Azim Suaib Aftab Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, United Kingdom

- Managed every aspect of the Travel and Hospitality Award guides from sales to editorial planning, artwork to final release. - Guides showcase destinations, hotels, tours, spa, restaurant, and events from all over the world.- Oversaw total annual revenue of £150k plus with an average annual increase of 5% pre-covid.- Managed an international team of 7 made up of 3 salespeople, 2 designers, a writer, and an administrator- Responsible for the recruitment and training new sales personnel that were usually based abroad.- Sat face to face meetings within the UK and abroad to set up brand deals, close sales, and develop supplier partnerships.- Ran quarterly data analysis to observe trends and patterns within the industry to aid future campaigns.- Developed full understanding of Zoho CRM, Salesforce, the AGILE principle, and SCRUM.

United Kingdom

- In addition to managing projects at the Travel and Hospitality Award I co-founded Destination Maps. - A producer and distributor of informative, user-friendly, and helpful city tourism maps.- Built relationships with hundreds of hotels across Europe to showcase and distribute the maps to their guests.- Sat face-to-face sales meeting in several European cities with local businesses to advertise on the maps. - On average sold over 90% of the spaces and rapidly grew the business until Covid-19 hit. The project has been on hold since- Planned for a release of an accompanying digital app to run alongside the maps but this was unfortunately put on hold due to Covid.

Ba (Hons) Industrial Design, Industrial And Product Design

Activities and Societies: - Active in playing football and badminton - Part of the CAD society - Member of the International societyCourse.

Btec National Level 3 Diploma In Art And Design, Industrial And Product Design, Mmm

Activities and Societies: - Member of the cricket team• Visual recording in Art and Design develops broad based drawing skills.