Wissam Souai CM®, real estate and asset manager

Wissam Souai CM®

real estate and asset manager

al Jassim group

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Diploma, Real Estate
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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real estate and asset manager at al Jassim group
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since July 2021

• Supervise and manager the sales and administrative team to fulfill the company targets .
• Maintains property rentals by advertising and filling vacancies, negotiating and enforcing leases, maintaining and securing premises.
• Establishes rental rate by surveying local rental rates and calculating overhead costs, depreciation, taxes, and profit goals.
• Attracts tenants by advertising vacancies, obtaining referrals from current tenants, explaining advantages of location and services, and showing units.
• Accomplishes financial objectives by collecting rents, paying bills, forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action.
• Maintains property by investigating and resolving tenant complaints, enforcing rules of occupancy, inspecting vacant units and completing repairs, planning renovations …
• Hiring key personnel including property managers
• Negotiating contracts
• Communicating with investors and clients
• Prepare weekly and quarterly reports for the Board Management

Real Estate Director at Al Qamra Holding
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2019 to June 2021

Responsibilities:
• Helps the Board determine the group’s values, mission, vision, and short- and long-term goals.
• Helps the Board monitor and evaluate the group’s relevancy to the community, its effectiveness, and its results.
• Keeps the Board fully informed on the condition of Group and on all the important factors influencing it.
• Provides general oversight of all group activities, manages the day-to-day operations, and assures a smoothly functioning, efficient organization.
• Assures program quality and organizational stability through the development and implementation of standards and controls, systems and procedures, and regular evaluation.
• Assures a work environment that recruits, retains and supports quality staff and volunteers. Assures the process for selecting, development, motivating, and evaluating staff and volunteers.
• Recommends staffing and financing to the Board of Directors. In accordance with Board action, recruits personnel negotiates professional contracts and sees that appropriate salary structures are developed and maintained.
• Develop high-quality business strategies and plans ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives
• Lead and motivate subordinates to advance employee engagement develop a high performing managerial team
• Oversee all projects, operations, and business activities to ensure they produce the desired results (cost, revenues, ….and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission
• Make high-quality investing decisions to advance the business and increase profits
• Maintain a deep knowledge of the markets and industry of the Group
• Develop the overall portfolio strategy and individual asset plan (strategic and financial analysis, potential
acquisition targets, disposals, restructuring, re-development costs, and occupancy levels).
• Prepare feasibility study templates & tools for asset acquisition/disposal/restructuring
• Provide inputs for the organization’s master plan for new and future developments

real estate Operations Manager at Al Qamra Real Estate
  • Qatar - Doha
  • August 2018 to May 2019

Running operations for a real estate team means I oversee a number of processes that keep everyone on track and new business coming in. I manage workflows around contact management, team branding, advertising listings, coordinating open houses/special events and random administrative projects that come up. A big part of my role is launching and managing the new listings we take on and this means getting all the paperwork signed and ensuring it’s compliant, coordinating the staging and photography, strategizing a marketing plan and creating assets for our print/online presence, tracking showing requests and property inquiries, keeping sellers updated on performance each week and then managing the transaction process through close of escrow.

real estate manager at Ben Al Sheikh Holding
  • Qatar - Doha
  • September 2016 to August 2018

Responsibilities:
Leasing & operations
• Work in conjunction with the Leasing Team to execute new and renewal leases to meet or exceed
objectives.
• Negotiate proposed lease amendments.
• Participate in the development of business plans and direct special projects to enhance tenant sales
productivity and center profitability.
Management, finance, and Operations
• Maintain safety, cleanliness, and integrity of all areas of all buildings, systems, and equipment for all
property users.
Negotiate contract with service suppliers and contractors
• Be the primary point of contact for all owners, government, and tenant communications.
• Fulfill Manager-on-Duty rotation and manage day-to-day activities as necessary
• Prepare Business Plan, Budget, Financial report, sales, and rent report
• Monitor the collections of all rents and execute the appropriate collection process.
Create a maintenance department and manage it.
• Direct and supervise the activities of all employees (Administrative staff, Maintenance staff, and
Sales Team)

