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Bios

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Three lengths in each language. Use them as written; please keep the wording “under his commercial leadership” for the portfolio figure in the long bio.

English

Short 32 words

Seifelden Alhajj is a Riyadh-based revenue engineer for Saudi multi-branch groups. He answers one question for group owners before they sign the next branch lease: sign, sign with conditions, or not yet.

Medium 94 words

Seifelden Alhajj is a Riyadh-based revenue engineer for Saudi multi-branch groups. He led the commercial side inside a Saudi group as it went from 3 branches to 33, and through Steer led go-to-market strategy for a specialty-coffee brand from launch to 25 branches, as the groups reported. He judges a branch before the lease on three numbers: when the riyal comes back, what it takes from existing branches, and what a delivery order leaves after commission. His rule is published in Arabic with its calculator, and he says “not yet” when it is needed.

Long 190 words

Seifelden Alhajj (سيف الدين الحاج) is a Riyadh-based revenue engineer for Saudi multi-branch groups. His work sits where marketing meets finance in multi-branch consumer businesses. He looks at how a branch pays back its capital, how rent and site choices shape margins, what delivery platforms really leave behind per order, and which brand, city or channel should get the next riyal. He calls this practice revenue engineering, and he writes about it first in Arabic, for owners and CEOs of Saudi groups with 5 to 50 branches.

He spent five years at Sultan Group (Riyal Albarakah), rising from Marketing Manager to Commercial Strategy Director. He led the commercial side of the group’s growth from 3 to 33 branches over two to three years. Across the portfolios under his commercial leadership, revenue exceeded SAR 530 million over two years. He also served as Chief Revenue Officer at Steer Agency, and later founded and led Steer & Partners (closed).

He publishes the Revenue Engineering Doctrine, the Saudi Scale Playbook, The Channel Ledger, a 53-term lexicon, and the essay series “Beneath Marketing” at seiflden.com. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Helwan University.

Arabic

Short 32 words

سيف الدين الحاج متخصص في هندسة الإيرادات للمجموعات السعودية متعددة الفروع، مقره الرياض. يجيب ملاك المجموعات عن سؤال واحد قبل أن يوقّعوا إيجار الفرع القادم: وقّع، أو وقّع بشروط، أو ليس الآن.

Medium 74 words

سيف الدين الحاج متخصص في هندسة الإيرادات للمجموعات السعودية متعددة الفروع، مقره الرياض. قاد الجانب التجاري داخل مجموعة سعودية وهي تنتقل من 3 فروع إلى 33، وقاد عبر Steer استراتيجية دخول علامة قهوة مختصة من الإطلاق إلى 25 فرعًا، كما أفادت المجموعتان. يحكم على الفرع قبل الإيجار بثلاثة أرقام: متى يرجع الريال، وكم يأخذ من الفروع القائمة، وماذا يبقى من طلب التوصيل بعد العمولة. وقاعدته منشورة بالعربية مع حاسبتها، ويقول «ليس الآن» حين يلزم.

Long 153 words

سيف الدين الحاج متخصص في هندسة الإيرادات للمجموعات السعودية متعددة الفروع، مقره الرياض. يعمل حيث يلتقي التسويق بالمالية في المجموعات متعددة الفروع: كيف يسترد الفرع رأس ماله، وكيف يصنع الموقع والإيجار الهامش أو يأكله، وماذا يترك طلب التوصيل فعلًا بعد العمولة، وأي علامة أو مدينة أو قناة تستحق الريال التالي. ويسمّي هذه الممارسة «هندسة الإيرادات»، ويكتب عنها بالعربية أولًا لملاك ورؤساء المجموعات السعودية التي تدير من 5 إلى 50 فرعًا.

أمضى خمس سنوات في مجموعة سلطان (ريال البركة)، تدرّج فيها من مدير التسويق إلى مدير الاستراتيجية التجارية، وقاد الجانب التجاري لتوسّع المجموعة من 3 فروع إلى 33 فرعًا خلال سنتين إلى ثلاث. وتجاوزت إيرادات المحافظ التي قادها تجاريًا 530 مليون ريال خلال سنتين. وشغل كذلك منصب رئيس الإيرادات في Steer Agency، ثم أسّس وقاد Steer & Partners (أُغلقت).

ينشر على seiflden.com «منهج هندسة الإيرادات»، و«دليل التوسع السعودي»، و«دفتر القنوات»، ومعجمًا من 53 مصطلحًا، وسلسلة المقالات «تحت التسويق». يحمل بكالوريوس التجارة من جامعة حلوان.

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Topics

What he speaks and writes about

Each topic links to the publication, essay or lexicon entry where the argument is made in full. Third-party figures in the essays are cited to their original sources in each essay’s notes.

  1. Branch payback: a branch is a capital decision

    Write the payback ceiling before the site visit, and judge a new branch against the group’s own past openings, not the plan’s optimism.

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  2. Rent, sites and Riyadh’s rent freeze

    With rents frozen, the risk sits at signing: bid from your own numbers, not from what a competitor is willing to pay.

