Talal Megahed, National Sales Manager

Talal Megahed

National Sales Manager

Halwani Brothers

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Fine Arts
Experience
18 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months

National Sales Manager at Halwani Brothers
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since February 2020
Regional Commercial Director at Al Safi Danone KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2018 to January 2020
Regional Sales Manager at Al Safi Danone
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • February 2017 to September 2018
Regional Sales Manager at Al Safi Danone
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2015 to January 2017
Sales Manager at PepsiCo
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • January 2014 to May 2015
Regional Sales Manager at Alsafi Danone.KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2013 to December 2013

Annual Business turnover ( 216 M, S.R).
Main Achievement :
- Reversed sales decline from -2% to +7% growth (volume & value )in 6 months.
- Double digit growth in October 2013 (12%).
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- Responsible for Region annual sales plan & to recommend ATL/BTL activities for all channels ( Retail, Wholesale & HORICA).
- Responsible for set & Achieve annual Sales Development Plan ( annual sales target achievement per SKUs, Active customers, new customers, active customers, No. of active invoices, vans productivity & Routes efficiency ) within implement KPIS to evaluate Sales Force performance.
- Responsible for (Planning, Organizing, Follow up, Control, Coaching, Orientation, Leadership, Training & Monitoring) sales & trade marketing team in my region.
- Responsible for discover all opportunities for improvement through market analysis & SWOT analysis.
- Achieves regional sales operational objectives by contributing regional sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining regional sales system improvements; implementing change.
- Responsible for the Sales, Trade Marketing & Merchandising team (6 Branch Managers, 23 Sales Supervisors, 102 Sales Rep., 1 Merchandising Manager, 5 Merchandising supervisors, 60 Merchandisers ).
- Good relationship with the key client specially ( PANDA, Carrefour & Danube ).
- Monitoring the Competition Situation & And Competitors activity.
- Establishes sales objectives by creating a sales plan and quota for districts in support of national objectives.
- Maintains and expands customer base by counseling district sales representatives; building and maintaining rapport with key customers; identifying new customer opportunities.
- Implements trade promotions by publishing, tracking, and evaluating trade spending.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks.
- Accomplishes sales and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Regional Sales Manager at Americana, Farm Frites, Egypt
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • July 2010 to December 2012

- Responsible for region annual business plan "Sales & Marketing".
- Responsible for discover all opportunities for improvement through market analysis & SWOT analysis.
- Responsible for the Sales & Marketing team (2 Branch Managers, 5 Sales Supervisors, 2 Marketing Supervisor, 24 Sales Representative, 15 Distributors & 32 Merchandisers)
- Responsible for the Sales force Development.
- Responsible for all channels ( Direct Retail, Large Grocery, K.A, Catering, Horica & Distributors.
- Responsible for Achieving Annual Sales Development Plan ( Annual target achievement per SKUs, Active customers, New customers, Vans Productivity & Routes Productivity) within implement KPIS to evaluate Sales Force performance.
- Responsible for Organizing, Follow up, Control, Coaching, Orientation, Leadership, Training & Monitoring) Sales & Marketing team in my Region.
- Achieves regional sales operational objectives by contributing regional sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining regional sales system improvements; implementing change.
- Monitoring the Competition Situation & And Competitors activity.
- Establishes sales objectives by creating a sales plan and quota for districts in support of national objectives.
- Maintains and expands customer base by counseling district sales representatives; building and maintaining rapport with key customers; identifying new customer opportunities.
- Implements trade promotions by publishing, tracking, and evaluating trade spending.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks.
- Accomplishes sales and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

Regional Sales Manager at Nestle.
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • November 2005 to June 2010

- Implementing Nestle KPIs through Increasing the active customers vs Trade Universe, aggressive Penetration plan & Increasing Items Distribution, Focusing in the Drop Size per area, Measuring the Numerical / Weighting Distribution.
- Managed organization's for largest region in Libya (65% from total Business) and performed full sales cycle duties, increasing annual sales by 40%.
- Responsible for discover all opportunities for improvement through market analysis & SWOT analysis.
- Prepare annual Business Plan for all areas in my region per ( Channel, area, Item & Sku ) volume & Value.
-Follow up & control for each brand in each channel in my region through (KPIs).
-Prepare & review sales reports, competition situation and other performance data to measure productivity and goals achievement and determine areas needing improvement.
- Accomplishes regional sales human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees in assigned districts; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning, and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
- Recognized as a top sales generator, increasing sales level by 60 % in 2009 alone.
-Achieves regional sales operational objectives by contributing regional sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining regional sales system improvements; implementing change.
-Meets regional sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Fine Arts
  • at Alexandria University
  • May 1996

Specialties & Skills

Retail Analysis
Negotiation
SWOT analysis
Sales Analytics
Controller
Change management
Forecasting
Route to market
Advanced key account management
Distributor management
Traditional trade
SWOT analysis
Planning
HoReCa channel management
Key Account Development
Leadership
Sales analysis
operation
key account management
merchandising
market research
negotiation
problem solving
marketing management
office management
marketing
logistics
performance management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

BNET.com
  • member
  • January 2009
Consumer products sales manager group / Linked group
  • member
  • March 2011

Training and Certifications

Change management (Training)
Training Institute:
Dale Carnegie
Date Attended:
March 2017
Duration:
10 hours
Supply Chain. (Training)
Training Institute:
Americana Group Training Department.
Date Attended:
September 2011
Sales Forecasting (Training)
Training Institute:
American University in Cairo
Date Attended:
March 2004
Sales Management (Training)
Training Institute:
American University in Cairo
Date Attended:
March 2003
Advanced Key Account Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Logic Training isntitute
Date Attended:
March 2011
Essential of Marketing (Training)
Training Institute:
American University in Cairo
Date Attended:
July 2003