Karim Elsayed Email & Phone Number

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Eg

Egypt

• Founded the startup, Pryzm Egypt, an apparel e-commerceCompany that focuses o the Egyptian Market.• Led all the business development aspects from market research,to operations, marketing planning, branding, supply planning ande-commerce development.• Formulated the company's vision and mission and ensured theyare followed along the way.• Trained employees and freelancers and hired a team of 6 peopleto operate the company• Built partnerships with diverse stakeholders such as e-commerceplatforms, B2B clients, and potential investors.• Grew the company from an idea to 6-figures sales (in USD) with aannual growth rate of 130%.

Zurich, Switzerland

Tradefabric is an online B2B marketplace dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging countries to utilize leftover fabric from international or local manufacturers' inventories through an incredibly user-friendly process

Alexandria, Egypt

- Created new sales channels for the company that are B2B, and e-commerce platforms.- Negotiated exporting contracts with retail companies in the MENA region, that contributed an extra 9% of the company's revenue in 2018.- Created a dashboard using Microsoft Power BI that gave an overview on the business performance and was a staple in taking business decisions and pinpointing slow moving items.- Led the launch of the company's product on e-commerce platforms such as Souq.com (now Amazon), and Jumia.

Alexandria, Egypt

- Increased the company's GMROI by 32% by improving theinventory management, and purchasing process.- Participated as a domain expert in tailoring an InventoryManagement and store replenishment software that helped inincreasing the supply chain responsiveness for the company.- Improved the process of store replenishment and trained theresponsible employees on the new tools and processes.- Negotiated consignment agreements with two of the company's biggest suppliers that helped slash the working capital by 18%, while ensuring.

Pp Make Plant| 6Th Of October City, Egypt

- Responsible for process of issuing new orders for importedraw and packaging materials by validating the MRP (MaterialRequirements Planner) Purchase Requisitions and convertingthem into Purchase Orders, to ensure meeting all the categoriesproduction plans.- Closely following up on all the open orders to ensure their arrivalas per planned and inform the concern parties if there is anyunplanned changes.- Rescheduling the open orders with the suppliers in case ofdemand fluctuation to avoid material shortage in case of suddendemand opportunities, and avoid slow moving stocks in case ofdemand drops by the c- Communicating the forecast with suppliers and highlighting incase of any foreseen increase or decrease in demand.- Following up with the logistics teams to ensure the orders arrive atUnilever premises as per planned

Cairo, Egypt

- Accountable for planning delivery for 70% of snacks business among 49 channels.- Providing customer service to 3 regional sales teams representing 60% of business volume.- Improving the Case Fill Rate by 5% vs previous year- Was part of the pilot team to improve the truck utilization through a tailored software solution, which helped improving the utilization by 8%- Automating most of the data entry process to SAP and minimizing human error from the data entry team.- Supervising a team of ten members (1 Planning Coordinator - 3 Shift Leaders - 6 Data Entry).

Alexandria- Brc

- Prepare Clients documents.- Attend Clients meetings.- Assist in administrative work.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Industrial And Management Engineering