Abid Saeed

• Retail store of grocery, clothing, and bedsheets. Headed as a business operation.
• Customer handling and supervising staff.
• Responsible for staff training.
• Make a strategy for business expansion and revenue increase.
• Involved in material procurement.

Responsible for the efficient planning, execution, monitoring, and control of activities in order to meet quality, cost, timeline, and ultimately customer satisfaction, with a team of 500 applicators, for Projects (Paint Application on Construction).

• Ensured the company's sales target with the highest possible profitability by identifying, negotiating, and completing projects in a timely manner.
• Ensured that the paint application operation on construction projects throughout the UAE was managed to establish the brand as the leader in the Middle East market.
• Oversaw a team of over 500 applicators and ensured that their productivity was enhanced through ongoing training.
• Utilized Kaizens to enhance the contribution margin through various methods, including automation (which reduces application costs by 50%), training, etc.
• Oversaw over 20 initiatives concurrently, with a collective value of approximately 50 million AED.
• Ensured that the project's services were delivered in accordance with the specified requirements by collaborating with customers, consultants, and contractors.
• Participated in the management team's short- and long-term organizational planning and strategy.

Responsible for planning, directing, coordinating, and leading project execution and overall organizational management, focusing on enhancing efficiency, expanding capacity, and establishing new plants while meeting quality, cost, and delivery objectives within the organization.

• Improved the effectiveness and productivity of technical divisions (Production, Quality, Maintenance, and Production Engineering) by coordinating and communicating between support and business functions, as well as by enhancing each function.
• Contributed to strategic plans, implemented productivity, quality, and customer-service standards, resolved issues, conducted audits, identified trends, and implemented change to achieve operational objectives.
• Led the establishment of a new plant as part of a capacity expansion initiative aimed at increasing annual battery production from 2.5 million to 1 million, costing USD 21 million.
• Managed resources and budget for several multi-million-dollar initiatives.
• Contributed significantly to both short and long-term organizational planning and strategy.

· Devised local parts procurement strategies in order to maximize benefit in terms of quality, cost, and delivery time.

· Collaborated with the Japanese process audit team to develop and oversee supplier performance and process improvement initiatives by using SQAM.

· Managed benchmarking and price negotiations with suppliers and vendors.

· Served as a technical liaison with Toyota Motor & Daihatsu Motor to guarantee the highest quality product by improving the capabilities of local suppliers.

· Managed relationships with suppliers in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan & Japan.

· Led Supplier Quality Assurance by applying Toyota Business Practice (TBP), PFMEA & MQC.