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Moustafa Essa

Continuous Improvement Manager at Amazon

Shorouk City, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Continuous Improvement ManagerFull Time

    Amazon

    Jul 2021 - Present -4 yrs

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Manage the Fulfilment Centre improvement plan to focus on best customer experience at the lowest cost Develop a culture of continuous improvement and lean thinking Contribute to and facilitate Kaizen activities Help drive the implementation of Lean Standard Work Train and support all levels in Kaizen activities Disseminate Lean Standard Work principles across teams Support and manage the Fulfilment Centre implementation Agenda Take ownership for the LSC (Leadership Steering Committee) Coordinate and prioritize LSC process improvement activities and resources Lead daily GEMBA activities, going to the source of the problem, working with tenacity to rapidly solve associate identified barriers Standardize processes to Amazon and ECCF benchmark standards Liaise between FC and MENA/ECCF to drive leverage of cross-FC process excellence Maintain strong relationships with MENA/ECCF Process Owners and FC Process Engineer
  • Retail Operations ManagerFull Time

    Azadea Group

    Dec 2019 - Jun 2021 -1 yr, 6 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Ensure availability of Products on the selling area by supervising the replenishment process and controlling the fitting rooms and Cash product processing as agreed with the store operations manager when present or his/her equivalent. • Attend and support the shipment receiving process and align with the commercial teams the needed deadlines to ensure new arrivals displays promptly. • Communicate with the store commercial responsible to efficiently plan the store commercial moves and take corrective action to the schedule where needed (stock and store). • Control shop expenses, by communicating to store teams the importance of asset preservation and use the put in place processes to highlight any abuse to the store operations manager when present or his/her equivalent, to take the needed corrective action. • Plan and lead shop cycle count, along with communicating the results to internal stakeholders, and follow up on the necessary analysis, troubleshooting, solutions proposed where applicable. • Monitor the resource allocation and provide the needed analysis and recommendation to enhance the store productivity to the store operations manager where applicable or his/her equivalent. • Support, develop and motivate the store teams, making sure they understand the importance of efficiency in the operation and identify successors to the store operations managers when present or his/her equivalent. • Recognize and educate all store colleagues applied to the basic safety standards and the best way to behave under crises. • Understand the basic commercial needs per section per season and take necessary actions to prioritize stock capacity, replenishment and processes to ensure the highest revenue of sales budget. Customer Service • Provides highest level of care to customers Visual Merchandising • Consistently ensures the floor is fully stocked with merchandise • Merchandises the store with the support of the visual merchandising team Sales & Stock Management • Opens and closes registers with cashiers at the start and/or end of the day within their store • Oversees the receiving of new shipments (stockroom layout, garment sensors, display) • Controls all returns/damages/store transfers • Consistently meets sales goals set by upper management while striving to exceed expectations Buying • Keeps up to date on product information regarding fits, fabrics, sizes and current season trends • Places orders for their department based on sales and latest market trends Loss Prevention • Responsible to meet shrinkage goals within the store • Oversees store inventories and ensures the highest level of accuracy when doing so Human Resources • Ensures the proper training for all staff and recognizes potential candidates for promotion • Recruits, interviews, develops and maintains strong team members • Ensures that all HR procedures are followed (payroll, store coverage, budgeted hours, training) Operations • Organizes all issues relating to general services (maintenance, store orders, heating/cooling) • Follows all Zara company policies and procedures focusing on the Zara management principles
  • Customer Care and Enquiries ManagerFull Time

    British Council

    Dec 2014 - Nov 2019 -4 yrs, 11 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:- Enquiry Management: Ensuring that enquiries are measured appropriately in an aligned fashion across Egypt using queuing management systems for face to face transactions and also including interactive voice recording reports, to ensure timely delivery of all services in a structured fashion. -Turning Enquiries into Registrations: Coach and develop, create methodology involving staff to increase registrations for all products, using appropriate and align to global British Council standards for customer service. -Measurement & Insight: Use tools to provide insights which guide decisions and management strategy, using Google analytics to perform competitor analysis, as well as analytics regarding British Council. -Reporting to highlight and influence customer service team activity and behaviour with a goal of continuous improvement. To lead the way regionally and globally in the realm of British Council. -Combined operational reports from all sites to give appropriate operational snapshot which allows management control: utilizing multiple data sources which feed into other reporting mechanisms that are required by teaching center -Build measurement & insight capacity to serve multiple business units with a view to expand beyond the usual customer service reporting to develop meaningful insights that are relevant to key stakeholders -Provide reports to management that cover all aspects of operations. Understand business cycles that exist in the British Council, provide relevant insights at cycle checkpoints, ensuring visibility for management regarding the performance of the service and sales operations Timetable Management & Scheduling: -Managing teaching center timetabling team to analyse trends and develop a customer focused class timetable for all centers in line with planned business targets. -Managing the team to deliver the full programmed of classes, placement testing, training, and cover for recruitment purposes. also managing and monitoring timetables. -Managing the team who involve in creating, maintaining, and communicating a weekly schedule of teaching center activity to all teachers and managers and ensuring transparent and balanced workloads in line with contracted terms and conditions. -Managing the team who is responsible for notifying cover teachers of their need to substitute and recording monthly substitution statistics to feed into recruitment planning. -Customer Service Delivery: Deliver an integrated service to corporate standards which meets the needs of internal and external customers to enable all departments to meet their agreed targets. -Registration & Finance: Carry out registrar role to facilitate customers' registration. -Finance: Assure accurate income collection, issuance of receipts and reporting of revenue to corporate finance procedures.
  • Senior Customer Service Operations ManagerFull Time

