rabih ghaoui, Marketing Professional - exploring opportunities

rabih ghaoui

Marketing Professional - exploring opportunities

fmcg

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
21 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 6 Months

Marketing Professional - exploring opportunities at fmcg
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2013

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Global Brand Manager - Lurpak Establishing markets at Arlafoods
  • Denmark
  • January 2012 to March 2013

Job description:
- Drive, implement and track the Lurpak brand development in establishing markets.
- Coordinate with agencies and markets on advertising development.
- Help improve the brand profitability through product improvement, market pricing understanding and cost management

Achievements:
- Contributed in the development of Lurpak Global Brand expansion plan.
- Development of the Lurpak brand entry model and a launch guideline that covers all aspects of the marketing mix when entering a new market.
- Development and production of an international Lurpak 360 advertising campaign that includes a TVC, a digital and a shopper program. The campaign was developed with a number of agencies (Wieden+Kennedy on ATL). The TVC had outstanding TV link test results in Denmark and Australia.

Marketing Manager Arlafood UAE/Oman/Qatar at Arlafoods
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • July 2008 to December 2011

Job description:
- Develop the marketing organization to meet organization growth requirements.
- Formulating, updating and implementing marketing strategies and plans aligned with the overall strategic company objectives.
- Ensure brands growth and profitability in the relevant markets.


Achievements:
- Build a Marketing team of 5 people, capable of fulfilling the UAE, Oman and Qatar operation needs.
- Establishing category leadership in most categories where the brands are available (As per Nielsen readings)
- Development of a merchandising program improving visibility in POP that enhanced the brands visibility in market.
- Adding a number of practices to the Marketing toolbox.
- Lead a category management project on cheese with a leading retailer in the UAE.

Brand Manager Arlafoods Lurpak. TTC UAE/Oman/Qatar/Bahrain at arlafoods
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • August 2006 to June 2008

Job Description:
- Overall responsibility of the brand performance.
- Create and execute the Brand marketing plan.
- Development of advertising material ATL and BTL coordinating with relevant advertising and media agencies including new product launches campaigns.

Achievements:
- Regain Lurpak Market shares in the 4 markets lost during the Boycott of Danish products in 2006 after the cartoon crises.
- Development and execution of 2 regional campaigns of Lurpak (April 07) and Ramadan 07 engaging Lurpak target audience in a regional consumer competition supported with ATL.
- Development of 3 TVCs for Lurpak and 1 TVC for The Three Cows.
- Successful launch of Lurpak Spreadable Lighter.

Brand Manager TTC UAE/Oman at arlafoods
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • February 2004 to July 2006

Achievements:
- Establish a market leader position of The Three Cows brand in the Feta and the Mozzarella categories in a period of one year.
- Develop a local consumer campaign in Sept 05.
- Launch of 3 new products for TTC.
- Deli counter opportunity assessment study.

Assistand Brand Manager at arlafoods
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • August 2003 to January 2004

Achievements:
- Planned, executed and given feedback on instore tasting activities, special events and merchandising audit.
- Carried out different kinds of surveys: price, shelf space, competitors activities…

Sales Representative at Business Equipment Company Lebanon
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2003 to July 2003

sole distributor for "Ricoh" products in Lebanon
- B to B business: identify, make contact and service corporate clients.

Trainee in Fattal Holding Lebanon at fattal
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 1998 to September 1998

Trainee in Fattal Holding Lebanon July 98 to Sept 98

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Saint Joseph University - USJ
  • November 2001

2000 – 2001: MBA in Marketing Specialized in “Modern Trade” from St Joseph University (USJ) Beirut - Lebanon in collaboration with “Universite Paris Dauphine – France” - Thesis: Ethical Marketing and its applications.

Bachelor's degree, Finance
  • at St Joseph University - USJ
  • September 2000

 1999 – 2000: BA in Management and Business and Administration with specialization in Finance from St Joseph University (USJ) Beirut Lebanon

Bachelor's degree, Management and Business Administration
  • at St Joseph University - USJ
  • September 1999

 1996 – 1999: BA in Management and Business Administration from the St Joseph University (USJ) Beirut Lebanon.

Specialties & Skills

Media Strategy
Marketing Management
Brand Management
Campaign Development
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Languages

Arabic
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