Key responsibilities
➢ Managing wholesale parts market intelligence activities, field visits and analysis of the wholesale current and potential distributor networks for the new market opportunities.
➢ Managing the wholesale budget and financial support for the Customer Care & After sales team.
➢ Developing “Wholesale Business Development” and “Sales Out Incentive” programs, including routinely revising & updating the program guidelines to cover all aspects of the business, with focus on Customer Care.
Achievements
➢ Achieved yearly parts target "retail & wholesale" and purchasing targets by managing several internal and external workshops and forums while tracking and analyzing the different ongoing team projects. ➢ Managed the budget and organized all logistics of two successful “Annual Regional Parts Skill Competition”, for 1000 participants. Aiming to recognize the best Wholesale field representatives in the region through a series of training, tests, assessments and a final competition held in Dubai for the top contenders.
➢ Continuously assessing the training effectiveness through results to further continue the refining & development of the training programs. ➢ Managed the “Annual Wholesale Conference” that includes all the region’s dealers and wholesale distributors’ top executives. (A full week trip to a new overseas destination aiming to bring the wholesale parts community closer to the brand).
➢ Producing, developing and translating the new training programs both the instructor-based, and web-based to further develop the skill sets of the dealers’ employees around the Middle East region. Mainly, by evaluating the needs based on internal and external management feedback, quarterly surveys and occasional tests.
Key responsibilities
➢ Planning all CCA activities to maintain consistency among departments such as submission of data, effective communication and reporting in areas of budget and dealer events.
➢ Ensuring departments deliver better results with integrated/coordinated approach and business focus.
➢ Budget & accruals planning, internal control activities and excellence programs. ➢ Organizing and developing training workshops (paths and material) for dealers across the Middle East Region. Achievements
➢ Organized the annual 6-month GM Technician Skills Competition for 2000 technicians from the region.
➢ Refined and developed the “Voice of Customer” analysis process by working with service providers (TNS and GM Customer Communication Center) and the Area After sales managers so that most efficient and accurate information is used for customer retention.
➢ Supported in developing “Technical Learning Journey” for the technicians and service advisers to reach highest levels of FIRFT (Fix It Right First Time).
➢ Driving the dealer’s compliance to GM service policies and procedures.
➢ Driving Middle East operations product quality improvements through submission of product quality reports (PIR).
➢ Supporting engineering activities/investigations for problem resolution in cooperation with the main technical hub in USA.
➢ Ensuring dealer’s warranty administration processes and performance indicators meet/exceed the set regional standards through monthly warranty review and eliminate warranty waste to achieve Warranty KPI’s.
➢ Managing customer enthusiasm initiatives like Trade-in Assists, loyalty certificates/Buybacks, assist dealers in escalated & high-profile customer complaints and action plans to avoid re-occurrence.
➢ Acting as first point of contact for product liability issues and legal cases related to service including filing, escalation of claims and support by providing technical findings to platform engineering / attorney as required.
Key responsibilities
➢ Purchasing indirect services in MEO following global policy and procedures, achieving structural costs savings, servicing the internal customer and ensuring best relationships with suppliers.
➢ Sourcing & ensuring the competitive bidding process, also contract negotiation and award. Achievements
➢ Achieved the annual cost reduction target while increasing the purchasing efficiency.
➢ Maintained best cross-departmental relationships and provided GPSC process training to users.
Key responsibilities
➢ Managing all applicable field actions (Recalls) and retrofits while administering the regional implementation by the region’s dealers to ensure legal requirements are fulfilled. The process included the release and implementation of the retrofit as well as contacting governments, consumer protection departments. Following regulations, presenting completion reports, media communications and preparing bi-lingual ads of recalls in local newspapers.
➢ Managing “Special Parts Programs”.
➢ Providing technical & service support to the GM MEO dealer body to ensure dealers fulfill customer service requirements.
➢ Supported Quality department on future Infotainment system improvements in terms of interface and Arabic/English translation including bi-lingual voice command.
➢ Proofing the technical Arabic content for warranty booklets and service manuals.
➢ Driving service communications with dealers to support the field service & TAC department activities as required.
Achievements
➢ Managed the entire internal and external process for more than 50 field actions (Recalls) and retrofits a year.
➢ Successfully managed the Regional “Total Loss Reporting” process to impose warranty blocks with result in warranty savings. ➢ Managed the quarterly TAC Seminar activities throughout the ME Region.
➢ Introducing products to consultants and developers in UAE, adding specifications into their specification sheets.
➢ Contributing to the sales by visiting project sites and meeting the contractors to get bills of quantities for the projects and supply them with offers and solutions for their AMR systems.
➢ Conducting thorough surveys of the local market to establish the market share of the company in UAE.
➢ Managing the plans, standards and the dealer performance report worksheets for GM Dealers and their campaigns and support in the development of action plans to address areas of deficiency.
➢ Ensuring Dealers readiness for new vehicle launches within GM standards.
➢ Processing dealer financial claims; preparing monthly sales records reports and reporting the growth in sales on monthly basis and operating the Dealers Reporting Online Systems Help Disk.
➢ Translation of training booklets from English to Arabic.
➢ Handling customer satisfaction surveys and analyzing the database to improve the relationships with the dealers, retail and fleet customers.
➢ Main duties included sales, marketing, and technical support of various products, heat load calculations for heating and cooling systems, water pumps power calculations and insulation systems for buildings. Also included identifying potential clients, delivering presentations, preparing proposals, designing systems, calculating quantities, supervising the implementation, and follow up.
➢ Design of electro-mechanical swimming pools, saunas, whirlpools, waterfalls, fountains and fully controlled water treatment systems, using AutoCAD software and special plumbing software called IBG, which helps in the calculation of pipes diameters, pumps power and creating 3D structure drawings of the requested water system.