
Ahmed Assim
Business Development Manager - Services Division
Nasr City, Cairo, EgyptWork 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 schoolJan 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)
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
FluentFrench
Beginner
Training & Certifications
Data Center Certified Associate
Schneider University·2017Project Management Professional
Schneider Electric·2014Certified International Trade Marketing Specialist
AUC·2008