Ali Farrag, Media Manager

Ali Farrag

Media Manager

OSN Networks

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Media Production
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Media Manager at OSN Networks
  • Bahrain
  • My current job since July 2019

Looking after the planning, strategy, and buying of all media. Liaising
and managing the Media Agency, internal stakeholders and the
content marketing teams.
• Setting up the campaign creatives and consulting on
messaging, durations and effective communication through
each medium.
• Extracting and uploading custom audiences - creating look a
like - and uploading of Offline data.
• Looking after campaign performances daily and working on
optimizations
• Reporting and liaising with our analyst, on creating dashboards
and solutions for stakeholders to be able to monitor their
campaigns and performance.
• Handling all financial processes and budget management
• Reporting on Spend, performance and budgets to commercial
finance and other stakeholders.
• Consulting with the website team, on UI, UX best practices,
tracking and reporting, SEO on site changes and
recommendations.
• Reach out and make time for Sales teams on ground in each
market to understand their challenges and show them that

Group Account Director at JWT DXB & Kuwait -
  • July 2018 to July 2019

Managing a team of 3 looking after HSBC, Unilever (Close Up), Pfizer,
Abbott, FedEx, Dulsco, Kings Collage, Dubai Cares, Bayer, and pitches
in DXB office. The Moving to Kuwait for 7 months to help retain Kuwait
Airways, KFAS and Salhiya.
• Managed to sustain 100% of the business and grow our
portfolio by acquiring new clients like Kings Collage and other
Bayer brands through pitches
• Building and implementing processes
• Managing client relationships and making sure their business is
aligned with the global marketing strategies and local market
objectives
• Working closely with planning to develop communication
strategies for pitches and current business

CRM at General Motors
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2018 to July 2018

portfolio, for

Marketing consultant at American
  • Egypt
  • March 2017 to March 2018

Handling Dubai Calendar and

Marketing & Communications Specialist at Dubai Investments PJSC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2016 to March 2017

Handling all 40 subsidies of Dubai Investments, in terms of Marketing
and Communication planning and strategy
• Manage websites, social media, digital media & PR strategies
• Assess Digital Media planning & spending
• Conduct digital research, listening & develop best practices
• Recommend apps & tools to better services & ROI
• Coordinated & support subsidiaries’ 3rd party relations

managers at MAF
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2015 to October 2016

Handling Du, Mai Dubai,

Business Development Manager at 7awi Int. Online Publishers
  • December 2014 to December 2015

Handling the launch and Marketing for Arabsturbo.com, Alqiyady.com,
Alwaseet.com & Ra2ej.com
• Driving sales for all 4 websites with a proven record of 200%
growth
• In-charge of product development and traffic growth, with a
proven record of 300% growth and a maximum bounce rate of
17%
• Acting as the key Marketing & PR Manager for all 7awi
products
• Lead Digital Marketing consultant for all partners covering 16
agencies and 25 direct clients

Account Manager at FP7 Dubai
  • January 2013 to December 2014

Handling Daman Insurance and Bank Muscat
• Managing time, budget & client strategy
• Supervising regional medium-to-large scale projects from
creative to production to media.
• Researching, analyzing & developing a full understanding of
the client’s business and markets
• Producing periodical competitive analysis reports, market
analysis reports and brand reviews

Media Account Manager at Yahoo! Inc
  • India
  • August 2011 to June 2013

Managed product launches for Romania, Greece, South Africa,
Netherlands, Israel and Denmark
• Growing and acquiring new business and upselling campaigns
• Being recognized as the fastest growing team/Market with a
200% growth each quarter.
• Developed in full 5 business cases for each market, covering
market research and product development
• Acted as the Direct Response Ambassador for the entire book
of business that includes 8 markets and 70+ clients
• In-charge of the communication strategy development and
execution for each market
• Managing Re-Sellers and direct clients
• Optimizing and scheduling campaigns.

Account Supervisor at FP7 Cairo
  • April 2010 to August 2011

Handled the Coca-Cola Red Brand and Supported on New Business
Acquisition
• Supervised a minimum of 10 medium to large scale projects
across the year from creative to production to media
• Introduced several initiatives to the client in which 5 were
successful in a period of 7 months
• Ensured client requests are dealt with efficiently and
expectations are met

Sr. Account Executive at Impact BBDO Cairo
  • June 2008 to April 2010

Handled Cheetos, Doritos, Lays, EFG Hermes, CIB MasterCard,
Mercedes- Benz, P&G and Nestle Yogurt
• Generated and updated accounts status reports, contact
reports and financial status reports as well as effectively
preparing briefs and materials required by creative and design
teams
• Liaised with all agency departments and followed up on
internal processes with execution excellence

Education

Bachelor's degree, Media Production
  • at International Academy for Media Science
  • June 2006

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Specialties & Skills

Sales Online
International Sales
Account Management
Marketing Management
Business Development
ASSETS RECOVERY
FINANCIAL
PROCESS ENGINEERING
BUDGETING
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
STRATEGIC
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