Victor Salama
Responsable Commercial, Tarsus
Masters in International Business Studies with 7 years IT sales and business development experience for international companies.
Has excellent leadership, communication, analytical and organisational skills.
Trilingual English, French and Arabic.
Looking to progress career in an international sales/marketing/ environme
Regional Sales Executive, Africa & French Overseas Territories:
• Channel Management :
- Recruitement and development of the Distribution channel.
- Establishing direct links with qualified resellers in each country.
- Acted as main point of contact for the resellers in order to ensure loyalty.
- Management of the product specialists in each subsidiary : Algeria, Kenya, Morocco and Tunisia.
• Business Development : Grow business volume while maintaining level the of profitability. Security, networking and application delivery solutions : Citrix, Packeteer, McAfee, BMC & ServGate.
• Local market insight :
- Comprehensive knowledge of each national market through extensive business trips to local markets
- Conducting seminars in local markets and major accounts meetings.
2000 - 2004• Marketing : Developing and managing a full range of network services (LAN & WAN), comprising: consultancy, design and architecture, security solutions, ,training, administration and management.
• Business development programs : Identifying and targeting new sales opportunities according to specific IT and business needs (security, migration, Voice Over IP, Citrix), and creating mail and phone campaigns to generate business.
• Communication : IT & Networks seminars for managers. A two-day session allowing managers and decision-makers to have an in-depth understanding of the current technologies and the market
1998 - 1999• Responsible for establishing an export network in the Middle East, and co-ordinating it with Wockhardt India, the Parent Company.
• New product development analysis, feasibility, costs and pricing, market entry.
• Portfolio analysis : sales, profitability and forecast.