Mir Turab Ali, E-Commerce Manager

Mir Turab Ali

E-Commerce Manager

Sheraton Dammam Hotel & Towers

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Commerce
Experience
22 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 5 Months

E-Commerce Manager at Sheraton Dammam Hotel & Towers
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since April 2009

• Serving as E-Commerce Manager, responsible for E-Commerce activities, online business development, E-Mail marketing, Online advertising, joint promotions, partner promotions for Sheraton Dammam Hotel & Towers.
• Search Engine Optimization & Search Engine Marketing.
• Social Media Interaction - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc
• Ensure content (photography & descriptions) of the following on-line channels remain accurate and brand compliant.
- Starwood branded website (Starwood, Sheraton, SPG, etc)
- Third party sites
- Destination specific & local tourist board web-sites
• Identify and evaluate new third party web-site opportunities to increase Internet production and drive on-line market share.
• Multi role job with Customer Interaction.

E-Commerce Manager at Sheraton Bahrain
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • April 2007 to April 2009

• Served as E-Commerce Manager, responsible for driving local marketing and online distribution solutions that will improve the markets overall RevPar index and other key financial and customer metrics.
• Responsible for promoting of monthly hotel promotions & events.
• Ensure content (photography & descriptions) of the following on-line channels remain accurate and brand compliant.
- Sheraton Bahrain website
- Third party sites
- Destination specific & local tourist board web-sites
• Provide Monthly report on production, trends, booking and stay patterns as well as tracking production through online channels.
• Successfully achieved the budgeted Web Revenue consistently.

E-Business Development Executive at Al Diar Siji Hotel part of Abu Dhabi National Hotels
  • United Arab Emirates - Fujairah
  • April 2004 to March 2007

• Served as E-Business Development Executive, responsible for global marketing, strategic planning, advertising and development of strategic alliances with Travel agencies and intermediaries.
• Successfully added and maintaining the hotel on the GDS (Global Distribution System), Travel Websites and Travel Agents.
• Researched market competition and their prices to stay ahead of the key competitors.
• Developed E- Newsletter monthly edition having promotions of the hotel.
• Successfully developed market strategies to build a strong customer rapport.
• Multi role job with Customer Interaction.

Senior Marketing Executive at Global Technical Management
  • India - Hyderabad
  • July 2001 to September 2003

• Planning and budgeting to achieve the organization’s business targets in the assigned territories of Hyderabad and Secunderabad.
• Administer and Support the team to develop their territorial sales.
• Leading and motivating the sales team and ensuring their training and high level of productivity.
• Responsible for promoting company activities.
• Augmenting the network to improve proximity to the customer.
• Multi-role job with administration and coordination as additional duties.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Osmania University
  • March 1997

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Introduction to Hotel Revenue Management (Training)
Training Institute:
E-Cornell
Date Attended:
October 2007

Hobbies

  • Internet Savvy, Expertise in new softwares and systems