About me

First Name

Mahmood

Last Name

S. Khan

Nick Name

MahmoodSKhan

Career

Bio

Mahmood is a “Luxury & FMCG” business + retail professional with vast experience in leading multinationals & large international organizations. He nurtured the initial portion of his career at schools like Nestle & Gillette followed by joining an internationally known luxury retailer’s / distribution group based in UAE. His roles include a variety of assignments from Brand to Retail Management & from Marketing to Commercial Expert throughout his career. His current role includes setting up an infrastructure & build a wider commercial canvas for Chopard Parfums & Philipp Plein fragrances. Several other brands are in pipeline too.

He is a highly passionate enthusiast in Luxury Beauty & FMCG Business “Retailing & Distribution’ in GCC, Levant, Iran, Iraq, India, Africa & Pakistan, Domestic & Travel retail markets with a decade of successful track record & noticeable accomplishments.

He is known to gear optimistic change through continuous improvement of departmental processes. Keeping view of best in class practices, sharing & reapplying the wins while holistically meeting international standards, and acknowledge changes in the business environment which calls for a pre-emptive response.

Mahmood is keen to acquire knowledge, be part of the change spree, to share & reapply his gained learnings while unblocking his challenges & progress unconditionally. This led him to enhance his learning at “The University of Oxford”, where he completed an extensive Masters Level, “Organizational Leadership program” at Said Business School.

He believes to continually elaborate his learning canvas, with no limitations on deployment anywhere in the world & keen to gain from generation younger to him in total equality of those who have vast experience.

He is a determined “coach” and an efficient team player.”

Objective:
To learn & acquire fresh knowledge from a variety of perspectives while comprehend/strengthen my skill sets to become a profound leader of a dominant conglomerate.

Role

Commercial Director – MEA & CIS

Company

Chopard -Brands Beyond Beauty

Skills

Retail Operations- Regional Distribution Expertise -Marketing Management-Trade Marketing -Business Consultant-Project Management-Team Management -Coach

DNA

Degree(s)

Organizational Leadership – University of Oxford

Age

49

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