Muhammad KASSEM, Logistics Director

Muhammad KASSEM

Logistics Director

Green Egypt for Agriculture Investment (AGREEN)

Location
Egypt
Education
Diploma, Military Science
Experience
10 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 8 Months

Logistics Director at Green Egypt for Agriculture Investment (AGREEN)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since October 2022
Supply Chain & Logistics Advisor at Freelance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2021 to October 2022
Director Of Operations at Delta Express
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2020 to November 2021

Outline
Leading the operations team and supporting Sales Head and team, I maintained and developed relations with both: current and new clients driving business growth.

Key Responsibilities
• Re-optimizing offers' productivity and selling tactics.
• Reviews the financial results of all operations comparing with the company’s objectives and taking appropriate measures to correct unsatisfactory performance and results.
• Supporting Sales Department penetrating the market.
• Planning for pricing and productive quoting process contributing with Sales Head.
• Managing and driving revenues of Int’l FFW activity and related add-value logistics ones.
• Working side-by-side with the Chairman to ensure targeted business growth.
• Hands-on with operations team to ensure improved performance and efficient operations.
• Training and guiding both operational and sales teams.

Key Achievements
• Increased performance efficiency of operations team by +80% in six months.
• By succeeded in productive sales and quote, I secured/maintained a new business opportunity of imp. Air shpts. for “Hyundai Rotem” S.Korea with average G.P. of EGP 50K per month.
• Submitted efficient cost analyses and budget chart in which won and secured a serial of import Air shipments for Airbus - Military Division (EU) with about EGP 180K, G.P.
• Succeeded to won a cash finance of USD 70K from Negotiated from our freight forwarding agency of South Africa financing import tax payments for an export, repair and return shipment.

MD - Operations at JR Express Freight
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2017 to October 2019

Outline
Leading all operations tasks of the company while ensuring smooth work flows between diverse departments in the field of freight forwarding and 3PL logistics.

Key Responsibilities
•Re-setting up all documentary cycles and internal channels of business flows.
•Productively supporting sales department achieving solid base of market share.
•Negotiating with and assigning efficient outsources as a 3PL providers improving productivity.
•Acting as Operations Manager resolving and overstepping problems faced in performance.

Key Achievements
•Succeeded to increase revenues of the Pharmaceutical Segment by 100% in one year.

Supply Chain Consultant - Add Value Business at Nile Logistics International
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2018 to September 2019

Outline
Nile Logistics International is exclusively #1 market key player in Egypt into IOR business for Telecom and High-Tech equipment. They’re licensed by NTRA to import more than 45 brand names like: CISCO, Juniper, DELL EMC, Aresta, Nautanix, Palo Alto, Anixter, Fortinet and more over.

Key Responsibilities
• Developing optimum and smooth flow for information and operations procedures internally.
• Re-outlining and improving efficient invoicing of clients that overstepped previous backlog.
• Enhancing and improving performance efficiency of Trade Compliance Department.
• Productively participating as a Board of Advisors’ member into all executive meetings, negotiations and committees for all new contracts up to strategic decision making.
• Enhancing customs clearance operations for average 35 up to 50 import entries per month.
• Re-planning over all of Service Parts Logistics (order management) warehouse operations.
• Training and efficiently qualifying operations staff for both air and sea freight operations.
• Obtaining IATA membership as an “IATA Licensed Cargo Agent”.

Key Achievements
• Increased the supply chain and operation team's productivity by 23% in 2018/2019.
• Reduced average invoice backlog down to only two (2) working days of operation total closure.
• Efficiently planned for import and delivery project at USD1.3 M. of Telecom and Networks Equipment ex- four countries of origin, for the favor of Egyptian Ministry of Health.

Supply Chain Director at Exclusive Trading & Distribution
  • August 2015 to March 2017

Outline
Acting as a member of the management team setting-up business from scratch. I had set-up distribution and supply chain operations for all accounts and local agencies of local distribution handling business of BiscoMisr (Kellogg’s Egypt) & Regina Pasta in addition to other many Egyptian and foreign brands.

Key Responsibilities
•Planning and directing all ops and budgets of supply chain process as a start-up business.
•Planning and monitoring distribution activities directing Fleet OPS and Admin. Managers.
•Overseeing management of the strategic sourcing and procurement.
•Contribute sales and operations planning with stakeholders.

Key Achievements
•Established the new main warehouse, building a tailored loading/offloading dock.
•Succeeded as an ops management team member to increase turn-over up to EGP 27M in 2016.
•Succeeded to exceed targeted fleet capacity reaching 26 trucks in 2016.

OPS MGR, Managing Director at AMYAL Logistics S.A.E
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2012 to March 2015

Outline
I was closely managing +6 direct reports of Operations Executives, Fleet Heads, and Maintenance Manager achieving performance targets and securing smooth business growth.

Key Responsibilities
• Ensuring operational cost analysis is efficiently achieving corporate goals.
• Directing operations performance controlling owned fleet of 16 heavy trucks & trailers.
• Maintaining and developing distribution and on-time delivery activities our Oil & Gas clients.
• Formulating, auditing and approving drafts of both local & international contracts.

Key Achievements
• Assigned by the Chairman as the “System Owner” for Operations Integrity Management System - OIMS of our key Transport & Distribution account, “ExxonMobil”.
• Assigned as Commercial Manager for the sister company “Afaq for Trading & Distribution”,
• Secured and signed new four distribution contracts for commodity/Frozen Beef for Afaq Company.

Education

Diploma, Military Science
  • at Reserve Officers’ College, Armed Forces
  • July 1997

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Helwan University
  • May 1996

Specialties & Skills

Supply Chain Management
Freight Forwarding
Key Account Management
Negotiating Contracts
Logistics Management
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
COST ANALYSIS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DELIVERY
LOGISTICS
MANAGEMENT
Logistics Operations
Leadership
Negotiation
Import/Export
Supply Chain Operations
Int'l Freight Forwarding
IOR/EOR
Business Development
Problem Solving

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Dangerous Goods Regulations (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2006
Valid Until:
December 2008
Cargo Skills & Procedures (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010