Marketing Manager
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Manage corporate marketing and communications functions, overseeing a $1.5M budget. Direct brand management, PR, media relations, corporate positioning, product launches, advertising and sales collateral.• Developed and launched integrated, multi-channel marketing strategy (marketing overview events, online marketing campaigns, print ads, offline direct mail, website, broadcast media, & PR) that propelled sales.• Led market launch of new Leadership, Communication and Education solutions. • Produced face – to - face meeting guides that demonstrated key marketing analytics and demographics for use in sales meetings. Efforts were credited as instrumental in closing numerous high-level deals.• Performed ongoing customer/market research and demographic profiling to identify and capitalize on unmet market needs ahead of the curve.• Leveraged strengths in cost-effective marketing management and vendor negotiations to end each year an average of 10% under budget , without compromising business growth goals.• Championed marketing programs and general business solutions resulting in increased customer traffic and sales.• Employed events strategy that continue to drive record sales volumes with over 46 events in 2014 and doubling the number of events in 2015.• Generated campaign response-rates of between 6% and 8%.• Increased company database by 3000 new companies.• Successfully administrating Pardot since 2014.