Assistant Manager - contract
Dinicola Design Development Ltd
Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months
• Smoothened relations between different parties, as well as made communication more seamless by performing administrative tasks, involving travel arrangements, meetings, local and international events, and overseas communications.
• Facilitated support to the CEO in building and operating the Holy See Pavilion in Expo 2020.
• Attended meetings with suppliers, contractors, engineers, and Expo 2020 management; ensured permits, health & safety documents, insurance, and other documents meet the requirements of Expo 2020 Management.
• Ensured smooth run of operations by hosting dignitaries visiting the pavilion as well as ascertained that the pavilion is cleaned on a daily basis and all the videos, lighting, and sound system equipment are in good working condition.
• Increased efficiency by communicating with other protocol managers of country pavilions for an official visit to the pavilion.
• Communicated with the Logistics team of Expo 2020 for the exhibition items coming from overseas.
• Ensured a smooth celebration of the Holy See’s national day at Expo 2020 by coordinating with the country manager.
• Increased traffic, generated more leads, and added functionality to improve the user experience by redeveloping the content of the corporate website into the e-commerce platform.
• Ensured compliance as well as enhanced engagement by directing the onboarding to online market sites, involving Amazon, Noon, Carrefour Marketplace, and Sharaf DG.
• Developed and implemented strategic marketing plans to attract potential customers and retain existing ones.
• Increased productivity by providing support for marketing, administration, and operations to contracted companies.
• Designed more effective promotions and impactful campaigns, as well as tracked business success with analytics by proposing marketing solutions to start-up SMEs.
• Maintained seamless coordination with a graphic designer for a new logo and a new brand book thereby managing the company’s rebranding and revamp of the corporate website.
• Increased enrollment by 25% by organizing various volleyball events in schools and in residential communities.
• Holds credentials in opening the beach volleyball academy in Kite Beach, Jumeirah with 105% sign-ups.
• Abridged snagging by 20% through identifying issues, creating awareness of these issues, and avoiding them going forward.
• Delivered AED 1.3M worth of revenue as well as furnished 80 apartments in 3 months.
• Synchronized installation of home furnishings with the manufacturer as well as ensuring that all furniture installed passed quality otherwise, they are fixed before handover to the client.
• Accomplished projects within the stipulated time by handling deliveries of furnishing the residential units promptly.
• Increased brand awareness by conceptualizing engaging and interactive events with budgets from AED 200k up to AED 1M.
• Reduced costs by 30% by driving supplier negotiations while maintaining the quality of materials and services.
• Improved overall performance by recruiting and training freelance staff from 5 to 15 people for events as required.
• Provided a clearer plan for upselling and improved business performance by creating database of retailers with 300 contacts.
• Managed customers' inquiries regarding an organization's goods and services before proceeding with delivery plans.
• Ascertained quicker returns by contributing to the organizations by 15% through retail leasing contracts.
• Maintained seamless coordination with the art director for proper coordination of text with impactful and relevant visuals.
• Provided activations worth AED 800k with a 98% success rate based on targeted visitors as well as increased accuracy through reducing cost by 35% and maintaining the quality and services.
• Increased efficiency by evaluating and analyzing events as well as maintaining and updating post-event reports.
• Facilitated relationship building by onboarding 100% of category retailers to participate in mall events.
• Enhanced data collection and increased brand recognition by developing, writing, and implementing marketing communications strategy as well as monitoring compliance of third-party partners.
• Supported ROI on Marketing Spend by developing and implementing an annual advertising plan, involving print, radio, on-ground, online, social media, website SEO and SEM, and digital of at least AED 500k per campaign.
• Generated an average increase of 10% in footfall each month by directing the 3 annual signature events.
