Saqib Salim, Territory Account Manager

Saqib Salim

Territory Account Manager

Oracle

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, marketing
Experience
16 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 7 Months

Territory Account Manager at Oracle
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2017
Oracle Channel Sales Manager at Redington Saudi
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2014 to July 2017

Achievements:
Grew the oracle business in Redington from $0 to $11 million within 2 years
Revived relationships with key oracle partners that generated more than $ 5 million additional revenue to Redington Successfully executed customer marketing events across the region creating pipeline of over $6 million
Penetrated into 12 new mid-market customers for Oracle Cloud infrastructure
Responsible for:
Development of region specific strategic and tactical plans to include customer acquisition strategies, sales/channel strategies and marketing.
Forecasting, sales estimate and large potential opportunities management.
Central point of contact and accountability for all activities across the region Interface with to regional sales leaders of sales, service, operations, finance and marketing to ensure alignment to the plan and efficient execution that is capable of achievinge business results. Continuously mapping current channels, identifying gaps vs opportunity and implementing action plans to develop channels that reach out to target Customer Base Delivering training to channels to ensure appropriate skill sets and product knowledge development within Channel community Identify and develop opportunities within existing accounts by fostering strategic relationship with the end users to increase grow Oracle business

Senior Account Manager at Centria Consulting
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2013 to April 2014

Handling complete sales cycle from inquiries to closing a lead for ERP, CRM, ECM and Infrastructure Solutions.

Assistant Sales Manager at Total iCS
  • Saudi Arabia
  • November 2011 to August 2013

Handling the complete sales cycle for the following products

Enterprise Resource planning (ERP) Solution

 Microsoft Dynamics Axapta
 Microsoft Dynamics GP
 Epicor

Retail Management Solution (RMS)

 Microsoft Retail Management Solution (RMS)

Customer relationship management

 Microsoft XRM

Duties:
• Working closely with the Sales Director to prospect, pitch & close new business.
• Gaining a strong knowledge and understanding of a clients’ brand and products.
• Organising weekly team meetings with staff, directors and senior managers.
• Involved in the day to day management of clients. Participation in team building and sales training events.
• Performance monitoring of account executives and account teams.
• Address client concerns and ensure the resolution of issues in a timely manner. Maintaining contact with clients - giving them regular updates.
• In charge of budgets and administration. Oversee existing campaigns to grow key accounts.
• Delivering on-going market analysis and assessment of competitors.
• Retain accounts through the development of strong relationships with key decision makers.
• Coordinating with the Project Manager to Invoice the customer.
• Payment Follow in a professional manner

Achievement:
Achieved my Annual Sales Target within 6 Months and maintaining a very healthy pipeline helping the company expand aggressively in the Saudi Market.

Account Manager at Centria Consulting and Training Services
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2010 to October 2011

Handling the complete sales cycle for the following products

 IT Trainings
 SAGE Peachtree Accounting package

Duties:
• Identifying, researching and targeting new business prospects.
• Liaising with new and existing clients over the phone and meeting them face to face.
• Gaining new appointments from hot and cold leads.
• Managing and maintaining databases of potential clients.
• Developing strong working relationships with prospective new clients.
• Producing monthly pipeline reports for management purposes.
• Selling the company services via telephone, online and also in the field.
• Providing support to the sales and marketing team through a variety of additional activities.

Achievement
Handled Peachtree sales and was commended by SAGE for overall performance of CCTS, CCTS was the 2nd best reseller in the Middle East because of which SAGE made CCTS there distributor in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Dispatching and Reporting Manager at Advanced Communications & Electronics Systems (ACES)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2009 to April 2010

ACES is a telecom contracting company with kingdom wide operations.
I have worked with ACES on STC Microwave kingdom wide O&M project in the Dispatching and Reporting department. My department was responsible for handling all the Tickets issued by STC for sites having probable Microwave problem. We had to assign the tickets to the engineers and keep updating the ticket with updates from the engineer. We also had to ensure that we are meeting the Key Performance indicators (KPI’s).
I joined the company in April and was promoted to Manager in August. I have handled a team of 11 dispatchers. My Job profile included the following

• Train new joiners and give feedback to the Project Manager
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly performance reports of the dispatcher and regional performances.
• Attend customer meetings
• Ensure the availability of dispatchers 24/7
• Understand and report all the problems faced by dispatchers and report to the Project Manager

Team Leader Recruitment at Career Crossroads
  • India - Pune
  • April 2007 to October 2008

Career Crossroads is a recruitment company based in India. It is ranked 3rd in India for bulk recruitment. My job profile is as follows:
 Joined as Recruiter in April 2007
 Promoted to Sr. Recruiter in September 2007
 Promoted to Team Leader in March 2008, handled a team of 10 recruiters.
 Business development
 Meet clients requirement
 Make sure my team meets monthly target
 Prepare monthly performance report
 Maintain resume database

Education

Bachelor's degree, marketing
  • at Shobhit University
  • August 2014
High school or equivalent, Science
  • at IISR
  • April 2004

Specialties & Skills

Account Management
Sales administration
Client Retention
Business Development
Ms Word
Ms Excel
negotiations
sales management
presentation
relationship development
partner development
software Sales
channel development

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Leadership Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
March 2010