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Ahmed Assim

Business Development Manager - Services Division

Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Business Development Manager - Services DivisionFull Time

    Schneider Electric Saudi Arabia

    Apr 2016 - Jan 2019 -2 yrs, 9 months

    • Job Details:– Created services opportunities worth 20 MUSD. – Capex-to-Opex (C2O) program country leader, interacting with both internal and external stakeholders to attach Schneider Electric services offering to green field projects as well as brown field ones. – Conducted complete mapping and analysis of country’s UPS installed base and developed a commercial action plan involving dedicated field services sales. – Defined annual marketing plan (AMP) for ITB business and worked closely with sales team for implementation and achieving the targets. – Launched a new service center for ITB services in KSA and was responsible for the process from design till implementation, involving all local and regional stakeholders – Arranged several successful marketing events, across Saudi Arabia, and presented Schneider Electric services offering involving other presenters from the region. – Helped resolve customer complains through proper addressing of the complain and close follow-up with responsible stakeholder till resolution.
  • Project Manager - Execution CenterFull Time

    Schneider Electric Saudi Arabia

    Nov 2011 - Apr 2016 -4 yrs, 5 months

    • Job Details:- Managed complex utility projects valued collectively at almost 60 MUSD - Successfully improved projects’ margin by 2 points on average. - Effectively communicating with senior management at customers’ and end-users’ sides, in a way that helped me solve very critical issues in assigned projects as well as peers’ projects. - Exceptionally handled customers’ payments with no accruing overdues. - Successfully mitigated critical risks throughout the execution phases. - Achieving highest customer satisfaction levels in all handled projects - Established a robust communication channel within the end-user (SEC) organization, in a way that benefited Schneider Electric in a multi-dimensional way. - Resolved many critical customer complaints, mainly attributed to either defective components or delays of some sub-components, through proper addressing of the complaint and close follow-up with responsible internal and external, local and global, stakeholders till resolution.
  • Business Development Manager - Education SegmentFull Time

    Schneider Electric Saudi Arabia

    Jun 2010 - Dec 2011 -1 yr, 6 months

    • Job Details:- Devised a realistic action plan, along with the enabling strategy, for education segment and have worked actively with sales team to achieve the set targets. - Established a strong networking channel with ministry of higher education-MOHE senior management along with strong professional relations with key personnel from engineering & projects division. - Targeted key consultants working on MOHE projects and arranged a series of seminars and workshops focusing on Schneider Electric solutions to commercial buildings.
  • Senior Sales EngineerFull Time

    ABB Power Systems and Automation

    May 2008 - Jun 2010 -2 yrs, 1 month

    • Job Details:- Actively re-established strong connections with existing key customers. - Added new customers to the portfolio generating more sales. - Achieved sales targets contributing positively to the whole division. - Worked actively with local and global teams to provide customers with best ABB solutions addressing their requirements.
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

      Ain Shams University (ASU)

      Jan 2003 

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      English school

      Jan 1998 

    Achievements

    Creating a new invoicing tool that improved drastically Maersk Egypt performance (mainly, invoicing quality), the real exciting aspect in this achievement was the great team work which represents a model for synergy (Team Memebers included : Egypt Operation Manager – China operations – Egypt Process Excellence Manager)

    Skills

    • SAP
    • Microsoft Office
    • Programming

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
    • French

      Beginner

    Training & Certifications

    • Data Center Certified Associate

      Schneider University·2017
    • Project Management Professional

      Schneider Electric·2014
    • Certified International Trade Marketing Specialist

      AUC·2008
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