Daniyal Qamar, Marketing Communications Specialist - Digital

Daniyal Qamar

Marketing Communications Specialist - Digital

arabsat

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Marketing Communications Specialist - Digital at arabsat
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2014

Budgeting and Planning:

• Preparing the Digital Marketing Communications budgets
• Monitoring the promotional budget to ensure that activities are being planned and executed inline within the budget

Marketing Initiatives:

• Coordinate with appropriate sales or marketing personals to discuss communication needs
• Assist in the creation and implementation of various digital initiatives including: email, newsletter, digital ads, SEO, website, social media platforms that leverages the right platforms in the right ways to build loyalty and inspire action
• Develop written content for use across many digital platforms including Twitter, Facebook; customize tone, style and length of content for each platform
• Schedule/post visual and written content to all social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, and other social platforms
• Collect and evaluate data regularly to track digital growth and measure success of individual strategies; compile and distribute reports
• Execute email marketing and banner advertising campaigns
• Coordinate in writing drafts speeches and presentations
• Assist and Develop draft advertising text and layouts as part of campaign materials
• Assist in designing various marketing, communication and promotional materials, including brochures, project profiles, advertisements, posters and presentations

Senior Executive Digital Channel Planning ( Marketing ) at ZonG - CMPak
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • March 2013 to November 2014

Senior Executive Channel Planning, Value Added Services & Mass Segment
Conducted different key commercial activities, including:
• Increase / enhance product and service offering at channels by virtue of Channel specific pricing and bundling
• Region wise Packages and VAS development to increase revenue and penetration targets
• To gauge the impact of BTL communication and share the impact analysis to the segments head in order to optimize the product mechanics, pricing and targeted base.
• To develop relevant, innovative & exciting customer value propositions for the segment & relevant sub-segments, incorporating pricing recommendations, customer experience (e.g. Channel strategy, VAS, loyalty & lifestyle benefits, branding & communications)
• Responsible to define campaigns at channel level to help the segments/VAS to increase revenue and penetration
• Channel Optimization - (USSD, BI, Digital, SMS Broadcast, OBD or Physical (retail) etc).
• Pre and Post Product launch analysis - (Business cases & ROIs).
• Cross functional communication.
• Market Intelligence and Industry bench-marking.
• CEM initiative based on Voice of Customers.
• Explore / propose partnerships and new initiatives in the Digital Marketing domain

Executive Product & Development VAS (Marketing) at ZonG - CMPak
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2011 to March 2013

Conducted different key commercial activities, including:

• Portfolio management - VAS Commercial, e.g. Segmented VAS, IVR, Sports & Islamic, Event Base VAS etc. (54% growth in Portfolio).
• 101% revenue target achievement.
• Acquisition campaign - (Incremental Take up of 0.9 Million subscribers in less than a month).
• Design and Implement Mega Campaigns To support VAS Targets ( >60 Million In 90 Days Reference ZONG Mega Challenge-1, 2 & 3)
• Introduction of Voice of Customer as a mandatory part of any optimization - (Commercial or Lifecycle).
• Analysis & Reporting - VAS Dashboard & Ad-hoc.
• Complete ownership of Marketing Mix - (Product, pricing & promotion etc.).
• A&P Budget management - (ATL & BTL).
• Channel Optimization - (USSD, BI, Digital, SMS Broadcast, OBD or Physical (retail) etc).
• Pre and Post Product launch analysis - (Business cases & ROIs).
• Cross functional communication.
• Market Intelligence and Industry benchmarking.
• VAS CLM campaigns focusing on loyalty & retention.
• CEM initiative based on Voice of Customers.
• Optimization of existing VAS based on in-depth analysis.
• Lifecycle management of VAS customers.
• Representation of VAS Commercial at all major meetings.

Senior Analyst System and Processes (Customer Support) at ZonG - CMPak
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • October 2009 to February 2011

• CS Systems Requirement Gathering and CR Management
• New Requirements (BOSS / Channel)
• In-house development (BOSS/Channel Integrated and Standalone applications)
• Guiding/coaching QA assurance and training departments on various product launches, policy and procedures
• Information sharing (daily updates) with CC, CSC and CSD channels on daily basis and ensure excellent customer experience at CS Level
• First one to launch SMS concerns to be addresses via Short code 310 channel to optimize the service level
• Big initiative to expand customer services via Facebook and Zong official website via chat modules
• Initiative to design a system which support 3rd party VAS selling via call center with auto profiling modules to increase an addition stream of revenue
• Analysis & Reporting - CS Dashboard & Ad-hoc.
• Ensure Smooth execution of the time to time launches of the products by Marketing and ensure excellent customer experience

Team Leader Prepaid/Postpaid (Customer Services) at ZonG - CMPak
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2008 to October 2009

• Worked as a Team Leader Inbound/Outbound for prepaid queue (310), retailer queue (170), Chinese helpline, postpaid queue, corporate queue and Franchise Help Desk..
• Core responsibility is to provide quality customer services to customers.
• Call monitoring, coaching and feedback for delivery of the defined customer experience in every call
• Training, Development and Motivation of staff.
• Analysis on different products or operational activities of call center.
• Successfully conducted a training of all teams on “Complaint Handling” project.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
  • April 2013

Masters In business Administrations

Bachelor's degree, Computer Sciences(BSCS)
  • at University Of Central Punjab
  • October 2008

Bachelor Degree In computers Science (4 Year's Honrs)

Specialties & Skills

Marketing Research
Digital Marketing
Telecommunications
Analysis
Product Development
Business Cases & Pricing/Re-Pricing Of Commercial Products
Presentation Skills (Power Point,MindMap's)
Analysis & Raising Requirements to Data Ware House (Microsoft Excel,Access)

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
French
Beginner
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Sports Complex Islamabad
  • Coaching Expert
  • January 2005

Training and Certifications

A+ (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
June 2010

Hobbies

  • Athletic: Swimmer
    Win Nation Wide Swimming competition
  • Technology Website & Forums
    Profession writer about Telecoms technology at Social Media, forums and news paper