Mohamed Megahed, General Manager (GM)

Mohamed Megahed

General Manager (GM)

Al Wasseela Trading Co.

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

General Manager (GM) at Al Wasseela Trading Co.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since February 2013

International Business Solutions

Business Development Manager at TARWEEJ for Trade & Distribution
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2011 to January 2013

- Assessments of marketing opportunities and target export markets.
- Intelligence gathering on customers and competitors.
- Exploring & categorizing local suppliers based on customers’ needs.
- Generating leads for possible export sales & follow-up sales activity.
- Products development & Private labeling management with Customers & Suppliers.
- Plan and manage the effective and necessary conversion of packages, weights, sizes, values, and quality standards according to importing requirements.
- Investigate, plan and implement strategically effective and relevant transport methods, which meet optimally the needs of the company and its suppliers and customers.
- Monitoring, recording, analyzing and reporting on activities, trends, results and recommendations related to export activities.

Export Business Development Manager at ARMA Food Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2009 to July 2011

- Penetrating Potential markets & concluding deals with distribution companies and other relevant sales outlets.
- Developing, implementing and measuring sales budgets.
- Exploring new markets in various countries within the region thru Generating market studies & visiting existing markets and new potential ones.
- Synergizing with Marketing, Finance, Logistics, and supply chain to providing proper and sustainable export sales and customer service.
- Developing horizontal & vertical expansion in current & new international markets.
- Monitoring the internal work flow to insure efficient operations

Export Area Manager at JUHAYNA Food Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2006 to November 2009

- Managing the overall sales functions & Building highly organized sales activities.
- Exploring new markets in various countries within the region & concluding deals with distribution companies over the sales areas.
- Developing a distribution strategy with existing and new distributors to promote the brand.
- Working with the marketing group to develop POS materials for each region & product line.
- Participating in International trade fairs.
- Maintaining a healthy relationship with the different trade associations and unions
- Monitoring work flow inside to insure efficient operations
- Solving the client problems and the inside procedures obstacles that hinder progress of company's objectives within the work scope.
- Analyzing and improving export commercial performance.
- Executing and achieving export sales targets.
- Coordinating the issuing of all required documents

Project Manager at Future Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2005 to September 2006

Localization Project Manager

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Maastricht School of Management, MsM Maastricht, the Netherlands Regional IT Institute, RITI
  • November 2014
Bachelor's degree, Political Science
  • at Faculty of Economics & Political Science - Cairo University
  • June 2003
High school or equivalent, Literature Section
  • at College Saint Marc
  • June 1999

Specialties & Skills

Business Development
International Trade
Management Consulting
Market Studies
Excellent command of MS Windows & MS Office Applications. (Word, Excel, Power Point).
Email Communication and Internet Navigation.
Very Good knowledge of SAP systems as key user

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Hobbies

  • Sports
  • Reading
  • Travelling