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Safia ALAOUI

Safia ALAOUI

Dubai

Summary

Energetic business development professional driven to motivate and excite employees to reach optimum performance. Natural leader and complex problem solver. Experienced with product testing, management and development of new business opportunities.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Development Manager

Kering Eyewear
02.2022 - Current


  • Built, structured and launched the eyewear collections fitting our market
  • Developed tailor-made projects for clients boosting their performance and strengthening our brand awareness and market positioning
  • Led retail projects
  • Collaborated closely with marketing teams to develop targeted campaigns that generated high-quality leads for the sales pipeline.
  • Improved sales team performance with targeted training programs focused on advanced sales techniques and product knowledge.
  • Monitored market trends and competitor activities to identify areas of potential opportunity


Sales Analyst

Kering Eyewear Spa
02.2020 - 02.2022
  • Improved forecasting accuracy by analyzing historical sales data and identifying patterns for future projections.
  • Increased sales efficiency by streamlining data analysis and reporting processes.
  • Facilitated cross-functional collaborations, working closely with finance, operations, and marketing teams to ensure cohesive strategies and shared goals.
  • Developed custom dashboards for management, enabling real-time tracking of critical KPIs without manual intervention required.

Project Manager

BNP Paribas Cash Management
02.2014 - 08.2016

Responsible for the OFELIE Project: implementation of an invoicing application for corporate clients, an application used in 25 business centers

  • Analyzing the business center needs via 10 brainstorming sessions and workshops
  • Setting up the strategy and the new model of invoicing for the all the corporate clients
  • Preparing the functional specifications of the new model of invoicing OFELIE (Layout of the application, calculation of the invoices and accounting services)
  • Driving the change management of the 25 portfolio managers for the invoicing via OFELIE
  • Designing and organizing the webpage layout / furnishing and updating documentations

Project Manager

BNP Paribas Global Risk Management
01.2013 - 01.2014

Part of the change management team of the internal rating tool

  • Facilitation and animation of 2 workshops per month with the CRF users/ and quarterly user committee
  • Defects detections and corrections follow up and End-User Help Desk
  • Definition of communication tools/ Methodological support
  • Hosting Training sessions

Junior Project Manager

Societe Generale - ALD Automotive
03.2011 - 12.2012

Application acceptance of the basel II reports of worldwide Societe General motor fleet

  • Requirement definition and PMO : Functional specifications and workshops needs / Preparation and hosting committees / Monitoring planning and workload / Relationship management between functional actors (Users) and technical contractors)
  • UAT preparation and realization : Data quality control / Sequence batch case / Detection and recovery of defects, corrections follow up
  • Change Management : Hosting training courses / Definition of communication tools and methodological supports

Risk Analyst

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
07.2010 - 12.2010


  • Assessed emerging risks through ongoing research and monitoring of industry trends, proactively addressing potential threats before they materialized into significant issues
  • Improvement of the internal rating model / Back testing the LGD model of calculation

Education

Master of Science - Banking And Finance

Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Paris
06-2010

Bachelor of Science - Management And Finance

Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Paris
06-2009

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Business development and planning
  • Sales and marketing
  • Project management

Timeline

Business Development Manager

Kering Eyewear
02.2022 - Current

Sales Analyst

Kering Eyewear Spa
02.2020 - 02.2022

Project Manager

BNP Paribas Cash Management
02.2014 - 08.2016

Project Manager

BNP Paribas Global Risk Management
01.2013 - 01.2014

Junior Project Manager

Societe Generale - ALD Automotive
03.2011 - 12.2012

Risk Analyst

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
07.2010 - 12.2010

Master of Science - Banking And Finance

Pantheon-Sorbonne University

Bachelor of Science - Management And Finance

Pantheon-Sorbonne University
Safia ALAOUI