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Over the course of my 10-years career in the palm oil industry, I have focused on trade and technical promotion. I am a dynamic and successful marketer who has also provided technical advisory services in a busy business environment. As an insightful manager, I have directed and improved operations through effective employee motivation strategies and strong policy enforcement.
I have an excellent experience in the palm oil sector and having a strong understanding of the industry, including production, processing, distribution, and marketing. Additionally, I have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the palm oil industry in Egypt and Africa as well as the latest trends and technologies being used in the sector.
Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations. Talented leader with analytical approach to business planning and day-to-day problem-solving.
Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
• Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the agency and ensuring that all aspects of the business run smoothly.
• Managing staff, overseeing budget and financial planning, coordinating with vendors and suppliers, maintaining relationships with clients and customers, and monitoring industry trends to stay up to date on best practices.
• Developing and implementing policies and procedures for the agency.
• Managing and training staff members, including hiring and scheduling.
• Overseeing inventory and ordering supplies and equipment.
• Developing marketing strategies and promotional campaigns for the agency.
• Managing customer service and addressing client concerns or complaints.
• Ensuring compliance with industry regulations and standards.
• Providing regular reports on performance and progress to upper management.
• Devised processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
• Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
• Established positive and effective communication among unit staff and organization leadership, reducing miscommunications, and missed deadlines.
• Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
• Set, enforced, and optimized internal policies to maintain responsiveness to demands.
• Supervised operations staff and kept employees compliant with company policies and procedures.
• Managed inventory and supply chain operations to achieve timely and accurate delivery of goods and services.
• Directed initiatives to improve work environment, company culture or overall business strategy.
• Led hiring, onboarding and training of new hires to fulfill business requirements.
• Analyzed and reported on key performance metrics to senior management.
• Developed systems and procedures to improve operational quality and team efficiency.
• Mitigated business risks by working closely with staff members and assessing performance.
• Raised property accuracy and accountability by creating new automated tracking method.
• Launched staff engagement, gender diversity and cultural programs in addition to robust reporting tool that increased operational quality.
• Scheduled employees for shifts, taking into account customer traffic and employee strengths.
• Handled problematic customers and clients to assist lower-level employees and maintain excellent customer service.
• Cultivated and strengthened lasting client relationships using strong issue resolution and dynamic communication skills.
• Reduced budgetary expenditures by effectively negotiating contracts for more advantageous terms.
• Administration and financial management related to accounting such as recording, compiling and preparing reports imprest / financial-related records, monthly accounts, cashbook, list of bills and vote books, to be saved / submitted to the MPOB’s Financial Section of each month.
• Handling all the seminars, workshop or any events done by MPOB & making sure to prepare for it rightfully.
• Writing the monthly, quarterly, half yearly and TAS visits reports accordingly.
• Provide services to companies, such as providing suppliers list and contacts.
• To monitor economics, political and oils and fats developments in African countries by browsing major newspapers and magazines in the African countries and to report, translate into English or Arabic relevant information to the head office.
• MPOB Africa Programmes - MTecS Seminar/ Workshop / conferences:
Prepare list of invitees
Prepare all promotional and trade materials
Making paper presentation
Set up individual meetings for business matchmaking programmes
• MPOB TAS Visits
Travel arrangements/ air ticket bookings and hotel reservation.
Arrange appointments and meetings.
Writing minutes of meetings
Establish new contact data base
Follow up events and issues
• MPOB Africa Regional Office Meetings tasks
• Schedule and confirm appointments for importers, governments and agencies.
• Greet visitors, handle their inquiries.
• Provide services to companies, such as providing suppliers list and contacts.
• Writing minutes of meetings.
• Follow up companies inquiries.
• Translate information into English or Arabic.
• Responsible for arranging all the meeting, answering phones, sending and receiving faxes and e-mails, arranging hotel reservations, booking tickets,
· Preparing the payments papers for the hotels, and preparing the administration part of the tourism package.
• Prepare and manage correspondence, reports and documents
• Organize and coordinate meetings, conferences, travel arrangements
• Take, type and distribute minutes of meetings
• Implement and maintain office systems
• Set up and maintain filing systems
• Set up work procedures
• Liaison with internal and external contacts
• Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
• Gained extensive knowledge in data entry, analysis and reporting.
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
• Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
· Audit financial transactions and documents
Operational excellence
• Conducted several technical efforts with Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture (EMOA) which has set crude protein content of palm kernel cake (PKC) to be at 17% minimum. And assisted to revise the standard of palm kernel cake (PKC) from 17% to 13%.
• Assist and facilitate the business matching communication for the Egyptian company Al Fares for Import and Export to import 1000 tonnes of PKC for Egypt market.
• Assist in organising the Economic and Promotion Missions to Kenya, Tanzania & Ethiopia.
• Presented a paper titled “Malaysian Palm Oil: The World’s Best Vegetable Oil” YBM Mission to Egypt on July 2021.
• Generated a Paper on ‘The Emerging Exports of Palm Oil for the Egyptian Market’
• Business Matching Programme for Southern Edible Oil (SEO) Industries
• Business Matching Programme for Arab Malaysian Vegetable Oil Products Co. LTD
• Business Matching Programme for Muhibah Palm Products Sdn Bhd
• Organised TAS Trade and Technical Meetings in Ethiopia
• Assist in organising the Economic and Promotion Missions to Kenya, Tanzania & Ethiopia.
• Organised TAS Trade and Technical Meetings in South Africa
• Organised ARMA-MPOB Margarine Course for Arma Factory in Egypt
• Conducted the following:
Egypt Ministry of Foreign Affairs In house Seminar on the Perks of Investing In the Stock Market
Technical Seminar (MTecS) 2019 Morocco, Casablanca
In house seminar with Great Wall for Import and Export Company
In house seminar with Shahd Company for Import and Export Company
In house seminar with National Research Centre (NRC)
In house Seminar with Representative from Al Houria Group
In-house Seminar with Agwaa Company
In house Seminar with Al Zeyad for Import and Export Company
In house Seminar with New Alsabah for Import and Export Company
In house Seminar with Egyptian Organisation for Standardization (EOS)
Participation during the Malaysian National Day Event
The Malaysia – Egypt Investment & Trade Forum
In house Seminar with Roka Egypt for Import and Export Company
Participated in The World Food Africa 2019
In house seminar with Faculty of Business Students, Ain Shams University
• Prepared Africa Mapping report exercise (Egypt, Morocco, Kenya and Tanzania)
• Newspaper article in Écrit par Alya Alami, Morocco in French during MTecS 2019
• An article was published in Al Horya Newspaper on 14 June 2019 ‘Managing Breast Cancer with Tocotrienols ’’
• An article was published in Al Horya Newspaper on 15 October 2019 on ‘Malaysian National Day Event and launching of the Arabic version of MPOB Pocketbook of Oil Palm Uses’
• An article was published in Veto Newspaper, Sada Al Balad News, Al Qrar Al Araby News, Khabar 7 News, Sout Al Balad News, Garedat Misr News, Kenoz Arabia News, Rose El Yousef Newspaper, Al Ahram Gate News and Al Borsagia Newspaper on 23 October 2019 on ‘Malaysia – Egypt Investment & Trade Forum’
• An article was published in Al Horya Newspaper on 18 January 2020 on Egypt Investment & Trade Forum jointly organised by MATRADE and MPOB Africa to promote Malaysian products including palm oil in Egypt.
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