Muhammad Danial  niazi, Group Marketing Manager

Muhammad Danial niazi

Group Marketing Manager

AFI Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing, Human resource management
Experience
16 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 10 Months

Group Marketing Manager at AFI Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2021

- Handling overall marketing team of Digital marketing managers, marketing communicators, social media experts, developers, designers, CRM and Sales representatives
- Dealing with product owners, understanding the business requirements, and executing the campaigns with best possible optimized return of investment
- Develop on-going communication plans, ensuring multi-channel communication throughout the industry
- Gather and document business and technical requirements related to the creation, delivery, and management of digital content and traditional marketing
- Managing global marketing activities across all brands including access platforms and other different construction equipment’s
- Managing overall company budget for marketing and communication
- Getting engaged with vendors for marketing activities and strategizing the optimum campaign execution with best possible KPI’s
- Explore the full potential of marketing mix tools from corporate events through to advertising, PR and direct marketing (multi-channel programs to cover market audiences’ diversity)

Marketing operations manager at Caterpillar
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2015 to July 2021

 Plan and execute all web, PPC - SEO/SEM, marketing database, email marketing, social media, content marketing and display advertising campaigns
 Generate Digital qualified leads that are processed as new opportunities and sent to the sales team in the CRM system (Salesforce.)
 Develop on-going communication plans, ensuring multi-channel communication throughout the industry
 Gather and document business and technical requirements related to the creation, delivery, and management of digital content and traditional marketing
 Liaise with different branches for the implementations of marketing campaigns and their regional marketing collateral's requirements
 Develop and maintenance processes for measuring content related metrics to articulate impact on business results
 PR and press release development, grants coordination and awards submission, event analysis, research and marketing budget optimization
 Pre and Post campaign analysis to allow for smarter media buying including renewal campaigns
 Managing all correspondence with, and queries from publishers, creative agencies and clients
 Analyze competitor advertising techniques and monitor industry trends
 Implantation and continuous monitoring of SEO/SEM and digital media
 Proactively monitors and strives to maintain high levels of quality, accuracy, and process consistency with sales department
 Managing complete operations from vendors selection, media buying, planning's, execution and management of resources on exhibitions like ADIPEC and BIG5
 Digital transformation of retail, Mobile application development, UI/UX, optimizing marketing spent

Marketing specialist at Al Habtoor
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2012 to December 2015

Vital role in planning and development of ATL & BTL marketing strategies for different brands across U.A.E
Supervised the execution of ATL & BTL marketing campaigns and sponsorships for all the brands, right from conceptualization to the execution followed by post-campaign analysis
Oversee the effectiveness of all marketing activities, as per established objectives and market characteristics, by assessing expenditures & budgets, tracking execution and understanding ROI
Strategize and develop annual brand plans in coordination with brand partners and local distributors
Ensure brand owners agenda is reflected in the annual company level brand plans by providing insight and guidance
Work with in market distributors and key customers to build localized plans that drive sales and ensure alignment between EFME objective, brand teams and commercial agendas
Assisted in the development the online sales channel for Speedfit
Coordinating different events, bookings & promotions with operations and third party partners, ensuring standards and regulations are in full compliance
Supervise press release distribution, events coordination, road shows and other ATL and BTL marketing strategies
Creating & developing financial contracts & agreements in all areas of Sales, Media & Sponsorships
Identified, managed and collaborated with partners and agencies for ideas, content development and execution

Digital Account / Marketing Manager at IT and Media buying (website project management, mobile apps, advertising, online marketing)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2011 to October 2012

Foster strong business relationships with existing customers; key role in identifying and securing new customers and business opportunities in UAE
Supervised the activities of sales staff assigned; Liaison with the other personnel with focus on maximizing business potential of the company
Strategize a plan for the agency based on their brief
Selling ad space on the Cosmos exclusive sites, Cosmos network of sites, Yahoo, Face book, Google and MSN Arabia and Own network of websites
Documentation for pitching to corporate and governmental projects
Negotiation and overseeing the online media campaigns, supervising the overall budgets
Working as a liaison between the company and the development team
Generating reports on SEO, website development, application development
Acted as Web Project Manager - copywriting, content, web design & development projects
Developed and managed content for websites, products/services, blogs, SEM (SEO Meta data, PPC copy), social media campaigns, newsletters, email & affiliate campaigns and articles related to client industry
Vital role in Social Media Marketing, SEO, Email Marketing, Online Advertising and other forms of Web Marketing
Analyze the client requirements thereby testing of websites and social media applications
Managed a team of 3 - content writer, web marketing executive and user experience associates

Business development Manager at GRAFDOM(website development, mobile apps, advertising, media)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2007 to June 2011

• Responsible for meeting sales goals and overall quality of service
• Conduct sales and marketing calls to book meetings with potential clients
• Send follow-up marketing materials and make follow-up monthly calls to establish relationships
• Call and personally visit potential, new and existing customers to facilitate new business
• Perform client presentations articulating the value proposition of product, solution, and service offerings
• Coordinate efforts to improve the customer experience at the point of sale
• Assigning work and defining timeline, requirement gathering and requirement elicitation
• Payroll management, including tabulation of accrued employee benefit
• Supervise and coach office manager on a weekly basis
• Search engine marketing, blogging, answers, bookmarking, stumbling
• Ad words campaign, analytics, media monitoring, social media marketing and optimization

Education

Master's degree, Marketing, Human resource management
  • at IMS
  • February 2009

Did Two specializations in MBA with more than 80% results overall. Did human resource management as my personal interest and Marketing as my core field.

Bachelor's degree, Bussiness and IT
  • at Comsats Institute of IT
  • March 2007

Business and IT subjects

Specialties & Skills

Digital Marketing
Return on Digital Investment
Social Media Marketing
Digital Storytelling
Customer Experience Improvement
Digital marketing
MS Excel
Return on investment
search engine marketing and optimization
Project management
Relationship management
proposal writing
Marketing
Social media planning
strategic planning
social media optimization
marketing budgeting
Google Display Advertising Certified
Marketing intelligence
Marketing budgeting and planning

Social Profiles

Personal Website
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Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Hr consulting and Training
  • Media coordinator
  • March 2009

Training and Certifications

Programmable Marketing Assessment (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2019
Activate Customer Centric marketing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2019
Google Display Advertising (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2017
Valid Until:
June 2018
Google Search Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2017
Valid Until:
June 2018
Online marketing specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
Participant (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2008
Valid Until:
February 2008

Hobbies

  • Search engine optimization
    SEO, SMO, and blogging.