Omar Salah, General Manager

Omar Salah

General Manager

Nestlé Waters

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, International Management
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

General Manager at Nestlé Waters
  • Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
  • May 2018 to January 2020

Reporting to Regional Business Executive Officer
Employees: 300
Revenue: 10 M USD
Achievements:
1. Completed the formation of management team.
2. Introduced Home & Office Delivery business model in Addis Ababa through distributors.
3. Driving initiatives of corporate social responsibility
• PET Collection Center
• Access to clean water
• Founder & Chairman of PETCO Ethiopia Recycling Community Organization

Chief Executive Officer at Gold's Gym Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2017 to April 2018

Gold's Gym Egypt is the master franchise for Gold's Gym U.S.A, since 1997. Currently have 22 operating facilities, in which we manage 5 fully operating facilities.

Hire a solid leadership team to build and implement policies, procedures while ensuring execution for a great customer experience.

Spearheading geographical expansion to continuously improve convenience for our members.

Develop strategies to ensure market leadership in the health & fitness industry.

Collaborate with business owners best practices to improve operations.

Improve top & bottom line growth for all managed facilities.

Achievements:
Built a reliable leadership team
Improved relationships with franchisee owners
Improved performance within four of the five facilities.
Kicked off implementation of a club management system.
Secured by Gold's Gym International an additional master franchise for Gold''s Studio first one outside the USA and Russia.

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Ousta Technologies for Information Technology
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2016 to January 2017

Launch the first Egyptian ride hailing app in Egypt, by building a team that focuses on operational & technology excellence. In parallel, search for potential investors to fund the business.

Achievements
Within 11 months, we were able to to create a customer base of 250K customers, with 55K active users that did 235K completed trips. Leading ride hailing expansion in Egypt by being available in 14 cities.

Zone Manager at Nestlé Water North America
  • United States - California
  • January 2015 to February 2016

Reporting to Division Vice President

Full Responsibility of Business P&L of the Ready Refresh Service Brand in Northern California.

Asses business state to put in place corrective actions to turnaround business unit from a negative to positive profitability, while achieving a 98% customer satisfaction level.

Achievements;
1. Assessed business state and identified all required investments to build solid foundation to drive both top & bottom line growth.

2. Built a performing culture that reached required customer satisfaction in just 9 months by building a solid management team that focused on process, procedures & execution.

3. Increased prices and efficiency through a value creating model, that identified opportunities.

4. Introduced & Rolled Out Operational Master Plan (OMP) within the operations function.

Country Business Manager & Managing Director at Nestlé Waters Direct
  • Portugal
  • January 2013 to January 2015

Reporting to Regional Business Head - Europe

Member of European Management Team
Full P&L responsibility.

Drive top and bottom line growth through exploitation of current, new segments while driving bottom line through variability along with effective management of resources.

Coach and develop direct reports to continuously improve in all business related functions i.e. Factory, HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Customer Service, SHE and Supply Chain.

Collaborate with stakeholders internally and externally on possible synergies i.e. Corporate Social Responsibilities & Creating Shared Value activities.
Explore synergies with other business within the group.

Achievements:
1. Restructured the organization to cope with the financial crisis at the time.
2. Increased sales productivity
3. Protected bottom line, despite the decline of top line through increasing prices, controlling costs and shifting cooler care from a cost to profit center.
4. Acquired a local competitor successfully.
5. Reorganized operations to ensure operational excellence i.e. direct shipment, merging warehouses and centralizing warehouses closer to our customers, decreasing frequency, while increasing drop size.

Business Manager at Nestlé Waters
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2010 to January 2013

Member of Management Committee

Reporting Country Business Manager

Responsible for the development of the Home & Office Division in Egypt,

Continuously improve operations and customer service to reach superior service. Plan year on year the exploitation of new opportunities in different channels to reach the consumers and create loyalty to the Nestlé brand.

Act as a catalyst of transformation within departments i.e.marketing, operations, sales, IT, customer service, production and finance to reach efficient operations with a superior quality service

Achievements
1. Built a solid management team that generated double digit growth and profitability.
2. Implemented channel strategy.
3. Created & Implemented pricing strategy.
4. Introduced & Expanded the 5 gallon sku to modern and traditional trade channels.
5. Shifted the maintenance department from a cost center to a profit center.

Head Of Sales at Nestlé Waters Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2005 to May 2010

Member of Management Committee

Reporting to Country Business Manager

Develop a sales team of 100 with the support of Nestlé Waters International Sales Team on implementing specific sales development strategies and transforming it from local to multinational standards.

Responsible to defend and grow market share for our brands in Egypt. Implement strategies to increase profitability of the brands/channel/customer.

Contribute to the innovation & renovation process. Upgrade and create with the support of the management committee: policies, procedures, and be the catalyst of change.

Achievements:
1. Reorganized structure to implement Channel Strategy.
2. Created & Implemented Pricing Strategy.
3. Identified Direct Sales Delivery (DSD) opportunity in collaboration with High Performing Logistics international team (HPL) and rolled out DSD strategy.
4. Identified & Implemented Cold Availability Strategy of 1000 coolers.
5. Expanded Merchandising Team to enhance market visibility.

Regional Retail Sales Manager at Nestlé Waters Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2005 to June 2005

Reporting to Head of Sales

Develop a sales & merchandising team of 50 with the support of Nestlé Waters International Sales Team on implementing specific sales development strategies.

Responsible to defend and grow market share for the brands in Cairo. Strategies to increase profitability of the brands / channel / sku /customer

Sales Supervisor - East Cairo at Nestlé Waters Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2003 to March 2005

Reporting to National Sales Manager

Ensure the distribution & launch Nestlé Pure Life throughout the East of Cairo.

Responsible for a team of 5 salespersons.

Coordinate with merchandising teams and ensure visibility. Provide to management tactics to gain share

Sales Supervisor - West Cairo at Nestle Waters
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2002 to March 2003

Reporting to National Sales Manager

Ensure the distribution of launch Nestlé Pure Life throughout the Westside of Cairo. Responsible for a team of 5 salespersons.

Coordinate with merchandising teams and ensure visibility. Provide to management tactics to gain market share.

Key Account Sales Supervisor at Nestle Waters Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 2001 to July 2002

Reporting to National Sales Manager

Responsible for all 5* Hotels, Catering, and petroleum services. with one direct report.

Defend and grow market share of our local brand BARAKA & Introduced Nestlé Pure Life as a premium brands to key accounts

Education

Bachelor's degree, International Management
  • at Columbia Southern University
  • December 2021

I decided to pursue my degree in what I love, international management.

Higher diploma, Sales & Marketing
  • at American University Cairo
  • December 2002

Specialties & Skills

Customer Driven
Leading Change
Proven Leader
Group Collaboration
Team Building
Leadership
Team Collaboration
Distribution Management
Operational Excellence
Team Building
Initiative

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Languages

English
Native Speaker
Arabic
Expert

Hobbies

  • Travelling
    I have worked on three different continents and traveled to 18 different countries.