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Bella Hanane

Bella Hanane

Wesley Chapel,FL

Summary

Versatile Sales, Marketing & Business Development Director with many years of experience and with a progressive career record elevating the profitability, visibility, and performance of multimillion-dollar organizations. A diverse background of success in strategic planning, business development, product management, brand development, sales, and operations management. Proven ability to lead and motivate talented, cross-functional teams of employees. MBA degree; agile and purpose driven leader. Persuasive and personable communicator with exceptional skills in needs assessment, negotiation, oral presentation, writing, motivation, and problem solving.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sales & Operations Director

Kalisign USA
04.2022 - Current
  • Own leadership oversight, coordination and planning, in order to help the organization, execute on revenue and margin goals by providing business intelligence and sales operations support though quota-setting, resource and alignment tracking, data modeling/ analysis, reporting on key performance indicators, as well as many other ad-hoc analyses
  • This role will also lead a team that is responsible for delivering analytics and business support to enable informed decision making by executive staff as well as presentation worthy performance summaries to be shared with senior leaders across the Corporation
  • New office implementation
  • Team recruitment, constitution and training
  • 12% growth on 2022

Marketing & Sales Director

Silver Food Group
06.2015 - 10.2021
  • Elaborate and lead the development and execution of strategic Sales and Marketing plans and initiatives that maximize profitability for the group in order to achieve budget, revenue and market share targets
  • Develop and implement methods, procedures, and metrics for monitoring sales and marketing performance and providing visibility to company leadership
  • Play at the same time the role of the ambassador for the Moroccan sardines in the international market
  • Represent and be the voice of the group to negotiate and to maintain public relations with all suppliers, business customers and specialty markets decision makers at the national level
  • Margin expansion by 8pts,
  • Gaining significant market share (#1 canned tuna in the modern Chanel)
  • Contracting all major distributor brands

Business Development Director

Unimer Group
04.2011 - 04.2015
  • Drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with clients
  • Value and nurture existing ones and prospect and look for new ones
  • Research trends to support creating new approached to generating opportunities along with creating ideas and initiatives to meet market needs and expectations.
  • Act as the group’s evangelist by providing related support for external events including trade shows, conferences, analyst presentations, journalist meetings, etc.

Customers Portfolio: +12 new clients through the enrollment period
Opening new markets (Middle east first implementation of the group: UAE, Iraq, Syria, Jordan & Lebanon)
+20% income increase over the 5 years’ period

Sales Manager

Finetti
02.2008 - 01.2011

Led and deployed new distributor strategy, including signing a new contract with national distributor and pointing four sales managers (3 for Moroccan Market and 1 for French speaking African countries)
Responsible for the achievement of the yearly agreed annual sales budgets (by distributor/country and brand)
Maintaining an effective relationship with almost all key customers in order to keep a high level of customer satisfaction.

Developing the sales team via effective organization structure, team recruitment, training continuous review and re-alignment with company objectives to minimize turnover.
Monthly management of forecasts for production planning and achievement of results in line with agreed deviation requirements.

  • Brand Unification: which delivers greater scale and improves efficiency
  • National distributor contracting: cost saving by 5.5%
  • Double digit growth on the second year of my enrollment: +25%

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

INDIANA UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA
2002

Skills

  • Work Ethics
  • Teamwork
  • Adaptability
  • Problem Solving
  • Self Motivation
  • Project Management
  • Critical thinking
  • Flexibility
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Responsibility

Languages

French
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Sales & Operations Director

Kalisign USA
04.2022 - Current

Marketing & Sales Director

Silver Food Group
06.2015 - 10.2021

Business Development Director

Unimer Group
04.2011 - 04.2015

Sales Manager

Finetti
02.2008 - 01.2011

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

INDIANA UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA
Bella Hanane