Marketing & Sales Expert
Free Lancer
Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months
1- Marketing & Sales strategy and executive plans
2- Advertising strategy, materials and tools
3- Contacting Customers via email, phone and B2B meetings
4- Attending Fairs, Exhibitions and all international events for setting our deals face to face with our clients, and to promote our company and products directly with new customers by opening new markets
5- Markets research to offer our products with competitive prices without affecting the quality
6- Follow up with the existing clients negotiating with the quality, prices, logistics, needed document, specifications, feedback and any corrective action if there are any complains
7- Contacting potential Clients for making new orders
• Establishing a new marketing strategy for the company to
magnify the company’s market share and increase its
revenues accordingly.
• Organizing the plan of Exhibitions and Trade Shows
attendance in Europe, USA and Asia for the period of
2016-2017.
• Contact with the current clients via e-mail, fax or telephone
to have their annual orders and negotiate about the
products quality and prices that can reach their needs per
their standards and limits.
• Renewal of the company’s profile in the means of
publishers, marketing materials & tools, products
range expansion and upgrading the quality standards
and certifications.
• Opening new markets abroad by contacting new
potential clients in the field of Medicinal and
Aromatic plants, essential oils, dried herbs, flowers,
seeds, vegetables and fruits.
• Calculating products prices and making offers
depending on the local market products prices and
processing costs and foreign countries freight rates.
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• Receiving the clients complain reports and trace back the
problems leads to their complains to make a corrective
actions to avoid it in the future.
• Follow up with all the company’s departments “Logistics,
Quality, Production, Procurement and Accounting” to
coordinate the whole process of exporting.
• Follow up with the current and new clients to make
sure that we are standing on the same status
regarding their inquiries, shipments, offers, prices,
documents, samples and complains.
• Reporting to the General Director on a weekly and
monthly basis all the marketing and exporting
progress, plans, problems and pending issues
Improving household food and nutrition security in Egypt by targeting women and the youth Project |
Fayoum and Beni Suef.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Provides primary assistance in the implementation of the
project activities including the execution of action plans
and implementation of the various field interventions.
• Undertakes field visits and participate actively in
assessment missions to monitor project progress,
including input distribution and impact of training.
• Identifies and resolve diverse issues/problems as they
arise, which often requires interpretation of existing
procedures and processes and independently determining
the appropriate application.
• Prepares and put into action implementation plans of
technical activities based on identified needs of target
groups in terms of technical support and training.
• Develops strategic partnerships and build good working
relations with individuals and organizations that may be
intermediaries with target groups.
• Promotes the project’s visibility, communications and
profile within community, and with farmers’ associations
members and domestic entities.
• Prepares monthly reports on field activities and
achievements made as compared to the plan of work and
a terminal report upon completion of assignment
• Contributes to the project day-to-day activities and
operations of the work plan at governorates level.
Among others: monitoring of capacity building
activities, operational supervision of other project
initiatives.
• Collaborates with partners in support of the
communication Program and participate actively in
awareness campaigns foreseen in the detailed
plan.
• Maintains and strengthen further close
collaboration with UN agencies, and non-
governmental organizations (NGOs) and
governmental organizations (GOs) on project
relevant activities in the targeted areas.
• Identifies potential target groups to receive
technical assistance, to develop and implement
the project policies and strategies.
• Coordinates visits and activities of project
consultants and national experts.
• Follow up implementation of technical advices
recommended by project consultants.
• Performs other related duties as required by the
• Identify groups of potential beneficiaries to participate
project technical activities.
• Identify with the assistance of project consultants the real
needs for farmers and farmer groups in terms of technical
services and training programs.
• Work with farmers to manage and improve crop
production, fertilization, irrigation, integrated pest
management techniques and make efficient use of
agricultural inputs.
• Gather and disseminate information on market trends,
production methods, varieties, production supplies and
quality & food safety management systems.
• Coordinate the technical visits for project team
and consultants and prepare technical report for
each visit.
• Follow up the implementation of all consultants’
recommendations in the field during production,
harvest and postharvest stages.
• Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers,
farmers, traders, and governmental & non-
governmental actors at local community level.
• Assist in implementing the project communication
strategy within the local community.
• Prepare technical reports and follow up records.
