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Walid Awad

Small Business Owner
Dubai

Summary

Industrious and enthusiastic Professional proven to consistently meet productivity goals and business and customer service objectives. Skillfully works with all employees to enhance performance and improve day-to-day processes. Diplomatic in resolving customer issues to maximize satisfaction and meet targeted service level.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Business Owner /Founder

Port Link Cargo LLC
Dubai
07.2017 - Current
  • Drove year-over-year business growth while leading operations, strategic vision and long-range planning
  • Reduced costs, managed delivery schedules and performed risk analysis to improve overall profitability
  • Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development
  • Created and enforced detailed organization processes to increase quality and service standards
  • Capitalized on social media platforms to increase market awareness and recruit sales agents
  • Put together realistic budgets based upon costs and fees for successfully operating business
  • Prepared bills of lading, packing lists, dock receipts and certificates of origin for each shipment
  • Maintained open communication with customers and overseas partners to update all parties on order and shipping changes.

Business Owner/Founder

Inpack Flexible Solutions LLC
Dubai
12.2007 - 12.2017
  • Develop new business opportunities.
  • Managing all operations, human resources, finance and banking, legal, sales and purchases
  • Direct and manage short and medium term sales/business objectives for Region in order to meet and exceed business orders and sales targets.
  • To be primarily responsible for growth of orders and sales, and sales direction, of Middle East in line with Company’s selected market sector strategic objectives.
  • Establish and maintain contracts and contacts with customers and suppliers, appropriate for successful and profitable management of Region.
  • Reached monthly sales of 500 tons per month and and Average Turn Over of 10 Million USD with 0% outstanding.

Territory Sales Supervisor

Taghleef Industries LLC
Dubai
01.2004 - 11.2007
  • Coordinate strategy, budgets, forecasts and financial objectives in full agreement with Head of Department;
  • Undertake market updates/studies on products of interest to Business Unit;
  • Responsible for achievement of sales and financial objectives;
  • Monitor sales figures of assigned accounts on monthly basis
  • Visit key accounts on regular basis;
  • Monitor customer receivables and report related issues to Head of Department;
  • Keep monthly track of sales trends;
  • Keep track of worldwide product development;
  • Prospect continually for potential customers;
  • Monitor and manage continually needs, availability and proper level of stocks of materials;
  • Prepare monthly comprehensive written sales and development report to Regional sales Manager
  • Major Achievements:
  • Succeed in positioning company as leader supplier in Levant region with market share of above 70%
  • Achieving annual sales revenue over USD 20 million.
  • Minimizing overdue to less than 5% and dead debt to almost 0%

Senior Area Sales Manager

Ucyildiz Dis Ticaret LTD. STI
Istanbul
01.2002 - 12.2003

Voltran is one of the worldwide leaders in the field of producing the conversion kits to convert all type of vehicles to work on LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) and CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) instead of Petrol and Diesel.
I was responsible to market this new known project in the middle east and GCC countries. So, we had to work with the municipalities and civil defense departments of several countries in order to approve the usage of the products.

Quality Control Engineer

Gold Star Paint Factory
Beirut
09.2001 - 12.2001

was responsible for the quality assurance and performing strict quality control tests onto the production of Water Base, Emulsive and texture type of products range to conform with company's high standard quality manual, which is consistent with the requirements of specified International and Lebanese standards

Trainee Engineer

Future Pipe Industries
Tripoli
06.2000 - 09.2000

The global leader in the large-diameter fiberglass pipe industry, developing, manufacturing and supplying pipe systems to a broad range of markets around the world.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey
09.1996 - 06.2001

High School Diploma -

Arabian Secondary School
Tripoli, Lebanon
09.1991 - 06.1994

Skills

  • Customer Relations
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Certification

  • Flexible Packaging Training Course

Timeline

Business Owner /Founder

Port Link Cargo LLC
07.2017 - Current

Business Owner/Founder

Inpack Flexible Solutions LLC
12.2007 - 12.2017

Territory Sales Supervisor

Taghleef Industries LLC
01.2004 - 11.2007

Senior Area Sales Manager

Ucyildiz Dis Ticaret LTD. STI
01.2002 - 12.2003

Quality Control Engineer

Gold Star Paint Factory
09.2001 - 12.2001

Trainee Engineer

Future Pipe Industries
06.2000 - 09.2000

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

Middle East Technical University
09.1996 - 06.2001

High School Diploma -

Arabian Secondary School
09.1991 - 06.1994
  • Flexible Packaging Training Course
  • Documentary Credits and Incoterms 2000 by Target Management Consultants
  • Leader Shipment Course by Horizontal Knowledge
  • In-Focus Selling course by Third Eye
  • Prevention and Collection of Bad Debt program by Collection Skills
  • Web designing and development Course
  • Calogi System Training by DNATA
  • The Certified Trade & Logistics Professional – CTLP training programme by Dubai Trade
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