Imran Ali, Deputy Director Of Sales & Marketing

Imran Ali

Deputy Director Of Sales & Marketing

Le Meridien Al khobar Saudia Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Khobar
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
4 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 8 Months

Deputy Director Of Sales & Marketing at Le Meridien Al khobar Saudia Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • July 2011 to July 2012

• Working closely with Director of Sales for supervision, training and reporting of sales team and managing sales department.
• Assisting Director Of Sales in marketing activities, promotions, packages, online marketing, marketing programs and all other marketing and promotional related strategies
• Assisting Director of Sales in Budgeting and all daily activities of sales and marketing dept.
• Create and implement programs to achieve greater profitability through increase revenue average rate, overall occupancy and increased business volume.
• Strive to meet the Hotel’s Revenue goals in rooms and food and beverage.
• Assist Director Sales and Marketing with projects and all sales team performance feedback.
• Assess/ Evaluate employee performance fairly and manage sales team
• Working closely with all departments with feedback and support regarding customer issues.
• Identify sales opportunities, and close high value sales with own customer group.
• Enable colleagues to close high value sales and meet customer and partner needs.
• Plan sales strategy, tactics and activities to achieve sales targets.
• Ensure all plans and activities lead to achieving the departmental strategy
• Monitor team performance against strategy and delivery of sales tactics.
• Use of data effectively to make informed and timely effective decisions.
• .Identify and build productive relationships with business influencers
• Actively prospects and guides team in prospecting for attractive new business.
• Provide leadership in entrepreneurial selling and delivery brand message to customers.
• Cooperate and facilitate annual contracting process and delivery of contracts.
• Setup and maintain multi-dimension communications with customers.

Manager Sales at karachi Marriott Hotel
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2007 to October 2007

• To work closely with the Director of Sales to develop new business strategies, analyze business trends to identify opportunities and develop consistent response .
• Formulates week-to-week sales plan and sales call reports.
• Assists to formulate an annual marketing plan, budget and forecasting.
• Sets up appropriate file systems of existing and potential accounts, keeping them up to date.
• Plan Sales tripe under the direction of DOS to major marketing areas, calling on accounts within their specific marketing area (Islamabad and Lahore).
• Providing timely feedback & market reports to management.
• Provides feedback to the DOS on changing marketing conditions, including trends in the competition
• Develop effective group/catering sales plans and actions.
• Support brand services and relationship strategy, driving customer loyalty by delivering service excellence throughout each customer experience
• Establish, maintain and use library of reference materials, periodicals, texts and sales leads, stay abreast of market trends and hotel selling techniques
• Attends training sessions/programs relevant to sales and marketing.
• To handle, maintain and monitor the production and business share of 400 corporate accounts.

Assistant Business Manager at FMC (Pvt) ltd.
  • Pakistan
  • January 2005 to January 2005

 Assist in sales plans, sales forecast, market surveys, and competitive analysis.
 Manages and supervise the sales staff daily activities.
 Conduct training sessions for sales, customers, agents, and support.
 Design and conduct presentations, demonstrations, and give speeches regarding our lines of products and services.
 Build a customer DB, to facilitate the sales representatives in their daily chores.
 Tackle the big customers and close deals for his prospects as well as help the sales staff to close their own deals.
 Evaluate Sales staff performance on a daily basis.
 Reporting the performance of the sales department to the executive management.
 Plan and implement the positioning strategy for the product(s).
 Formulate and coordinate marketing activities and policies to promote products and services in liaison with Public Relations Team

Sales & Marketing Manager at StylePack & Co.
  • Pakistan
  • January 2002 to December 2004

Making sales reports..
follow up clients and make calls..
Maintaing relations with potential customers..
Reviving Zero accounts..
Developing Plans and Strategies ..
Consumer/Customer Training (consumer decision making, customer operations, customer decision making and market segmentation).
Execution of all pre and post sales activities and managing customer relationship
 Build business within the assigned territory by developing and executing against strategic account plans.
 Developing Marketing plan and marketing strategies for best positioning in the market.
 Generate a sales pipeline, qualify opportunities, and accurately forecast pipeline.
 Establish contact and develop relationships with prospects; recommending and selling solutions and services.
 Identify business opportunities with prospects and deploy the organizational resources necessary to bring them to close.
 Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.
 Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at PIMSAT
  • March 2006

Major in Marketing with 3.8 G.P.A...

Bachelor's degree, MARKETING
  • at KARACHI UNIVERSITY
  • January 2002

MBA Marketing 3.8 GPA B.COM ...2ND DIVISON DIPLOMA IN I.T...A-1 GRADE ONE YEAR ACCOUTING COURSE

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Marketing Management
Sales Targets
Sales Tools Development
Marketing Mix
,Sales & Marketing Management ,Internnational bidding Programs,Key Account Management..Contracting,leading Team,

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

E-Marketing Association
  • E-Marketing
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

Karachi Marriott Hotel (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2009
Valid Until:
August 2009
Starwood Hotels & Resorts (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2011
Valid Until:
November 2011
By Karachi Marriott Hotel (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2008
Valid Until:
October 2008