Jamal Bader
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Experience
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MDS Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Management Associate
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May 2023 - Present
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Senior Project Coordinator
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Jan 2008 - Jun 2020
- Meet and interview the applicants (entrepreneurs) and assess their success potential. - Identified and pursued valuable business opportunities to generate revenue and improve bottom-line profitability. - Elect 100 small and medium enterprises for investors' funds. - Provide market needs assessment to assist in making decisions on SME funding. - Managed quality assurance program, including on-site evaluations, internal audits, and customer surveys. - Drove operational improvements which resulted in savings and improved profit margins. - Implemented marketing strategies for a stand-alone, fully integrated functional company providing solutions to meet service industry demands. - Devised SWOT analysis to create and execute a business plan supporting the achievement of established quotas. - Identified key products, services and customers and used data to devise innovative sales and marketing plans enabling dramatic growth. - Helped incorporate product changes to drive customer engagement and firm profits. - Generated new business with marketing initiatives and strategic plans. - Negotiated, prepared, and signed contracts with clients. - Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer data. Key achievements: Saved an average of 11% of each enterprise cost by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems. Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties. Established relationships with key decision-makers within the customer's organization to promote growth and retention. Developed and implemented favourable pricing structures balancing firm objectives against customer targets. Coordinated innovative strategies to accomplish objectives and boost long-term profitability. Supervised a team of 5 marketing agents in presentation activities. Reduced digital marketing costs per visit by 11% through improved strategies. Show less
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Junior project coordinator
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Jul 2006 - Jun 2008
- Interaction with parties to identify preferences and specifications, fostering timeline and budget adherence. - Contributed to estimating project costs before project kick-off to set expectations, promote accountability and maintain sustainability. - Coordinated project meetings and confirmed relevant stakeholder awareness of tasks, goals, and project timelines. - Prepared, maintained, and distributed project reports to appropriate stakeholders. - Liaised with internal organization, clients, and suppliers, and maintained open communication lines on project phases. - Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications. - Escalated incidents to the next level to remain compliant with funding organisations' standards and procedures. - Handled risk management to reduce or avoid project cost escalations, delays and failures. - Led a quick-response team formed from experienced staff and quickly confront and resolve complaints and issues. - Devised and prepared backup plans for high-risk project phases staged for implementation on short notice. - Applied knowledge of industry best practices to improve project management processes. - Performed technical research and communicated findings in a language understood by the stakeholders. - Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets. - Produced follow-up, stage and final reports each, updating senior leaders on progress. - Compiled information from multiple, reliable sources and uploaded it to the system using MS project. - Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems. - Created and maintained a quarterly newsletter to make project progress, annual corporate strategy, and upcoming project information available to stakeholders throughout the organization. - Support senior managers and department leaders by completing projects and problem resolution. Show less
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Education
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Heriot-Watt University
Master's degree, Strategic project management