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Mohamed Shaarawy, Business Development Manager, Luxury goods

Mohamed Shaarawy

Business Development Manager, Luxury goods ·Crystal House LLC

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, Marketing

Work experience

Total years of experience: 16 years, 3 months

Business Development Manager, Luxury goods

August 2016 - December 2017

Crystal House LLC

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

August 2016 - December 2017

Crystal House LLC, is a leading crystal trading co. in Dubai since 2005 with 2 branches in KSA and Lebanon. CH is the Authorized Distribution Partner “ODP” of Swarovski the premium brand for the world’s finest crystals since 1895.
• Appointed to attract new brands, manufacturers and designers to Swarovski elements.
• Planning, execution of new concept Crystal LabTM in joint venture with SwarovskiTM & RobinsonTM .
• Developed new business applying a 360° approach, by fully utilize the available local and global resources, created profitable offers tailored to customer needs.
• Generate Leads and handling Key Accounts of Potential Customers/ Clients such Corporate, Institutions, advertising agencies.
• Making proposal & offering end- to- end solutions to meet corporate requirements.
• Penetrating these corporate and establishing excellent relationship with the key personnel.
• Identifies product improvements or new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors.
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.

Company industry:
Sales Outsourcing
Job role:
Management

Commercial Manager , Crystal Innovation SBU

January 2014 - August 2016

ASFOUR CRYSTAL

Cairo, Egypt

January 2014 - August 2016

ASFOUR CRYSTAL is a world leading crystal manufacturer since 1961 with man power 30.000 skilled labors, selling crystal & crystal products to more than 120 countries, and running 3 regional office in Dubai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
• Formulate 2 business plans covering Fashion, crystal figurines and Interior sectors in local/international territories.
• Launched Asfour gifts & jewelry shop concept.
• Preparing & execution of Asfour fashion jewelry uplifting project in cooperation with top 3 jewelry manufacturers in China.
• Launched Asfour Decoration Solutions “ADS “concept that achieved $3 M sales in 2015 compairing with $1 M 2014.
• Commercial follow with innovation team, negotiate, challenge new concepts that achieve SBU goals.
• Establishment of prices on the markets and by customer according to the price structure & marketing researches.
• Study and monitor the current regional markets and identify the untapped market trends.
• Building up and maintaining sustainable network, such that the export targets are achieved.
• Analyzing and reporting on the sales results, so as to enable adjustment for realization of the sales targets at the very least.

Company industry:
Facilities & Property Management
Job role:
Marketing and PR

Marketing Manager

January 2012 - December 2013

Asour Crystal

Hong Kong

January 2012 - December 2013

• Planning & execution of marketing plan in china, supporting 100+ B2B customers in the lighting & fashion industries.
• Develops highly sales driven ATL and BTL marketing programs with sales team and distributors.
• Localized ASFOUR CRYSTAL’s brands in CHINA market including selecting the Chinese brand names, Chinese logo design, and registration.
• Conducted number of international researches to understand the needs of the different customers and support in developing relevant product, brand and communication activities.
• Managing local and international advertisement & brand localization agencies such as TBWA, Nanjing Marketing Group, OMD & GREY.
• Developed ASFOUR - CFC - Retail concept, manage the implementation over 35 shops in 4 cities in China.
• Responsible for the market development strategy in the region, understanding of the business environment, development of a sound methodology to identify potential partners, development of A-to-Z solutions to approach them.
• Closely work with the Head of Sales to align our objectives and optimize our marketing program
• Achieved the highest sales in 2012.

