Summary

I am a Goal-focused Leader, team player, and a mature professional with a decade-long successful track record strategizing and aligning communication, marketing, and business operations activities with business requirements and financial goals.


I am a growth-focused and resourceful professional with extensive experience in business development, marketing, sales, operations, customer service, and digital platform management to achieve optimum revenue growth in a diverse range of industries. Fully Expert in leading the planning and enhancement of e-commerce strategies based on delivering annual net across-functionality and business objectives. Proficient in creating SOPs for operations and management leading to better cross functional team communication and subsequent growth. Leads the development and execution of multi-channel digital marketing and customer acquisition strategies across all channels to drive site traffic and conversion. Proven track record of launching new channels, online marketing campaigns, and partnership opportunities for delivering incremental revenue growth, broadening brand awareness, and acquiring new customers. Instrumental in implementing value-added sales strategies and operational procedures and practices.


Key Projects/Contributions:



  • PTCL: Managed significant challenges associated with the emerging business by working on branding, advertising, coordination from scratch to launch of Charji, wireless device campaigns, Broadband, Landline, Thematics, etc.

  • Challenged with the responsibility to run the marketing & Communications department directly in correspondence with the top senior executives of PTCL with multiple campaigns on and off for 2 months while the rest of the team was unavailable.

  • Protein Factor- Served as a strategic overlay to build, execute and maintain a new food brand from 0to 8 million per annum in 4 years with a satisfied customer base and strong branding, operations, and SOPs.

  • Managed a cross-functional team serving more than thousands of customers every year; a key part of TEDx food partner and managed stall placements and operations at food festivals with successful revenue outcomes all while keeping consistent quality, operations, and finances in order.


My key skills include Marketing & Communications | Branding & Product Awareness | Advertising | Operations & Management | Digital Operations & Activation | Business Planning & Analysis | Strategic Development & Planning | Strategy (Formulation, Critical thinking, execution) | Photography & Videography | Industries: Telecom, F & B, Retail


My professional background and great industrial exposure coupled with an excellent track record makes me an ideal candidate for executive roles. As such I would welcome a discussion regarding opportunities with your organization that fit my background.

Experience

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Senior Marketing Manager
Al Sadat Marketing
Apr 2022 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

I am responsible for handling the whole marketing communications department consisting of - Social media channels Namely Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest. From getting creatives done to running organic and paid campaigns for leads. - YouTube channelFrom getting scripts made and following a proper routine and segments for channel. Studio management, video production and direction management. Organic and paid campaigns.- Website From web page development to SEO and running Google ads. Also running special campaigns.I am also responsible for handling events management, outdoor media and print media of the company. - Handling media plans for newspaper and TV. - Flyers management and distribution - Wall chalkings and paintings.

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Founding Partner of Socially Great
Socially Great, a creative ad agency
Feb 2019 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

·         Lead the digital strategy, vision, roadmap, and execution, and serve as overall business lead for the Socially Great digital platform and websites, handling social media profiles, performing photography, videography, campaign designing of small-scale startups.
·         Established, planned, executed, and outsourced a diverse range of development-focused projects, developed the strategic direction for the On-Demand platform, which aligns with the overall strategy for business.
·         Improved advertising performance by owning the day-to-day management of campaigns, including budget and bid management, building campaigns, conducting experiments, and optimizing landing pages.
·         Developed weekly/monthly reporting cadence and sharing reporting, insights, and forecasts across the organization that accurately measure channel performance and achieve business goals.
·         Continuously monitored paid search trends and investigated deviations in performance to identify opportunities for optimization and maintain an active pulse on the competitive landscape.

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Founder & CEO
Protein Factor, Online Fitness Food Brand
May 2016 - Present | Islamabad, Pakistan

·         Actively involved and led the complete process from concept creation, to branding, advertising, sales, management, and overall operations, analyzed and reported on campaign performance across the platform.
·         Developed and created a quarterly and yearly digital marketing plan for branding and product awareness in the targeted audience.
·         Manage and update website content, optimize for better SEO and traffic, effectively convert traffic to sales and achieved breakeven within 1.5 years and revenues up to 6-7 million per month.
·         Collaborated within Corporate, Retail, and other fitness Gyms/clubs; Analyzed and partnered with another team to accelerate sales pipeline, providing accurate and timely information about leads generated.
·         Understood and achieved the business short-term and long-term goals, developed tactical (day to day tasks) SEO, PPC/SEM, Web and CRO activities for the specialists and associates, assisted in on-boarding new clients
·         Developed and presented marketing strategy presentations to stakeholders, managed and oversee the work from the specialists and associates, edited and QA work from specialists and associates.

