Experience

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  BAT

  • Kuwait

  • Country Manager

    • May 2024 - Present
    • Kuwait

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  United Beverage Company K.S.C.C.

  • Kuwait

  • Trade Marketing Manager

    • Nov 2017 - May 2024
    • Kuwait

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  Al Babtain Group Of Companies

  • Kuwait

  • Trade Marketing Manager

    • Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
    • Kuwait

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  Alyasra Foods

  • Kuwait

  • Category Manager

    • Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Kuwait

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  The Sultan Center

  • Kuwait
  • Retail
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Category Manager

    • Mar 2012 - May 2015

    - Managing the biggest department under the commercial division in turnover and revenue.- Responsible and accountable for the departments sales performance and profitability.- Sourcing foreign and local assortments based on set strategies and objectives by Department & Category.- Planning, selecting and executing promotional activities in alignment with the operations and Promotions divisions. - Monitoring and evaluating market/competition trends and anomalies. - Applying SCM best practices by managing optimal stock levels and reacting towards demand fluctuations.- Involved in store openings & remodeling by setting up Assortments, Merchandising guidelines, Branding, Category flow, Promotional displays and negotiating vendor’s commercial and marketing agreements. - Setting up prices for item ranges based on agreed upon pricing strategies.- Implementing inventory Control and stock aging best practices.- Creating annual business plans and budgets. - Managing & negotiating business reviews with vendors.

  • Projects Manager

    • Mar 2010 - Feb 2012

    To develop, plan, lead and deliver Projects approved by IT Governance Board. Identify and develop new IT services that will improve the company’s efficiency and effectiveness. Lead and monitor the development and implementation as well as the delivery of SLA’s required to support business units. Manage projects, understand issues, and propose solutions. Capture business requirements, Manage Incidents, service requests, and act as the first escalation point once incident requests are logged through the IT Service (Help) Desk. Help business units with processes and practices that will increase the company’s efficiency, revenue, and profit.

  • ERP Project Leader

    • Feb 2008 - Feb 2010

    Assembling, understanding, and delivering business requirements, while translating them into functional requirements documents and detailed test plans.Analyzing and documenting business processes.Preparing detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.Documenting workflows and business analysis results while obtaining sign-off from the business on requested specifications.Providing a link between business, development team and any third party regarding software functionalities, for the duration of the project lifecycle.Designing and executing test scenarios and test scripts (UAT’s).Managing change requests in relation to the project plans while ensuring agreed upon deadlines are met.Submitting weekly updates that reflect progress against outstanding milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies.

  • Store Manager

    • Dec 2004 - Jan 2008