Wael Ibrahim, Marketing Manager

Wael Ibrahim

Marketing Manager

Engineering Company For Technological Industries

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Marketing & International business
Experience
22 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 1 Months

Marketing Manager at Engineering Company For Technological Industries
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since March 2013

- Developing product, brand strategy & marketing plan
- Setting commission scheme for sales reps both commercial and corporate
- Brand name & brand compelling truth development based on local qualitative research &, GCC market observation & analysis. In Addition to managing communication & briefing with advertising & media agencies.
- Managing communication and briefing with e-marketing/IT agencies regarding e-marketing activities & website development.
- Facilitating procurement transactions with suppliers in Egypt & Asia

Business Development Manager at Core Communications
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2011 to February 2013

- Promoting the Agency through communicating company services & competitive edge to target audience through the appropriate business channels.
- Utilizing business network relations & suitable B2B communication channels in approaching potential clients
- Assure diversification of profitable accounts thus sustaining the Agency’s diversified experience

Brand Manager at Alkan Holdings ( CFC)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2010 to May 2011

- Real estate market analysis & product SWOT analysis development for product evaluation against competition
- Setting Marketing strategy in alliance with business & sales objectives
- Initiating marketing ideas, implementing related plans & supervising on production of marketing material that support sales team sales process targeting potential clients in specific
- Agency assignment, briefing & follow up on strategy implementation & CI manual
- Negotiations, briefing & follow up on suppliers deliverables in addition to following up on payment dates

Marketing Manager at Connect for mobile distribution
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2009 to August 2010

- Marketing strategy development & implementation in alignment with Samsung Cairo office
- Supporting Samsung Cairo office in monitoring & evaluating competitive activities
- Utilizing available resources to support company’s sales team in achieving the committed forecast.
- Communication & Marketing briefing to advertising/sales personnel & supervision & evaluation of final plan after implementation

FTK Brand Manager at Fine Hygienic Paper Co. Ltd., Nuqul Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2008 to September 2009

- Developing promotional campaigns including joint promotions with international brands in
Alignment with brand strategy & evaluating results versus objectives
- Providing Advertising Agency with Marketing brief, follow up on campaign implementation and
Assure meeting campaign/s objectives
- Assuring alignment on objectives between production, sales and Marketing departments to
Achieve business objectives.
- Monitoring sales forecast versus actual sales & taking corrective measures when needed
- Monitoring & evaluating competitive communication/ promotions & sharing it with subordinates
And Marketing Director
- Annual contracts negotiation & finalization with local & int’l retail chains. In addition to agreeing
On annual promotional calendars

Account Manager at Fortune Promoseven
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2007 to August 2008

- Develop and maintain a close and productive relationship with key client contacts
- Assure smooth flow of day to day activities
- Reaching constructive solutions regarding account operational hiccups as they exist within the
Scope of authorities and escalate/involve upper management when required.
- Assuring dealing with Client's requests as per the Agency's quality standards
- Development and updating brand review presentations.
- Managing production process to assure meeting production and budget standards
- Monitoring the profitability of individual jobs and campaigns to manage current and future
Account profitability

Content Acquisition Team Leader at ArpuPlus ­ an Orascom Telecom subsidiary
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2006 to July 2007

Follow up on continuous content updates serving all operational territories and platforms
(SMS, IVR, RBT, video streaming, 3G & VOD)
- Contracts development, generating & sharing financial/hits reports with content providers
- Follow up on content providers' financial payment
- Assuring content utilization and quality control as per technical standards.
- Approaching potential providers based on country/regional requests
- Maintaining respectful business relationship with content providers

Regional Communication Team Leader at Arpu Plus an OT subsidiary
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2005 to July 2006

- Follow up on company’s corporate and brand related projects on regional level
- Daily communication with Agency including proper briefing for new jobs/projects, supervising on
Jobs' progress thus assuring effective management, output quality
- Category study and continuous monitoring for competitive activities
- Digging up for brand opportunities, to become successfully connected with brand (s) growth
& capture market share from competition.
- Budget allocation management (on sub-projects basis) and constantly preparing financial

Account supervisor at Fortune PromoSeven -McCann Erickson
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2003 to July 2005

- Develop and maintain a close and productive relationship with key client contacts
- Assure smooth flow of day to day activities
- Reaching constructive solutions regarding account operational hiccups as they exist within the
Scope of authorities and escalate/involve upper management when required.
- Assuring dealing with Client's requests as per the Agency's quality standards
- Development and updating brand review presentations.
- Managing production process to assure meeting production and budget standards
- Monitoring the profitability of individual jobs and campaigns to manage current and future
Account profitability

Account Executive at Fortune Promoseven
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2002 to December 2003

- Implementing approved 360° communication plan/s
- Maintain good relationship with Clients based on efficient high quality output
- Competitive monitoring, compilation and analysis
- Generating contact & status reports, sharing it with management & Client & aligning on
Next steps
- Issuing quotations & invoices for in-progress/closed jobs & follow up on Client’s payment
Status as per agreed contract

Marketing Executive at Feba household detergent
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2001 to April 2002

Generating and executing monthly competitive monitoring and SWOT analysis
- Assistance in writing marketing briefs
- Assistance in managing ATL and BTL activities weekly

Education

Bachelor's degree, Marketing & International business
  • at Modern Science and Arts University
  • August 2001

Marketing & international business expert

Specialties & Skills

Strategic Planning
Management Practices
Brand Management
Advertising Campaign Management
Team Management
Team management
Retail audit analysis
Creative copywriting
Technical analysis

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Memberships

International Advertising association (IAA)h
  • normal membership
  • January 2002
CFA institute
  • Candidate. Registered for Level 1 exam on June 7th 2014
  • July 2013
Egyptian Society for technical analysis ( ESTA)
  • candidate
  • February 2016

Training and Certifications

Certificate of attending (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2006
Valid Until:
January 2007
certificate of attendance by PMI (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
Valid Until:
April 2009
Achieved 5th level - on going study (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
July 2012
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2004
Valid Until:
June 2004
Certificate of attendance (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2006
Valid Until:
July 2006

Hobbies

  • Reading self development books
    - 7 habbits of highly effective people - The Post American World - The Art of Negotiation