About Mahlab
Management consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), based in the Middle East.
At BCG, I work on corporate and portfolio strategy engagements for clients across the public sector, oil and gas, education, and private sectors. My experience includes strategy formulation, investment and growth prioritisation, supporting leadership teams on capital allocation, long-term positioning, and large-scale strategic decisions across multiple industries.
Prior to BCG, I spent four years in the tech sector, working across e-commerce and logistics businesses including Alibaba Group and Trella, a YC-backed logistics marketplace startup. In these roles, I partnered closely with leadership and cross-functional teams on strategy and operations in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
My work in tech focused on logistics and marketplace operations, capacity and demand planning, commercial strategy, and pricing and forecasting, building data-driven frameworks to support both day-to-day decision-making and longer-term growth planning.
Overall, I bring a generalist strategy toolkit grounded in hands-on tech and operations experience, with a strong bias toward structured problem solving and execution.
Proficient in Tableau, SQL, Excel, PowerPoint, and Mixpanel.
English
Native or bilingual
Urdu
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP (BCG)Senior Associate - ConsultantNovember 2024 - Today (1 year and 7 months)Doha, Qatar
- Shaped the corporate and investment strategy for a family conglomerate, running a $12B portfolio analysis and building the integrated financial model that guided capital allocation and growth
- Designed an investment attraction framework for a national industrial city developer; analysed 15+ industries to prioritize high-value sectors and support targeting $500M in foreign direct investments
- Mapped end-to-end workflows across 5 business units to define 40+ CRM system requirements and the integration blueprint for a national oil and gas company
- Built a market assessment of 20+ global and regional universities, identifying positioning gaps to inform the long-term repositioning strategy for a leading university in the GCC
- Alibaba GroupRegional Strategy and Planning AnalystE-COMMERCENovember 2022 - August 2024 (1 year and 9 months)
- Owned regional logistics and workforce planning models across 5 countries, delivering ~5% reduction in transportation and headcount costs through network and capacity optimization
- Redesigned the regional business planning model in collaboration with finance, operations, and commercial teams, cutting planning turnaround time by 57% (7 to 3 days)
- Partnered with the product team to deliver logistics system enhancements, achieving a ~3% monthly reduction in last mile vehicle costs through improved utilization and visibility
- Led network and fleet optimization analyses, consolidating distribution centers and reducing fleet requirements by 35% while maintaining service levels
- TRELLAStrategy and Operations LeadJune 2022 - October 2022 (4 months)
- Built performance management and customer profitability dashboards, enabling leadership to take corrective actions that improved contribution margins by 6% and grew monthly recurring revenue
- Designed and piloted route-based order bundling initiatives, reducing vendor costs by 3% and improving operational efficiency by 10%
- Expanded the operations control tower across 2 business units, increasing shipment coverage by 30% and introducing SLA-based performance tracking
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Education
- Master of Business AdministrationINSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (IoBM)2022Master of Business Administration
- Bachelor of Business Administration2020Bachelor of Business Administration