Ammar Farooqui, Digital Marketing Manager

Ammar Farooqui

Digital Marketing Manager

Xpertin

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

Digital Marketing Manager at Xpertin
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2018

• Coordinate with Directors to draft marketing strategy and marketing plans.
• Plan and implement advertising campaigns on digital media; including but not limited to Search Engines, Display Media, and Social Networks.
• Manage and optimize all marketing campaigns to maximize advertisement ROI.
• Prepare and present weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reports with key performance indicators.
• Coordinate with affiliates and online press for PR and promotional materials.
• Provide direction for designs and creative for marketing and promotional materials.
• Provide direction to create content for blog, website, digital ads, and social media.
• Coordinate with the development team and product manager to suggest new features to improve user experience and user flow.
• Implementation of marketing automation.
• Conduct webinars and informational content to educate users
• Perform A/B testing for different ad campaigns, landing pages, web content and user flows.

Ecommerce, Digital Marketing and Social Media Specialist at OpenKart.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2017 to October 2018

• Responsible for company's overall digital media presence.
• To improve company's online sales.
• Manage brand’s communication on social media and online forums.
• Execution of marketing and advertising campaigns.
• Leads generation from Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.
• Improvement of Conversion Rate, eCommerce Cart Value, and Basket size.
• Supervising team of graphic designers for digital creative.
• Supervising team of content writers for PR, micro blogging & social media.
• Execution of Marketing Automation
• Coordinating with category managers, catalog team and website development team to improve website user experience.
• Suggest product improvements based on marketing and sales data.
• Reporting and presentation for marketing growth to the management.

Social Media Marketing And E Commerce Specialist at Shopia.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2016 to October 2017

• Initiated social media and digital presence of company from scratch and successfully built an adequate audience.
• Managed CPM, CPC campaigns on Social Media.
• Remained responsible for result oriented and efficient Facebook advertisement.
• Worked towards improving Conversion Rate, eCommerce Cart Value, and Basket size.
• Supervised team of graphic designers to generate digital creatives.
• Setup and managed Facebook Dynamic Ads.
• Coordinated with catalog and web development team to improve website functionality, interface and UX.

Key Account Manager (E-Commerce) at TradeKey
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2013 to October 2015

• Managed a team of 7 ecommerce Key Account Managers as Team Lead.
• Increased online and social media presence to 90%.
• Managed to obtain 100% client retention rate in consecutive quarters.
• Created potential leads by digital marketing and B2B portals.
• Integrated social media with ecommerce sites to boost website traffic.
• Coordinated with customers and new prospects to help sales team.
• Created content and graphic designing for digital marketing.
• Maintained clients' profiles and online existence on business platforms, online forums and blogs.
• Facilitated in online business dealings and negotiations to convert business leads.
• Closely worked with the support teams (SEO, Web development, Sales team).
• Generation revenue through up selling and cross selling of different online services.
• Made process of smooth service delivery by implementing online SLA and KPI.
• Delivered quarterly reports and presentations to top management.

Social Media Executive at Yayvo.com
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 2012 to September 2013

• Initiated online existence of one of the Pakistan’s largest B2C website.
• Worked for brainstorming and execution of Facebook campaigns.
• Proactively updated and managed social media calendar for weekly and daily posts.
• Designed visual content for better visibility and maximum social reach.
• Worked with offline marketing teams to integrate offline and online sales channels.
• Maintained timely response on all social media networks to engage fans/followers.
• Promoted company’s blog and increased website traffic.
• Monitored social media posts, content, design, and customer responses.

Online Services Manager at TimeSvr.com
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2010 to December 2011

• Singapore based outsourcing company where I worked to manage international clientele for online services delivery.
• Managed a team of 12 online services executives.
• Supervised quality assurance and customer support (US clientele).
• Managed Social Media Marketing through Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn on behalf of clients.
• Provided online and on-call customer support for clients’ ecommerce websites.
• Directly coordinated with customers to understand their needs and to provide solutions.
• Co-structured company’s customer relationship policy.
• Managed and frequently updated blogs by creating content and designing images.
• Prepared reports and market analysis and executed online researches.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
  • September 2013

MBA Program (18 years education) in Marketing with Majors in: Internet Marketing Brand Management Media Marketing Customer Relationship Management Public Relations Services marketing

Bachelor's degree, Marketing and Management
  • at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
  • April 2011

BBA Program (16 years education) with Major courses including: Advertising Change Management Consumer Behavior Marketing Management Development Economics Business Communication Management Information Systems Project Management International Marketing

Specialties & Skills

Digital Marketing
E commerce
Brand Management
Social Media Marketing
Customer Service
Training and Mentoring
Presentation
MS Office Suite
Excel Reporting
Photoshop
Public Speaking

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Punjabi
Beginner
Pushto
Beginner
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Online Selling (HP, License 1964228-236) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Social Media Marketing (HP, License 1964228-66) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Inbound Marketing Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2015
Valid Until:
December 2016
Microsoft Excel (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Adobe Photoshop V07 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2006
Valid Until:
January 9999
22 Immutable Laws of Branding (Training)
Training Institute:
MAJU
Date Attended:
January 2013
Duration:
9 hours

Hobbies

  • Online Research