IRFAN SULAIMAN

Dubai, U.A.E

Mobile: +97152 5121826

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Summary

Marketing professional with over 4 years of rich experience in the field of Marketing & Marketing Research.

EDUCATION

B.Com (Bachelor of Commerce)

The New College,

University of Madras, Chennai, India.

Professional Experiences

SquareOne HoldingsMar’ 2015 to present

Marketing Specialist

  • Strategize, Plan, Budget and Execute the Marketing Plans , Business Development & Lead Generation activities for SquareOne Group (which primarily consists of 3 entities)
  • Execute assigned outbound calling campaigns designed to acquire new customers
  • Assist the Director of Marketing in preparing Budgets, Plans, and presentations to be presented to the Vendors
  • Exploring New marketing strategies and present the same to the Vendors for MDF
  • Responsible for MDF claims and distribution across the Entities
  • Prepare proposals and contracts
  • Program and maintain CRM, databases, mail merges, spreadsheets, corporate reports, market intelligence etc.
  • Create Case Studies and measures to capture Testimonials from Existing Customers
  • Create Online surveys to know the feedback of our existing customers and take measures to retain them.
  • Monitor Google Adwords, Google analytics, and take measures to improve their efficiency.
  • Works as a team member and offer assistance to others as needed
  • Provide product information and selection assistance to customers;
  • Develop and strengthen customer relationships
  • Organize, Plan & Execute Events
  • Use Social Media to drive the organizations reach into the market.
  • Manage Websites and other Digital communications.

Precedence Technologies Jan’ 2013 to Jan’ 2015

Marketing Specialist & Corporate Account Manager

Responsibilities as Marketing Specialist

  • Planning and executing marketing campaigns.
  • Planning and executing Events for End users.
  • Performing customer research to know the areas of Improvement and take actions based on the customers feedback
  • Relationship Management with Vendors and Responsible for Vendor’s Sponsorship for Events.
  • Understand customer requirements and preparing the quotation based on their requirements..
  • Prepare and update the corporate presentation based on client’s requirements and present them during meetings.
  • Prepare and update the corporate presentation for Vendors and distributors and present the same at meetings and to generate new partnership with vendors.
  • Assign the leads generated from Marketing Campaigns and Events.
  • Track Campaign results and Follow up with sales team on the Leads assigned to them.
  • Meeting the Clients and maintaining long term relationships with them..
  • Database building and management.
  • Creating and sending flyers to customers.
  • Achieving sales target assigned to me.
  • Working with Vendors/Distributors marketing team closely and get the marketing plans and strategy executed.
  • Case study and PR related activities.
  • Newsletters Designing & Sending.
  • Website management and all marketing related activities...

Responsibilities as Corporate Account Manager

  • Understand customer’s requirement and propose them the right solutions.
  • Prepare Quotations and send to the customers.
  • Relationship management with the customers in order to get future business.
  • Co-ordination between the Engineers and the Customers to execute the project smoothly

IMRB INTERNATIONALS, June’ 2011 – November’ 2012

Field Controller

  • Core Experience in Quantitative Research Projects.
  • Handled Qualitative Projects like Group discussions, Depth Interviews.
  • Retail Research Projects.
  • Mystery Shopping Projects
  • Track Jobs (Monthly,, Quaterly, and Yearly track jobs).
  • CLT Projects.
  • Recruiting, Motivating, and Training of Freelancers to achieve results.
  • Budget management for the project assigned.
  • Planning for executing the project.
  • Understanding the Project from the researchers and Brief the same to the group of freelancers who are involved in the project.
  • Conducting Field briefing, Spot checks and Scrutiny of Questionnaires and dispatching the same before the deadline..
  • Completing the project on or before the agreed deadline without compromising on Quality..
  • Settle the payments by passing bills and providing the required documents of Freelancers.
  • Settle all the advance at the right time without any discrepancies

FEW PROJECT REFERENCE

EMC Forum

One of the largest events being organized by EMC every year... Precedence participated for the first time in this event as Sponsor booth Personal...The event attracted not less than 1000 participants and it’s been held at Atlantis-The palm

The Hotel Show

The Hotel Show is one of the biggest event in the Middle east which concentrates entirely on Hospitality Sector.100's of exhibitors and 1000's of participants from various places will visit the Hotel show..Precedence was successful enough to exhibit on the Hotel Show for the 6th consecutive year and well known for its success.

Precedence-Aruba Event

Precedence Technologies L.L.C organized an End User event with ARUBA on 15th may 2013 at Shangri-la Hotel.. The event attracted 45 Participants from Various Sectors like Hospitality, Education, Healthcare and Government

Document Day – KSA

Document day is event organized every year by SquareOne Technologies across GCC. This year we have successfully organized the event in KSA and UAE is planned for September.

UNICEF STUDY.

The Aim of this study is to cover all the villages of Salem and Dharmapuri Districts (About 138 Villages) and a rough sample size of 12000 Respondents to understand their knowledge and awareness about Government schemes and Child labour. Itwas a very challenging Project as lot of the Village areas were Hill stations and transportation was very fewer.. Due to our efficient planning we completed the project before the deadline.

Eyeball Tracking for BINGO.

This is one of the Innovative and Complex project. This study was tried for the first time in the History of IMRB Internationals and luckily I have been assigned to this project. The aim of this study is to capture the Retina movement to track the attractive points in a Wrapper through a special gadget designed especially for this project. With great efforts we completed the project adhering to the deadlines and the clients were very happy...

Project BIBLE.

The Aim of this study is to understand the daily consumptions habits of various customers of different Age group. The sample size for the study is 5000 and it’s a 3 visit study. It’s a very challenging study as the Interview for every visit will take more than an hour and the most challenging part is to interview Children’s below 10 years. With precise planning and Execution we successfully completed this project...

CERTIFICATIONS

Web designing.

PERSONAL VITAE

Date Of Birth : 17th OCT, 1990

Marital Status: Single

Driving License: Yes

Driving License Number: 2094671

Languages Known : English,Tamil,Hindi,Urdu,Malayalam & Gujarathi

Visa status : Employment Visa.

Current Salary :- AED 7500

Expected Salary :- As per industry standards

REFERENCE

1. Arun Mohan 2.Udhaykumar

Business Development Manager Field Manager

Precedence Technologies IMRB Internationals

Mob: 055 5582198 Mob: +91 9941009934

E-Mail: E-Mail:

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that all the information furnished by me is true to my knowledge.

Date: Irfan Sulaiman