Usman Farooqi, Sales Consultant

Usman Farooqi

Sales Consultant

Hoshan Company Limited

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Marketing
Experience
13 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 4 Months

Sales Consultant at Hoshan Company Limited
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since January 2013

Hoshan is a group of companies and leading office products supplier. It exists for over 50 years and has an employee base of around 1, 500 with over 25 branches kingdom wide.
My designation is Sales Consultant and I report to Regional Sales Manager.
Key Achievements:
 Generated millions of SR. sales during my employment.
 Met AOP sales and margins targets consistently.
 Successfully closed mega project with several key accounts.
Following are my major roles and responsibilities:
 Expand market penetration by building effective customer relations.
 Service both existing and prospective accounts.
 Perform presentations and demonstrations of products and/or services.
 Coordinate sales efforts by maintaining liaison with different departments.
 Develop effective proposals and quotations.

Account Executive at MSS
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2012 to December 2012

MSS is a full service agency catering the Advertising, Marketing and Promotional needs of the companies. The clientele of MSS includes several big names in all sorts of industries.
My designation was Account Executive and I report to Account Manager.
Key Achievements:
 Robust and ongoing new client acquisition.
 100% client satisfaction.
 Managed various challenging and short deadline projects.
Following are my major roles and responsibilities:
 Handle day-day activities/ execution and financial management of all jobs/ campaigns.
 Working on rapidly expanding accounts. Hence requiring handling different campaigns at a fast and challenging pace.
 Liaising between the various agency departments and following up on the jobs in progress in order to meet the deadlines.
 Working closely with third party agencies to make sure synchronized project delivery.
 Working with Account Manager on several pitches while playing the lead role for current and prospective clients that won new and increased business to drive growth.

Brand Assistant at Al Wefag
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2011 to December 2011

Al Wefag is well reputed Jeddah, K.S.A based company engaged in marketing, distribution and production of the confectionery, biscuits, chocolates and snack products.

I was reporting to the Marketing Manager and following are my key responsibilities:

• Responsible for brand building, liaising with agencies and implementation of promotional activities.
• Understanding market and consumer.
• Preparation of business plan (sales forecast), promotional strategies and implementation.
• Brand sales analysis and follow up for strategy implementation.
• Ensuring brands profitability.

Key Achievements
Conducted a detailed confectionery segment research to give company a future direction.
Launched new product under company's private label.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Marketing
  • at COMSATS Intsitute of Information Technology
  • December 2010

Major Courses taken: New Product Development Brand Management Services Marketing Advertising and Event Management International Marketing

Specialties & Skills

Sales Support
Business Development
Negotiation
Market Intelligence

Languages

Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

OPS Sales & Certification Program (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Professional Selling Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
Arrow Trainings
Date Attended:
January 2013
Duration:
24 hours