
Yasser Khallaf
Visionary Export Sales Director | Driving Global Growth & Proven Results
Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Export Sales DirectorFull Time
MaxPlast
Apr 2022 - Present -3 yrs, 3 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Export Strategy & Market Analysis: Develop and implement comprehensive export strategies to achieve sales targets, expand market share, and enter new geographic regions. Identify potential export markets, conduct market research, and analyze market trends, competition, and customer preferences to create market-entry plans. Conduct market research to identify new international markets and assess their potential for products. Analyze market trends, competitors, and regulatory requirements. Sales and Business Development: Drive sales activities by identifying and pursuing business opportunities. Develop pricing strategies and negotiate contracts with international clients. Lead contract negotiations and ensure the timely execution of export agreements, while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Monitor and analyze export performance metrics, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to enhance operational efficiency and profitability. Customer Relationship: Build and maintain strong relationships with international customers, distributors, and partners to increase sales opportunities and enhance customer satisfaction. Provide them with necessary support, training, and resources to promote products effectively. Logistics and Supply Chain: Oversee logistics and supply chain operations to ensure timely delivery of products to international customers while optimizing costs. Oversee the end-to-end export process, including order management, documentation, shipping, and logistics coordination to ensure on-time delivery. Compliance and Documentation: Ensure compliance with export regulations and manage all export-related documentation, including export permits, licenses, and customs documentation. Team Collaboration: Collaborate closely with internal departments such as marketing, production, logistics, quality control and finance to align export activities with overall business objectives. Lead and mentor the export team, providing guidance, training, and performance evaluations to support their professional growth and development. Reporting: Prepare regular reports on export activities, market trends, sales performance, and forecasts to senior management, providing insights and recommendations for business growth.
International Sales DirectorFull Time
- Job Details: Administer all export of goods and ensure compliance to all organizational policies and procedures. Design and implement all export strategies and activities and ensure adherence to the organization requirements. Prepare effective business plan for each market/customer to achieve required product volume and profit. Prepare required reports and maintain an efficient export classification databases and ensure accuracy in same and ensure compliance to all regulations. Plan and implement all export transportation strategies according to all customers demand and administer movement of all goods and ensure compliance to all government regulations. Design, evaluate and renew all contracts as per requirement and monitor and prepare reports for all export activities and recommend changes if required. Manage all communication with export authorities and other involved parties. Oversee preparing all export documents within required timeframe and schedule efficient shipping activities. Identify appropriate transportation method in assistance with customers. Coordinate with management and plan participation in all trade shows and ensure all activities according to customer specifications and assist business partners to design efficient distributing strategies for customers and ensure compliance to all countries‘regulations. Oversee efficient working of employees of Export department and manage all communication with customers. Supervise efficient working of the staff and ensure compliance to all export objectives and design sales strategies according to customer requirement. Develop and maintain professional relationships with all customers and perform regular communication with all staff and others. Evaluate all reports submitted by staff and recommend appropriate changes if required and maintain all operational records. Monitor all existing and prospective markets and assist to identify appropriate business opportunities. Monitor all export transactions and review all customers response for all orders and payments and resolve all customers issues for processes and manage shipments of all export products. Provide training to the export team and perform assessment of all work and assist to achieve all export objectives. Oversee handling of goods and ensure safety in all transportation and design cost effective methods for same and analyze best means of transport for all products as per customer requirement in coordination with concerned parties.
Export & Import ManagerFull Time
Delta Misr Company
Jan 2007 - Dec 2015 -8 yrs, 11 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details: Represent and act as a spokesperson for the company. Act as a professional advisor to the Board of Director on all aspects of the organization's activities. Ensure that the operation of the organization meets the expectations of its customers, partners, suppliers and staff. Develop an operational plan which incorporates goals and objectives that work towards the strategic direction of the company. Monitor the day-to-day activities to maintain or improve the staff performance. Determine staffing requirements for the company. Recruit, interview and select staff that have the right technical and personal abilities to help further the company's mission. Research funding sources, oversee the development of fund raising plans and write funding proposals to increase the funds of the organization. Administer the funds of the organization according to the approved budget and monitor the monthly cash flow of the company. Ensure that the organization complies with all legislation covering taxation and withholding payments. Identify new opportunities, developing new client relationships, creating business proposals.
Regional Business Development ManagerFull Time
Oltek Egypt
Mar 2005 - Dec 2006 -1 yr, 9 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details: Negotiating and implementing agreements, procuring material and services at the most competitive terms to pursue saving opportunities Coordinating with other departments. Design marketing plans and follow up the market trends in order to make sure that the firm is in the right course in the market and to satisfy customers’ needs & requirements. Track the movement of goods from the supplier, to storage and packaging to the consumer at the point of destination. Maximizing sales and minimizing cost values.
Education
Master's Degree in Marketing
Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS)Jan 2015 - Jan 2017 - 2 yr
College Diploma in Marketing
Ain Shams University (ASU)Jan 2010 - Jan 2012 - 2 yr
BSc in Accounting
Alexandria University (ALEXU)Jan 1992 - Jan 1996 - 4 yr
High School - Thanaweya Amma
Salah Salem Secondary SchoolJan 1991
Achievements
- Restructured the Export department and built up a qualified export team. - Opened new markets, i.e. UK, Germany, Croatia, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Australia, Canada, USA, Singapore & China. - Penetrated current markets vertically and horizontally. - Providing international quality certificates to all exported products. - Participated in exhibitions in new markets , i.e. China & USA - Appointed new distributors and agents worldwide. - Maximized the revenue of export sales from 45% to 132% from the target in my second year. - Minimized the cost of logistics by 30%. - Executing OEM & ODM projects. - Executing overseas projects.
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Export
- Import
- Personal Qualities
- Internet Research
- Sales
- Marketing
- International Business Development
- Business Planning
- Market Research
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Fluent
Training & Certifications
Reverse Engineering & Prototyping Course
Nile University·2020Export Promotion Program
NilePreneurs Export Excellence Center, Nile University·2020Innovation Management & Technology Transfer
Nile University·2020New Product Development Course
Nile University·2020Participation in International Trade Fairs Program
German-Arab Chamber of Commerce·2018Toefl
Cairo University·2015Export License
Foreign Trade Training Centre, Ministry of Trade & Industry·2007