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Noha Samara
Director Analyst
Noha Samara is a Research Director in the Supply Chain Planning team. Noha's Research areas focus on supply chain planning. She specializes in sales and operations planning (S&OP), demand planning, supplier collaboration, supply and inventory planning, customer Collaboration and new product launches.
Previous experience
Ms. Samara joined Gartner with a 15- year career leading several supply chain organizations spanning supply planning, S&OP management, demand planning, customer logistics, category planning, new product introductions and portfolio planning for P&G, Microsoft and HMD Global. In her last role, she set up and led the supply chain planning organization for the successful startup of HMD Global (Nokia Phones).
Some previous Roles included:
- HMD Global (The Home of Nokia Phones), Customer Logistics and Supply Chain Director
- Microsoft, Channel Operations Lead, MENA
- Procter &Gamble, Supply Chain Operations Head and S&OP Leader- MEA- Beauty Care (Prestige)
- Procter &Gamble, New Product Introductions Head- MEA- Baby Care
- Procter &Gamble, Supply Planning Department Manager- Egypt- Baby Care
Professional background
HMD Global (The Home of Nokia Phones)
Head of Customer Logistics
Microsoft
Channel Operations Lead
Procter & Gamble
MEA Supply Network Operations Head
Areas of coverage
Supply Chain Planning
Education
MBA, Master (MSc/MA), American University in Cairo, Egypt
Bachelor (BSc/BA), Communications and Electronics Engineering- Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Implementing, sustaining and improving a global process design for supply chain planning
2How to implement and improve sales and operations planning (S&OP) process
3How to build collaborative planning with suppliers
4How to reach supply planning excellence
5How to ensure successful new product launches