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  3. Delivery platforms as ad businesses

    Cost each delivery order like an ad: count what it leaves after commission and visibility fees, and only the orders that would not have come anyway.

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  4. Cannibalisation between sister branches

    A new branch earns its place on the sales it adds, not the sales it moves; a matched-branch test measures both directions.

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  5. Incrementality and promotions

    Before-and-after reports flatter every offer; a simple branch holdout shows what would have happened without it.

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  6. Cash in fast expansion

    Supplier float is not profit, and every opening grows it; the test is the group’s cash after a six-month pause.

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  7. Replication and scale

    If branch 30 cannot perform like branch 3, fix the system before opening branch 31.

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  8. Capacity: when a campaign breaks the branch

    A campaign fills the hall but adds no chairs; check peak utilisation before buying demand.

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  9. The founder as bottleneck in family groups

    The slowest station may be the founder’s desk: count the wait on recent decisions and delegate below a written limit.

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  10. When to close a branch

    Money already spent is not a reason to stay open; write a dated rescue-or-close rule before the branch opens.

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  11. Brand, occasions and the customer journey

    Customers circle back rather than fall down a funnel, and they choose by occasion; menu, price, channel and format follow from that.

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  12. Being found by AI assistants

    Customers ask an AI assistant before they visit; branch data should be one asset with one owner, tested every month.

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Quotable lines

Lines you may quote

From the ten theses of the Revenue Engineering Doctrine 2.0. Free to quote with attribution to Seifelden Alhajj.

Fact sheet

Facts as reported by the groups

Fact sheet: Seifelden Alhajj
NameSeifelden Alhajj · سيف الدين الحاج
Based inRiyadh, Saudi Arabia
Current workRevenue engineer for Saudi multi-branch groups, based in Riyadh
Previous rolesFounder and lead, Steer & Partners (closed) · Chief Revenue Officer, Steer Agency (Aug 2024 – Sep 2025) · Sultan Group – Riyal Albarakah (Jul 2020 – Sep 2025): Marketing Manager, then Commercial Strategy Director
Portfolio revenueSAR 530M+ over two years, under his commercial leadership
ExpansionOne group grew from 3 to 33 branches over 2–3 years (Sultan Group)
Brands27 brands advised and directed
Selected resultsTeller (via Steer, go-to-market strategy lead): launch to 25 branches in under 12 months · Broast Zone (via Steer): +22% net margin, +22% footfall (period not stated by the group)
EducationBachelor of Commerce, Helwan University, Cairo, 2017
LanguagesArabic, English
PublicationsRevenue Engineering Doctrine 2.0 · Saudi Scale Playbook 2.0 · The Channel Ledger (Vol. 3) · The Liquidity Ledger (Vol. 4) · The Revenue Engineering Lexicon (53 terms) · Beneath Marketing essays: season 1 (6 episodes), season 2 “The Branch Decision” (8 episodes), season 3 “Branch Thirty” (8 episodes)

Figures as reported by the client groups, for the periods stated where stated; none was measured against a control group.

Should I open a new branch? Run the numbers

Speaking

Speaking formats

One session, three formats. It is educational, with no sales pitch.

Session

Before you sign the next branch: payback, rent and delivery in Riyadh’s new market

Saudi restaurant groups are expanding into a market that changed in twelve months. Riyadh’s five-year rent freeze caps increases but not the first price. About 2.2 million square metres of new retail space is scheduled by 2028. Delivery platforms now earn more from restaurants’ commissions and advertising while consumer delivery fees fall. This session turns those shifts into three numbers every owner can calculate before signing: the payback ceiling for a new branch, the rent-to-sales ceiling taken from the group’s own best branches, and the contribution a delivery order leaves after commission, visibility fees and migrated orders. There are no forecasts and no vendor pitches. Attendees leave with a one-page worksheet and a written rule for when to walk away from a site.

Three takeaways

  1. Write the payback ceiling and bid ceiling before visiting the site, not after.
  2. Judge a pricier site on its extra rent against its extra sales, not on averages.
  3. Measure delivery as advertising: count only the orders that wouldn’t have come anyway.

Market figures in the abstract come from the sources cited in Season 2, Episode 3 and Episode 5 of Beneath Marketing.

Formats

  • Talk

    20 min

    Keynote stage.

  • Workshop

    60 min

    Up to 30 people, printed worksheet; attendees bring last year’s branch figures.

  • Panel

    Expansion economics, delivery channels or family-group growth.

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How to cite

How to cite

Third-party figures in his essays (REGA, Knight Frank, Jahez, Redseer, Uber, academic papers) should be cited to their original sources, which are linked in each essay’s notes. Please don’t attribute them to him.

Contact

Media enquiries

For interviews, comment or speaking: email m.seif.m@outlook.com with “Media” in the subject line, or send a WhatsApp message to +966 549 040 268. Replies usually come the same working day. Comments are available in Arabic or English. He does not comment on named clients.

Email (subject: Media)WhatsAppm.seif.m@outlook.com