Company industry:
Interior design
Job role:
Marketing and PR

Marketing Manager

January 2011 - December 2011

Asfour Crystal

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2011 - December 2011

• In charge of the development and implementation of all marketing programs within Fareast& GCC.
• Continuously identify, assess and leverage new business opportunities in the region in close collaboration with the sales team
• Management of the marketing communication team (2 in Egypt headquarter, One in HK regional office, One in Dubai regional office)
• Featured Project: Developed a large scale retail initiative between Swarovski Elements, Pacific Place (a high end shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia) and more than 40 participating premium partners
• Responsible for marketing plan execution regionally through our regional offices in Dubai and Hong Kong.
• Regional communication plan for ASFOUR CRYSTAL in Far East equals to
• Uplift ASFOUR CRYSTAL 's international sub brands
• Executing regional researches in relevant international markets
• Executing regional customer relation management programs in relevant international markets

Company industry:
Interior design
Job role:
Marketing and PR

Marketing Supervisor

January 2009 - December 2010

Asfour Crystal

Cairo, Egypt

January 2009 - December 2010

• Established the foundation for ASFOUR CRYSTAL’s biggest business unit marketing department.
• Planned and executed regional communication plan for ASFOUR CRYSTAL International 2009-2010 in Fareast resulted in awarding ASFOUR CRYSTAL the Best Booth at PICO International worldwide 2010.
• Effectively participated in the developing, launching of ASFOUR CRYSTAL sub-brands “ , , , , “ in the global market, including brand name, visual identity, POS Materials, Promotional items based on international research.
• Plan and execute our participation in one of the biggest fashion fairs the world; Asia Fashion & Accessories Fair.

Company industry:
Interior design
Job role:
Marketing and PR

Senior Export Sales Executive

November 2006 - December 2008

Asfour Crystal

Egypt

November 2006 - December 2008

• Monitoring all the export activities (Receiving orders, following up with customers, shipment, and collection) supervising 5 sales executives.
• Executing and supervising the customer relation management policies including pricing policies
• Acts as the company’s representative with China agents and Dubai office.
• Prepared frequent reports to cover all the sales activities to be presented to the commercial director.
• Coordinate the communication among head office, Dubai & HK offices and internal departments.

Company industry:
Interior design
Job role:
Sales

Senior Foreign Purchasing Executive

April 2005 - November 2006

Asfour Crystal

Cairo, Egypt

April 2005 - November 2006

• Planned, executed, and monitored the procurement of the strategic raw materials such as crystal mixture components, Precious metals, Shellac and Furnaces components.
• Negotiated and signed annual contracts with key international suppliers
• Managed and monitored the target KPIs for the supplier for frequent assessment
• Ensure the proper procedure application in purchasing goods and services through intact equal technical requirements.

Company industry:
Interior design
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Export Sales Executive

July 2004 - April 2005

Asfour Crystal

Cairo, Egypt

July 2004 - April 2005

• Managed the sales for clients all over the Latin America and Europe.
• Coordinated among the production department, warehouse and the free zone management (Following the clients' purchase orders).
• Collected the necessary data needed for the business planning purpose.
• Attended sales enquiries and arranged for quotation and products information to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Prepared monthly export sales reports according to the assigned customers' portfolio.

Company industry:
Interior design
Job role:
Sales

Import & Export specialist

October 2001 - July 2004

Leather Axis

Cairo, Egypt

October 2001 - July 2004

Leather Axis; a business development agency, in Leather industry to give support to Egyptian small & middle enterprises “ SMEs”
• Opened new markets for Egyptian leather products in Portugal, Brazil, and India worth $ 3, 000, 000 in the first year.
• Imported on behalf of the Egyptian SMEs raw materials from China & Turkey worth $ 1, 800, 000 per year
• Participated and attended in international exhibitions (Meet in Africa; Adis Ababa 2004, Cairo Int. leather fair 2005 and 2006, APLF in Hong Kong)Coordinate with supplier to ensure that goods are delivered promptly and in good conditions.
• Fully responsible of inventory management.
• Looked for new export opportunity for exporting Egyptian leather to worldwide customers

Company industry:
Textile & Apparel Production
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Education

Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

December 2011

December 2011

Master's degree, Marketing

Egypt

Cairo University

September 2001

September 2001

Bachelor's degree, Accounting

Egypt

GPA (percentage): 3%

GPA (percentage): 3%

Bachelor in Commerce

Skills

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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
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