Idris Aina Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

- Manages customer relationship management (CRM) systems and databases to track leads, customer interactions, and sales opportunities.- Leads execution of sales and marketing campaigns to enhance brand visibility and attract new customers.- Manages team groups and increased inbound sales, achieving a half-year increase of over 24% sales growth.- Oversees operational activities, including scheduling, routing, and logistics, to optimize efficiency and maximize productivity.- Executes strategic and focused multichannel engagement initiatives to enhance brand perception and elevate overall customer experience.- Foster strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and providing tailored solutions to enhance client satisfaction and retention.

Nigeria

I perform strategic and business development functions to grow the organisation's bottomline while also helping clients achieve their set objectives.I plan, curate and implement strategic marketing campaigns for brands across variegated sectors ranging from financial services to tech and mobility, aviation, renewable energy, oil and gas, lifestyle, education and governance.Earlier in 2022, I managed the participation of the Agency at the revamped Africa NXT to host a session tagged 'Disruptive PR in Immiment Metaverse Era'. The session had some of the finest minds in the creative and communications industry.Worked alongside team members to plan the participation and manage Nigeria's delegation at World Gas Conference, Daegu, South Korea, in May 2022. My other responsibilities include; - Working closely with respective teams within the organisation to ideate, curate, plan, and execute campaigns for multi-sector clients.- Part of the Agency team that conceptualised, curated, and executed the inaugural Insurance Meets Tech (IMT 2022) Conference held in September 2022. The conference is the largest gathering of C-Suites executives in the insurtech, data and tech ecosystem.

Lagos, Nigeria

I develop and implement brand engagement activities (parleys, conferences, facility visits, etc) regularly to drive brand and stakeholder engagements in a bid to shore up brand equity. I also handle content development and curation, follower engagement, and social promotions across brand and client social channels.In 2019, I championed the participation of the Agency at the globally acclaimed Social Media Week (SMW) Lagos, to host a session titled The Lagos Go-Slow Economy: What Research & Data Can Tell Us About Trade & Opportunities in 2019.My other responsibilities include working closely with respective teams within the organisation to organise, manage, monitor and track client performance around brand engagements, marketing campaigns, experiential events, corporate events, and sponsorship initiatives e.t.c to drive brand visibility across the spectrum.

Lagos

I championed the content curation and publishing on InsideMainland, a community-focused media platform dedicated to reporting events, happenings, governance and everything around the Lagos Mainland Metropolis.My responsibilities also entailed, the development, execution and optimization of the published content across digital channels leveraging smart social and digital engagement platforms to drive readership and followership of the platform and its reports.I ensured the alignment of other strong grassroots personalities with the platform to drive acceptance at the level opening access to a wide reports about issues as it affects the populace.My other achievements in the role include;- Championing the participation of InsideMainland at the globally acclaimed Social Media Week (SMW) Lagos, to host a session on citizen and community journalism in 2018.- Grew the followership base of the digital channels by over 1000% over 4 years.- Managed the relationship between the platform and strategic influencers to achieve increased visits and reach

Lagos, Nigeria

I championed the establishment of a sustainable relationship with the media by introducing different engagement approaches to drive a rewarding relationship for the organisation and clients.Organised parleys, roundtable discussions, and breakfast sessions for the brand's clients with senior correspondents and editors of newspaper publications. My responsibilities within the Media team, with direct reporting lines to the CEO, also entailed the development and execution of a positive relationship with the local and international media.

Lagos, Nigeria

Led the media unit of the brand with the key mandate to achieve a strong media share of voice and positive sentiment for the organisation's clients.My responsibilities for this role include: - Strategic Consulting, including content and compliance monitoring of media and strategy development- Media Release curation and development to amplify brand and client objectives.- Media tracking and monitoring - Stakeholder relations

Lagos

Weekly Columnist for ThisDay Newspaper, a foremost Nigerian mainstream newspaper writing on arts, music, and entertainment with a focus on Nigerian entertainers and the finest export from that part of the globe. Interviewed and reported exclusively on household names such as 2Baba, D’banj, Davido, Tiwa Savage, 9ice, Davido, and Wizkid among several other Nigerian superstars.

Lagos, Nigeria

Worked in the news gathering and featuring writing unit with a mandate to submit three cover stories weekly.My achievements in this role include:- Creating and maintaining the social media accounts for the brand.- Curating social and viral content for the digital channels such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Google+ pages.- Maintenance and daily updates of the official website with well curated news stories.- Worked alongside the design and creative unit to plan the weekly cover page and stores for the magazine

Associate Member, Public Relations

Higher National Diploma, Mass Comunication, Pr & Advertising, Distinction