# Ahmed Sabri

Ahmed Sabri is a remote worker on Himalayas, Country Director of Marketing at Bayut.com, based in United Arab Emirates.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@ahmedsabri

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Country Director of Marketing at Bayut.com, who doubled monthly platform sessions and scaled Investors Hub to 20,000 leads.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United Arab Emirates |
| Authorized to work in | United Arab Emirates |
| Salary expectations | 100k+ USD |
| Job categories | Marketing Director, Country Director |
| Skills | Marketing Strategy, Brand Management, Growth Marketing, Performance Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Communications, Sales Strategy, Commercial Strategy, P&L management, Budget Management, Customer Experience, CRM, Public Relations, Partnership Development, Event Marketing |
| LinkedIn | https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-sabri/ |

## About

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At Bayut.com, I lead a 50-person marketing organization across four markets. I doubled monthly platform sessions from 3M to 6M and cut blended cost per lead to $8.

At Majid Al Futtaim, I owned sales and marketing strategy for businesses across the UAE and KSA, opened 15 VOX cinemas in Saudi Arabia, and built a 20+ person team. Earlier at Vodafone, I led the regional launch of M-Pesa and helped grow digital channels to 40% of sales.
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## Experience

### Country Director of Marketing (current)

Bayut.com. Dec 2024 - Present

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Leads 50 marketers across the UAE, KSA, Jordan, and Pakistan with a $17M budget. Doubled platform traffic from 3M to 6M monthly sessions and cut blended cost per lead to $8 against a $35 market average.
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Skills: Marketing-Strategy, Team-Leadership, Budget-Management, Performance-Marketing, Organic-Growth, Lead-Generation, PR, Events, Classifieds, Transaction, Design, TruBroker, TruCheck, Investors-Hub, Property-Expo, Vion

### Director of Sales & Marketing

Majid Al Futtaim. Jun 2019 - Nov 2024

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Reported to the CEO with full P&L, pricing, and budget accountability for sales, marketing, communications, and CX across UAE & KSA. Owned marketing and commercial strategy for a KSA business generating over SAR 1bn in annual revenue.
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Skills: Sales-Strategy, Marketing-Strategy, P&L-management, Pricing, Budget-Management, Communication-Skills, Customer-Experience, B2B-Partnerships, Team-Building, Cinema-Operations, Leisure, F&B, CRM, Digital-Marketing, PR

### Senior Marketing Communications Manager

[Vodafone](https://himalayas.app/companies/vodafone). Apr 2014 - May 2019

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Reported to the Chief Commercial Officer with a $25M advertising and promotion budget across MENA. Shaped Vodafone's global marketing strategy and visual language with Group, and led its localization across MENA.
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Skills: Marketing-Communications, Advertising, Promotion, Budget-Management, Global-Strategy, Localization, M-Pesa, Digital-Strategy, Channel-Sales

### Marketing Communications Manager

[Vodafone](https://himalayas.app/companies/vodafone). Jun 2012 - Apr 2014

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Launched postpaid and prepaid portfolios, capturing prepaid market leadership at 51% and 33% share in postpaid. Reversed three quarters of decline, delivering a 0.8% revenue market share gain and 16% YoY postpaid growth.
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Skills: Marketing-Communications, Product-Launch, Market-Share-Growth, Partnerships, Netflix, Spotify, OSN, Anghami

### Senior Account Manager

McCann Worldgroup. Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

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Managed key accounts and client relationships at a global advertising agency.
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Skills: Account-Management, Client-Relations, Advertising

### Account Manager (P&G)

Saatchi & Saatchi. Jan 2010 - Dec 2011

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Managed advertising accounts for Procter & Gamble at a global creative agency.
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Skills: Account-Management, Advertising, Client-Relations

### Assistant Brand Manager to Brand Manager

[Nestlé Middle East](https://himalayas.app/companies/nestle-foods). Jan 2007 - Dec 2010

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Managed the Nescafé brand, progressing from assistant to brand manager, overseeing brand strategy and marketing initiatives.
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Skills: Brand-Management, Marketing-Strategy, Nescafé, Consumer-Goods

## Education

### Harvard University

Hackathon Proposition Workshop, Hackathon Proposition Workshop

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Participated in a Hackathon Proposition Workshop.
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### Harvard Business School

Actionable Insights, Actionable Insights

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Completed a program on Actionable Insights.
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### Miami Ad School

Boot Camp, Boot Camp

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Completed a Boot Camp program.
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### American University in Cairo

BA, Journalism and Mass Communication

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Earned a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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## Tech stack

- Google Tag Manager
- Google Analytics
- Hootsuite
- Lovable
- Meta Business Suite

To contact Ahmed, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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