Mohamed Awad

•Managing team of 5 managers, 21 buyers base in Dubai, and 6 buyers based in China part of global sourcing team. •Developed performance management system for the procurement team with specific quantitative KPIs. •Increased website assortment to reach 5000% over period of 3 years, as main reason for revenue increase. •Increased partnership of suppliers and sellers reaching 1700 active ones. •Successfully managing a monthly budget of 10 Million Dirhams.

•Successfully on-boarded more than 500 active vendors within the first 3 months, resulting in assortment increase •Successfully managed sellers’ relationship resulting in increased volume of promoted products on website which enormously contributed to revenue growth. •Responsible for developing short- & long-term expansion strategies on state of key top-line and bottom-line metrics and risk factors. •Responsible for building sellers’ awareness and education of marketplace model & portal

• Part of Start-Up team • Built products’ brands profile thru comprehensive selection process • Developed vendors relationships and loyalty • Assessed market procurement conditions, recommended annual terms and implemented procurement strategies. • Developed category procurement support strategy along with buying operations department and driven continual process enhancements • Consistently achieved sales targets.

• Managing team of 5 purchasing specialists. • Identified new suppliers, agreed on terms and negotiated supply agreements where appropriate, including discount structures and volume rebates • Achieved deals with more than 45 days of payments and marketing funds by 5%. • Created stores profitability by interacting with customers and providing prompt and courteous customer service to all customers in stores. • Handling corporate team procurement process.

• Promoted from purchasing coordinator to Procurement Supervisor, and eventually led entire warehouse team. • Identify new suppliers, agree terms and negotiate supply agreements where appropriate, including discount structures and volume rebates. Achieved deals with more than 45 days payments and marketing funds.

Achievements and tasks: • Managed the production of Pricing and movement. • Deals and orders follow up and send monthly sales report to the consignment suppliers.

• Improved the quality control timing. • Descried the faulty items percentage.