Omar MOMTAZ
Senior Business Consultant, nexGen Advisory Group
Ethical, result oriented consultant with more than 10 years of diversified experience covering marketing, business development, project management in telecommunications and real estate industries.
Excellent knowledge of the Middle East, especially Lebanon, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
Accredited PMP.
Previous experience:
Emaar Economic City – Smart City, Senior Manager, Business Development
King Abdullah Economic City, Jeddah, KSA (September 2008 – present)
• Senior Manager, Business Development for Smart City: build the FTTH business model in coordination with potential partners/investors. Covering forecasting, deployment planning, technology delivery, offered services portfolio and marketing strategy for Quad play.
• Tackled all coordination issues with other departments (infrastructure, marketing, technology and finance) to ensure full alignment between the telecom activities and all other related programs.
• Prepared Quad play services portfolio and tentative pricing strategy. Covered also branding creation strategy, content redistribution approach and marketing guidelines.
Saudi Telecommunications Company – ALJAWAL, Senior Resident Consultant
Group 7, Riyadh, KSA (2006 – present)
• Redesigned the Service Development Process for AlJawal (mobile telecommunications business unit), in line with corporate processes strategy, including design of project management tools and documentation templates.
• Advised Product Managers for the design, defining products’ features, target segments, communication plans and distribution channels., development and rollout of various value added services.
• Identified and assessed new opportunities by benchmarking with other international mobile telecommunications operators and attending various solutions providers and platform vendors’ road shows.
• Managed projects include defining Marketing Department’s requirements during the CRM implementation, assessment of Churn Prediction solution, design and rollout of Collect Call, Call Screening, Home Zone, My Groups, Local Roaming Number, Multiple Lines SIM card, Multiple SIM cards’ unique line plus various specific intervention on other value added services.
France Telecom Mobile Lebanon, Products & Services Manager
FTML-Cellis, Beirut, LEBANON (2000 -2004)
• Managed products and services team, who was responsible for the entire life cycle of VAS, from opportunity identification to service roll out.
• Developed various projects and supervised other department’s contributions such as market studies, technical innovation, design supervision and marketing mix.
• Achieved the successful roll out of Mobile Banking (complex project involving a top bank and a major SIM cards solution provider), Unified Messaging and the growth of SMS business by 30% by effectively managing content providers’ contracts.
• Attained all objectives consisting of delivering new services, increasing data traffic by 20% yearly, reaching targeted penetration rate for launched services and suggesting innovative products.
• Actively contributed to the setup of EFQM policy by contributing to assessment and improvements of all internal processes, procedures and policies in cross-functional teams.
• Responsibilities included budgeting salaries, bonuses and annual raises, supervising the team’s work, reporting to the Marketing Director, presenting the Division’s projects to the Board of Directors.
90 contactsJoined nexGen Advisory Group as a consultant for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2008 - 2010For the mega-project: King Abdullah Economic City.
•Senior Manager, Business Development for Smart City: build the FTTH business model in coordination with potential partners/investors. Covering forecasting, deployment planning, technology delivery, offered services portfolio and marketing strategy for Quad play.
•Managed coordination with other departments (infrastructure, marketing, technology and finance) to ensure full alignment between the telecom activities and all other related programs.
•Prepared Quad play services portfolio and tentative pricing strategy. Covered also branding creation strategy, content redistribution approach and marketing guidelines.
•Currently developping the city management and city services business case.
2006 - 2008Working as resident consultant for STC-ALJAWAL mobile operator in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the Marketing Department. Working particularly on strategic and core value added services. Mission includes preparing service descriptions, attending projects’ meetings, following up developments and advising Products & Services managers in the marketing department.
2000 - 2004FTML-Cellis was one of two GSM operators in Lebanon, with a subscribers’ base exceeding 380,000 and more than 400 employees. FTML was 67% owned by France Telecom – Orange Group.
Within the Marketing department (30 people), was responsible of the Products and Services Division (3 executives), handling all Value Added Services business including market studies, technical innovation, design supervision and marketing mix of VAS.
Skills include project management and supervising, budgeting salaries, bonuses and annual raises, supervising the team’s work, reporting to the Marketing Director, presenting the Division’s projects to the Board of Directors.
Projects included Mobile Banking, Unified Messaging, location based services, in addition to developing SMS usage. Acting as an interface between international platform suppliers, local partners, and advertising agencies.
Other activities included internal training, newsletter editing, Total Quality Management’s processes coordinator and volunteer in FTML’s Foundation for Children support.