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• Provide extension services and facilitate communication
between advisors and producers.
• Perform other ad-hoc duties as required.
• Assist the Project Management Unit in setting, designing
and developing the strategic plans for each transition
period, by meeting periodically every three months.
• Display the success stories of each season and highlight it
at the Project web portal with photos and videos to be
introduced to the beneficiaries for studying and applying.
• Carry out specific Program-related assignments requested
by the Project Director and the National Project
Coordinator.
• Coaching and monitoring the technical team of the
service center.
• Submit monthly report and monthly plan to the
technical Officer on operational aspects,
consolidating all information available on activities
carried out and expenditures.
• Assist the Project team on the preparation of
monthly action reports to be forwarded to the
Project Coordinator and National Project Director.
• Prepare a final report at the end of each contract
every six months comprising all relevant
information compiled from the interim reports,
conclusions and recommendations.
• Managing the organic sector for exporting organic
products.
• Writing the applications of the import licenses for the
clients in other countries to be able to import organic
products from our country, (these licenses renewed
annually).
• Inspecting report for each organic farm to prove that it is
following the organic regulations including (farm name &
area, products grown, pesticides usage etc.…).
• Renewing the organic farm's certificates annually, each
farm must be certified every season from our certifier in
Egypt to be able to export organic products.
• This cultivation plan lets me know the amount of seeds
that we need from each product to be grown in our farms,
so I order these amounts of untreated seeds to be
imported from seeds companies abroad, each product
must have an origin country certificate.
• Finally, I'm the responsible of all organic correspondence
by mail, fax or phone with the Ministry of Agriculture, ECOA
Egyptian center of organic agriculture, AEC exporting
council and the Egyptian agriculture quarantine.
• Forwarding these applications including (the
client's details, the product's quantities, the
organic farms and pack houses) to our organic
certification body in Egypt to stamp and sign it,
then sending it abroad to the client for elicitation
of the license.
• Reviewing the loading plan for each sea
shipment, then writing a shipment request and
send it to our certification body ECOA for issuing
an exporting certificate.
• Negotiating with the clients about the organic
importing programs to put the final exporting
schedule which accordingly lead me to make the
plan of cultivation.
• As our company is an agent for some imported
seeds from European companies, so I had to
register these seed's varieties in our Egyptian
committee for seeds inspection and registration,
the new varieties must be registered every year
for the first three year, but the old varieties
registered every 5 years.
Quality Assurance department under the
supervision of the General Consultant for quality &
production development and improvement.
• Taking samples from each land sector and water pump
to analyze its chemical and mechanical characteristics,
also its microbial and heavy metals contents.
• Taking samples from each sector for each crop before
harvesting to analyze it in the Central Lab of Pesticides
Residuals Analysis to be sure that all the applied
pesticides had reached the minimum residues.
• Contacting our clients to negotiate about their plans
updates and complains.
• Writing the pesticides programs for each crop per
the approved pesticides list (AUDAX) which we
have from each client in the importing countries.
• Tracing the actual pesticides application in the
field every week to assure that the system is
running on the right way and there are no
pesticides applied outside the program and to
follow up the Pre-Harvest Interval of each pesticide
to avoid exceeding the Maximum Residual Level.
• Opening new markets by searching on the web sites for
new companies working in our business “Medicinal &
Aromatic Plants” and contact them by phone and
sending emails to present our company and products
offering all the facilities that we must meet the clients’
satisfaction.
• Receiving the clients complain reports and trace back
the problems lead to this complain to make a corrective
action and avoid it in the future.
• Contact with the current clients via e-mail, fax or
telephone to have their annual orders and
negotiate about the products quality and prices
that can reach their needs per their standards and
limits.
• Finally carry out all the needed documents like
(shipment documents, packing list, bill of lading,
products specifications, needed certificates and
information before exporting.
• Receiving the crops as a raw material from the suppliers
and taking samples for the physical tests and chemical
analyzing to make sure that the crops are valid to be
exported as the EURO GAP regulations and relevant with
the clients’ standards
• Controlling the whole packing process stages to
meet the product specifications that the clients
need.
• Also, filling the daily files in the packing house to
assure the filing system as in GAP.
courses: Environmental Science and Industrial Development
Major of Agricultural Economy.