Sameh Hanani, Operations Director

Sameh Hanani

Operations Director

Tajdeed Services

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Project & Operation Management
Experience
21 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months

Operations Director at Tajdeed Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since June 2017

Assists upper management in setting goals that promote company growth
Prepares budgets, schedules, and other organisational reports as needed
Provides advice and guidance to other employees
Manages team workloads in order to meet goals and deadlines
Develops plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs
Improves existing systems and policies
Ensures customer requirements are met in a timely manner
Works closely with other departments to promote efficient optimisation
Identifies improvement areas and plans and implements systems to boost company effectiveness
Manages internal and external service suppliers
Executes plans designed to meet company goals by changing policies and coaching employees
Ensuring financial targets and other agreed targets are met in all departments
Reviewing working practices to ascertain if it is successful and if not, devise an alternative
Work with project managers to develop budgets for special programs
Keeping employees motivated and organising appropriate training
Ensuring the business operates within the company's mission statement
Investigating customer satisfaction and reporting any issues
Driving the business to increase profits
Working with legal departments on any matters that occur

Sr. Sales Manager at Southern Sun Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2015 to May 2017

• Overlook the overall business requirements of hotel’s & my own accounts portfolio through various sales and marketing action
• Conduct show around of hotel facilities and services
• Implement and execute all sales action plans to promote hotel’s promotions,
Facilities and activities
• Benchmark reviews, ratings/scores of our competitor Weekly/monthly
• Tracks product line sales and costs by analyzing and entering sales, expense, and new business data
• Prepares marketing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing sales data.
• Support communications of assigned offices and link back to the corporate marketing team when possible to create a seamless flow of local and corporate communications
• Maintain and implement an effective filing & administrative system for all matters related to the department, including but not limited to identifying and maintaining a comprehensive database of customers, sponsors, media and any other potential client base for effective and targeted communication

Sales Manager at Grand Millennium AL Wahda
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • November 2012 to January 2015

• Overlook the overall business requirements of hotel’s & my own accounts portfolio through various sales and marketing action
• Conduct show around of hotel facilities and services
• Implement and execute all sales action plans to promote hotel’s promotions,
facilities and activities
• Assist in the execution of Hotel sales plan and participate with the Hotel executive committee in the preparation of yearly sales plan.
• Establish and maintain files of major accounts and have up-to-date information on competitors rates, promotions and strategies
• Negotiate room rates/packages with corporate clients.
• Analysis local market trends and competitor activity to identify business leads
• Produce accurate and timely reports that meet the needs of the Sales Director and senior management to include the reporting of appointments, calls made and business leads
• Responsible to assist with the efficient running of the department in line with Millennium International's Corporate Strategies and brand standards, whilst meeting employee, guest and owner expectations.
• Responsible to act as a sales specialist and be responsible to ensure the related revenue is maximised in the most profitable way in line with the agreed targets
• Recruit, manage, train and develop the Sales team

Sales Executive at Rotana Hotels
  • United Arab Emirates - Fujairah
  • January 2010 to November 2012

Maintain a high level of exposure for the hotel through direct sales
• Ensure comprehensive and complete coverage of own portfolio, covering all
levels of accounts’ managerial and departmental executives for a
comprehensive client servicing, achieving budget and maximum productivity
• Assist in the execution of property marketing plan and participate with the
property executive committee in the preparation of yearly marketing plan
• Ensure that selling strategies are adhered to during negotiations and maximize
up selling opportunities whenever possible
• Provide feedback on changing marketing conditions, including trends in the
competition, as a result of direct sales solicitation, telephone and / or direct mail
• setting up and updating selling strategies
• Attend all major events and activities taking place in the property
• Establish and maintain files of major accounts and have up-to-date information
on competitor’s rates, promotions and strategies.
• Consolidate and finalize the month end sales and marketing report and forward
to concerned

Sales Coordinator at Rotana Hotels
  • United Arab Emirates - Fujairah
  • January 2008 to January 2010

