Maleeha Samar, Delivery Manager

Maleeha Samar

Delivery Manager

JCDecaux

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
Master's degree, MSc Brand Management (with Distinction)
Experience
13 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months

Delivery Manager at JCDecaux
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since January 2023

• Managing a team of 6 Campaign Managers and 1 Campaign Coordinator; acting as their coach and first line of support; including managing the day to day performance and best practice training.
• Working with Specialists and Partners to manage overall Campaign Delivery.
• Liaising with Operations, Production, Posting Managers, Sales, Trading, Specialists and other stakeholders to manage the full campaign lifecycle.
• Producing accurate weekly media revenue reports and accountable for regular compliance reporting.

Senior Trade Partner Services Specialist at Whirlpool Canada
  • Canada - Mississauga
  • May 2021 to April 2022

• Provided high standard customer service to Trade Partners ensuring queries were resolved eficiently to improve organizational efectiveness of the Order Management & Customer Care team.
• Coordinated and managed SAP order processing - purchase orders, sales orders, invoices as well as delivery information for customers to required timescales.
• Developed, and maintained order management SOPs for diferent Trade Partners.
• Trained and onboarded one team member on SOPs for 2 Trade Partners within the first 3 months.
• Generated, analysed and responsible for accuracy of all reports issued to Trade Partners and internal departments on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis.
• Improved communication and procedures within Customer Services and Internal departments. Identified gaps and suggested improvements to increase eficiencies.
• Identified and rectified orders stuck in Business Workplace at Idoc processing stage.
• Received Taking Care of Everything award for saving Whirlpool $798, 687 in compliance fines and for going above and beyond to support the Account Managers.

Social Media Marketing at Paul Pelletier Consulting
  • Canada - Mississauga
  • May 2019 to March 2022

• Managed, created, curated, posted, and optimized social media and marketing content, using HootSuite, to drive brand awareness, elevate social media engagement and establish thought leadership, resulting in up to 8% engagement on LinkedIn and up to 6% engagement on Twitter and 12 qualified leads and 2 future engagements in 2 months.

Whirlpool Customer Services Coordinator at Acosta/Whirlpool
  • Canada - Mississauga
  • January 2020 to May 2021

Responsibilities & Tasks
• Created the best experiences possible when engaging with Retail Sales Associates, End Consumers, and Trade Partners to fulfil their inquiries including providing product knowledge and order management support via internal portal, email, and phone, with an average response time of 5 minutes.
• Trained, onboarded, and developed 32 new Whirlpool Customer Services Coordinators.
• Developed and implemented onboarding plan.
• Supported internal website content owners to enrich the Whirlpool experience.
Maleeha Samar (Milli Samar)
07583372456
milli.samar@gmail.com
• www.linkedin.com/in/millisamar
• Maintained up to date resources and SOPs on shared team drive.
• Created processes for team tasks and projects via Procedure Flow.
• Handled diferent types of projects to support Whirlpool: STA, Home Depot Kiosk, Floor Stock Maintenance New Process, Costco, Lowes, AM Part Orders, Merchandizing Blitz, Builder Part Orders, FIP Door Orders, Kapost. Achievements & Awards
• Developed an Acronym Glossary to be used during onboarding.
• Labelled Champion of Floor Stock Maintenance Order Process and the Onboarding Process.
• Termed Top Performer of 2020.
• Championed the transfer of the onboarding program to an online virtual program.
• Received Taking Care of Everything recognition for improving eficiencies in the part order process.

Senior Merchandiser at ALDO Apparel group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2018 to June 2018

• Monitored sales and cross collaborated with Logistics, Head Ofice, and Store Managers to re-allocate and distribute merchandise regionally to 32 stores, using Retek, to ensure all stores were adequately stocked including promotions and sales periods.

Marketing and Sales Manager at R.A.W General Contracting Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2016 to November 2017

• Championed selling, closing, servicing, and expanding customer base by 8%, including overseeing contract negotiations with new and existing clients.

Marketing Coordinator at Instinct Studios
  • United Kingdom - London
  • November 2015 to January 2016

• Centralized and streamlined key processes for marketing team, finalized and uploaded Logo, fonts, letterhead, and other brand guidelines onto centralized SharePoint site to ensure consistency of all marketing messaging.

Fashion Buyer at Then and Now Shop
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 2015 to April 2015

• Acquired and on-boarded 50 brands to list their products on website, in 3 months, achieving incremental sales of 16% and overall customer satisfaction of 85%.

Business Development Manager at Amana RX
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2011 to August 2013

• In charge of all aspects of client liaison, ordering, quotations, and delivery, dealing with 3 key clients; Tawam, Mafraq & SKMC.

Brand Manager and Buyer at SHFTC - Etam Lingerie
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2008 to February 2011

• Planned, developed, and directed marketing efforts for the brand: Initiated & developed Direct Marketing activities GWP programs. ROI was 21%.

Education

Master's degree, MSc Brand Management (with Distinction)
  • at Grenoble Graduate School of Business
  • March 2016
Master's degree, MBA (Marketing & Finance)
  • at University of San Francisco
  • May 2005
Bachelor's degree, BBA (Mgmt. Info. Systems)
  • at UT Austin, McCombs School of Business
  • May 2001

Specialties & Skills

Brand Standards
Retail Buying
Brand Analysis
Branding Development
HOOTSUITE (SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE)
LEADERSHIP
OPERATIONS
ONBOARDING
QUOTATIONS
SOCIAL MEDIA
communication
management
teamwork
relationship building