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Mahmoud El-Halwagy

Commercial Planning Dept. Manager
Jeddah

Summary

Commercial Senior Manager, With +10 years diversified experience in retail. Leading team to optimize vendors relationships management, maximizing and safeguarding Company profit & future growth and driving governance. Results oriented, Great team player, Effective decision maker, Outstanding user of planning software.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Comm. Planning & Vendor Management Dept. Manager

Nahdi Medical Co.
Jeddah
10.2022 - Current
  • Developing Commercial planning strategy aligned with company goals and lead implementation within commercial and across other departments
  • Setting financial plans, allocate budgets, and track financial performance to deliver financial goals and maintain stable and sustainable financial position
  • Develop and maintain Vendor Relationship Management process and policies to deliver the strategy
  • Lead Vendor Management activities through proper contracts management that secure either party rights, efficient on time entitlements collection from vendors that supports working capital and cash flow, as well as activation and collaboration activities through company platforms
  • Conduct detailed research to identify business opportunities to exploit as well as risks to avoid/mitigate

Head of Revenue Planning

Nahdi Medical Co.
04.2020 - 02.2023
  • Lead team to deliver -)500 + Contracts with our partners -)Collect 1.2 + Billion SAR dues from vendors -)Lead internal communication to effectively implement contractual agreements
  • Safeguard Company profit, register and manage possible risks, explore and exploit business opportunities
  • Drive process engineering within commercial team
  • Drive automation to eliminate human errors, and to optimize resources utilization
  • Standardize workflow, Delegation of authority, roles and responsibilities
  • Lead strategic projects in commercial and across different departments

Merchandise Planning Manager

Nahdi Medical Co.
05.2017 - 04.2020
  • Lead Merchandise planning team in Beauty & Premium Beauty divisions to insure proper implementation of strategy to achieve business goals.
  • Lead Pre-season, in-season Merchandise financial planning on different merchandise hierarchy levels (Division, Department, category& sub-category) on Middle out and Bottom up planning levels.
  • Range planning , assortment planning of related divisions, Including Stores' Clustering, Range planning activities (Add, Keep & Delete), and Assortment planning of Division items on different Stores' clusters to ensure financial plan achievement and guests' satisfaction.
  • Lead new stores' efficient assortment planning including different business models (Airport, Mall & Flagship stores) in co-operation with space planning team.
  • Lead the cross-functional alignment between commercial, supply chain, Marketing, Network development, IT and stores operation to guarantee best initiatives planning and execution excellence.

Merchandise Planner

Nahdi Medical Co.
01.2015 - 04.2017
  • Balance corporate financial KPIs (Sales, Profit & Inventory).
  • Implement Assortment planning & Store profile design and assignment.
  • Plan Stores' grading, And Clustering.
  • Quantify New items introduction and ranging to different stores, Monitor commercial activities , and optimize items' mix and maximize GMROII.

Community Pharmacist

Nahdi Medical Co.
10.2010 - 12.2014

Education

Bachelor of Science - Pharmaceutical Sciences

Tanta University
Egypt
09.2004 - 09.2009

Skills

    Leadership

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Certification

CMA Certified Professional Category Manager CPCM

Training & Courses

  • The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team™ | FranklinCovey | 2021
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®: Signature Edition | FranklinCovey | 2021
  • The foundation negotiator | The gap partnership | 2020
  • Efficient Assortment Management | Mr. Evros Kastanas, AC Nielsen | 2017
  • An introduction to merchandise planning | Mr. John Hobson, The Planning Factory Ltd | 2015

Timeline

Comm. Planning & Vendor Management Dept. Manager

Nahdi Medical Co.
10.2022 - Current

UDEMY KPIs Certificate

04-2020

Head of Revenue Planning

Nahdi Medical Co.
04.2020 - 02.2023

CMA Certified Professional Category Manager CPCM

02-2019

CMA Certified Professional Category Analyst CPCA

12-2018

APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional CSCP

05-2018

Merchandise Planning Manager

Nahdi Medical Co.
05.2017 - 04.2020

Merchandise Planner

Nahdi Medical Co.
01.2015 - 04.2017

Community Pharmacist

Nahdi Medical Co.
10.2010 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Science - Pharmaceutical Sciences

Tanta University
09.2004 - 09.2009

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