    Sutherland Global Services

    Dec 2010 - Nov 2014 -3 yrs, 11 months

    Egypt , Alexandria

    • Job Details:• Managing daily/Weekly/Monthly performance of 5 Team leaders and 120 technical support agents • Holds one to one /Group meetings with TLs to communicate feedback on monthly performance, Define Gaps and set action plans for outliers . • Coordinates, as needed with all supporting function to eliminate any problems affecting the operations • Asses the Advisors and TLs performance on monthly basis and calculates variations on set standards using Six sigma Tools . • Ensures that account members adhere to RCC and COPC policies • Managing Clients relationships and ensuring their Clients’ Satisfaction through • Ensures that corrective actions are taken by Team Leaders in the process of monitoring and coaching Advisors • Conducting Skip level meetings with Advisors to measure their satisfaction with current team leader or the whole project . • Sending weekly business review for updating the client with the project achievements and actions. • Translate the yearly clients feedback to actions aiming at improving the level of satisfaction of the client and meeting the set CSS bench mark • Involved in hiring process through conducting second interviews for new candidates before joining Floor. • Quality and Customer effort file owner, Carries the responsibility of achieving targets communicated by the Operations manager. • Ensures that the K base of the projects is up-to- date • Acts as focal point with the supporting functions for project/Advisor related. • Acts on negative feedback received from the QA dept. on the monthly end-user satisfaction survey to ensure better results for the following month • Perform weekly on floor audits to ensure consistency in delivering the service in efficient way, leader and agent levels. • Managing project attrition to maintain the target. • Conducts regular meetings with client to present and review business results. Applies operational, qualitative and business analysis of project operational processes • Updates constantly service manual for assigned project and presents this to the client for approval . • Conducts process improvement opportunity analysis on all assigned projects in order to maximize RCC efficiencies in service delivery and provide value added to clients. • Conduct a quarter QBR with the client inviting the top managers from both sides to align the strategy of the client . • Translates the yearly client feedback to action aiming at improving the level of satisfaction of the client and meeting the set CSS bench mark • Arranges for hiring calibration between the client and RCC HR then to ensure the profile agreed is maintained • Maintains table “F” of the project, ensures that the set targets are met and performs the CUIKA exercise • Analyses monthly the project’s cost/call and the rev/call to ensure GP % are met. • Acts as focal point with the supporting functions for project/Advisor related issues (including verification of monthly invoice) • Acts on negative feedback received from the QA dept. on the monthly end-user satisfaction survey to ensure better results for the following month • Holds weekly meetings with Accounts Managers to review operational results and to discuss improvement steps • Ensures that all team members adhere to RCC code of conduct and takes disciplinary action where necessary • Performs weekly floor audits to ensure consistency in delivering the service to the end user across all Advisors of the project • Follows the implementation approach for any new scope or change of scope required by the client by filling out the process change request form and following the rest of the approach.
  • Education

    • BA in Accounting and Business/Management

      Thebes Academy

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2009 - 5 yr

    Achievements

    • Best Team Performance for 2011 Jun Quarter as Team Manager. • Best Team Performance for 2013 Jan Quarter as Account Manger. • Managed Employee Development for SW Team. • Chosen as Nesting Manager for W Team. • Created Nesting Official Scorecard for SW account. • Consistent TOP 1 Rank Globally across Sutherland (Windsor and Clark) for 6 months consistently.

    Skills

    • Customer Service
    • Operations Management
    • BPO
    • Customer Care
    • Customer Success
    • Customer Support

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent

    Training & Certifications

    • Lead 200

      Sutherland Global Services·2012
    • Leading vs Management

      Sutherland·2012
    • Lead 100 Course

      Sutherland Global Services·2011
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