Hamza Belgourari
Director - Inward Investment - UEA
54 years old
Dubai United Arab Emirates
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
• Offering services to foreign investors and all businesses to foster international development, exports, and inward investment, by detecting leads and welcoming and supporting enterprise.
• Supporting decision-making by expanding businesses and foreign investors to attract inward investment projects, by drafting and disseminating useful material to inform decisions and organizing all necessary training to ensure project completion.
• Contributing to the formulation and implementation of nationwide and regional government policy to further international business development in key sectors, and to enhance France’s attractiveness to inward investment.
• Organizing and overseeing all work to extend international cooperation within the realm of its remit, and participating, where appropriate.
• Monitoring international business image and attractiveness as an investment location.
• Suggesting and implementing strategies to promote regions, businesses and talent, and informing channels of influence in the international business world.
• Designing, developing and disseminating all relevant communication material to meet its objectives, and adapting them to different targets throughout the world.
• Aiding government in analyzing and formulating policy within the realm of its remit concerning the international development.
• Carrying out all relevant assignments entrusted to it by the government ministries to which it reports on a permanent or temporary basis.
OPERATIONAL
• Management of projects from conception to realization, leading Operations.
• Put in place the vision and the strategic plan for production plant.
• Lead Operation set up of new Manufacturing plant (India, Brazil), with ERP’s implementation and Lean Manufacturing methodology.
• Coordination of all technical services of the company (Process, Quality, Supply Chain ...).
• Defining and leading appropriate market segmentation and positioning strategies.
• Compliance with the clients specifications and management of their implementation.
• Management of business financial performance indicators.
• Lead operating mechanisms to ensure integrity, quality systems, and EHS requirements.
• Functional Intervention and cross-functional with multidisciplinary team.
DRIVING AND CONDUCT OF PROJECTS
• Project Manager with combined experience in Project, and Operation Manufacturing Engineering.
• Anime, supervises, trains and motivates teams (55 people in Brazil and 25 in India).
• Management of budgets and P&L (3MUSD Canada, Brazil 55MUSD).
• Coordinates and manages the entire project studies, from production to delivery on site (Power System, Telecom).
• Respect for the traceability of contracts with events check up.
• Regular monitoring of the clients and teams.
PRODUCTION AND QUALITY
• Manages and monitors the implementation process of the methods and quality for production site.
• Ensure the proper functioning of equipment (replacement, maintenance) and product quality.
• Anticipates risks and opportunities for improvement of the production lines.
• Ensures the management of production lines and optimizing Process.
• Oversees and ensures the optimization of manufacturing in terms of cost, time and quality.
• Ensures quality constraints (Lean 6 Sigma). .
• Offering services to foreign investors and all businesses to foster international development, exports, and inward investment, by detecting leads and welcoming and supporting enterprise.
• Supporting decision-making by expanding businesses and foreign investors to attract inward investment projects, by drafting and disseminating useful material to inform decisions and organizing all necessary training to ensure project completion.
• Contributing to the formulation and implementation of nationwide and regional government policy to further international business development in key sectors, and to enhance France’s attractiveness to inward investment.
• Organizing and overseeing all work to extend international cooperation within the realm of its remit, and participating, where appropriate.
• Monitoring international business image and attractiveness as an investment location.
• Suggesting and implementing strategies to promote regions, businesses and talent, and informing channels of influence in the international business world.
• Designing, developing and disseminating all relevant communication material to meet its objectives, and adapting them to different targets throughout the world.
• Aiding government in analyzing and formulating policy within the realm of its remit concerning the international development.
• Carrying out all relevant assignments entrusted to it by the government ministries to which it reports on a permanent or temporary basis.
OPERATIONAL
• Management of projects from conception to realization, leading Operations.
• Put in place the vision and the strategic plan for production plant.
• Lead Operation set up of new Manufacturing plant (India, Brazil), with ERP’s implementation and Lean Manufacturing methodology.
• Coordination of all technical services of the company (Process, Quality, Supply Chain ...).
• Defining and leading appropriate market segmentation and positioning strategies.
• Compliance with the clients specifications and management of their implementation.
• Management of business financial performance indicators.
• Lead operating mechanisms to ensure integrity, quality systems, and EHS requirements.
• Functional Intervention and cross-functional with multidisciplinary team.
DRIVING AND CONDUCT OF PROJECTS
• Project Manager with combined experience in Project, and Operation Manufacturing Engineering.
• Anime, supervises, trains and motivates teams (55 people in Brazil and 25 in India).
• Management of budgets and P&L (3MUSD Canada, Brazil 55MUSD).
• Coordinates and manages the entire project studies, from production to delivery on site (Power System, Telecom).
