Zakia Baniabbassian, Marketing Manager

Zakia Baniabbassian

Marketing Manager

Globaleye

Location
Canada
Education
Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design (Honours)
Experience
12 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 9 Months

Marketing Manager at Globaleye
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2015

♦ Liaised directly with management team to develop plans and manage global internal and external creative projects.

♦ Tasked with rebranding Globaleye’s brand image and restructuring marketing department, which resulted in each project being managed more efficiently.

♦ Utilized event management skills to coordinate and organize regular marketing, corporate and networking events for Globaleye and partners locally and abroad, resulting in warm lead generation.

♦ Engaged in daily website CMS, social media content management and development of campaigns that revolve around annual international events, which provided referrals and generated brand awareness.

♦ Designed corporate documents and collateral to ensure compliance with company and industry standards.

♦ Created “Sign-In/Sign-Out” document to coordinate and track use of itinerary room equipment, as well as record damage, leading to improved organization within team.

♦ Developed and implemented video interview project which sought to make financial industry accessible by conducting interviews with high-level clients and promoting engagement through social media.
Succeeded in garnering larger digital audience as well as securing new business deals.

♦ Developed a motivational recruitment strategy for Globaleye’s new joiners by creating a digital marketing campaign featuring videos of Globaleye’s top five fairly new brokers sharing their progress within the first 6 months.

♦ Negotiated with suppliers throughout the printing process of marketing collateral in order to ensure Wealth Managers received relevant branded collateral/corporate gifts to support them at their events.

♦ Assisted brokers by creating website landing pages that link to web advertisement campaigns, resulting in increased lead generation.

♦ Revamped monthly email marketing campaign, redesigned newsletter, and customized each database to match the email content via the CRM team, which resulted in higher customer engagement.

Marketing Manager at Spret Retail
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2014 to March 2015

♦ Developed, implemented, monitored, and reviewed an annual marketing plan for 5 individual retail brands under the Spret Retail umbrella as well as the corporate brand identity of Spret Trading to achieve brand awareness to support plans of expansion and improve sales.

♦ Ensured Spret covered all aspects of SEO and social media for brand exposure and to quickly deploy Crisis Management to negative responses.

♦ Managed projects delegated to external graphic designers, retail loyalty card partnerships, photographers, Web Developers including hiring design staff on retainer, delegating tasks, and ensuring work is completed within brand specifications as well as time and budget constraints.

♦ Oversaw rebranding initiative of Nisa Cosmetics, a high end beauty brand, conducting product research, developing packaging design, redesigning social media and website, and implementing improved marketing strategies online and offline.

♦ Managed marketing inventory to ensure marketing materials were available at each location.

♦ Utilized leadership and training skills to prepare sales coaching presentations for Nisa Cosmetics sales executives, monitoring performance post-training to record sales improvement.

♦ Managed the marketing department’s internship program by interviewing and hiring interns, as well as supervising and mentoring interns throughout each placement.

Marketing Executive at Bluestone, Virtuzone
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2013 to June 2014

♦ Oversaw B2B marketing for Arabian Gateway event launch, an annual global trade conference for business professionals seeking to grow business into region.

♦ Conducted market research and data analysis to develop understanding of trade relationships between sectors/regions to develop into the marketing plan.

♦ Attended sponsorship meetings between potential partners with the Managing Director and major industry leaders such as Zawya Thomson Reuters, Virtuzone, Emirates NBD Bank, Clyde & Co Law Firm and Dubai FDI, resulting in sponsorship deals.

♦ Utilized background in Graphic Design to liaise and collaborate with creative teams and manage graphic designers throughout a variety of projects.

♦ Managed relationships between key partners to provide marketing collateral to use across their databases during the International Delivery Partners in Europe, Africa, Australasia, Asia, and North America.

♦ Managed both the Arabian Gateway and Bluestone website; including all social media platforms, and involved in the hiring process of a social media executive.

Digital Marketing Executive & Graphic Designer at Kindai LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2012 to August 2013
Freelance Graphic Designer at www.Disouq.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2012 to August 2013
Internship at Quint Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2010 to October 2010
Customer Service & Retail Ticketing Representative. at Cupola Teleservices- Showbiz International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2006 to December 2006

Education

Bachelor's degree, Graphic Design (Honours)
  • at Nottingham Trent University
  • July 2010

Specialties & Skills

Corporate Events
Marketing
Management
Online Advertising
Content Management
Public Relations
Crisis Management
Organization/ Planning Skills
Content Management
Packaging Designer
Branding
Creative Direction
Illustrator/ Artist
Online Advertising
Media Relation Management
Commercial Graphic Design
Taking Initiative
Digital Marketing
Team managment
Email marketing
B2B marketing
Delegate marketing
International advertising
Marketing collateral
Managing graphic designers
Competitor research
Lead generation
Market data research
Barter agreements
Video campaign strategy
Corporate events
Managing marketing distribution to teams across Europe, Africa, Australasia, and the USA
Event planning
Maintaining website content

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Chartered Institute of Marketing Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012

Hobbies

  • Fitness training