Walaa Maher
Just a Supply Chain Continous Learner
Walaa Seven Success Secrets to Go Up :
Show up, Speak up, Look up, Team up, Lift others up, Never give up....Finally Cheer Up
Walaa Maher
General Manager Group Supply Chain Operations @ RAK Ceramics (2018-Present)
GCC & LAN Director End-to-End Supply Chain @ Kimberly Clark (KC) (2014-2017)
CEE & MEA Material Supply Chain Manager @ Procter & Gamble (P&G) (2003-2013)
Citizen of Egypt, with over 18 years of end-to-end Supply Chain experiences. Led diverse workstreams with two of the top Fortune 500 blue-chip companies.
Walaa Career has included stints in pro-bono consulting, quality assurance, EHS, and logistics; jobs have ranged from planner to direct supervision of Planning teams to Senior Manager looking after a region of more than 70 countries with P&G (AKA Procter and Gamble or the Largest FMCG Company), and Supply Chain Director at Kimberly Clark (Well-known of its Kleenex Brand).
Led diverse teams ranging from direct report of 3 to Heading up SC division with nearly 1,200 employees. But you can always see that he is proud of the years he spent building the P&G Inbound/Distribution footprint in Nigeria and Later the Transformation Agenda he led in KC Bahrain.
Walaa believes on hands-on knowledge that is supported by extensive reading and being up-to date on what is happing in the industry every day. From FMCG industry to Building Materials, From Latest planning software to warehouse equipment. His idea is “Not to Know it all” but at least “Know who can lead with you ALL the changes”.
Since 2010, Walaa started steady steps as a speaker for Supply Chain design and trends within Middle East and Specially MENA region. Reaching over 160 hours annually to diverse seniority groups, yet his passion always was to help the young learners of SC world in their first steps to this world. For years With His “Be Unstoppable” slogan and Interactive sessions, he presented our company and his ideas in different places in Western Europe, Asia, Africa & CEE.
Offering the famous topics of “Supply Networks Restructure” , “Pay it Forward on Talent” , his tours included Speaking in diverse collection of universities, forums and companies. Including:
FRANCE (KEGDE Business School) .
BELGIUM (Integrated Supply Chain Summit)
ITALY (Serve Italy Smarter Workshop)
USA, AZ (Supply Chain Insights Global Summit)
Istanbul, Dubai, , Venlo, Amsterdam and Dusseldorf workshops for Supply Chain Middle East Insights
International Transport & Logistics Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime University
British University in Cairo , Masr International University ( MIU ) , Russian University (RUC) , and 3 different Local universities in Egypt .
Finally, all those have known Walaa, will tell you the same, he is a proud “learner” and always say that he is “Good” because he was blessed by the “GREAT” people he worked with.