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Mohamed Fahim
Mohamed Ibrahim Fahim

Brand · Digital · FMCG

MohamedIbrahim Fahim

Marketing Manager at SaadEddin, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fifteen years building brands, demand, and digital commerce across Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Years in marketing & digital
15+
Brands led at SaadEddin
5
Ecommerce lift in 10 months
Healthy-range sales growth
33%

01Profile

Executive summary

  • Seasoned marketing professional with an exceptional track record in marketing, brand management, and strategic analysis for FMCG brands.
  • Effective at conceptualizing marketing plans through creative and innovative thinking, and executing brand campaigns that establish awareness, increase sales, and grow overall revenue.
  • Proven record of identifying and capitalizing on new business opportunities through strategic brand positioning and effective marketing programs.
  • Strong understanding of consumer, customer, and shopper markets across countries, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills at every organizational level.
Brand ManagementMarket Analysis & ResearchA/B Strategic MarketingConsumer StrategiesNew Product Development, Innovation & LaunchStrategy Planning & ImplementationDigital Marketing

02Experience

Professional history

Brand, digital, and ecommerce leadership from Cairo to Jeddah and Riyadh — FMCG, hospitality, real estate, and home appliances.

Marketing Manager

Nov 2024Present

SaadEddin · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

SaadEddin Pastry · SaadEddin Café · SaadEddin Catering · SaadEddin Wholesale · SaadEddin Restaurant

Current

  • Plan and execute marketing strategies and plans for five brands across pastry, café, catering, wholesale, and restaurant.
  • Lead multi-channel, integrated marketing and branding strategies within the business unit.
  • Develop, manage, and track marketing budgets, timelines, and processes from kickoff to execution.
  • Establish processes that keep programs on time and on budget.
  • Manage execution with visual merchandising and visual communications partners.
  • Present marketing strategy and execution to senior leadership, management, and other departments.
  • Lead cross-functional teams so marketing and communications stay aligned with global brand direction.
  • Manage relationships with internal and external creative teams, agencies, and vendors for integrated customer communications.
  • Track marketing performance, gather consumer insights, evaluate program effectiveness, and feed findings into the next cycle.

Group Marketing Manager

Jun 2023Jul 2024

Esnad Real Estate & Esnad Hospitality · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Esnad Real Estate Valuation · Jawharat Jabal Omar · Esso Coffee

  • Plan and execute marketing strategies and plans for three brands spanning real estate valuation, hospitality, and coffee.
  • Lead multi-channel integrated marketing, branding strategies, and activities across the business unit.
  • Develop, manage, and track marketing budgets, timelines, and processes from kickoff to execution.
  • Establish processes for effective, timely program development within the defined budget.
  • Manage execution details with visual merchandising and visual communications partners.
  • Present marketing strategies and execution to senior leadership and other departments.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and keep initiatives aligned with global brand direction.
  • Manage agencies, vendors, and creative partners for integrated customer communication materials.
  • Track performance, gather consumer insights, evaluate effectiveness, and integrate findings into future work.

Digital Marketing & Ecommerce Manager

Feb 2022Mar 2023

Unionaire Group Technology · Cairo, Egypt

3 brands

  • Plan and execute all digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social, and display campaigns.
  • Design, build, and maintain social media presence.
  • Measure and report campaign performance against ROI and KPIs; identify trends and optimize spend.
  • Brainstorm new growth strategies; plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests.
  • Collaborate on landing pages and user-experience optimization.
  • Evaluate end-to-end customer experience across channels and touchpoints; instrument conversion points and optimize funnels.
  • Collaborate with agencies and vendor partners; evaluate emerging technologies for adoption.
  • Manage traffic acquisition, sales, conversion, A/B testing, and reporting.
  • Develop and implement ecommerce strategy; work with developers on site speed.
  • Re-platformed the website to a new CMS and made it mobile capable.
  • Research market trends and technologies to improve website performance.

Significant highlights

  • Grew ecommerce sales from 5M to 40M per year in 10 months.
  • Delivered the best online Ramadan campaign results versus previous years.

Brand Manager

Feb 2020Jan 2022

Class A Trading Agencies · Cairo, Egypt

Sante · Calnort · HealthyMill · MagicMoments · Freyma’s · LongChips · FlyingGoose · Stroopwafel · Foodzino & more

  • Led a team of 8 executives managing an annual budget of 2.5 million EGP to drive growth for FMCG brands.
  • Developed global and regional brand strategy covering ATL, BTL, public relations, and sponsorship for both master and product brands.
  • Translated global brand concepts to regional level and integrated all brand marketing into a cohesive message across markets.
  • Monitored market trends, consumer research, and competitor activity to identify opportunities and key issues.
  • Recommended and tailored product strategies to protect margins and market share.
  • Analyzed the product landscape with retail audit data for forecast planning and consumer insights.

Significant highlights

  • Grew healthy-product sales to an all-time high of 240 million EGP (33% increase) through new sub-lines targeting niche preferences.
  • Achieved a 100% increase in online sales across products by liaising with the digital team, researching the market, and tailoring materials.
  • Led expansion of Sante, HealthyMill, MagicMoments, and Calnort through targeted marketing and branding campaigns.

Digital Marketing Manager

Jan 2019Feb 2020

Keden International · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

6 brands

  • Established community engagement through content marketing, reaching a 35% engagement rate.
  • Created a content strategy with high engagement and user retention.
  • Set social-media KPI metrics to determine ROI.
  • Launched a user-generated campaign that received almost 200 entries on its first day.
  • Gave continuous feedback to the development team and created projects that increased brand engagement.
  • Built a social paid strategy with high-performing campaigns at 5% CTR.