General Manager at Nasir Bin Abdullah and Sons Real Estate
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2013 to August 2016

• Direct the day-to-day activities of leasing, operations (Rent, contract renew vacancies), accounting (R & E daily report, follow up dues payments) technical (work progress, solve problems …)
• Supervising staff, including management, leasing, purchasing, technical, maintenance, administration and generating a positive work environment insuring quality performance and retention of staff
• Responds to tenant’s needs, ensuring that administrative and building technical staff resolve problems promptly. Ensures that services are provided in compliance with policies, procedures, regulations, contractual obligations and standards.
• Approve all documentation, payments, invoices, SOs, quotations, contract, related to NAS Real Estate daily operations.
• Conduct daily meeting with Engineers to follow up the work progress at all the company project.
• Conduct weekly meetings with contractors and consultant to negotiate agreement and to enforce compliance with contracts in term of schedule, payments; ensuring compliance with governmental rules and regulations
• Overseeing the building constructions and operating contractors of the company project in Doha and in Dubai.
• Overseeing performance by outside contractors; enforcing compliance with contracts; ensuring compliance with governmental rules and regulations
• Coordinate with other departments of the Group such as Marketing to develop marketing strategies to maintain high rates of Sales for the company’s properties (Residential, commercial and Hotels), HR to hire the needed staff, legal affairs for contract review and conflict …
• Report and advice top Management and owners on market situations and financial matters policies and procedures, opportunities of business development
• Recognize market, operational and management problems and develop appropriate solutions.
• Develops business relationships through membership and participations in professional, industry/trade and civic organizations, seminars, exhibitions and events inside and outside the country

Acting General Manager at Dlala Real Estate
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2013 to May 2013

• Oversee and ensures the team is delivering exceptional customer service and customer’s needs are handled effectively and efficiently.
• Provide direction to team to ensure there is a clear focus on delivering a 90+% customer satisfaction rating.
• Responsible for recruiting, inducting, training, managing, motivating, leading and developing the team.
Set clear performance expectations for each team member and hold them accountable for results.

HEAD OF LEASING at Al Jassim Group
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2009 to January 2013

• Develop comprehensive field real estate strategies that integrate with business plans within the area of responsibility.
• Create and execute real estate strategies supporting company initiatives that drive productivity and financial goals.
• Work collaboratively with the team to develop and understand the long and short term real estate needs.
• Manages internal customer expectations, challenges, and issues while appropriately delegating to the appropriate team member.
• Provides positive solutions to customer requests/needs while keeping within company standards and budget goals.
• Responsible for all the leasing and marketing operation with the assistance of a leasing team and leasing coordinator.

Senior Property Consultant at Engel & Volkers
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2008 to May 2009

• To generate new business for the company by convincing potential sellers/buyers /lessees (Through marketing and promoting properties, creating data base, direct dealing with potential client, )
• To interact with clients to understand their requirements
• To schedule appointments with clients to show them the properties those meet their requirements.
• To be the liaison between the sellers& buyer or Lessees &tenants
• To evaluate and examine the contract papers to ensure the verification and accuracy as well.
• To follow up the deal till closure (registration, contract signature, payment key handover…)
• To collect the company’s commission from the client and coordinate with accounts and administrative department for all the legal issues

Sales Team Leader at American Express
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2006 to January 2008

Education

Diploma, Real Estate
  • at American Institute of Real Estate
  • May 2014

principal of property management consisted of the following Units -Economy -Property management -Contract -Inspection, and Maintenance -Code of Ethics -Marketing -Math - Leasing

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor Business administration,Management
  • at Carthage University
  • February 2002

Specialties & Skills

Management
Interpersonal Skills
Leadership
Marketing
MS word
Internet browsing
MS Outlook
Interpersonal Skills
Leadership Skills
Management skills
negotiation
property management systems
market research
asset management
lease administration
leasing
problem solving
operation
maintenance management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

certified manager CM® (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Asset Management for Residential and Commercial, Property Management, Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
American Institute Real Estate in cooperation with
Date Attended:
May 2014
Duration:
52 hours
Marketing and Sales Strategy (Training)
Training Institute:
Cambridge Qatar
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
16 hours