Rishi Serai, Marketing Manager

Rishi Serai

Marketing Manager

Emrill Services LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
21 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months

Marketing Manager at Emrill Services LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2013

Responsible for developing and executing the Strategic Marketing Plans for Emrill (brands include: Emrill Services, Emrill Energy and MPLUS+) to ensure consistency in communications and visibility across the different audiences.

Specific duties include:
► Develop, roll out and execute marketing and communication plans

► Maintain credibility and visibility in the marketplace through effective communication strategy

► Develop and monitor marketing budget and investment requirements on a periodic basis

► Establish deployment systems for branding guidelines and changes in the brand identify

► Identify and engage with external agencies and marketing specialists to deliver Emrill's overall strategic marketing plans for the various business divisions

► Compile and analyse market intelligence to identify growth opportunities

► Manage internal corporate communications to deliver consistent message on Emrill brand values and to ensure that all communications, brand guidelines and quality standards are maintained

► Assist the Welfare and HR Team in development of CSR programmes and initiatives for Emrill

► Establish systems for KPIs to measure and report performance

Senior Account Manager at Inpress - Hakuhodo Advertising Agency
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2010 to June 2013

As a Sr. Account Manager at INP-H, I have been able to enhance my team management, leadership, presentation and technical skills. The challenges in this job have also helped me understand and ace importance of people management skills, convergent thinking abilities and build up Client/business relationships.

Job responsibilities involved:

► Leading the BTL team from brief to execution for Panasonic (Brand) for MENA region

► Marketing budget establishment and variance analysis

► Monitoring and reporting on brand performance and growth

► Analysing and reporting Return on Investment (ROI) for distributor support programs (event, promotions, launches, stock clearance, sales, effectiveness of each media)

► Establishing distributor identification and selection campaign

► Established temporary customer service centre for Panasonic. Monitoring performance of call centre staff to ensure timely issue resolution and adherence to agreed SLAs

Account Manager at BE International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2006 to May 2010

Job responsibilities involved project managing a range of advertising campaigns from brief to execution for a wide array of leading Clients specifically Sun & Sand Sports Corporate (dealer for global brands such as Nike, Timberland, Columbia, Vans, etc); Al Ghandi Auto corporate, Chevrolet & GMC; Nokia - BTL activities/promotions, Al Ain Private Centre for Care & Rehabilitation (NGO) for fund raising campaign, Sharjah Islamic Bank, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Autocity, Raffles Dubai, Anantara.

During my tenure in BEI as Account Manager, I have been able to enhance my leadership and presentation skills. The challenges in this job have also helped me acquire creative evaluation, convergent thinking abilities and build up Client/business relationships.
Training and Development courses have also been attained over following areas:
► Brainstorming techniques
► Creative brief writing
► Conducting effective client meetings
► Judging creative work
► Market & competitive research and brand planning.

Account Executive at Concept Today
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2005 to November 2006

During my tenure at Concept Today, I was responsible for obtaining detailed understanding of clients advertising objective, delivering quality work aligned to client’s requirements. Another area of key responsibility was understanding and contributing to the development of the clients advertising objective and then communicating it to the creative and marketing service groups.
I also assisted Creative and Marketing Department in evaluating and scheduling media alternatives, acquiring competitive media rates and market research (analyzing markets, consumers, and products).
Clients: Grand Stores (dealer for global brands such as Nikon, Fujifilm, Sandisk, Packard Bell, etc); SNTTA; Sparkle jewelers.

Various at Others
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2003 to March 2005

Other positions held:
Events co-ordinator in Image Entertainment for a temporary project.
Sales Advisor in HSB.
Events co-ordinator in Max Media for a temporary project.
Customer Service Agent in Pioneer (audio/video) electronics.

Founder at AGY Computers
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2003 to September 2003

Self-run business in Computers - hardware, software & maintenance.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at SP Jain University
  • December 2009
Bachelor's degree, Marketing
  • at The intyernational university , missouri, USA
  • February 2005

completed BBA with good grades. awaiting degree completed my majors in marketing along with a dissertation on how to develop strategy

High school or equivalent,
  • at emirates english speaking school
  • May 2002

Specialties & Skills

Google Analytics
Digital Media
Marketing Mix
Leadership
Marketing
Ms office (complete package)
Excellent knowledge / skills on computers in the field of Support, Troubleshooter, hardware.

Languages

Hindi
Expert
Urdu
Beginner
English
Expert