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Alaa Sheikh

آلاء شيخ
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Summary

Enthusiastic and optimistic Customer Service and Sales professional with almost five years of experience in both field. Skilled at developing and maintaining client relationships and highly committed to working with a team to achieve quotas. Excels under pressure. Experienced to work on SAP, iScala and Oracle. Fluent in both of English and Arabic.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Inside Sales Representative

MAERSK Line
Jeddah
03.2020 - 06.2020
  • Building a strong relationship with company client by scheduling a weekly calls to increase containers volume. And schedule monthly and quartet meeting with the clients in/out the company to maintain this relationship.
  • Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets and other trade factors.
  • Adjusts content of sales presentations by studying the type of the business and his needs.
  • Focuses sales efforts by studying existing and potential volume of dealers. Submits orders by referring to price lists and product Type.
  • Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.
  • Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, etc.
  • Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management.
  • Provides records of customer monthly and yearly volume.
    Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
  • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending training sessions and workshops.
  • Prepared pricing strategies for current customers to enhance sales and increase profitability.
  • Cultivated productive relationships and maintained quality communications with account contacts to maximize client retention.
  • Updated accounts and maintained long-term relationships with clients.
  • Coordinated activities and projects to plan sales department operations and meet timelines.
  • Monitored and amplified sales pipeline to maintain flow of potential leads and prospects.
  • Informed customers of promotions to increase sales productivity and volume.
  • Identified new business opportunities through cold calling, networking, marketing and prospective database leads.
  • Addressed multiple industry issues and provided client support.
  • Generated seasonal creative pitches for clients targeting various consumer groups.

Work Flow Specialist - Customer Service

MAERSK Line
Jeddah
08.2018 - 03.2020

Supervising customer service agents teams to achieve MAERSK standards, and customer service KPIs:

  • Monitoring CS tickets and observe the opened tickets, and direct it to the correct person to solve it within the timeline.
  • Getting involved in the conflicts between the company and the clients to solve it when its needed.
  • Monitoring the phone calls and check calls quality randomly in weekly bases.
  • Preparing CRM reports with the team to and discuss it in weekly bases to achieve MAERSK standards, target and KPIS.
  • Finding out the problem "i.e. Missed calls of CS team, and delayed emails" and discuss it with the team to provide better service.
  • Applying "Care-Pro" standards on the phone call, emails and any other communications with the clients to build a stronger relationship in the short/long terms.
  • Dealing with our back office in daily bases to achieve department objectives and goals.
  • Used consultative techniques to understand client needs and make customized strategic of each client.
  • Collected customer feedback and made process changes to exceed customer satisfaction goals.
  • Considering CS survey to find out clients suggestions/complains to improve our quality of service.
  • Assisted customers with needs such as opening accounts, depositing or transferring funds, updating account details and signing up for new services.

Sales Support

Johnson Controls, AlSalem YORK
Jeddah
10.2011 - 03.2015
  • Preparing a daily report for account receivables and sales profits, and trying to find out the problems with the sales team to prepare the monthly report and present it to the higher management
  • Prepare profits report and compare it with old months in monthly bases.
  • Preparing PSA proposals (PMC, OMC, S&R) in coordination with sales engineers and sales manager
  • Make sure SMIS updated and all sales opportunities entered into the system
  • Ensure timely invoice delivery to the customers
  • Coordinate with receivables collection officer and sales engineers to remove the obstacles hindering timely settlement of due amounts
  • Renew OMC & PMC contracts
  • Being responsible for I-SCALA new service management module and to make sure proper coordination between sales engineers and operation.
  • Learned and frequently used multiple sales systems to investigate, track and correct customer's issues.
  • Developed working knowledge of CRM to effectively track sales leads and activities.

Project Manager Assistant

IDB (Islamic Development Bank)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
01.2010 - 07.2011

Islamic Development Bank).
“Project Manager Assistant” - BEST Program Team (Working as a part of the Business
Enhancement System Transformation to implement SAP Program in the bank).

  • Managing all activities and tasks of the projects.
  • Prepare the meetings of the project (agenda, attendance, presentations, etc.).
  • Prepare and up-date the to-do-list daily.
    Be the convener of the meetings.
  • Communicate with all consultants of the project to achieve project goals on time.

Marketing Operations officer (Co-op Training)

Al-Watan Newspaper
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
06.2009 - 09.2009

Coop-training in the summer as a member of marketing operations team to achieve a big subscriptions campaign).

  • Prepared the biggest subscription campaign for Al-Watan Newspaper.
  • Dealing with advertising and call center agencies.
  • Identifing and solving the problems which we received from the clients through the call center agency (CRM).
  • Take some responsibilities of the POS.
  • Filtering the data and analyze it.

Education

BBA - Marketing

UBT (University of Business And Technology)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
06.2007 - 01.2010

Skills

    Account management

Relationship building skills

Product and service sales

Excellent written and oral communication

Customer Relations

Shipping procedures understanding

CRM

Customer service and support

Recommendations:

  • Mohammed Majed - Sales Manager “Maersk Line” : +965 66669169
  • Mohammed Baghdadi - IDB Vice President: +966 50 461 1451
  • Ali Qudah - Sales Manager “Johnson Controls”: +1 (857) 204-4211

Documented recommendations from McKenzie & Co, IDB and SAP.

Timeline

Senior Inside Sales Representative

MAERSK Line
03.2020 - 06.2020

Work Flow Specialist - Customer Service

MAERSK Line
08.2018 - 03.2020

Sales Support

Johnson Controls, AlSalem YORK
10.2011 - 03.2015

Project Manager Assistant

IDB (Islamic Development Bank)
01.2010 - 07.2011

Marketing Operations officer (Co-op Training)

Al-Watan Newspaper
06.2009 - 09.2009

BBA - Marketing

UBT (University of Business And Technology)
06.2007 - 01.2010
Alaa Sheikhآلاء شيخ