Raed AlTarawneh, General Manager

Raed AlTarawneh

General Manager

Hi Phone Telecom

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Sharjah
Éducation
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, finance executives
Expérience
25 years, 6 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :25 years, 6 Mois

General Manager à Hi Phone Telecom
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • février 2019 à mars 2021
General Manager à HiPHONE TELECOM
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • février 2019 à mars 2019

Leading mobiles & accessories retailers with over 36 point of sales with more than 200 team members
presented in the UAE leading malls
• Annual sales budgeting considering other business channels (Retail, Corporate, E-commerce sales channels).
• Formulate and execute company’s strategic plan (Sales, Purchasing, Products development, and Inventory
management)
• Set and achieve key performance targets for sales, delivery, cost, expenses, and other measurements of
operational performance.
• Identify, create, and develop new business opportunities, sourcing of new products, market feasibility study
and principal management.
• Manage all sales-related activities covering setting and strictly monitoring of sales targets and ensures
accurate delivery of products in all sales channels.
• Developing the purchasing process avoiding overstocking the points of sales.
• Communicate operational/sales results, activities, etc. to executive management and provide
recommendations and plans for ongoing improvement.
• Formulate performance measures, parameters, and targets, in line with the business objectives and agreed
every year on performance review, with targets set for the subsequent year.
• Coordinate with the CEO for all operation priorities & objectives and long & short-term business plans.
• Margin improvement followed with product extension applied on-demand categories.
• Malls communications (new locations, rent reductions, incoming projects).
• Review & control HR operational issues (JD’s, KPI’s & KRA, SOP, Back office policies, incentives) ensure inline
with business needs.

Head of Retail à Swiss Arabian Perfumes Group
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • juin 2013 à juin 2018

• Annual & monthly sales budget vs target benchmark followed with new business channels.
• Annual stock budget (products, categories, new launches) meets sales budget.
• Develop strategic planning, new business channels & new stores opening, SOP, brand & pricing positioning,
and market development research.
• Managing over 280 team members considering 14-line managers.
• Marketing roadmap across enhancing the business to achieve significant turnover and profitability in varies
regions during the difficulties of business trends meet branding guidelines.
• Business agreements & franchises, negotiation with mall contacts.
• Conceptualize and support implementation (customer loyalty system, seasonal activities & promotions, Brand
launching) with related marketing & communication strategies.
• Manage product lines/movement and coordinate with the brand department for product development.
• Monitor market share evolution and tracking market & c competitor’s activities & products.
• Stock monitoring, product movement, and stock liquidation action for low-rated sales movement.
• Target monitoring, benchmark shops & team-wise reviews, and clarify sales factors (products, customers profile,
footfall, team, and marketing activities).
• Developing and implementing regional products launching activities, with related ATL and BTL Marketing
activities (campaigns, shop-in-shop deployment, managing and implementing merchandising guidelines).
• Implementation of executing new product launch, with higher sales margin through high end & luxury
finishing meet higher customer segments.

Country Manager à i2 Mobile / Itsalat International Co
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • avril 2010 à février 2013

Plan and direct the operation excellence retail division in terms of formulating policies SOP’s, sales budget
tracking, new startup branches, brands performance, and staff development as assigned tasks.
• Financial and profitability cost controls with recommendations for sales budgets per area/branches, and
monitoring business benchmark.
• Review shops/team KPIs and performance (sales targets, inventory movements with related promotions
activities, brand guidelines.
• Benchmark shops against each other, set & clarify objectives and identify best practices monthly.
• Review salaries and incentive for teams in liaison with finance and HR applied with recommendations wherever
required.
• Oversee in-store operational activities to enhance operation excellence through scheduled and unscheduled
visits to shops.
• Liaise with brand managers all marketing activities within calendar promotional events and mall activities.
• Oversee effective stock management & visual merchandising of shops and provide necessary direction and
training to ensure consistent and timely refreshing of visual displays.
• Ensure proper motivation and coaching for shops team, and receives necessary

Regional Retail Manager à KSA
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • juin 2006 à février 2010

Working to design and build up a regional retail sales process, and standard concept strategy.
• Executed the sales strategy through leading and coordinating specific vendor’s sales target planning to
develop retail sales activities.
• Analyzing business evaluated competitive challenges and identified opportunities for growth through
vendor’s business partners.
• Responsible for continuously monitoring the development of retail business in each territory in terms of market
share, distribution, visibility and product mix.
• Responsible for providing a continuous/cohesive flow of market intelligence from the markets in his territory on
competitor activities and pricing, market characteristics and trends, price waterfalls, benchmarking reports,
distribution and visibility.
• Responsible for initiation and co-ordination of any country specific support activity to achieve objectives
agreed upon in the Business-Marketing plans.
• Maintaining completed retail process to all activities, coming up with automated system measuring (Stock
Orders, Logistics, Monthly staff/showrooms evaluation system, pricing structure).

Retail Sales Manager à Aptec Gulf L.L.C
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • octobre 2000 à mai 2006

Authorized distributor for Nokia & Sony Ericsson.
• Build and orchestrated the retail division & corporate sales channels for Aptec Mobiles.
• Implementing standard & coherent operating procedures within secured guidelines aligned with company
sales strategy.
• Apply business planning & target budgeting based on market segments in the telecom field, followed with
vendor’s business strategy.
• Direct responsibilities for stock forecasting meet sufficient stock level meet sales target concentrating on fast
profitable stock movement.
• Pricing control meet market competition and aligned with desired margin.
• Implementation of processing new retail rules & sales policies to meet vendors/sales guidelines.
• Implementation of showrooms/team evaluation strategy measured with sales benchmarking with direct team
monitoring ensure aligned with sales target.
• Implementation for unique retail added values compare to other competitors.
• Established corporate sales channels with government & simi-governments companies, banks.

Retail Sales Manager à Global Link Communication
  • Émirats Arabes Unis
  • octobre 1997 à août 2000

Responsible for retail sales division (Telefonica & Radio Shack)
• Responsibilities & KPI’s will be provided upon your inquiries.

Store Supervisor à Jordanian Investment & Supply – Safeway Stores
  • Jordanie
  • août 1994 à juillet 1997

Responsibilities & KPI’s will be provided upon your inquiries.
All experiences reference & necessary details will be provided upon inquiry.

Éducation

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, finance executives
  • à London Business School
  • janvier 2014

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Baccalauréat, Administration And Business Administration
  • à The University Of Jordan
  • juin 1994

Specialties & Skills

Warranty
Administration
Wholesale
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PLANS
MARKETING
POLICY ANALYSIS
PRICING
RETAIL SALES
STRATEGIC
BENCHMARKING

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Loisirs

  • Badminton, Volleyball, Cooking