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Kenya

• Project liaison between clients and team members.• In charge of floor plan management for setting up interpretation equipment and teams.• Business growth and development for upcoming conferences and events.• Managed allocation of teams during projects.• Handle pool of language interpreters for events requiring interpretation services.• Projects included conferences and events, ranging from as low as 30 pax, to 500.

Kenya

- Oracle order management involving order booking to shipping processes. - Client relations on business growth through managing customers’ stocks adjustments, trade offers, new products released and availability gaps.- Engaging for debt collections and ensuring the account is aligned for next order release.- Order conversion alignment in both internal teams and stakeholders, customers, security, transporters on smooth conversion.- Market areas of focus spans across Modern trade,… Show more - Oracle order management involving order booking to shipping processes. - Client relations on business growth through managing customers’ stocks adjustments, trade offers, new products released and availability gaps.- Engaging for debt collections and ensuring the account is aligned for next order release.- Order conversion alignment in both internal teams and stakeholders, customers, security, transporters on smooth conversion.- Market areas of focus spans across Modern trade, General trade, and Walk-Ins. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

• Preparing stakeholders messages for presentations and internal memos.• Ensuring delegated merchandise have been dispatched and received to the sales’ teams on ground.• Oversaw the implementation of marketing strategies against outlined KPIs for the teams’ deliverables. • Pitching for partnerships with prospective clients on growing project campaigns through lifecycle marketing strategies.• Constant monitory and evaluation for company’s and clients’ scheduled… Show more • Preparing stakeholders messages for presentations and internal memos.• Ensuring delegated merchandise have been dispatched and received to the sales’ teams on ground.• Oversaw the implementation of marketing strategies against outlined KPIs for the teams’ deliverables. • Pitching for partnerships with prospective clients on growing project campaigns through lifecycle marketing strategies.• Constant monitory and evaluation for company’s and clients’ scheduled projects.• Scheduling back office employee market visits to interact with the on ground team and customers.• Booking attendances to relevant events for employees to learn and engage with prospective clients and/or learn from competitors in the industry’s sectors. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

 Active role in developing and executing brand activations’ strategies while generating, monitoring and managing project Gantt charts. Ensured assigned project teams are well informed on overall brand campaigns presented and approved by client prior to implementation. Recruited brand ambassadors and equipped them with brand knowledge through efficient training schedules. Oversaw the implementation of campaigns against specific KPIs and deliverables. Evaluated campaign… Show more  Active role in developing and executing brand activations’ strategies while generating, monitoring and managing project Gantt charts. Ensured assigned project teams are well informed on overall brand campaigns presented and approved by client prior to implementation. Recruited brand ambassadors and equipped them with brand knowledge through efficient training schedules. Oversaw the implementation of campaigns against specific KPIs and deliverables. Evaluated campaign progress and reports via regular SWOT analysis and presented insights to clients Ensured agency receives project evaluation from clients after the completion of each campaign. Client relations with clients and key stakeholders. Scheduled regular meetings to discuss campaign progress and share ideas on how to meet brand objectives. Brands handled are Ariel, Downy, Pampers, Always, Gillette. Show less

London, United Kingdom

About the company: -The Global Real Estate Institute is a club of senior-level investors, developers and lenders in realestate.GRI meetings provide a forum for the world’s leading real estate players to develop valuablerelationships, find new business partners, and strengthen their global networks.My Role: -• Conducted global market research of the elite investors, lenders and developers in the Real Estate industry, through internet searches.• Accurately… Show more About the company: -The Global Real Estate Institute is a club of senior-level investors, developers and lenders in realestate.GRI meetings provide a forum for the world’s leading real estate players to develop valuablerelationships, find new business partners, and strengthen their global networks.My Role: -• Conducted global market research of the elite investors, lenders and developers in the Real Estate industry, through internet searches.• Accurately organised a validated CRM database, by creating marketing lists used in marketing campaigns for producing twenty global B2B real estate events held annually.• Interpersonal skills used on telephone searches, when validating reachable contact details to update into CRM, and for other departments to use. • Created marketing lists that were used during marketing campaigns. • Team work oriented; worked with operations department to understand event project cycles of events held. Contributed ideas of tourist packages that the operations and production teams used in event’s campaign while organising GRI East Africa 2016, Kenya. • Researched on high end venues for local and global events. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

About the Company: -Ecocare International is a leading partner in the development and application of innovative technologies in auditing, inspection and management of energy, security, automotive and infrastructure.My Role: -• Developed strategic and attainable event marketing tools for the company’s products and services under Mombasa’s office marketing manager, while based in Nairobi office.• Worked as the managing the public relations officer for the company; managing… Show more About the Company: -Ecocare International is a leading partner in the development and application of innovative technologies in auditing, inspection and management of energy, security, automotive and infrastructure.My Role: -• Developed strategic and attainable event marketing tools for the company’s products and services under Mombasa’s office marketing manager, while based in Nairobi office.• Worked as the managing the public relations officer for the company; managing documentations, marketing materials and maintained an informatively updated website.• Organized products’ promotions and launches in Mombasa and Nairobi by negotiating, booking venues and requisitioning expenditure budgets for event suppliers and clients.• Conducted health and safety management of events’ settings, before, during and after.• Worked with the marketing manager to provide customer support and ensure client satisfaction. Through this and scheduling promotional exhibitions, benefited the company to occupy 40% of the Coastal area of Kenya. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

• Team’s secretariat managing communications with clients and all stakeholders.• Developed and briefed social media content for colleagues, key notes speakers and artists during execution of projects.• Performed risk management that minimised project risks by scouting probable venues and required licenses for the events.• Responsible of security, ticket sales and, sponsors and private invitation lists for events’ stakeholders.• Managed activation of the voter registration… Show more • Team’s secretariat managing communications with clients and all stakeholders.• Developed and briefed social media content for colleagues, key notes speakers and artists during execution of projects.• Performed risk management that minimised project risks by scouting probable venues and required licenses for the events.• Responsible of security, ticket sales and, sponsors and private invitation lists for events’ stakeholders.• Managed activation of the voter registration roadshow initiative campaign project that contributed to Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, IEBC, attain over 14M registered voters around the country, in 2012.• Outsourced talent by ensuring; signed up and contracted available performing artists and speakers. • Handled requisitioned budgets set to cater for their meals, scheduled flights and hotel bookings.• Some of the projects done were; KuvukaKuvuka voter registration campaign, Smirnoff The Night 31st Dec party and Standard newspaper Game Yetu tour in Kenya. Show less

Nairobi, Kenya

• I worked on a project for Refugee United that led to designing a successful tracing tool for minors of the refugees and internally displaced persons, IDPs.• Undertook, conducted literature and database desk researches and contributed to production of research projects.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Worked under marketing director as the assistant editor of the Nakumatt’s “Smartlife” Magazine sold countrywide.• Gained B2B and B2C client service management skills while working under head of Client Service and Managing Director of 3 Sixty, sub-division arm of the company.• Assisted in liaising with media personnel for advertising lifestyle brands like Hyundai, Samsung, Crown, Nakumatt amongst others.

Nairobi, Kenya

• I followed up on timely submission of articles and advertisements to be published. • Proof read and edited grammatical errors found in the articles and advertisements; ensured that the magazines to be sold to the market contained relevant trendy and up-to-date contents.• Met targeted readers’ anxiety and desire to always gain more from the magazines’ subjective and objective contents.

Msc. Events Management, Events Management

Activities and Societies: Post Graduate Development Award

Bachelor'S Degree, Public Relations, Advertising, Events Management And Marketing

Planned and organized a corporate event that discussed the importance of gaining work experiences while studying at college and university.