marianna aftim, COMMUNITY SUCCESS ASSOCIATE

marianna aftim

COMMUNITY SUCCESS ASSOCIATE

Designer24

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, Fashion and textile design
Experience
12 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 4 Months

COMMUNITY SUCCESS ASSOCIATE at Designer24
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since June 2018

-Dealing with suppliers on a daily basis - answering phone calls/whatsapp messages/emails and inquiries
-Meeting the suppliers, introducing them to the concept and physically examine their items
-Input all the new items on the website
-Following up with suppliers
-Tracking stock rotations/new entries/ transfers to Dubai&Jordan
- Communicating with Tech Team to make the website/back end user friendly
-Assists in shoots and editorials

PR and digital media coordinator at Hassidriss
  • Lebanon
  • July 2017 to October 2017
Marketing coordinator at Depechemode
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2016 to June 2017

Marketing coordinator at Depechemode and the concept store 6.05.
My role was to:
-Organize magazine content
-Prepare weekly social media content
-Prepare monthly newsletter/ pamphlet
-Analyze store feedback to create a better marketing scheme for the brands that needs to be in focus as well as the garments that needs to be in focus.
-Organize events for the concept store.
-Organize photoshoots, be present on set and prepare the styles, create a moodboard for the photoshoot and find the model.
-Prepare strategy meetings with the creatives + brands.
-Create a yearly strategy based on trend research, store feedback and yearly analyses....
-Update the website/ store Ipads
-Create a list of cross promoters every season

Coordinator for e-commerce at aishti
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2014 to April 2016

-Choosing the theme and the items that will be posted on the website.
-finalise all the required details from store concepts to FAQs…
-collaborate with the photographer and monitor the photo shoots.
-maintain an updated system throughout the day.
-follow-up with the purchases online
-overlook the whole process and make sure nothing goes wrong.
-advertise the products using social media as well as adding captions to each item.

Social Media manager at Public Interest Design/ In Good Spirit
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2015 to July 2015

Handle In Good Spirit social media platform from FB, instagram and Twitter.
Do daily research for topics related to In Good Spirit, post articles, pictures and whatnot to maintain a socially active account.
Attend events, cover the ground and write and post it on social media.
Follow up with people and assist in creating events for the In Good Spirit.

Assistant designer at Smartiz & Co
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2014 to July 2014

my job role was to overlook all the design process monitor our clients and schedule new exhibitions around the world.
And every season we would collaborate with a young designer and give them the chance to produce their creativity and here i had to be there step by step and over look every detail in the design/making/production of the collection.

Fashion journalist at Sanaa Ayoub
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2013 to February 2014

As a fashion journalist at Sanaa Ayoub, my job is to keep the website up-to-date with fashion news, top trends season by season and weekly articles.
The job consists of research and creating topics for articles, all while keeping in mind the style and personal mood of the website.

Fashion editor at Nahas Publishing house
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2012 to November 2013

Freelance Fashion editor, responsible for commenting and explaining all fashion shows season by season, mostly highlighting the style, color palette, fabrics, shapes and accessories....adding to that model profile, new launching from accessories, stores and so on.....

assistant fashion editor at hayatouki,com
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2012 to July 2012

Updating the website by researching and writing articles on daily basis about new fashion materials from news on catwalks, trends, celebrities, new releases in the fashion worldwide.
Also, because the magazine had a specific market and audience, some news had to be picked accordingly to please and attract our customers.

Sales associate, training Visual merchandiser at H&M
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2011 to May 2012

As a team member in H&M, i try to offer best customer service to all ages, and offer them different range of styles accordingly, always offer alternative options.
at the same time, i'm training to be a full time visual merchandiser, study how to display items according to color combination, style factor, and mood wise,

sales/ assistant merchandiser at PIAFF Klemancau
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2011 to November 2011

worked as a sales person, who is a fashion consultant at PIAFF; our objective is to be knowledgeable about the designers present in the store, being able to understand the garments and their styles; then mix and matching and offering a serious of different looks, different styles....
also worked as an assistant merchandiser, we had to change the stores appearance every 7 days, from window display to table display! and each week we highlight a certain designer and showcase the best of his work...

Fashion designer at Jean Fares Couture
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2010 to February 2011

worked in the creative department; coming up with themes and moods, working on designing appropriate garments related to a given concept, working with fabrics, colors, patterns....

Education

Bachelor's degree, Fashion and textile design
  • at NDU
  • June 2009

-June 2010, Assisted in hosting a fashion show at Saint Nicolas stairs in Gemaize. -June 2010, Assisted in hosting a fashion show in Notre Dame University. -April 2010 , Inrternship at "Tania Succar Haute Couture" -June 2009 - July 2009, Designing workers uniform for “Nahnou” Clothing store. -September 2010- internship at Ramy "Salamoun Haute Couture" -May 2008, Assisted in designing students’ costumes for founders’ day at Notre Dame University.

Specialties & Skills

Adobe Illustrator
Associate Training
Word, Power Point & Internet application. Intermediate level in Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5

Languages

English
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French
Intermediate
Arabic
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