1. Curriculum Vitae
Rachid Mohamad Hassan Samhoun
Kingdom of Bahrain
Phone Mob + 973 3222 2545 + 973 17592 593
E-Mail – rrrsamhoun@hotmail.com
Career Objective
To join a visionary, high growth, innovative, empowering firm, this ensures constant
learning opportunities. To obtain career position in sales, marketing and administration
field in retail industry under efficient and progressive management.
A career with enough challenges and opportunities to prove my capabilities,
Personal & Profile
 17 Years of Professional experience in the field of sales & Marketing. Hospitality
Industry Food & Beverage
 Excellent communication skills, Trilingual with knowledge of Arabic, English.
 Strong client management skills.
 Personality & skills to interface with both staff and outside service to achieve
desired results, leading & dealing effective with multicultural environment.
 Self-motivated, Progressive individual looking for new challenges.
 Proven ability to train, Develop and maintain a team of professionals.
 Excellent organizational & administrative skills
 Attending yearly to Gulf food exhibition since 2011.
Working Experience
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2. Currently Employed: Fruit Banquet co. (Edible Arrangements)
Sept 2010 till date American Franchise Company, worldwide,
specialty in making fresh fruit arrangements
Job Responsibilities
 Operation Manager. Opening New Shops
 Shop Manager, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing.
 Controlling staff (Duties & Salaries etc).
 work at the highest levels, according to Maier right quality and global excellence,
according to the parent mother company
 Making deals with big companies to archived my goals
 Discuss with fruits suppliers to get good price and getting discount to increase
our profit
 Dubai, Qatar Training Under Edible Arrangements’ Franchisers Staff
 Contact With USA the master Franchisers Corporate With Pakistan were is our
head operation for database
 Handling weekly staff meeting and develops them to do better job and better
service
 Daily coordination with our head office company EAI in Dubai and USA
 Cost Controlling for our fruits
 Staff training and brand quality assurance
January 2010 – Sept 2010 (NAPCO) Part of Indefco World Wide
Company for Aluminum Foil, Napkins,
Tissues, papers etc
Job Responsibilities
 Handling all class “A” restaurants achieve them by printing napkins, opening
new lines and closing deals with new restaurants. To achieved my goals.
October 2002 - 2009 Lebanon Trade Center Manager
(Fruits & Vegetable Section Floor Manager
Purchasing, Sales direct communicate with
the customer)
Job Responsibilities
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3.  Visiting all the market checking the items and the products
 Helping the Sales Executives in case they need my assistance to communicate the
local clients
 Actively involved in launching of Lebanon Trade center (Super market) in
Bahrain.
 Purchase fresh fruits and vegetable from local market. Saudi Arabia , Lebanon
Thailand and from different supplier
 Meeting and negotiating with local suppliers.
 Suggesting and doing the ways and means of improving sales and profit
maximization.
 Handling the complete purchase of Fresh Fruits & Vegetable and maintaining the
quality of goods.
 Handled the import and export independently.
 Provide regular supports to the staff.
 Showroom merchandising and controlling receiving.
 Monitor sales in each product category & brief sales staff on achieving the daily
budgets.
 Prepared purchase-planning budgets, which led to increase in efficiency and
reduce in wastage and keeping intact of stock levels for all the departments to get
maximum output from all the Sections.
 To manage price survey record of our competitor after having the feedback from
the Commercial department.
 To conduct fortnightly inventory for Fresh Food Department to control pilferage.
 Monitor customers satisfaction based on random contacts & customers feedback
& accordingly suggest the management on improvement for the products and
service.
 Attend to customer service and resolve customer complaints with amicable
solutions.
 Market visits to the market and study the competitors.
 Handling grievances of the customers
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
 Leading and Motivation workforce in order to achieve the business targets.
 Familiar with all marketing activities personally visiting all supermarket branch
and other outlets.
 Implementing Companies strategies and business plans.
Personal Information
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4. Name : Rachid Mohamad Hassan Samhoun
Date of Birth : 24TH
Oct 1968
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Lebanese
Passport No : RL 1937368
Personnel Strengths : Excellent communication skills and good
Interpersonal skills, strong in analytical and
Logical thinking, flexible, proactive and result
oriented.
Driving Licence : Valid Bahraini and Lebanese Driving Licence.
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