KHIZER INAYAT (Award Winning Marketing, Operations and Innovation Specialist)
UAE Cell: +971.502.151.358 PK: +92-332-**-**-*** adbt1r@r.postjobfree.com WhatsApp: Click Here CAREER OBJECTIVE
Looking for Established and Startup companies who have a Burning Passion and Desire to GROW. Companies who have resources, people, infrastructure and products/ services in place but they LACK the TALENT. CEOs and Investors who are suffering from Poor Management and Money Leakages due to heavy duty Marketing and Sales Plans that shines on the screens but does not impact on $ Value. I want to create a difference in those companies by offering a simple and creative approach towards
"Operational Excellence, People Management, Care and Growth, Marketing, Customers Services, Sales Automation and Business Growth". Sounds Crazy? Just meet me for 20 Minutes! SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS
Sales and
Marketing
Currently working with a Prominent Membership based Club and have successfully achieved the Maximum number of memberships within the very limited period of time.
Consulted a Housing Society to launch their project and attained significant sales figures and projection in local and overseas clients.
Worked with a Japanese company and started their operation. Planned and executed the outbound call center and lined up all sales and marketing collateral with the working CRM and got their sales 3 times in only 6 months.
Designed and implemented CRM system for a Major Life Insurance Company of Pakistan for their International Division that increased sales 4 times in just 2 years.
Helped 100s of companies and individuals to achieve their sales and marketing goals by providing my consulting that covered not only strategies by practical training and execution by working as a team member with them.
Management
Having a very kind / humble but focused approach towards “Client Service Management”. Highly skilled in the following areas:-
● Ability to Run the Whole Show Independently.
● A Talent to Keep People Happy and Creating a Pleasant Working Environment by offering small incentives, leverages and Fun at the work place.
● Highly Resourceful Professional.
● Excellent interpersonal skills including man-management of direct reports and clients.
● Effective written and verbal communication skills. MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint Advance User.
● Training and Career Development of the Team working under me.
● Innovative and Creative ideas to increase productivity and efficiency.
● Abreast with Quality Management Systems Such as ISO, Lean and Six Sigma Marketing
A Marketing Guru – Social Media/ LinkedIn/ Facebook Trainer. B2B Lead Generation and Cold Calling Trainer. Setting up an Eco-System for a complete Sales Cycle. IT / Software
Expert of ERPs/ CRMs and Technology Tools that can be utilized to improve the efficeincy and productivity of teams with centralized data management. E-Business, SEO, Social Media, Google, Facebook and Linkedin Advertisement Expert. KHIZER INAYAT (Award Winning Marketing, Operations and Innovation Specialist) PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Air Force officers Club (AFOHS Club) – Falcon Complex – Gulberg. Lahore Director Marketing and Sales
Responsibilities and activities:-
Started with the empty building and created the vision and mission of the club with the help of top management. From membership form designing to creating marketing and sales strategy - I have been fully instrumental and was on top of everything.
Did many things with my own hands to make sure the quality will not suffer. Management of Membership drive for armed forces and elite class business men. Leading a team of social media marketing professionals and outbound call centres. Terms teams. Reporting to the CEO and board of governors. Generated successfully more than a 1000 members within only 10 months creating a record within our industry. Got Rewarded by PAF with a complementary Family Membership for me and my family. Jun, 2014 to Date
Al Elm Information Technology Company – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Head of New Product Development Division - KSA
Responsibilities and activities:-
This is a kind of Entrepreneurial Role in the company where I am responsible to launch the New E- Services.
Managing New Product Managers to make sure that new Products are being Monitored Properly.
Creating and Approving the Business Model Canvas for Each Product.
Identifying/ reviewing product lifecycle.
Review / define the product strategy and road map.
To work closely with cross functional team such as product development team and product sales.
Stay alert with any new competition appear into market.
Establishing periodically product management review (PMR).
Provide product support to sales and marketing team.
Prepare business cases in conjunction with Product plan and present them to executive management.
Managing the Product’s Portfolio and marketing campaigns. Dec, 2013 to 30 Dec, 2016
TecnoShift– Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Executive Director, Marketing and Sales - KSA
Responsibilities and activities:-
Co-Founder of the Company that was a Joint Venture with a Bahraini Group.
Within 2 years, the company's turnover was SAR 5 Million.
Created and Implemented Social Media and SEO Strategy that generated almost 50% of the business.
Started multiple divisions and sections to diversify.
Managing the Consulting and Coaching business on P&L Bases
Managing over 100,000 Categorized Customer’s Database.
B2B Relations Management with Key Accounts and supporting Sales Staff in Sales and Marketing
Providing a visionary support to the Board for Strategic Decision and Growth models.
Leading Consulting Projects with domain specialists.
Have been able to bring the company to be awarded as “Saudi Fast Growth Company “Leading Consulting Projects with domain specialists.
