 Managing Food and nonfood business for +1200 vendors (local and international) in Bin Dawood Group holding throughout the following elements for the purchasing roles:o Investment/Budget Planning  Planning investment for the Gregorian year BDA building and negotiating strategy  Building JBP with the top vendors  Supporting marketing department in building monthly/weekly activities to compete with other retailers  Purchases and Sales  Maintaining Margin (Back and Front) E-commerce.o Supply Chain Management  Availability  Measuring and enhancing vendors service level Assortment management  Inventory and stock rotation management  Category management.o Promotions Designing competitive promotions to build traffic flow Promotion assortment to increase basket size eventually  Aligning seasons and festivals to match the social and national events  Controlling/mentoring pricing points to compete with the market and claiming pricing fluctuation with the vendors Operation Manager regional and national for both accounts through different periods. It includes the following aspects: o Principally, to ensure that Bin Dawood Group shoppers are experiencing adequate service, quality and hygiene. o P&L building for each store to achieve profitability o Human Management from the commercial side to ensure that store operations are not affected nor disturbed during seasons, events, peak times. o Synergy and synchronization with the head office o Plans and supports talent management and succession planning within departments and ensures all department managers have a career plan

o Heading all Supermarkets, Bulk Stores, Mini Markets, online Stores, B2B, and Material Supplies.o Improve the operational systems, processes and policies in line with the organization missiono Enhance better management reporting, information flow, business process and planningo Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of Support Services (HR, IT and Finance), through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support and business functions. o Play a significant role in long-term planning, including an initiative geared toward operational excellence. o Management of agency budget in coordination financial management, planning, systems and controls.o Delivering Management Training to assigned personnel relating to standards and correspondent drivers of cost/service level.o Providing management direction for a loss prevention program. This includes creating, implementing, monitoring and supporting the program through training, supervision, analysis and documentation. o Risk Management by identifying, communicating and controlling hazards throughout the organization. o Ensuring proper implementation of hygiene, sanitation, security and safety standards and all corporate processes at AFS and (All ARAMCO Commissaries).o Payroll management, including tabulation of accrued employee benefits.o Providing a safe environment for employees, including a safe work place, safe vehicles and safe equipment.o Oversee compliance with all regulatory and company defined food safety and sanitation standards, systems, procedures, and practices such as sanitary codes, HACCP, and ISO 22000-2005 to guarantee absolute wholesomeness of our products.

o Providing support to manage the store resources in coordination with Head Office.o Delivering In-Store Training for the assigned personnel related to standards and correspondent drivers of sales and service.o Ensuring effective implementation of loss prevention and shrink procedures via controlling the store inventory counts, ensuring correct account for assets and cash, taking measures to minimize damages, loss, thefts (conducted on quarter basis) o Ensuring proper implementation of hygiene, sanitation and safety standards and all corporate processes at The Sultan Centero Reporting and discussing the operational issues and possible solutions with management on weekly basis (Commercial side) o Responding to employees’ problems and endeavoring solutions (Operational side)o Monitoring, systematically all departmental costs and operational performance by taking appropriate actions.o Supporting department managers in the planning, receiving/handling and replenishment of the operations with respect to the right level of stock on the shelves, periodic verification of expiration dates for Fresh Foods, Supermarket and Home Center.o Participating actively in the sales effort to drive sales volume vs. last year and budget. o Resolving client's claims/requests and taking steps to resolve them as per P&P.

o Establisher of Al Rifai company in Kuwaito Initiate SOP and Franchise protocol for Al Rifai concept in Kuwait and GCC countries o Opened Wolfgang puck and Movenpick Marche in Kuwaito Define and Select product range for Al Rifai concept o Mutually discuss the BDAs of Key Customers along with the distributors across GCC countrieso Manage Directly Key Accounts, traditional trade and Wholesale in Kuwait onlyo Directly involved in new store opening in terms of location, rental cost negotiation and opening activities such as soft openings for Kuwait businesso Managing and motivating the team to increase sales and ensure efficiency thought out an incentive scheme o Involved in the production protocol to maintain quality, stock replenishment and freshnesso Sourcing overseas raw materials and specialized gifting materials o Regularly conducting meetings to review the performance of distributors through clear KPIs to ensure the continuity of increasing sales, defining opportunities and resolve bottleneck issueso Evaluating distributors performance and replace underperforming ones with new distributors across the GCC countries to achieve the company 5 years strategies and goals o Managing all elements of the P&L to drive profitability and revenue o Analyzing sales figures and forecasting future sales volumes to maximize profitso Resolving health and governmental legalityo Hiring store stuff including store managers and supervisors’ roles. o Touring the sales floor regularly, talking to store managers and customerso Maintaining awareness of market trends in the retail industry, understanding forthcoming customer initiatives and monitoring what local competitors are doing

o Ensures all departments are following the company objectives and cascade it down to the department deliverables, o Regularly reviews performance and provide annual performance ratingo Role models the ethics and values of the business, demonstrate cultural sensitivity, and maintain high personal visibilityo Plans and monitors training needs, provide professional coaching to department managers to ensure that they have the professional capability to fully deliver in their role and that they are working on a systematic development plano Participated in opening stores in other regions (+20 stores nationally)o Achieve budgets and Profitability for the planned strategy.o Control costs within predefined levelso Achieve availability targets by ensuring that ordering procedures are followed and targets are achievedo Maintain operating standards by putting all areas under controlo Integrate and implement other department's planso Continuous enhancement of customer satisfaction.