KAMEL DROUBI
Restaurant Brands Manager
Lebanese
Date of Birth: 31/07/1979
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Professional Profile
Brands manager with +11 years’ experience of successfully coordinating the activities of various departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, and distribution of products services. Comfortable working with people of all levels and having an excellent commercial approach to solving problems and developing business processes. Having proven people management skills, with the ability to manage performance and motivate staff on an individual and team level.
Now looking for a new and challenging managerial or consultancy position, one which will make best use of my existing skills and experience and also further my personal and professional development.
Skills Highlight
Proven ability to lead, motivate and build successful teams.
Understand all legal, regulatory, information security and compliance requirements.
Proven influencer negotiator.
Achieving targets in a dynamic and complex business environment.
Team leading & people development skills.
Able to manage and develop a diverse group of highly skilled people.
A pragmatic approach to getting the required results.
Ability to manage operations within budgetary constraints.
Building and maintaining strong and effective relationships with suppliers and customers.
Professional Experience
IL gelato company, Kuwait, Shuwiekh educational,jahra,marina mall.
Operation manager for 5 branches and 89 staff members.
Join on Jan 2017/ still present .
Job description:
Manage the operation and business for all branches.
Organize employees hiring,targetting according to the business.
Increase sales and operation at the company.
Creating products improvement and pricing according markets, customer satisfaction and company benefits.
The Chocolate bar, Kuwait, Avenues Mall, spoons Mall.
And Marina mall
Duties
1-Managing a team of approximately 150 employees in a busy work environment.
Negotiating contracts, ensuring that they balance value and risk.
2-Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures.
3-Creating, managing and analyzing performance data and other information.
4-Ensuring that capacity and capability are continually planned.
5-Encouraging, identifying and developing best practice strategy.
6-Ensuring compliance to all Environmental Health & Safety goals & objectives.
7-Producing Operations manuals which define how the business is to be run.
8-Working closely with the Financial Manager, Facilities Manager, IT Manager and HR department.
9-Outcomes: Elevated gross sales of the Company' Avenues Mall 27% in first year as food services Brands manager and by 12% or more every year thereafter.
10-Achieved record profitability of restaurant and catering operations for the past two years. Cut food and labor costs by 16% while increasing sales, food/service quality and guest satisfaction.
11-Redesigned menus; renegotiated terms with vendors/suppliers; halted rampant waste; and unified front- and back-of-house staff to create a cohesive, cooperative team committed to premium guest service and optimum profitability.
13-Recognized for leadership excellence through "Manager of the Year" honors (out of 25 F&B managers).
Le pa qutediu(PQ),
Alshaya Company
Avenues & Marina Mall.
Duties
1-Restaurant Manager Led operations, purchasing, personnel, and billing functions for busy Restaurant Hired and trained employees, managed payroll and billing, and oversaw purchasing functions.
2-Key Achievements: Quickly turned around struggling Restaurant to sell for profit, increasing sales from KWD 70K to KWD 120K annually in less than 1 year.
3-Minimized labor costs by maintaining operations with only two employees.
Azadea company,
Massimo Dotty, Duties
Avenues, Marina mall:
Floor sales man the (MIT)manager in training.
Movenpick Hotel & Resort / Kuwait,
Duties
Assistant Manager of Hemingway 5 stars Restaurant.
Educations
Bachelor in Hotel & Management from the Lebanese University
Lebanon Beirut
Additional Training & Certifications
Culinary Managers Program, 2009
Five-Star Training, 2007, 2009
ServSafe Certified, 2008CDC Certified, 2009.
Omega system 2009.
Material Control (Fidelio).
Foreign Language:
English (fluent)
French.
COMPUTER SKILLS
CRM Software (Micros, Omega, Squirrel & 4Sale etc.)
MS Office Applications Internet, Email, Social Media