Samantha Aveline Herman, Manager, Specials Projects

Samantha Aveline Herman

Manager, Specials Projects

The Commercial Bank of Qatar

Lieu
Qatar
Éducation
Master, Customer Focused Strategy
Expérience
8 years, 8 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :8 years, 8 Mois

Manager, Specials Projects à The Commercial Bank of Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • janvier 2011 à septembre 2014

Reported into the Group COO.

Core responsibilities were split tri-dimensionally into local CBQ Operations Governance of 9 divisions, local Qatar and UAE outsourcing governance, and Regional Integration of Alliance Banks across Qatar, Oman, UAE and Turkey.

Local CBQ Banking Operations governance across Operational Performance, IT, Operations, Contact Centre, Trade Services, Physical Security, Corporate Real Estate, Cash Services and Service Quality:
 Managed a 5-person team in Operational Performance and Policies & Procedures
 Managed manpower planning, recruitment and performance
 Managed stakeholder communications to the Regulator, Board, Executive Committees and employees
 Developed SBU strategic business plan and drove its execution
 Managed Operational Performance, monitoring, reporting and identifying areas for service uplifts
 Managed Cost Performance on budget planning, cost utilization, and tracking cost savings initiatives
 Managed Operational Risk and Audit reports, tasked with identification, tracking and closure

Outsourcing Governance of CBQ and UAB:
 Managed Contractual Governance with strategic outsourcing partner, Tata Consultancy Services
 Held the role of Secretariat of both TCS-CBQ and TCS-CBQ-UAE executive committees
 Managed onshore and offshore employee communications and engagement
 Managed stakeholder communications

Regional Integration program management:
 Led Governance and Program reporting of Alliance Banks
 Integration of common platforms, cross-border transactions and alignment of Policies and Procedures
 Managed Executive offsite and strategic roadmap planning
 Drove process efficiency and customer innovation programs

Special Projects, Manager à The Commercial Bank of Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • juin 2010 à janvier 2011

Office of Group CEO, reporting into Group CEO

Managed CEO-sponsored corporate strategy realignment program, created new lines of business and restructured performance management:
 Managed preparation of the Bank’s Strategic Annual Business review with McKinsey & Co.
 Managed communications for Board and Executive Committees
 Managed Governance of strategic 5-year roadmap with McKinsey & Co, Towers Watson and K3
 Managed Board-led transformation program realigning strategic focus
 Program Lead to Retail Banking & Wholesale Banking, Corporate Communications and Risk
 Created new business lines, Private Banking in Retail and Government and Public Sector in Wholesale
 Launched new Performance management framework and Change management workshop with Towers Watson

Officer, Change Management - Retail Banking à Commercialbank of Qatar
  • Autre
  • décembre 2008 à juin 2010

Retail Banking, Branch Operations and Change Management

 Managed Strategic partnerships and program execution of Vodafone and Qatar Cool initiatives
 Initiated and managed Customer Experience program: Introduced Staff Grooming Standards and Uniforms, Special Needs counters and training, integrated Queue Management and CRM, developed framework of the customer complaints system and implemented roll-out of Vodafone Direct Debit
 Planned and launched 7 branches, and conducted bank-wide branch process audits

Officer, Advertising and Marketing Communications à The Commercial Bank of Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • décembre 2007 à décembre 2008

 Managed Advertising and Merchandising budget, media plan and advertising agencies relationship
 Responsible for alignment of Corporate Identity and Brand

Analyst, Market Research à The Commercial Bank of Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • février 2006 à décembre 2007

 Revamped the Market Research strategy by introducing Daily Competitive Analysis and Customer Retention study, and segment analysis.

Éducation

Master, Customer Focused Strategy
  • à Imperial College of London, UK
  • août 2015

MBA, specializing in Customer Focused Strategy.

Diplôme, Program, Change Management
  • à Carnegie Mellon University
  • décembre 2009
Baccalauréat, Applied Psychology
  • à University of Southern Queensland
  • mars 2006

Specialties & Skills

Stakeholder Management
Governance
Strategising
Project Management
Outsourcing
MS Visio
MS Excel
MS Word
MS Project

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Malais
Moyen
Russe
Débutant

Adhésions

Project Management Institute
  • Project Management Professional
  • October 2010