Have been able to bring the company to be awarded as “Saudi Fast Growth Company” KHIZER INAYAT (Award Winning Marketing, Operations and Innovation Specialist) May, 2009 to Dec, 2013
Emircom Saudi Arabia – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Country Sales and Marketing Manager / Managed Services Division - KSA Responsibilities and activities:-
Fully responsible for the Sales, Marketing and Business Development.
Designing and Developing Marketing Collaterals Multiple Service Offerings and Service Launches including press releases, launch materials, customer presentations, videos etc.
Developing and driving competitive marketing campaigns to ensure Emircom’s market share and profitability.
Develop product positioning and messaging that differentiates our products in the market.
Sales enablement - communicates the value proposition of the products to the sales team and develops the sales tools that support the selling process of our products.
Product launch - planning the launch of new products and releases and manage the cross-functional implementation of the plan.
Demand generation - developing the strategy and managing the marketing programs that drive demand for our products.
Involved in staff related matters like staff leave, training, claims of operation staff, house advances for staff, passport release( in liaison with HR/COO), local administrative purchases, staff visas, outstation travel etc.
To hold healthy relationship with Suppliers and Customers which, will benefit the company at all times
To involve in sales activity at the Presales level. Ensuring that all process functions starting from enquiry to quotation is completed meticulously without any hindrance. Upon award of orders from customer, ensuring that all process involved are completed systematically to ensure that deadline are met and customer satisfaction is obtained.
March 2007 to Apr 2009
Alcatel-Lucent – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Program Manager / Sales Consultant
Main Responsibilities and activities:-
Being the customer’s prime contact, all commitments taken with the customer for the contract execution
Being Alcatel local representative - coordinating Alcatel teams, and helping in contract execution with respect to customer requirements during implementation and deployment phase.
Supporting Customer from pre sales, to post launch
Participating in the analysis of the technical deployment
Participating and supporting contract definition that fits customer local constraints (network environment, legal, hand set local certification, …)
Organizing and coordinating for customer trainings
Providing after launch support reactivity and request/organize right level of support from the Alcatel teams
Coordinating technical task execution – having the right technical skills in order to perform efficient technical co-ordination.
Following-up installation of different component (software, network configuration, mail servers)
Managing initiate and follow Purchase Orders
Managing software / applications new release, upgrade, patches and installations.
Managing inventory of the customer installation (software, hardware, global architecture) From Aug 2006 to Feb 2007
InfoTech Pvt. Limited “IBM® Business Partner”
Country Head – Messaging and Infrastructure Division Main Responsibilities and activities:-
Sourcing / recruiting and developing a new team with the right skills to formulate a new division in the company.
Reporting to CEO and coordinating with Sales Managers, Marketing, Partner Managers, and Account Representatives.
Responsible for Business Development of Hardware / Software Solutions.
Managing the principals such as IBM, ORACLE, Microsoft and McAfee. KHIZER INAYAT (Award Winning Marketing, Operations and Innovation Specialist)
Assuring that our sales objectives are achieved in the region including attainment of quota, management of expenses, and aggressive growth targets.
Providing Sales management with accurate forecasts and weekly updates of account activity.
Leading sales teams by demonstrating strategic opportunity planning, thorough qualification of opportunities, and relationship development.
Project Management for Mobilink’s BlackBerry Support Team for all over Pakistan.
Participating in the recruiting, hiring, training and management of sales / technical personnel.
Playing a key role in finding and engaging the appropriate partner to meet the customer requirements.
Maintaining product and local knowledge base.
Processes in gaining operational improvements – preventing mistakes, saving time and money.
Managing a Team of Network Administrators, System Engineers, and technical staff. From Nov 2004 to Aug 2006
LMK Resources Islamabad - A Halliburton - USA Company. ERP Project Consultant
Main Responsibilities and activities:-
Reporting to Manager ERP Division.
Performing Project Management, Business Analysis and Account management.
Working as part of a team to deliver projects within a larger portfolio initiative.
Work with application support staff and infrastructure teams to deploy in-house developed software.
Responsible for documentation and project management tasks.
Responsible for qualifying the products and getting sign offs.
Close coordination with Back office software development team leaders.
Responsible for management and administration of internal IBM Domino infrastructure.
Providing high level customer support and technical presentations.
Awarded “ERP-Specialist” of the year (2004).
From June 2003 to Oct 2004
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
Mini MBA from American Management
Association – New York – USA.
Marketing 3.0 Certificate by Dr. Philip Kotler –
Professor in NW University, United States
Comptia A+ Certified Hardware Professional Coached by Bob Proctor, Brian Tracy. HR Training by ETSKO SCHUITEMA – Care &
Growth Model.
Product Management Certified from Zurich,
Switzerland.
Asst. Engineering in Electronics
Arabia 500 Award by US Ambassador James B.
Smith – Winner of One of 40 Entrepreneurial
Projects in Saudi Arabia.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
● www.About.me/khizer
● Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/in/khizer
● Toastmasters International Club –USA
● Project Management Institute (PMI) – USA
● Member of Advisory Committee USA Think Tank. http://pakistanstrategyforum.org/s Khizer’s Linkedin Recommendations……
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