Mai Sakamoto Email & Phone Number

Tokyo, JP

Tokyo, Japan

< Marketing related >Planning and creating TV commercials, scheduling air time slots and managing overall production processDesigning ads (mainly billboards, newspaper and magazine ads)Localizing PR and marketing designs and concepts from head office (in Australia) for the Japan marketManaging communications between ad/marketing agenciesFinal proofreading.

Tokyo, Japan

• Increase public awareness of Servcorp through press releases, social media, advertising and content marketing
• Plan and implement content marketing strategies
• Create and promote content on company's online media (websites, social media, press releases)
• Manage and oversee Marketing department's daily activities, projects and goals
• Plan and implement promotions geared for generating leads and increasing internal revenue
• Main designer for advertisements and other marketing materials

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

• Plan and implement promotions for both clients and potential customers; generating ideas, pitching the idea to decision makers, creating marketing materials, launching and collecting and analyzing results for improving.
• Main designer for both print and web advertisements for use on billboards, newspapers, magazines, flyers and ads at train stations
• Started the company’s most popular Facebook promotion, the Feature Secretary series, which has received the most Likes and Comments to date
• Design eye-catching and effective HTML email templates to send to clients and potential customers
• Provide marketing support for 22 Servcorp locations in Japan by initiating promotions which effecitvely target the market in the area
• Localize promotions and marketing materials from head office (Sydney, Australia) to cater to the Japanese market effectively

• Promote general compliance of policies and procedures in the workplace
• Build HR framework for the organization
• Support communications between senior management (English/Japanese translations, cultural suggestions, etc.)
• Standardize administrative procedures in the workplace
• Track attendance and analyze trends to implement programs that will improve attendance
• Coordinate performance evaluations

• Establish and promote first muti-media communication system in the company and responsible for the content and maintenance of the system, including liaising with outside vendors, EDS, and all other company departments
• Create and publish company’s first monthly corporate magazine and also responsible for designing and compiling company’s ads, posters, banners, pamphlets, flyers etc.
• Coordinate public media events, quarterly business meetings for upper level management group, internal employee enthusiasm events, etc.
• Host focus group sessions to obtain employee feedback on communication effectiveness within the company and compile report of results for upper level management’s review
• Liaise between Japanese, Canadian and American employees and resolve communication issues
• Establish immigration procedures and create a more efficiently managed immigration process; also responsible for preparing immigration paperwork for all visitors to the company while liaising with government departments

• Teach one tutorial every week and meet with the instructor every week to discuss lecture plans and improvements, and students’ concerns
• Develop accurate records of student’s academic performance; also mark test papers for all students
• Substitute lectures when professor is absentReceived perfect student evaluation in 2005 and was recommended to teach higher level Japanese classes for the following years.

Honours Bachelor Degree In Commerce, Marketing

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Vice President, Student Council; Captain, Girls Varsity Volleyball Team; Captain, Girls Varsity Softball Team