SAZ's CV
SAZ Saleem (SAZ20569)
Executive Assistant | Chairman Support
Profile summary
Strategic Executive Assistant with thirty-one years shaping executive support outcomes across thirteen organizations, combining deep GCC experience with cross-cultural team leadership. Fluent in four languages, professional expertise spans calendar management, international travel coordination, and confidential correspondence. Known for precision in stakeholder relations, vendor management, and expense administration. Committed to delivering high-level administrative governance and seamless operational support for executive leadership.
Career highlights
Chairman Diary Management: Managed the Chairman diary and appointments for seven to eight meetings per month, resolving schedule conflicts and reprioritizing tasks as business needs change.
Travel and Logistics Planning: Plans and coordinates domestic and international travel, itineraries, and logistics for two to three trips per year.
Vendor and Expense Administration: Oversees vendor and service provider relationships, including invoices and expense administration of six thousand annually.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reports to the Chairman, directing internal administration and corporate logistics across four departments alongside business contacts, vendors, and service providers. Steered executive meetings, private and corporate events, and travel logistics while maintaining strict discretion over confidential correspondence, executive documents, and records.
- Manages the Chairman diary and appointments for seven to eight meetings per month, resolving schedule conflicts and reprioritizing tasks as business needs change.
- Acts as primary point of contact between the Chairman and internal departments, business contacts, vendors, and service providers.
- Plans and coordinates domestic and international travel, itineraries, and logistics for two to three trips per year.
- Oversees vendor and service provider relationships, including invoices and expense administration of six thousand annually.
- Tracks open actions and follows up with stakeholders to ensure commitments are completed on time.
Shaped executive support operations for senior management across multiple construction projects, steering administrative workflows and project documentation. Managed calendars, meeting schedules, and confidential records while aligning communication between senior leadership, contractors, consultants, and external stakeholders.
- Tracked management actions to completion.
- Maintained project documentation across multiple construction sites.
Directed commercial operations across Muscat by steering corporate gift initiatives and hospitality supply lines, while coordinating external partnerships with vendors to align service delivery with client specifications.
- Coordinated client enquiries and supply arrangements across hospitality sector accounts.
- Supported business development activity by engaging directly with Muscat-based vendors.
Steered credit card service operations, directing inquiry resolution and complaint management processes while maintaining internal service standards.
- Completed formal Customer Service Skills training at Bank Alfalah Human Resource Development Centre.
- Received written recognition for professionalism while resolving complex credit card service issues.
- Handled highly sensitive information requiring sound judgment and discretion.
- Coordinated communication between senior leadership, contractors, consultants, and external stakeholders for construction projects.
- Coordinated client enquiries and operational requirements.
- Supported business development activity across the region.
- Received written recognition for professional conduct during daily operations.
Education
Languages
English · Fluent
Urdu · Native
Arabic · Basic
Turkish · Professional