Farrukh Khan, Postpaid Segment Manager

Farrukh Khan

Postpaid Segment Manager

Ooredoo Telecom

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
19 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 7 Months

Postpaid Segment Manager at Ooredoo Telecom
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since January 2010

 Responsible for the development of the new product proposition and promotions with all internal and external stakeholders and ensure that they are able to generate revenue, have a positive impact on the company brand increase market value and improve the customer experience.
 Coordinate with marketing communication, customer care, PMO, technology, TPMO, finance, customer experience and sales to evaluate, plan, coordinate, train on and deliver new profitable products/promotions up to commercial launch stage
 Conduct market studies/focus groups to get the feedback from customers on existing portfolio and know about their needs and wants.
 Responsible for the development of strategies for awareness and segment penetration keeping in view the competitive offers and customer experience.
 Responsible for SWOT analysis for managing potential and actual impacts / risks, taking corrective action and or handling day-to-day issues.
 Manage project plans by achieving the given milestones within the projected timelines and allocated budget.
 Review plans on regular basis with all stake holders to communicate project status and mitigate any risks.
 Responsible for yearly & quarterly rolling over roadmap development/ exercise for postpaid segment including and not restricting to products and promotions.
 Responsible for monitoring and reporting the ongoing promotions and revenue margin, net add trends to the management on weekly/ monthly basis
 Life cycle management of product with respect to planning promotions and running campaigns to keep them engaged with the brand and increase stickiness.

Major Accomplishment
 Launch the data transfer product
 Part of the data monetization project, implemented the throttling mechanism for the users
 Implemented the data sharing product
 Part of the postpaid minutes roll over product and implementing data roll over product.

Sr. Executive Products and Services at Warid Telecom
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • March 2005 to January 2010

 R2S (Retailer to Subscriber) credit transfer platform integration
 P2P (Peer to Peer) balance transfer
 Integration of new charging node
 Integration of USSD gateway
 Automatic settings pushed to handsets from device management platform through SIM STK and commercial website.
 Mobile Games for Warid Telecom.
 Managing the MRBT platform
 Part of new brand launch for Warid (Glow). Worked solely on web/ wap portal for the brand (http://glow.pk)

Business Analyst at Mobilink Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2004 to February 2005

 Automation of CNS and SMS. Created processes that send automated messages and short messages to customers whose cards were expiring in few days.
 Conducted daily and monthly analysis over the IN reports regarding the charging patterns of cards by prepaid customers.
 Implementation of data-ware housing and data-mining.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Preston University, Lahore
  • September 2008

Did my Master's in business administration with Majors in marketing.

Bachelor's degree, B.S Honors in Computer Sciences
  • at FAST-National University
  • September 2004

4 years honors degree in computer sciences.

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Pricing Strategy
Team Management
Strategic Planning
Microsoft Office
MS Office
Negotiation Skills
Product Development
Product Management
Pricing
Forecasting

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Marketing Strategy (Training)
Training Institute:
B2B marketing strategy training by Neotelis
Date Attended:
September 2011