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Maha Lamhamedi

Maha Lamhamedi

Head of Sales

Leadership|Strategy & Business Development| Data-driven | Build top performing team | Sales & Account Management| Process builder
37 years old
10+ years of expertise in E-business Management, Leadership, and Business Operations. Leader in 3 Global Tech Companies. Led innovative and customer-centric business development initiatives. Track record of revamping business performance within the digital space, leveraging effective decision-making and people leadership skills. Steered versatile, cross-functional teams locally and remotely across the tourism, hospitality, delivery, supply chain, and food industries. Thrives at process implementations and improvements, fast-paced environment, strategy, people management, acquisition, and spreading good vibes.
A passion to make a positive impact on the life of millions of people through technology.
Experiences
  • Managing the performance of a sales team (7 people)
  • Developing market strategies for the French SMB market, liaising closely with the VP of Sales, Product, Marketing and Implementation teams
  • Managing sales opportunities through direct reports, master at processes, frameworks, deal funnels
  • Hire top talent, help them perform, grow and develop as professionals
  • Motivating, coaching and directing the team to achieve both revenue and new business sales targets
  • Devised the long-term strategy for Morocco, working hand to hand with functional heads, and leveraging HQ resources toward department objectives
  • Lead and grow a team of Sales Team leaders and their direct reports (from 8 to a team of +30 people)
  • Sales department P&L responsibility
  • Managed the entire acquisition process with new partners to source and negotiate the best products to deliver to our customers: Inbound, Outbound / Lead Generation, Market Intelligence / Field, and Telesales teams / Sales enablement
  • Built and developed partnerships from scratch, growing their number on the platform while delivering on aggressive sales and growth targets.
  • Generated scalable solutions boosting revenue and growth in Marrakech, Essaouira, Dakhla, and Ouarzazate regions through strategic execution, partner support, and directing 5+ Account Managers.
  • Evaluated market performance considering relevant KPIs. Forecasted team targets and KPIs, developed success measurements tools and set up action plans to achieve the set targets & KPIs
  • Rehabilitated sales teams through engagement, training, and motivation resulting in a departmental rank of 2 over 15 teams within 3 quarters.
  • Implemented marketing initiatives across portfolios resulting in 25% revenue growth year on year.
  • Built a strong business case influencing senior management and peers to redeploy new procedures and engage external payment partners, reducing the associated budget by 3%.
  • Championed continuous improvement and capacity planning across the production department
  • Coordinated recruitment and training for new team members, steered business performance reporting; and enhanced business innovation while managing international projects.
  • Facilitated a team of 15 account managers through defining and monitoring the performance objectives. Implemented improvement of KPI and followed through reporting and performance measurements.
  • Planned and executed marketing campaigns, including quality control over such campaigns.
  • Pioneered new lines of leisure products and developed sustainable processes optimizing the value chain.
  • Overhauled production functions by outsourcing functions to external companies saving labor hours and associated costs.
  • Increased sales 17% without changes in FTE for 1 year by providing partners customized support.
  • Created and managed ephemeral e-shops in the tourism space
  • Tracked and evaluated marketing campaigns
Interests

Arts

  • Standup comedy & Improvisation
Skills

Recent Accomplishments

  • Reengineered regional sales, supplies, and availability operations by designing an action-plan mapping potential supply visits to actual & potential partners.
  • Generated 75% in revenue and grew supply to 150% new contracts (YOY) within a specific region.
  • Pioneered a new payment process and tools in 6 months, directing a team of 10 slashing the number of suspended partners by 53% and boosting satisfaction rate 25%.

Core expertise

  • Leadership, Consensus Building, Coaching & Developing Teams
  • Recruitment, Training | Coaching & Mentorship
  • Change Management | Process Implementation & Improvements
  • KPI Development & Tracking | P&L Management
  • Partner Relations | Stakeholder Management & Engagement
  • Negotiation & Creative Thinking skills
  • Business Analytics & Intelligence | CRM
  • Strategic Planning & Actionable Roadmaps
  • Pricing | Revenue Management
  • Outsourcing Strategies
  • Sales & Acquisition
  • Business operations

Technical Skills

  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Office Suite / Gsuite
  • BI & Data visualisation: Tableau, Looker, QlikView, XiTi etc.
  • Travel Solutions: Orchestra

Languages

  • English (fluent)
  • French (fluent)
  • Arabic - Moroccan (fluent)
Education

Exchange program

Hanyang Uni'│Seoul, Korea

February 2012 to July 2012
E-Business & entrepreneurship

Master's degree

ISC Paris│Paris, France

September 2009 to August 2012
Marketing & Management

2 years university diploma

Lille 2 University│Lille, France

September 2007 to July 2009
DUT Technique de commercialisation

High School diploma

Lycée Lyautey│Casablanca

September 2006 to August 2007
Baccalauréat STG
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