Ahmed AlNatour, Texas Chicken Brand Marketing Manager

Ahmed AlNatour

Texas Chicken Brand Marketing Manager

Olayan Food Division

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
Experience
17 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months

Texas Chicken Brand Marketing Manager at Olayan Food Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2021

 Played a pivotal role in the major brand rejuvenation across all operating regions
 Maintaining and growing the brand, in addition to the firm’s corporate communication
 Ensuring & maintain consistent brand SOV in the market
 Building strategic relationships and partner with key industry players, agencies, home delivery aggregators and vendors
 Plans & executes Mobile Application & Website consumer journey, interface, features, content & creative execution
 Effective management of the marketing, advertising, and promotional activities
 Analyzing & optimizing menu structure, performance, price matrix & creative
 Develops and executes all marketing communication aspects, in support of the operations and sales teams to achieve targets and objectives
 Managing creative, social media, media & PR agencies
 Identifying opportunities to enhance and build stronger brand equity
 Articulating future trends and concluding how the business may need to adapt to satisfy new
consumer needs & behaviors.
 Evaluate and monitor the financial aspects of product development, such as marketing budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, ROI and profit-loss projections as well as turnaround strategies
 Working independently on special projects according to agreed timelines and special requests
 Deploying successful marketing campaigns and owning their implementation from ideation to execution
 Created brand awareness & TOM via always on campaigns
 Overseeing and validating marketing material, from website banners to hard copy brochures and case studies
 Planning & executing a variety of organic and paid acquisition channels like content creation, content curation, pay per click campaigns, event management, publicity, social media, lead generation campaigns, copywriting, performance analysis
 Analyzing consumer behavior and optimize campaigns accordingly
 Liaise with the internal teams, agencies, suppliers, aggregators, industry partners and in-house
graphic designers for the implementation of ATL and BTL marketing campaigns
 Plan & oversee Local Store Marketing Calendar’s & targets
 Leading and organizing the workflow with cross functional internal/external teams to guarantee an effective projects execution
 People Succession & development planning
 Perform and plans customer relationship management initiatives that drives frequency and advocacy to the brand
 Competition analysis to identifying their key strengths & weaknesses

BURGER KING, TEXAS CHICKEN & Buffalo Wild Wings Marketing Manager at Olayan Food Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2017 to December 2020

 Translating the strategy into an action plan that would allow the company and the department
to get the targets needed, through developing and implementing marketing programs
 Monitoring brand performance and defining marketing KPI’s
 Working with the cross functional teams to align on brand strategy and direction in the relevant
region and market
 Responsible for bringing cohesion to marketing process and campaign reporting across cross
functional teams in marketing, ensuring implementation as per agreement with Brand Partners
 Creating, updating, and maintaining the marketing calendar for all promotional initiatives
 Maintaining a thorough understanding of relevant principal requirements and guidelines, ensuring
that all the respective brands within the BU apply and adhere to the guidelines across all managed
marketing activities
 Supporting Marketing Communications as needed on the communications plan, including inbound and
outbound tactics
 Competition analysis to identifying their key strengths & weaknesses
 Creating, managing, and supervising the execution of LSM action plans that led to increase individual store bottom line sales and profit
 Maintaining Brand image uniformity and consistency on communication & in-store level
 Responds to ad-hoc requirements and sales aid
 Developing and executing BTL, POP and marketing collateral in line with marketing objectives and ensure
quality production of the same.
 Managing all administrative internal processes, all types of marketing tracking and analytical reports and budget control
 Monitoring & managing all advertising channels & sales channels

BURGER KING, TEXAS CHICKEN & Buffalo Wild Wings Assistant Marketing Manager at Olayan Food Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2016 to January 2017

 Buffalo Wild Wings Brand Launch in ME.
 Monitoring brand performance and defining marketing KPI’s
 Working with the cross functional teams to align on brand strategy and direction in the relevant
region and market
 Responsible for bringing cohesion to marketing process and campaign reporting across cross
functional teams in marketing, ensuring implementation as per agreement with Brand Partners
 Creating, updating, and maintaining the marketing calendar for all promotional initiatives
 Maintaining a thorough understanding of relevant principal requirements and guidelines, ensuring
that all the respective brands within the BU apply and adhere to the guidelines across all managed
marketing activities
 Supporting Marketing Communications as needed on the communications plan, including inbound
and outbound tactics
 Competition analysis to identifying their key strengths & weaknesses
 Creating, managing, and supervising the execution of LSM action plans that led to increase individual store bottom line sales and profit
 Maintaining Brand image uniformity and consistency on communication & in-store level
 Responds to ad-hoc requirements and sales aid
 Developing and executing BTL, POP and marketing collateral in line with marketing objectives and
ensure quality production of the same.
 Managing all administrative internal processes, all types of marketing tracking and analytical reports and budget control
 Monitoring & managing all advertising channels & sales channels

Burger King UAE Local Stores Marketing Senior Officer at Olayan Food Division
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2013 to January 2016

 Developing Media and Marketing plans for UAE & Oman Region
 Marketing and Media plans budget development
 Branding plans for a better brand image, penetration, recognition and loyalty
 Researching and evaluating new BK Local Store Marketing opportunities
(Brand Penetration)
 Researching and evaluating local competition (promo’s, menu, sales, traffic,
marketing and branding)
 Competition counter attacks (concepts, planning, execution, and results analysis)
 Effectiveness Analysis of all marketing efforts.
 Managing distribution channels for in-store media support along with product supply
 Ensuring effective, branded marketing communications and advertising.
 Provides store marketing collaterals to identified stores
 Developing Four Walls plan for UAE & Oman Region (unified POP material placement
across the region).

Senior Account Executive at Sprinter Advertising
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2011 to June 2013

 Managing the account executive team to ensure that sales objectives are achieved
 Developed long-lasting relationships with new & existing clientele
 Managing existing customer accounts by ensuring their satisfaction with the company
products and services
 Developing accounts retention plan
 Identifying customer needs and communicating how company products and services fulfill those needs
 Developing solid sales proposals to convince potential and existing customers to purchase company products and services
 Collecting customer feedback to determine product and service shortfalls
 Overseeing the day-to-day client requests, by briefing relevant cross functional parties
 Assure designs, adaptations & production runs are delivered up to the client’s wish
 Assigned to handle VIP clients Nestle, Make Up for Ever, Price Waterhouse Coopers
 Special orders and supporting line manager with reporting inputs and action plans
 Ensuring all orders, requests and deliverables are attended in timely fashion

Sales Officer at Al Natour Jewelry & Gas Co.
  • Palestine - Ramallah and Al Bireh
  • January 2005 to January 2009

Working as A Sales Officer in a family-owned business of Jewelry and Gas services, i have handled: financial control, sales management, liaising with cross-functional teams and maintaining sales and traffic.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
  • at Arab American University Of Jenin
  • January 2010

Specialties & Skills

Training
Data Entry
Public Speaking
Negotiation
Creativity
Problem Solving
Decision Making
Teamwork
adaptability
Analytical
Leadership Skills
Active Listening

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Excel Expert For Business Application (Training)
Training Institute:
Haseeb Al Sabbagh Training Centre
Date Attended:
February 2009
Duration:
60 hours
Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Olayan Food Division
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
14 hours
Oracle Certified Professional - 10 G (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Customer Centric (Training)
Training Institute:
BG Consulting
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
14 hours
Agile Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
BAKKAH
Date Attended:
July 2021
Duration:
14 hours

Hobbies

  • Gaming
  • Basketball