, saved costs by 30%, and secured 60% more contracts through successful
negotiations.
• Analyzed domestic market and segmented industry services to create robust marketing approach for training
industry.

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Management

Business Development Manager

March 2011 - March 2014

GVGC

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

March 2011 - March 2014

Delivered strategic leadership to cross-cultural/cross-functional teams of nine employees and encouraged them to achieve set goals. Boosted sales opportunities and revenue for organization by communicating with internal team, marketing staff, and other managers. Built and matched company identity with professional services while introducing more services to general contracting business and directing new business sectors/studies for potential market share. ♦ Drove cost-effective management of resources and performance in line with company mission, vision, and objectives in construction sector. ♦ Built and launched robust operational framework, including policies, procedures, QMS, contracts, operations manuals, SLAs, SOPs, and business strategic goals to optimize organization market position and financial growth. ♦ Identified and increased business leads to 65% in new business opportunities while leading successful negotiation of contracts and closing of business deals with strong knowledge of current market conditions.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Management

Projects Manager

January 2011 - January 2014

GVGC,

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

January 2011 - January 2014

Delivered strategic leadership to cross-cultural/cross-functional teams and encouraged them to develop and
maintain project governance frameworks organization by communicating with internal team, by ensuring compliance
with governance standards and practices across all projects.
• Design and implement efficient process management.
• Continuously evaluate and improve existing processes to meet compliance. Prepare and deliver comprehensive
reports on project status, risks, based on stakeholders and management requirements.
• Drove cost-effective management of resources and performance in line with company mission, vision, and
objectives in construction sector.
• Built and launched robust operational framework, including policies, procedures, contracts, operations
manuals, SLAs, SOPs, and business strategic goals to optimize organization market position and financial growth.

Company industry:
Construction & Building

Projects Manager

March 2007 - March 2011

SABIC

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

March 2007 - March 2011

Team leading technical services section and assigned IT Data-center for all 18 affiliates, Project manager for cost reduction of more than 60% of power and space
•Acts as single point of contact for coordination between stakeholders
•Proven stakeholder management and networking capabilities
•Lead demand management in SABIC affiliates and internal customers to control and manage required services
•Ensure that planning, operations and PMO tools and processes are fit
•Contributed in Dashboard requirements and implementation
•Negotiate alternatives to customer as well as find cost-effective approach for service delivery
•Also, team player where studies conducted to measure value and saving of solution in department and organization.

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture
Job role:
Management

Projects Manager

January 2001 - January 2011

SABIC,

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

January 2001 - January 2011

• Team leading technical services section and assigned IT Datacenter for 18 affiliates, Project manager for cost
reduction of more than 60% of power and space.
• Acted as single point of contact for between stakeholders
• Proven stakeholder management and networking capabilities
• Contributed in PMO initiation for stakeholders requirement and change.
• Lead demand management in SABIC affiliates and internal customers to control and manage required services
• Ensured that planning, operations and PMO tools and processes are fit
• Contributed to Dashboard requirements and implementation
• Negotiated alternatives to customer as well as find cost-effective approach for service delivery
• Also, team player where studies conducted to measure value and saving of solution in department and
organization.

Company industry:
Petrochemicals & Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture

Network Admin

January 1997 - January 2001

KFUPM,

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

January 1997 - January 2001

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School

Education

King Abdulaziz University

September 2010

September 2010

Bachelor's degree, business administration

Saudi Arabia

GPA (point): 3.2 out of 5

GPA (point): 3.2 out of 5

King Abdulaziz University

September 2010

September 2010

Bachelor's degree, Business Management

Saudi Arabia

Al Khaleej Institute for Electronic studies

September 1998

September 1998

Bachelor's degree, هندسة الكترونيات

Saudi Arabia

معهد الخليج للصناعات الالكترونية

September 1998

September 1998

Diploma, هندسة اتصالات والكترونيات

Saudi Arabia

Skills

PMO
Expert
PMO
Expert
Marketing
Expert
Marketing
Expert
Commercial Management
Expert
Commercial Management
Expert
Business Development
Expert
Business Development
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Expert
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Expert
Business Development
Expert
Business Development
Expert
MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
ANALYTICAL THINKING
Intermediate
ANALYTICAL THINKING
Intermediate
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
MARKETING
Intermediate
MARKETING
Intermediate
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Intermediate
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Intermediate
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Intermediate
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Intermediate
MULTITASKING
Intermediate
MULTITASKING
Intermediate
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Intermediate
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Intermediate
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS KPIS
Intermediate
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS KPIS
Intermediate
SALES
Expert
SALES
Expert
NEGOTIATION
Expert
NEGOTIATION
Expert
HUMAN CAPITAL
Expert
HUMAN CAPITAL
Expert
OPERATIONS
Expert
OPERATIONS
Expert
SALES PROCESS
Expert
SALES PROCESS
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
BUDGETING
Expert
MARKETING MATERIALS
Expert
MARKETING MATERIALS
Expert
WRITING
Expert
WRITING
Expert
Marketing
Expert
Marketing
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Project Management
Expert
Commercial Management
Expert
Commercial Management
Expert
Risk Management
Expert
Risk Management
Expert

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

PMI, PMP

member

October 2022

Training and Certifications

Certifications
CobiT IT Governance
Certified Manager - ICPM Institute of Certified Professional Managers
Manager Certified Marketing Management Professional (CMMP)

Training
ITIL Foundation V3
MARCOM
May 2009
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OSHA Introduction to Safety Management
OSHACADEMY
Dec 2013
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PMP Project Management Professional
PMI
Aug 2023
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Business Strategy
University of Virginia
May 2016
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Setting Up a PMO
LinkedIn
Jun 2022
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Strategic Partnerships
LinkedIn
Aug 2023
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Supply Chain Foundations: Managing the Process
LinkedIn
Jun 2022
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Hobbies

  • Learning
  • Diving
  • Reading