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Assistant Manager Brand
MARCOM, PTCL
Sep 2013 - Jan 2016 | Islamabad, Pakistan

·         Strategized and aligned all operations to ensure an end to end campaign execution from brief to release, seamless communication and coordination with creative and media agencies, also oversaw all customer-facing digital communication channels.
·         Executed large-scale events such as Sales Conference, Retailers Seminar, sponsorships, etc., worked in rotation from branding to media, activation to research and operations, also coordinated online marketing campaigns on all social and digital media platforms.
·         Attended weekly calls with clients to provide project updates and discuss forward strategies; built effective teams, managed multiple projects, and supervise collaboration between departments in order to drive positive business growth
·         Monitored regularly and reached your quota of client hours each month with zero carryover hours, set goals for the following month based on analysis and strategy, as well as served as a Manager for your individual specialists and associates.
·         Provided feedback and highlighted key areas of significance showing progress in accordance with the company goals; shared knowledge-based and technical training to continually develop capacity within the team

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Marketing Executive
CCUREIT, Cyber Security Firm Pvt. Ltd.
Oct 2012 - Jul 2013 | Islamabad, Pakistan

·         Rendered a keen eye for details to manage routine activities including Lead Generation, Business Development, execution, and operations of IT-related solutions, assured that selected thrive management tools are being used to maximize overall performance
·         Tracked growth and maintain analytics reports to provide up-to-date information to upper management; analyzed weekly campaign data and performance to perform A/B testing scenarios, also monitored, evaluated and adjusted strategy based on campaign results.
·         Planned and managed product launch campaign and seasonal product or branding campaign, also maintained and updated website content, optimized for better SEO and traffic, effectively convert traffic to sales
·         Executed digital marketing campaigns including PPC, Paid Social, SEM, email from creative to result, analyzed and reported on campaign performance across platforms, also undertook individual tasks of a marketing plan as assigned

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Business Development Executive
LUSH
May 2012 - Oct 2012 | Islamabad, Pakistan

·         Handled pre/post-production and execution of various theatre plays; The odd couple, Chicago, Westside Story.

Education

Bahria University
Masters, Masters in Business Administration, MBA‎
Advertising and Media Management, Advertising and Public Relations, Marketing (Brand Management, Consumer Behavior), Marketing and Brand Management, Public Relations and Advertising, Research And Scientific Writing
CGPA 3.1/4
2013
Bahria University
Bachelors, Bachelors in Business Administration, ‎
Advertising and Communication Management, Marketing, Marketing (Brand Management, Consumer Behavior), Marketing Management
CGPA 3.3/4
2011
The City School
Intermediate/A-Level, , ‎
Accounting & Finance
2007
The City School
Matriculation/O-Level, , ‎
Chemical Science, Mathematical Physics
Percentage 77%
2005

Skills

Expert ADS
Expert And Online Analytics
Expert Bio Surgery
Expert Brand Advertising
Expert Brand Identity
Expert Business Development Process
Expert Business Management Solutions
Expert Client Management
Expert Communications Skills
Expert Content Optimization
Expert Cooordination Skills
Expert Craft Command
Expert Creative Artwork
Expert Critical Analysis
Expert Cross Team Communication Skills
Expert Digital Marketing
Intermediate Editorial Judgment
Expert Email List Generation
Expert Executive Presentation Skills
Expert Export Development
Expert Facebook Ads
Expert Food Labeling
Expert Funds Management
Expert Google AdWords
Expert Hiring Team Building
Expert Loyalty Marketing
Expert Marketing Email Writing
Expert Marketing for Small Business
Expert Marketing Fulfillment
Expert Marketing Knowledge
Expert Marketing Strategies
Expert Multi Site Team Management
Expert ommunications Skills
Expert Organizational Development
Expert Pricing Negotiation
Expert Process Operations
Expert Quality Control Knitting
Expert Real Estate Content Development
Expert Retail Products Knowledge
Expert Revenue Analysis
Expert Sales
Expert Sales Experience
Expert Sales Management
Expert Sales Operations
Expert Security Principles
Expert Social Media Mraketing
Expert Social Media Optimization
Expert Social Media Strategist
Expert Strategy Formulation
Expert Team Management

Languages

Expert English
Expert Urdu

Ather Contacts

Muhammad Asif Hafeez
Inter State Gas Systems (Private) Limited (ISGS)
Tariq Sarwar Bangash
Confidential
Aurang Zaib
Military Lands & Cantonments Department (ML&C), Ministry of Defence
Muhammad Jehanzeb
Higher Education Commission (HEC)