Marketing Manager at SaadEddin, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fifteen years building brands, demand, and digital commerce across Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Seasoned marketing professional with an exceptional track record in marketing, brand management, and strategic analysis for FMCG brands.
Effective at conceptualizing marketing plans through creative and innovative thinking, and executing brand campaigns that establish awareness, increase sales, and grow overall revenue.
Proven record of identifying and capitalizing on new business opportunities through strategic brand positioning and effective marketing programs.
Strong understanding of consumer, customer, and shopper markets across countries, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills at every organizational level.
Led a team of 8 executives managing an annual budget of 2.5 million EGP to drive growth for FMCG brands.
Developed global and regional brand strategy covering ATL, BTL, public relations, and sponsorship for both master and product brands.
Translated global brand concepts to regional level and integrated all brand marketing into a cohesive message across markets.
Monitored market trends, consumer research, and competitor activity to identify opportunities and key issues.
Recommended and tailored product strategies to protect margins and market share.
Analyzed the product landscape with retail audit data for forecast planning and consumer insights.
Significant highlights
Grew healthy-product sales to an all-time high of 240 million EGP (33% increase) through new sub-lines targeting niche preferences.
Achieved a 100% increase in online sales across products by liaising with the digital team, researching the market, and tailoring materials.
Led expansion of Sante, HealthyMill, MagicMoments, and Calnort through targeted marketing and branding campaigns.
Digital Marketing Manager
Jan 2019 — Feb 2020
Keden International · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
6 brands
Established community engagement through content marketing, reaching a 35% engagement rate.
Created a content strategy with high engagement and user retention.
Set social-media KPI metrics to determine ROI.
Launched a user-generated campaign that received almost 200 entries on its first day.
Gave continuous feedback to the development team and created projects that increased brand engagement.
Built a social paid strategy with high-performing campaigns at 5% CTR.
Brand Manager
Jan 2018 — Jan 2019
As-Sonbolah for Food Industries · Cairo, Egypt
Owned corporate and retail marketing, advertising, event planning, outreach, and product and design initiatives with more than 8 million in annual revenue.
Monitored market trends and oversaw advertising so the right message landed for the brand.
Worked with agencies on the company website — graphic design, copy, and layout — delivered under budget and on time while reducing expenses.
Worked directly with the CEO on marketing plans to increase sales and brand awareness.
Owned product and packaging development, targets, budgets, and goals, and initiated new marketing procedures to enhance the retail customer experience.
Digital Marketing & Ecommerce Manager
Jan 2017 — Jan 2018
Raneen for Home Appliances · Cairo, Egypt
2 brands
Built and executed social strategy through competitive research, platform choice, benchmarking, messaging, and audience identification.
Generated, edited, published, and shared daily content across text, image, video, and HTML.
Set up and optimized company pages on each platform to increase visibility.
Captured and analyzed social data, insights, and best practices, then acted on them.
Managed content, SEO/SEM, and analytics for all digital-marketing activity, adhering to digital brand standards.
Managed marketing presence on other ecommerce channels.
Led strategy, development, execution, and optimization of paid digital — display, mobile, SEM, and SEO.
Analyzed and reported on customer-behavior insights.
Ensured digital design was optimized for branding, impact, SEO, and web development.
Identified opportunities to apply new technologies, digital products, and services to online campaigns.
Branding & Communication Supervisor
Dec 2013 — Jan 2017
Alwatania Poultry Egypt · Giza, Egypt
Designed and developed the corporate website and kept its appearance, updates, and rating value current.
Registered the company on business websites and managed those accounts.
Gathered marketing data from the web and ran e-marketing campaigns via mail shots and other media.
Search-engine optimization and keyword research; mobile landing-page design and optimization; QR-code design and optimization.
Web analytics using Google Analytics, AdSense, Ads, Insights, and Webmaster Tools.
Facebook campaign and fan-page administration.
Competitive research, analysis, and service pricing.
Coordinated planning and execution of online activities; recommended plan and product development.
Developed and initiated marketing activities and strategies; maintained competitor and global-market databases.
Copywriting for blog and Facebook content.
Developed and executed ATL (radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, outdoors, press), TTL (banners, social, events), and BTL (contextual ads, vertical banners, email, telemarketing).
Senior Web Designer & Digital Marketing Specialist
Apr 2013 — Dec 2013
Metropolitan Consulting · Cairo, Egypt
Designed appealing websites while working daily with graphic designers, back-end developers, and marketers.
Developed and maintained front-end functionality; designed prototypes for apps and websites.
Created logos, banners, and buttons; wrote cross-browser XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Managed several databases and reporting tools; confirmed link placements with external webmasters.
Guided teammates on web-development issues and kept a consistent look across web properties.
Senior Web Designer & Social Media Specialist
Nov 2012 — Apr 2013
Lady Egypt Tours · Giza, Egypt
Wrote and edited content; designed webpage layouts; determined technical requirements.
Updated websites, created backups, and provided technical support to end users.
Identified and corrected software deficiencies; devised SEO strategies; solved code problems.
Oracle Developer
Oct 2012 — Nov 2012
TE Data · Cairo, Egypt
Follow-up team (pre-launch).
Customer Care Representative
May 2011 — Sep 2012
Etisalat Misr · Cairo, Egypt
Worked as a customer-care agent.
Promoted to act as team leader for five and a half months.
Web Developer & Graphic Designer
Feb 2009 — Apr 2011
New Touch Company · Cairo, Egypt
Designed websites with Joomla, WordPress, jQuery, and Flash.
Built dynamic queries, vBulletin forums, and WordPress, Joomla, and HTML themes and templates from scratch.
Created graphic and motion designs.
03Skills
Craft and working method
Working skills
Strategic planning and development
Organizing workload and prioritizing tasks
Translating business requirements into functional requirements
Managing multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Adapting quickly and picking up new techniques
Leading creative development that moves a target audience to take action
Setting performance specifications, cost and price parameters, and sales estimates
Measuring campaign performance against ROI and KPIs
Aligning the company around brand direction, choices, and tactics