Mohamed Mahmoud, Executive Business Advisor

Mohamed Mahmoud

Executive Business Advisor

Talent Lodge Consultancy & Training

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Management
Experience
27 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :27 years, 7 Months

Executive Business Advisor at Talent Lodge Consultancy & Training
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2017
Learning & Development Manager at Salehiya Trade Est.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2013 to April 2017

Key Responsibilities:
• Identifying the training gaps through conducting training need analysis and regular review of performance appraisal.
• Building & implementing the annual training calendar and monitor its regular application on a monthly base.
• Controlling the training budget and maximizing the ROI of the training process
• Ensure the understanding and applying of different standard operation procedures (SOPs) by different departments of Salehiya.
• Encourage the best practice performance through creating & managing the performance appraisal system.
• Provide career path counseling for the employees to ensure both personal and organizational development.
• Increase employee’s engagement by developing different employee’s loyalty programs.
• Designing and delivering relevant training solutions that help Salehiya to achieve its planned strategic goals
• Proficient allocation of the available resources in a way that allow to reduce the cost & maximize the profit
• Creating a learning environment that increases the employees engagement and establishes a strong relationship management
• Manage training delivery by external partners and report back to the Human resource director
• Work closely with customer facing stuff to monitor level of service.
• Work closely with the quality department to proactively identify and address non conformity issue and creating training solutions that can prevent those NOCs to be repeated in the future.
• Compliance and adherence to policies and procedures

Key Achievements:
• Increase of sales achievement using 70:20:10 approach & On Job Training approach for many courses like:-
o How to win a customer -------------> (For customer service and sales team)
o Effective penetration of the market -------------> (For Marketing & Sales teams)
o Effective presentation skills -------------> (For Marketing & Sales Team)
o Active Listening Skills -------------> (For Most employees of the Company)
o Mastering the Sales cycle -------------> (For Sales Team)
• Increase the employee’s productivity through creating new performance appraisal system that measures both competencies & objectives in the same time.
• Increase the employee engagement through conducting Leadership workshop for C-level managers.
• Reduce the employee turnover by about 7 % within two years.
• Establishing Salehiya Internship program with some of Saudi Universities.
• Establishing Salehiya summer training program with the Saudi Human Resources Development Fund.
• Reducing the external training costs by about 50 % compared with its previous cost.
• Establishing Salehiya’ s Library project & “Employee of the Month” program.
• Effective implementation of the induction training course for the new employees in remote branches using the virtual classrooms approach.

Learning & Development Manager at Institute of Health Sciences
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2011 to January 2013

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing the internal and external training activities
• Designing & delivering training courses and programs necessary to meet training needs of the Institute of Health Science’s employees.
• Organize and conduct employee information meetings on employment policy, benefits and compensation and participate actively
• Coordinating with the Saudi Ministry of Health to conduct health training programs for its employees.
• Evaluating training and development programs and submit an annual final report for the activity of the department to the Chief Executive Officer

Key Achievements:

• Successful conduction of 35 short health training programs for the Saudi Ministry of Health through the year of 2012 with net profit more than two million (2 000 000 SR)
• Successful conduction of 200hours from Continuous Medical Education programs for different practitioners who are working in the medical field.
• Increasing the net profit of the institute by 2 % through introducing new income resources.

Sales & Training Manager at Egyptian Pharmaceutical Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2010 to April 2011

Key Responsibilities:
• Selecting, hiring & coaching talented sales person.
• Building and leading successful sales team.
• Establishing proper sales & marketing strategy that achieves the company objectives.
• Conducting regular training programs that cover the training needs of the company’s employees.
• Lead On-Job-Training to ensure the effective implementation of the training programs.
• Establishing a balanced performance appraisal that ensures the employee’s improvement.
• Creating an energetic learning environment.

Key Achievements:
• Increasing the company sales by 20% within the first three months with total year achievement of 90 %
• Reduce the employee Turnover to 0.5 % within the first three months
• Conducting (20) medical educational programs that covered the hospitals of Egyptian Ministry of Health all over Egypt.

Regional Sales Manager at Liptis Pharmaceutical company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2009 to June 2010

Key Responsibilities:
• Assist with design of learning and development tools, procedures and systems related to sales force effectiveness.
• People management including recruitment, retention, performance reviews, development plans, on the job training
• Redesigning the reporting system in a way that help the staff for effective & efficient use of the company’s resources
• Leading the On-Job- Coaching on a regular basis
• Conducting monthly management training courses for the district managers to cover their training needs and helping them to achieve both personal & organizational targets.


Key Achievements:
• Achieving the highest market share among the other two regions of Egypt for both Dorofen® & Cavigen®
• Winning the Best achiever team prize for 2009
• Redesigning the area potentiality to obtain the maximum profit through using IMS data analysis monthly.
• Successful participation in different international conferences like International Orthopedic Conference in Egypt.

District Manager at Liptis Pharmaceutical Company
  • Egypt
  • March 2008 to May 2009

Key Responsibilities:
• Facilitate and deliver field coaching interventions to optimize the effectiveness of the company Sales Force.
• Ensure that individual’s product, therapy & clinical knowledge is at the desired levels during field visits and supports this within suitable training as required.
• Conduct weekly sales force training for the sales team to cover their training needs.
• Handling and swiftly resolving customer complaints in a professional manner
Key Achievements:
• Successful Launching of new product & achieve the highest sales among all areas all over the country(Cavigen® )
• Building successful career path for all the staff in my team (Two of them have been promoted to District Manager position).

District Manager at Tabuk-Egypt Pharmaceutical Company( Al Ansar Scientific Office)
  • Egypt
  • February 2006 to March 2008

• Reporting to the Regional Sales Manager and primarily responsible for 10 medical representatives and all external customers in the Upper Egypt Area
( Fayoum, Bani Swif, Minia, Assuit, Sohag, Quena, Luxor &Aswan)
• Building up new strong sales team started with only 4 medical representative & ended with 10 medical representative covering the area mentioned above
• Increase the total area sales from 60 000 L.E. Monthly to reach 200 000 L.E. Monthly
• Best Achiever for Rapidus® all over the country for 2007
• Successful Launching of new product (Divido®) & achieving the highest sales all over the country
• Opening many new opportunities in the area of Upper Egypt by building tide relationship with new potential customers

District Manager at Bio-Pharma Egypt
  • Egypt
  • July 2004 to December 2005

Management of the promotion & sales team in the area of Upper Egypt

Field Force Supervisor at Global Napi Pharmaceutical Company
  • Egypt
  • December 2001 to July 2004

Management & coaching the promotion & sales team in the area of Upper Egypt

Medical Representative at Sanofi Scientific Office (Makram Mahany Pharma)
  • Egypt
  • September 1996 to December 2001

Promotion of Sanofi product in the area of Upper Egypt

Education

Master's degree, Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Management
  • at Faculty of Commerce - Cairo University
  • June 2010

Completing two years master degree in business administration from the faculty of commerce , Englishsection - Cairo University

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation Skills
Coaching
Leadership development
Team Building
Time Managment
Global HR
Rational Portfolio Manager
Planning
Team Leadership
Team Management
Strategic Planing & Thinking
Pharmaceutical Sales

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Certifiate KPI Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
Valid Until:
April 2013
Training & Development Diploma (Training)
Training Institute:
Langevin Learning Institute
Date Attended:
June 2016
Succession Planning (Training)
Training Institute:
Penn University
Date Attended:
March 2017

Hobbies

  • Reading