Christiane Farah, Corporate Affairs Officer

Christiane Farah

Corporate Affairs Officer

BATCO

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, Business with concentration in "e-services"
Experience
16 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 1 Months

Corporate Affairs Officer at BATCO
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since July 2020

1- Act as the primary contact platform that receives, consolidates and conveys all requests/ communications addressed to the CEO in relation to Batco or Emit’s corporate matters.
2- Organize and facilitate executive meetings.
3- Follow-up on the progress of key initiatives/action items requested by the CEO.
4- Review project reports, operations performance and cost control reports, in addition to handling and assessing strategic matters requiring further investigations, and preparing executive briefs to the CEO.
5- Liaise with the Finance Department to compile and monitor the company’s financial performance on a monthly basis, and report areas of concern to the CEO.
6- Conduct ad-hoc analysis, and organize field visits as per CEO request.

Business Development Officer at BATCO
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since April 2014

- Key Responsibility Area 1: Strategy
» Assist in preparing and communicating the Group’s key strategies and commercial plans.
» Recommend modifications and upgrade to Group’s guidelines and strategies according to market findings and analysis.
» Identify industry trends and related business opportunities.
» Identify business opportunities within Group’s pre-set guidelines and strategies i.e. prospect projects/tenders and partners.
» Prepare and follow up on entry to newly selected Country(ies).

- Key Responsibility Area 2: Commercial
» Identify Projects and/or Tenders within Group’s guidelines.
» Assist in preparing studies, business plans and agreements
» Assist in developing new related businesses and sectors.
» Prepare and produce department related presentations.
» Update Ongoing Projects billing data list.
» Prepare and follow up bank guarantees requests with Banks and update related cost report.

- Key Responsibility Area 3: Quality
» Assist in scheduling yearly internal audit plan and preparing and conducting internal audits.
» Liaise with external auditor.
» Assist in preparing yearly Quality Management Review report to be presented to the CEO.

Business Development Executive at Arab Communications Consult
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2013 to March 2014

- Follow up orders with clients and suppliers
- Attended the WTM exhibition is London, UK to try to meet potential clients and showcase our different platforms, then after the exhibition, followed up with the clients I met
- Coordinate, prepare and follow up the new website implementation www.behereonline.com with the web design company
- Create Social Media pages for the company (on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin) and update their content on a regular basis
- Create and manage online ads on social media websites and search engine to increase website traffic (traffic went from 400 to 1025 visitors per month)
- Follow up the production of the B’Here magazine with Clients, the Editor, the graphic design company
- Prepare media kits, magazine mockups, previews for Dome implementation, etc. using Adobe Photoshop and Indesign.

Assistant General Manager/Marketing Executive at ASSRA3
  • Lebanon - Tripoli
  • June 2010 to September 2013

-Assist the General Manager in the following:
Organizing his schedule, following up the implementation of his Strategies/Requests, Manage the office and oversee the work of the Administration Staff

-Software Priority Man: provide permissions to company's software users according to their needs while respecting position related usage rules

-Prepare reports according to General Manager requirements

-Handle payments and payroll for Lebanon and Syria's offices

-Form a link between Structural Engineering Department and Programming Department. (Make sure that requested features are being made according to software users needs, get ideas to ease end users' experience and pursue their implementation

Marketing:
-Write, copywrite and edit company's website contents

-Design sections and/or whole company's websites

-Follow up and Oversee outsourced services (website content writing, flash movie projects...)

-Make Market Research about new projects and important new clients to contact

-Contact new clients by email or phone

-Execute and Follow up the online marketing campaign (Ads on: google, facebook, linkedin)

-Organize events

Assistant General Manager- Office Manager at Arab Communication Consult
  • Other
  • August 2008 to June 2010

-Ensure all tasks related to office administration
-Follow up collection with clients
-Copy write articles to be published
-Oversee graphic designer's work on the publications
-Make sales meeting when necessary
-Prepare company's website content and oversee its production by outsourced company

Customer Services Assistant at FMPS Holding
  • Other
  • March 2008 to June 2008

-Prepare collection reports for collectors on a daily basis
-Collect money from collectors at the end of each working day
-Data entry of daily collections
-Contact clients by phone regarding collection of money

Education

Master's degree, Business with concentration in "e-services"
  • at Université Saint Joseph
  • October 2010
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
  • at Université Saint Joseph
  • July 2007

Specialties & Skills

Website Management
Adobe Photoshop
InDesign
Social Media Marketing
Joomla Web Editor
MS Word
Adobe Illustrator
Visual Basic
Adobe Photoshop
MS PowerPoint
Typing 140 wpm
MS Excel
Adobe InDesign

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Spanish
Beginner

Memberships

St. Maron Choir
  • Member (chanting)
  • October 2010

Training and Certifications

Accounting and Auditing (Training)
Training Institute:
Safi for accounting and auditing
Date Attended:
July 2006