Asad Hussain Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As a Retail Merchandiser for Brunello Cucinelli in the Middle East, I play a key role in structuring product flow and reallocation to optimize inventory and meet market demands. I collaborate closely with various teams to ensure that the right products are in the right locations at the right time, enhancing both sales performance and customer satisfaction.- Oversee product flow and reallocation across the Middle East to ensure optimal stock levels and efficient distribution.- Collaborate with stock and sales teams to align inventory levels with market demand and sales targets.- Manage Brunello Cucinelli sales on the e-commerce marketplace Ounass, including product operations, assortment, and sales analysis.- Analyze sales data and trends to support strategic decision-making and improve sales performance both in-store and online.- Provide quantitative analysis to support the seasonal buying process, ensuring data-driven decisions on product assortment and stock levels.- Maintain close communication with key stakeholders to drive seamless operations and enhance customer satisfaction.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Responsible to deliver fresh, high turnover product and brand mix to each store whilst maintaining optimal week of supply.- Lead product exit and liquidation strategies from planning to execution stage- Collaborate with franchising partners to resolve supply chain issues, improvement in floor plan and other adhoc support.- Develop product strategies in line with Front Door & Promo Calendar for each market to maximize value from opportunities and mitigate potential risks.- Manage stock alignment and inventory control process for 53 retail stores.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Oversaw product mix strategy and deployment of Luxury, Lifestyle, Fast-Fashion, and Sports brands across 54 Sunglass Hut Stores across the MENA Region.- Orchestrated product exit strategy of around 30,000 units across 10 countries.- Managed marketing investment of 0.5m EUR while identifying 11% savings to reinvest into the business.- Decreased stock discrepancies by 94% by putting in place Stock Control Processes and strategies.- Streamlined process to communicate production needs to improve efficiency.

Dubai

My role of Commercial Finance Analyst was extended from L&Y region to include GCC as well and perform the following: • Consolidation, forecasting, tracking and reporting of all Marketing Investments in region, including resource reallocation and investment analysis.• Responsible for supporting Marketing Teams on Key Financials for Business Cases and Post Implementation Reviews to analyze key strengths and learnings of launch campaigns.• Provide analysis and update on Marketing Investments for GCC and L&Y during monthly operational meetings.• Support on Pricing Scenarios, Industry Profitability models for L&Y region which feeds into Competitor Analysis.

Dubai

Responsible for tracking and reporting marketing investments, resource allocation as well as other adhoc projects for the Levant and Yemen region

Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Student Assistant at the AUS College of Engineering. Role includes providing IT troubleshooting and assistance to students and faculty

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Dubai Metal Industries LLC. is a design and engineering solution provider for turnkey projects. Having offered its highly customized structural and architectural design, its ever-growing project portfolio includes the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Salalah Airport, CityWalk Dubai and many more.My role here as intern was to pick up on projects where i can add value and be the sole driver of the project and its success through the supporting departments. In my 10-weeks i worked on 11 projects that included:- Following up with UAE VAT Law updates and ensuring the company and its processes were ready for the new tax that is to go live in 2018-Developed a Cost tracking model on excel that tracks costs budgeted and incurred for each active project on a monthly basis-Identified redundancies in existing processes, performed an analysis, gathered feedback and recommended changes to senior management and overlooked the implementation-Developed a Revenue Analysis model that tracks the company's budgeted billings vs actual billings for all active projects, performed an analysis of the billings and presented the findings to management-Supported the development of a partnership between the American University of Sharjah (AUS) College of Architecture and Design (CAAD) and the company to give students the exposure to real-life applications of their academic knowledge, whilst providing the company with access to a pool of dynamic and creative interns-Recommended the next set of interns to continue the internship process after a rigorous round of interviews and shortlisting

Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates

One of the 7 interns selected to intern at Philip Morris International, Dubai as part of the Inkompass Program-Developed a budget model using Excel to estimate the costs and profitability of various PM distributors across GCC region through industry averages, internal resources/employees, cost recognition methods and other publicly available information.-Presented the project to Vice President of Asia Region, Director of Marketing and Sales and Director of Finance, Information Systems and Administration.-Received training in Project Management, Presentations and an experience of working on a project that the company needed for their bench-marking exercises.

Executive Master'S In Brand Management, Business Administration And Management, General, 96%

Joint program between UOWD and Polimi Graduate School of Management. Graduated with 1st Level (highest grade) Master's Degree in Luxury.

Executive Master'S In Luxury Brand Management, Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction

Joint program between UOWD and MIP Politecnico Di Milano

Bsba, Finance And Management

Activities and Societies: Treasurer of Pakistan Cultural Club, Vice-President International Students ClubRepresented the university.

Alevels, Physics Maths Economics, Bbc

Activities and Societies: 50+ hours of community service as part of CIS community service programCompleted AS and A2 in following.