abdul rafeeque, Marketing Manager

abdul rafeeque

Marketing Manager

ALHA

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Experience
26 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 6 Months

Marketing Manager at ALHA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since June 2012

Conduct market research to determine market requirements for existing and future products
Analysis of customer research, current market conditions and competitor information
Develop and implement marketing plans and projects for new and existing products
Manage the productivity of the marketing plans and projects
Monitor, review and report on all marketing activity and results
Determine and manage the marketing budget
Deliver marketing activity within agreed budget
Develop pricing strategy
Liaison with media and advertising
Develop and maintain all the sales tools necessary for the success of the product(s) in the
marketplace.
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Business Development Manager at Al Maddalla Trading Est.
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since May 2010

● Responsible for the operation and market development, promoting the company's business to the business community.
● Promote advertising, marketing, corporate gifts, online advertising, and trading business of the company.
● Running campaign online, understanding clients needs and requirements.
● Secure new business deals from new clients as well as existing clients by understanding client’s strategic business objectives and requirements.
● Prepare proposals and presentations, issue quotations by responding to tenders, follow up on purchasing orders, delivery notes and invoicing.
● Bring reliable suppliers and business partners by opening new business communications.
● Responsible in searching and identifying market development opportunities suitable for the company’s business and pertaining to the market needs.
● Actively participate in the execution of various projects and liaise between the company's various projects and customers.

Marketing Manager at Candor Solutions Advertising LLC Dubai, UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2007 to February 2010

Responsibilities handled:
Managing a team of people in research, advertising and marketing.
Develop and execute short and long term marketing plans, branding and promotional strategies.
Review continuously executed marketing plans and policies at regular
intervals, in relation to changing market patterns and new
opportunities.
Conducting primary and secondary research in consumer and industrial markets, analyze business and market trends, prepare thorough and well-organized reports, writing of summaries & conclusions; finishing the project within the stipulated time.
Preparation of market survey questionnaires in consultation with the client in order to obtain the best result in respect to the market research objective.
Monitoring the brand online and offline, positioning and branding.
Liaising with companies like Google, Yahoo and Msn for online marketing and advertising.
Analysing brand, and its position, formulating branding strategies to enhance as well as to build the brand itself.
Planning, scheduling, tasking and managing projects.
Conducting the research online.
Promoting the services online through paid advertisement, search engine optimisation, keyword research, blog marketing etc.
Tracking the online advertising with respect to set objective and making necessary changes as per the tracking report.
Promoting different services such as market entry services, radio and Tv commercial production and release, event management, graphic designing, etc. to the corporate clients and managing its execution from the scratch till its completion.
Media planning and buying as per the budget set.

Incharge- Marketing and customer services at MT Khoory Group, Dubai UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2006 to July 2007

• Handling different requirements with regard to different real estate projects
initiated by the chairman.
• Ensuring the projects are implemented as per the set objective in regard to the project from designing, submission for municipality approval, preparing the contracts, award of contract to the contractor till final completion of the project.
• Managing the team of customer support executives, ensuring that customers complaints are handled within the shortest time and no customers are left unattended.
• Initiating customer survey in order to obtain feed back about real estate facility required and their feedback on the present services given. The feedbacks are looked into while moving into new projects.
• Inviting bidders for construction projects, ensuring that bids are submitted before deadline.
• Invite quotations for quantities and other requirements for project under execution, analyzing the quotation, and choosing the best supplier.
• Review all bidding materials and ensure that materials are as per specification.
• Maintain the database containing the price of the materials as well as suppliers.
• Reporting to the chairman

Business Development at Alburj Advertising
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2001 to February 2006

• Promoting TV commercials, multimedia, 3d animation, photography and videography, websites ranging from static, dynamic to e-commerce, graphic designing, for the corporate.
• Liaising with PR, Advertising and event management companies for promoting the services.
• Interacting with clients and Presentation of the services.
• Managing the back office in India giving instructions and deadline for completion of the projects on time.
• Initiating different marketing and pricing strategies for promoting the services.
• Interacting with Indian software companies for promoting their products in the Middle East market.
• Formulating strategies on email and online marketing.
• Developing the business from the scratch and building customer base.
• Doing online Marketing for virgin coconut oil in the US and European Market.

Centre Head at SSI India Limited
  • India
  • May 1997 to August 2001

• Managing the centre.
• Managing the team of marketing executives for promoting the software education course for schools and colleges.
• Formulating the marketing strategies.
• Getting the feedback from the students to maintain the quality standards.
• Interacting with students and parents on their career improvement.
• Observing competitors and market.

Education

Master's degree, Masters Degree in Business Administration.
  • at Bharathiar University,
  • May 1999

MBA SPECIALISED IN MARKETING MANAGEMENT.

Specialties & Skills

Management
iNTERNET
MS OFFICE
MS OFFICE
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ON LATEST WEB,MEDIA ,SOFTWARE AND IT PRODUCTS
Research
Google Webmaster Tools
MS Office tools
MS OFFICE, OUTLOOK, AND INTERNET

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Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Native Speaker
Tamil
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Technology, Artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, start up etc