Alifya Thingna, B2B Communications Specialist

Alifya Thingna

B2B Communications Specialist

Edenred UAE

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Masters in French Translation & Francophone Literature
Experience
13 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 1 Months

B2B Communications Specialist at Edenred UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2023

- Built B2B Brand awareness and credibility.
- SEO blogs & content marketing.
- PR strategy & events with fintech-centric comms.
- Created brand marketing material and ad campaigns.
- Optimized content in all touchpoints of the B2B funnel.
*Grew the Linkedin page’s engagement by 70% in the first year
*Wrote and submitted a whitepaper on blue-collar employees well-being, to the UAE government

Chief Business Officer at BITS
  • India - Pune
  • March 2022 to December 2022

- Built a new brand identity & strategy for a new company.
- Developed sales & marketing communications, campaigns.
- Interviewed and trained new resources.
**Brought in our first 8 clients in the first 2 months.

Social Media Manager | Marketing (voluntary) at Women in Localization India
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2019 to June 2022

Content writing, concept curating, marketing WL global communications, social media managing, promoting the Leadership Team, research & guest speakers coordination.

Founder Member & COO at BITS
  • India - Pune
  • January 2019 to March 2022

- Chief Operations Officer of a language technology start-up, so looked after a lot of day to day operations, set up new divisions and teams for the startup, drafted investor pitches.
- Responsible for all communications, collaterals, sales proposals, client relationship-building, marketing strategy.

Senior Copywriter at Pink Lemonade Communications
  • India - Bengaluru
  • August 2021 to November 2021

- Campaign conceptualization, content generation, pitches.
- Business writing, creative writing, strategic thinking.
- Digital, social and internal comms for B2B & B2C brands
- Advertising industry trends, insights, events, launches.

Associate Director, Key Accounts (UK) at BITS
  • India - Pune
  • July 2016 to January 2019

- Managed European Key Accounts, primarily UK market.
- Responsible for nurturing leads and business development for International LSPs and drove industry initiatives.
- Travelled to Germany, France, Singapore and the UK for conferences and in-person relationship building.
- Took on the role of the Head of the Indian Languages department, helped to train resources & improve workflows.

French-English Professional Translator at BITS
  • India - Pune
  • September 2014 to January 2017

- Translated, edited and reviewed documents from various domains like Technical, Financial, Legal, Marketing, Business, Marketing, Technology.
- Creative writing and blog writing (in-house newsletter).

*I was also a French-English Trainee Translator (Aug 2010 - Mar 2011) with the same company

Education

Master's degree, Masters in French Translation & Francophone Literature
  • at Pune University
  • May 2013
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Arts in French
  • at Fergusson College
  • May 2011

Specialties & Skills

COMMUNICATIONS
WRITING
CONTENT MARKETING
CREATIVE WRITING
LEADERSHIP
OPERATIONS
LOCALIZATION
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MARKET PLANNING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PROPOSAL WRITING
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
STRATEGIC
MARKETING

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Languages

English
Native Speaker
French
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Gujarati
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Sales Strategies and Approaches in a New World of Selling (Training)
Training Institute:
Linkedin Learning
Date Attended:
July 2021
Duration:
1 hour
Business Innovation Foundations (Training)
Training Institute:
Linkedin Learning
Date Attended:
September 2020
Duration:
3 hours
Alliance Française Pre Diploma - B1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2009
Alliance Française Intermediate - A2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2008
Alliance Française Elementary - A1 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Social Media Marketing Social CRM (Training)
Training Institute:
Linkedin Learning
Date Attended:
August 2020
Duration:
1 hour

Hobbies

  • writing
    BITS Special Recognition Award 2016 for showing extraordinary talent in Entrepreneurship skills