Marwan Walieden

Pragmatic Food & Beverage Operations Expert, as well as Culinary & Catering Consultant with over twenty-three (23) years of diverse professional experience in a prominent food production and catering businesses, with extensive knowledge creating handling day to day operation, leading cross-functional teams, and cost control to minimize costs and increase profits.

Dealing with experts of diverse nationalities and backgrounds, as well as understanding the specific priorities of critical parties and forming strategic alliances with them, helped me develop my skills and significantly expand my social intelligence, allowing me to assist any respectable company that values accuracy, accountability, and continuous business development.

• Setting Up the full mobilization for the catering facility in The RedSea Development company project in Umluj for 16000+ man-days for catering & life support.
• Managing the Operations logistics and storage of food supplies, in several locations across KSA.
• Ensuring of providing the best services of catering operations and designated services to the client 
• Managing the operations area successfully while adhering to the agreed-upon budget and ensuring adherence to KPIs and all business policies and procedures of Finance, HR, Administration, and Operations
• Negotiating competitive contracts with suppliers and utilizing local suppliers to the greatest extent feasible to cut costs and maintaining a supplier base to satisfy contractual obligations and avoid shortages
• Leading the operation team by attracting, recruiting, training, and appraising talented personnel and maintaining high levels of staff performance
• Coordinating with the business development department, to continuously update area market intelligence reports as needed, covering competitor activity and identifying potential business opportunities
• Reviewing, monitoring, and regulating purchase requisition (PR) and call-off contracts for catering equipment and utensils, as well as restaurant furniture procurements
• Developing tenders and contract procedures, as well as the yearly budget exercise, and monitoring all costs and expenses linked to the section
• Ensuring that all work is performed following QP policy and procedures, as well as assuring compliance with quality management system (QMS), ISO 9001, ISO 22000, and HSE standards requirements Management of staff and staffing schedules, inventory, menu development and layout,
• Daily scheduling of all employees in different work locations All day-to-day operations 

• (2018) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Succeeded as an Industrial Catering Consultant in the establishment of Mena AL-Khaleej, a new catering firm, to service a residential compound of 4000 employees (general labor and seniors).
• (2018) Basrah, Iraq: Created and maintained a budget of USD 6,000,000 per year for catering and life support operations and supplies, as well as improving operational efficiency by cutting food costs by 25% and workforce size from 140 to 93.
• (2014) Beirut, Lebanon: Successfully established Harkous Chicken's massive operation as a consultant on the food production line, which included ready-made food products such as crispy, burgers, nuggets and a wide range of products as well as with the development of the packaging and recipes.
• (2007) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Won the best Chef competition & finished third out of 120 chefs from Jeddah's five-star restaurants and hotels. The competition was conducted at the Jeddah Hilton hotel.

SKILLS

Business strategies, P&L analysis, creating operation manuals, project management, catering event’s management, banquet management, teamwork, food safety, QAQC, training and development, reporting, budgeting & cost control, social intelligence, problem-solving, Microsoft Office, Menus planning , Special Events, Store Management, Direct Reports, Daily Activities ,Labor Costs, POS ,Event Details, Banquet Functions, Sales Floor, Communication Skills, Hospitality, Outlook, Food Safety Experience, Catering Experience, Compliance, Chef, Culinary Arts, Customer Service, Detail Oriented, Cooking, Food Preparation, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points(HACCP)