Ramez Haddadin, Solutions Manager

Ramez Haddadin

Solutions Manager

McKinsey and Company

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, MBA, Global Management
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Solutions Manager at McKinsey and Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2018

Full P&L responsibility and globally leading the business development and deployment of the Model Factory in a BOX, a McKinsey proprietary solution, used as an experiential learning environment for capability building in digital and lean concepts. Achievements include:
• Generated more than €2M of revenue in 2018
• Expanded the offering from 12 to 17 assets worldwide in 2018

Engagement Manager at McKinsey and Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2016 to February 2018

Led multi-million lean implementation projects in the GCC, North Africa, and the Middle East focusing on generating bottom-line impact through lean manufacturing and maintenance transformations and Operational Excellence initiatives in Oil and Gas, basic materials, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical industries.

Senior Consultant at McKinsey and Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2014 to May 2016

Led implementation work streams in the GCC, and Middle East focusing on lean manufacturing transformations and Operational Excellence initiatives in basic materials, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, key projects included:
• Lean transformation for a leading pharma client to implement lean practices in supply chain, quality and operations to increase labour productivity by 20% and instil a continuous improvement culture
• Manufacturing transformation program for a petrochemical client focusing on maintenance best practices; lean practices, planning and scheduling, and increasing equipment uptime
• Cost-cutting program for a basic materials client to increase productivity by 15%

Optimization Manager at Lafarge Russia
  • Russian Federation
  • January 2010 to October 2014

Responsible for implementing process improvements and cost optimization best practices for a 1.6Mt cement plant, member of plant executive committee, key responsibilities included:
• Leading a lean transformation program to reduce plant operational costs
• Responsible for a €3.2M production budget
• Implementation of an operational cost improvement initiative (~€1M of savings in 3 months)

Process Expert (In-house Consultant) at Lafarge Cement Technical Centre GmbH
  • Austria
  • October 2006 to December 2009

Responsible for technical assistance, training and best practice transfer for cement plants in the Middle East and Central/Eastern European regions, main achievements included:
• Led a feasibility study of a 3m€ project for a Jordanian cement plant
• Launched a new process improvement program to reduce power consumption in cement mills for the Russian plants
• Conducted technical training sessions to develop plant engineers operational skills, with an international audience of more than 20 engineers
• Commissioned two 5 m€ closed circuit cement mills in Russia
• Participated in the start-up team for a 10 m€ plant capacity increase project in Jordan

Process Engineer at Lafarge - Jordan Cement Factory
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2005 to September 2006

Led projects for plant process improvement and optimization

Education

Master's degree, MBA, Global Management
  • at IE Business School
  • July 2014
Master's degree, Mechatronics
  • at University of Siegen
  • January 2005

Thesis: Control Software for an Industrial Stencil Printer, ECTS: A (Excellent) Enabled the company to switch from manual mode of paste application on printed circuit boards to an automatic one, which reduced production time into half

Bachelor's degree, Electromechanical Engineering
  • at Al-Balqa’ Applied University
  • July 2002

Thesis: Autonomous Mobile Robot for Obstacle Avoidance

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Business Development
General Management
Manufacturing
Management Consulting
Cement manufacturing
Lean transformations
management
Budgeting and Planning
Coaching
Project Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Russian
Expert
German
Intermediate