Youssef Barakat, Trade Marketing Executive

Youssef Barakat

Trade Marketing Executive

Friendly Food Qatar

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Business And Marketing
Experience
14 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 8 Months

Trade Marketing Executive at Friendly Food Qatar
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since February 2023

- Executed above and below the line marketing campaigns of 50+ brands
- Liaised between production agencies, international suppliers, internal departments and local outlets for rental and partnership collaborations
- Hired, trained and monitored 30 promoters to carry out sampling activities

Digital Marketing Specialist at Cedars Trading & Contracting
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2022 to January 2023

Responsible for the strategy, design & implementation of the company's digital road-map

Business Development Manager at Alpa Water
  • Lebanon
  • March 2018 to June 2022

Spearheaded achievement of business objectives through coordination of key departments’ KPIs, evaluating sales performance & planning new market initiatives
- Designed with senior management sales commission & positioning strategies
- Implemented a permanent competitive benchmark by leveraging market data
- Coordinated customer experience touchpoints with a digital agency
- Composed & presented reports on revenues, sales, customers, cash flow & operations

Strategic Marketing Manager at FIG
  • Lebanon
  • January 2016 to February 2018

Guided a startup to pivot in the right direction of digital solutions development
- Conducted market analyses; industry segmentation, customer insights & technology trends
- Identified buyers personas & pain points
- Worked closely with developers to define categories & app features
- Organized Google design sprints & team meetings to meet deliverables deadlines

Key Account Manager at Sputnik Marketing
  • Russian Federation
  • September 2013 to December 2015

Improved shelf share by 20% of juices category in a trade marketing project for Coca-Cola & drove turnover to $1M in an event management project for Philip Morris
- Orchestrated a customer activation project across 8000 POS in 20 cities by implementing planograms, promotional strategies & a training program
- Organized 30 events by managing an internal team & external production agencies
- Supervised budget in collaboration with client’s management
- Lead tender proposals, by guiding a team of designers & key account managers

Channel Manager at Danone
  • France - Paris
  • September 2011 to August 2013

Accelerated HORECA business within the global central unit, across 50+ countries, 15+ channels & 30+ organized customers
- Conceived key channel toolkits; customer activation, innovation, growth levers
- Set up & animated an intranet website for 500 sales & marketing reps
- Prepared monthly reports of dairy & waters business; Results, Best Practices, Benchmarks
- Collaborated with international teams in building & monitoring business plans

Channel Manager at Eau Vitale
  • Togo - Lome
  • September 2007 to August 2009

Exceeded sales target by 66% as part of a new product launch team
- Developed a market segmentation model leading to acquisition of 500+ customers
- Monitored KPIs of a team of 5, enabled tools & supported customer service department

Education

Master's degree, Business And Marketing
  • at Université Paris X
  • October 2012
Diploma, Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
  • at Google
  • January 2012

Online Business Strategy, SEO, SEM, Social Media, Mobile, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Display Advertising, Analytics, Data, E-Commerce

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Paris 2 University
  • September 2010
Bachelor's degree, Business
  • at Institut Africain des Etudes Commerciales
  • September 2008

Specialties & Skills

MARKETING
ADVERTISING
CASH FLOW
CUSTOMER RELATIONS

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
Russian
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing (Training)
Training Institute:
Google
Date Attended:
April 2022
Duration:
50 hours

Hobbies

  • Reading