Assisting with planning & delivering sales objectives for the DOS in liaison with
the respective Sales Manager.
• Maintaining up to date data on all Sales team related customer production and
leads (direct as well as via Area Sales Offices
• Maintaining high level of awareness & knowledge of the Sales team specific
revenue budget & targets for the whole year.
• Assisting in tracking performance per segment and actively support all
liaison meetings
• Keeping updated and current records of all Sales Team specific business
development initiatives, promotions, offers and the respective support sales
activities.
• Assisting Sales Managers in collating and updating all relevant market &
competitor data, activities and information in order to respond to them
appropriately.
• Actively supporting Sales Team and other concerned colleagues in Area Sales
office in maintaining and growing positive customer and partner relationships
• Taking Ownership of all assigned sales related reports, keeping updated records
of all sales meeting minutes and data entry in the official sales automation tool.

Sales Executive at Jordan Holidays
  • Jordan - Amman
  • February 2005 to January 2008

Generates group and FIT sales from Travel agent, and company of both
domestic and international markets, towards overall sales objective.
• Makes regular sales calls on hotels, travel agents, airlines for booking and
future business. Tracks of all external ongoing activities especially among
competitors and the hospitality tourism industry.
• Achieve monthly budget goals and new business targets.
• Penetrate all new and existing accounts to maximum potential
• Prepare daily/ weekly/ monthly report that highlights action covered during that
period.
• Maintain and update Files containing pertinent information on clients as well
as operate within budgeted guidelines set by Sales Manager

Sales & Reservation Agent at Al Habtoor Group / Hotels
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2007 to January 2008

•Process and confirm guest room reservations made by clients on the phone,
letter or fax
• Assist with all the promotions in and around the hotel and follow established
procedures to process all room reservations, rates, confirmations, hotel
facilities, etc.
• Prepare complete product knowledge manuals, explain rate structure and apply
rate management to other team members ( Mainly Sales and front Desk)
• Promote and maintain good public relations and endeavors to maximize
business
• Ensure all incoming calls are answered as per the standards, information
received by fax is inputted and check constantly the incoming e-mails
• Organize visa request for hotel guest as per hotel policy and up-sell whenever
an opportunity is identified

Sales and marketing Executive at Miss 1 Fashion
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2003 to January 2005

Attending and organizing sales promotional events and exhibitions
• Coordinating with and reporting to managers to carry out campaigns
• Acting as liaisons between the media, suppliers, and clients
• Monitoring and arranging the distribution of promotional materials
• Monitoring and coordinating the production of promotional materials
• Prepare strategies for promotions, Sales, and Mass Sales Tactics.
• Contacting with Middle East distributors and setting sales forecasting .
• Tracking leads progress with coordinators and distributors.
• Assisting distributors in identifying sales opportunities or prospects or end
customers in the market.

Education

Master's degree, Project & Operation Management
  • at Business School Geneva International University
  • July 2018

essential management functions. For example, you could learn about human resources management, accounting and finance, sales and marketing, entrepreneurship and organizational leadership. Other areas of study may include operations planning, project management, quality control, supply chain management and global operations. Study in these areas may require advanced training in business statistics, mathematics, communication, research and economics.

Bachelor's degree, Hotel Management
  • at Al Zaytona University
  • February 2007
Bachelor's degree, Hotel Management and Tourism
  • at University- Jordan
  • January 2007

• BA. Degree "Hotel Management and Tourism"- business faculty- Al Zaitouna University- Jordan 2007. • Passed courses on Communication attitude, Delivering Quality Guest Service, the Winning Attitude and Corporation correspondences at Al Habtoor Group • Certified " Margining People Performance" • Certified " Distention leadership"

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Rational Portfolio Manager
Account Management
Sales Management
Word-processing, using databases, spreadsheets, the Internet & email, designing web pages etc.
Able to act on initiative, identify opportunities & proactive in putting forward ideas & solutions
Work confidently within a group
Able to express your ideas clearly and confidently in speech
Determination to get things done. Make things happen & constantly looking for better ways of doing t
Understand the commercial realities affecting the organisation.
Able to plan activities & carry them through effectively
Gather information systematically to establish facts & principles. Problem solving.
E-commerce
procurement Managemnet
Supply chain Managemnet
Project Managemnet

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Diving