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RAFI SALLOUM, Account Manager

RAFI SALLOUM

Account Manager·Cadd Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, MSc Communication and Signal processing

Work experience

Total years of experience: 19 years, 7 months

Account Manager

January 2016 - Present

Cadd Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2016 - Present

 Responsible for business development across UAE
 Generating new leads with the aim of creating more sales.
 Scheduling appointments, preparing and delivering presentation to the clients, having researched their business and requirements.
 Working on sales follow-up activities.
 Maintaining customer relationships and ensuring customer loyalty through excellent customer service as well as meeting all client needs appropriate to their business.
 Working as part of a team and closely with other departments within the organisation.
 Agreeing and closing deals with clients.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Management

Account Manager

June 2015 - Present

CADD Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

June 2015 - Present

 Responsible for business development across UAE
 Generating new leads with the aim of creating more sales.
 Scheduling appointments, preparing and delivering presentation to the clients, having researched their business and requirements.
 Working on sales follow-up activities.
 Maintaining customer relationships and ensuring customer loyalty through excellent customer service as well as meeting all client needs appropriate to their business.
 Working as part of a team and closely with other departments within the organisation.
 Agreeing and closing deals with clients.
 My 4 big accounts : RAK Police, Manar Mall (RAK), Abu Dhabi Civil Defence & health Authority, Dubai Court
 Managed Services Project accomplishment in storage management & security management
 Hospitality solutions offered to more than 35 hotels and restaurants in Abu Dhabi - Hotel management system, POS, restaurant reservation system.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Change Manager

October 2010 - Present

Alcatel-Lucent

Doha, Qatar

October 2010 - Present

Change Manager - Vodafone Qatar
 Responsible for managing the change process within the organization & Defining and measuring success metrics by monitoring change progress with overall accountability of reducing impact of change on the business.
 Planning all change initiatives through stakeholder engagement, analysis and participation, preparing and executing readiness tests, establishing points of resistance and developing plans to address concerns.
 Creating functional designs and delivering change strategies to encourage cultural change at different operational levels while efficiently increasing the stakeholder engagements.
 Identifying, analyzing, preparing risk mitigation tactics and assessing the change impact to create change management strategies to manage anticipated resistance.
 Managing IT operations involving IT Risk and audit management, program management, service management, and infrastructure management for products/ projects.
 Representing Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) and participating in the weekly Change Approval Board meeting (CAB) for change introduction, review, impact assessment and approval.
 Evaluating change post implementation and prepare/request report in case of failed changes or as needed.
 Generating and distributing reporting of the change management process regarding the process performance KPIs, SLA KPIs or ad hoc data requests on weekly and monthly basis.
 Responsible for applying a structured methodology, assess the change impact and create change management strategy and carrying out partner and customer communication throughout the entire project lifecycle.
 Managing and controlling costs so they remain within budget and ensure all tasks entrusted to company employees and external contractors are completed within agreed time scales.
 Improving the operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizations mission, specifically supported better management reporting, information flow & management and business process.
 Creating actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan and resistance management plan.
 Accountable for performance matrix and global analysis, managing end to end operation and enhancing management reporting.

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Management

Change Manager

October 2010 - Present

Alcatel-Lucent

Doha, Qatar

October 2010 - Present

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Management

WiMAX Local Project Manager

July 2008 - March 2009

Alcatel-lucent

Doha, Qatar

July 2008 - March 2009

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Other

Intelligent Network and Value Added Services Roll Out Manager

January 2006 - January 2009

Alcatel-lucent.com

Doha, Qatar

January 2006 - January 2009

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Other

Technical Support Engineer

February 2004 - August 2004

CADD EMIRATES

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

February 2004 - August 2004

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Other

Education

University Of Newcastle Upon Tyne

August 2005

August 2005

Master's degree, MSc Communication and Signal processing

United Kingdom

University of Balamand

February 2004

February 2004

Bachelor's degree, BS in Computer Engineering

Lebanon

College de Balamand

June 2000

June 2000

High school or equivalent, Elementary mathematics

Lebanon

Skills

Team Management
Expert
Team Management
Expert
Incident Management
Expert
Incident Management
Expert
Problem Analysis
Expert
Problem Analysis
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Communication Skills
Expert
Communication Skills
Expert
ITIL certified
Expert
ITIL certified
Expert
MS office
Expert
MS office
Expert
BASIS
Intermediate
BASIS
Intermediate
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Intermediate
DATABASE
Intermediate
DATABASE
Intermediate
DEPLOYMENT
Intermediate
DEPLOYMENT
Intermediate
DOCUMENTATION
Intermediate
DOCUMENTATION
Intermediate
Team Management
Expert
Team Management
Expert
Incident Management
Expert
Incident Management
Expert
Problem Analysis
Expert
Problem Analysis
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Communication Skills
Expert
Communication Skills
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Expert

English

Expert

French

Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certifications
ITIL Intermediate RCV
May 2014
ITIL Intermediate OSA
Jun 2013
Advanced System Administration for the Solaris 10 operating System-SA 202.
Nov 2007
ITIL 2011 V3 foundation
Syscoms Doha
May 2012 - May 2012