• Respect for the traceability of contracts with events check up.
• Regular monitoring of the clients and teams.
PRODUCTION AND QUALITY
• Manages and monitors the implementation process of the methods and quality for production site.
• Ensure the proper functioning of equipment (replacement, maintenance) and product quality.
• Anticipates risks and opportunities for improvement of the production lines.
• Ensures the management of production lines and optimizing Process.
• Oversees and ensures the optimization of manufacturing in terms of cost, time and quality.
• Ensures quality constraints (Lean 6 Sigma). .
Director Inward Investment - Middel East - Dubai
Business France
Since December 2015
Full-time
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
- Business France is the government agency to help you set up or expand your business, complete takeovers, forge technology partnerships and make portfolio investments.
We deliver tailor-made solutions to help you plan and decide when it’s time for the next step in Europe. Our services are delivered on a global basis – we have 70 offices around the world – by advisors of 50 different nationalities.
We liaise in France with national and regional authorities, and we have at our fingertips all the information you could possibly want about French businesses (20,000 of which, by the way, are foreign-owned).
We offer comprehensive services – you can put us to the test on this! – and we also provide top-notch aftercare (you will hear back from us as often as you like), as your success is ours, too.
Senor Trade Advisor - Business Development - O&G - BRAZIL
UBIFRANCE
Since September 2010
- Business France, the French Agency for international Business Development.
Industry, Transport, Infrastructure, Energy, Mine, Environmental
• Provide Knowledge-based products, from business information to consultancy and monitoring services,
• Help companies to elaborate a strategy for their international expansion in Latin America. Market study and Marketing evaluation on companies product versus local market.
• Proposed corrections to Region to enable global strategy alignment.
• Provide Regional requirements to category as part of strategic plan development.
• Promote operations in order to foster partnerships with companies outside France.
=> Result: Trading events (Automec, Feimafe) which brought 40 French companies in Brazil, with 2,5 MEURO commercial deals. Published Regional Marketing studies for the Automotive, Plasturgy and Chemical industries.
Signed MOU with Ministry of Commerce of Brazil and French Competitiveness Clusters – developed a national plan on innovation and bilateral relationship France / Brazil.
Director of Manufacturing Operations - BRAZIL
GCC SA
August 2004
to 2010
- GCC SA research and development center in Telecommunication specialized in Thin Film Technology. Based in Brazil since 2004.
• Managed the construction of a High Tech manufacturing extraction site, exploitation and production.
• Leaded technology development and the Manufacturing Operation of the plant. (Lean Manufacturing, 6 Sigma).
• Developed high value relationships with our strategic accounts (Energy, Telecom).
• Created and closed new opportunities in Latin America and Europe.
• Performed marketing/customer research to position our product and marketing strategy.
• Identified sales opportunities and managed complete end-customer sales cycle.
=> Result: Managed a group of 25 engineers and handled a budget of 55MUSD. Reduced from 2 months to 3 weeks “return of product” response. - Created and closed new opportunities in Latin America and Europe.
- Established commercial and legal positions, for the sale and promotion of our products through ISO qualification and in respect of the Brazilian regulations.
Operation/Project Manager - CANADA
Vectra
March 2003
to 2004
- Develops & implements the company’s Telecom (Fiber Optics) Deployment Strategy.
- Established in 6 months a Joint Venture 50/50% partnership, resolution of new Business Plan and Business Model to establish a viable partnership spread between USA, Europe, Canada and India.
- Set up a new production line in an existing Manufacturing plant in India.
- Set strategy and business direction for connectors (military use) product line.
- Vectra Group consists of companies operating in various business domains across the world, such as aviation, engineering, material handling and construction equipment, automotive, information technology.
- • Set up a new production line for Optical Connectors in an existing Manufacturing plant in India.
• Developed & implemented the company’s Telecom (Fiber Optics) Deployment Strategy. - • Set strategy and business direction for connectors (military use) product line.
- => Result: Established in 6 months a Joint Venture 50/50% partnership, resolution of new Business Plan and Business Model to establish a viable partnership spread between USA, Europe, Canada and India. Hired and managed 55 employees.
Engineer - CANADA
JDS Uniphase
January 2000
to 2003
- Process Engineering - Technology Transfert
JDSU innovates and markets diverse technologies in high-quality communications, Test and Measurement, Commercial Optical Products, and Advanced Optical Technologies.
• Provided expert knowledge in telecom technologies development Fibre Optics / Thin Film.
• Participated in a very successful team, obtained Yield improvement by process automation and accuracy enhancement.
=> Result: Reduced production time from 2 weeks to 3 days, yield improvement from 70% to 95% through automation and successful transfer of technology from Canada to the USA (California) and China (Shenzhen).
