Ahmed Albluwi

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I currently work as Sr. Logistics Manager at Sary, a B2B marketplace tech startup in Saudi Arabia. Sary was launched in Dammam, in the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia and our mission is to connect business owners with wholesalers and manufacturers in one place to enable a seamless way of doing business.

I joined Sary back in April 2019 as an Operations Manager. But since we were still a small company, my main responsibility was to launch the Western region of the country and expand Sary geographically. That included sourcing suppliers, establishing the fleet, and marketing to customers. My scope of work narrowed then, as the team had grown with members specializing in certain tasks, and I became focused on the performance of the operations.

Being a Performance Manager, we created the payment structure of Sary freelancing drivers and incentive programs, optimized drivers routes, along with creating the standard operating procedures of orders delivery processes. Later on I was promoted to Sr. Logistics Manager and my role expanded to include creating the service-level agreements and negotiating them with third-party logistics providers.

Having a degree in Mathematics from Saint Michael’s has helped me since day one in my career. During the interview actually three years ago I was asked about the traveling sales man problem, and ways to solve it. This in fact was a very nice homework that we had in the Graph Theory course.

There’re plenty of situations where the experience I had at Saint Michael’s and the skills I’ve learned as a Math major came in use in my career. One example is the standard operating procedures. The main components of a good SOP are strong analytical and problem-solving skills to analyze the processes and streamline them. However, it’s not only the courses and homework’s that give the highest value, but also the symposiums and conferences that I was lucky to be part of. Having my participation in the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference and Saint Michael’s academic symposium on my resume made it stand out to recruiters back when I was fresh graduate, and I still have them in my resume until today. Its effect is magical.