Brand Manager

Jan 2018Jan 2019

As-Sonbolah for Food Industries · Cairo, Egypt

  • Owned corporate and retail marketing, advertising, event planning, outreach, and product and design initiatives with more than 8 million in annual revenue.
  • Monitored market trends and oversaw advertising so the right message landed for the brand.
  • Worked with agencies on the company website — graphic design, copy, and layout — delivered under budget and on time while reducing expenses.
  • Worked directly with the CEO on marketing plans to increase sales and brand awareness.
  • Owned product and packaging development, targets, budgets, and goals, and initiated new marketing procedures to enhance the retail customer experience.

Digital Marketing & Ecommerce Manager

Jan 2017Jan 2018

Raneen for Home Appliances · Cairo, Egypt

2 brands

  • Built and executed social strategy through competitive research, platform choice, benchmarking, messaging, and audience identification.
  • Generated, edited, published, and shared daily content across text, image, video, and HTML.
  • Set up and optimized company pages on each platform to increase visibility.
  • Captured and analyzed social data, insights, and best practices, then acted on them.
  • Managed content, SEO/SEM, and analytics for all digital-marketing activity, adhering to digital brand standards.
  • Managed marketing presence on other ecommerce channels.
  • Led strategy, development, execution, and optimization of paid digital — display, mobile, SEM, and SEO.
  • Analyzed and reported on customer-behavior insights.
  • Ensured digital design was optimized for branding, impact, SEO, and web development.
  • Identified opportunities to apply new technologies, digital products, and services to online campaigns.

Branding & Communication Supervisor

Dec 2013Jan 2017

Alwatania Poultry Egypt · Giza, Egypt

  • Designed and developed the corporate website and kept its appearance, updates, and rating value current.
  • Registered the company on business websites and managed those accounts.
  • Gathered marketing data from the web and ran e-marketing campaigns via mail shots and other media.
  • Search-engine optimization and keyword research; mobile landing-page design and optimization; QR-code design and optimization.
  • Web analytics using Google Analytics, AdSense, Ads, Insights, and Webmaster Tools.
  • Facebook campaign and fan-page administration.
  • Competitive research, analysis, and service pricing.
  • Coordinated planning and execution of online activities; recommended plan and product development.
  • Developed and initiated marketing activities and strategies; maintained competitor and global-market databases.
  • Copywriting for blog and Facebook content.
  • Developed and executed ATL (radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, outdoors, press), TTL (banners, social, events), and BTL (contextual ads, vertical banners, email, telemarketing).

Senior Web Designer & Digital Marketing Specialist

Apr 2013Dec 2013

Metropolitan Consulting · Cairo, Egypt

  • Designed appealing websites while working daily with graphic designers, back-end developers, and marketers.
  • Developed and maintained front-end functionality; designed prototypes for apps and websites.
  • Created logos, banners, and buttons; wrote cross-browser XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Managed several databases and reporting tools; confirmed link placements with external webmasters.
  • Guided teammates on web-development issues and kept a consistent look across web properties.

Senior Web Designer & Social Media Specialist

Nov 2012Apr 2013

Lady Egypt Tours · Giza, Egypt

  • Wrote and edited content; designed webpage layouts; determined technical requirements.
  • Updated websites, created backups, and provided technical support to end users.
  • Identified and corrected software deficiencies; devised SEO strategies; solved code problems.

Oracle Developer

Oct 2012Nov 2012

TE Data · Cairo, Egypt

  • Follow-up team (pre-launch).

Customer Care Representative

May 2011Sep 2012

Etisalat Misr · Cairo, Egypt

  • Worked as a customer-care agent.
  • Promoted to act as team leader for five and a half months.

Web Developer & Graphic Designer

Feb 2009Apr 2011

New Touch Company · Cairo, Egypt

  • Designed websites with Joomla, WordPress, jQuery, and Flash.
  • Built dynamic queries, vBulletin forums, and WordPress, Joomla, and HTML themes and templates from scratch.
  • Created graphic and motion designs.

03Skills

Craft and working method

Working skills

  • Strategic planning and development
  • Organizing workload and prioritizing tasks
  • Translating business requirements into functional requirements
  • Managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
  • Adapting quickly and picking up new techniques
  • Leading creative development that moves a target audience to take action
  • Setting performance specifications, cost and price parameters, and sales estimates
  • Measuring campaign performance against ROI and KPIs
  • Aligning the company around brand direction, choices, and tactics
  • ATL, TTL, and BTL communication

Technical skills

  • PHP, CSS, XML, JavaScript / jQuery, Ajax, ASP.net
  • Dreamweaver, HTML, SQL Server
  • Cross-browser compatibility (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE)
  • Web development standards, W3C, accessibility, and protocols
  • Adobe Creative Suite and CorelDraw
  • Social-media monetization strategies
  • Payment processing, customs clearance, and multi-currency pricing
  • Technical manuals and user instructions

04Education

Study

  1. Master of Business Administration — MBA

    Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AAST)·2019 – 2021

  2. Sales & Marketing Diploma

    The American University in Cairo (AUC)·2015

  3. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

    Mokattam Academy·2006 – 2011

05Contact

Let’s talk brands

Open to conversations on brand leadership, FMCG growth, and integrated marketing in the Kingdom and beyond.

Locations

RQSA3206, Al Ouzai St., Al Salam Dist., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

13 Abdo Badran St., Manial Al Roda, Cairo, Egypt

Personal

Nationality
Egyptian
Born
19 January 1989
Marital status
Single
Military
Exempted
Languages
Arabic (Native) · English (Very good)