Business Development Manager

• Sep 2022 - Present

Identify and qualify the right Clients for StraightArrow. He or she is responsible for establishing business relationships with the right Clients, from all lead sources including their own networks, further qualifying Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL’s), facilitating the pilot project phase, preparing proposals, closing sales contracts and agreements and effectively turning over the management of these contracts and relationships to our Operations Team.●Perform outbound sales activities●Effectively engaging marketing qualified leads in Discovery Calls within set TATs;●Attending relevant “Prospect-rich” events;●Actively participating in “Prospect-rich” associations, representing StraightArrow;●Setting appointments with prospective Clients for face-to-face or virtual Discovery Meetings;●Engaging existing accounts for referrals.●Prepares relevant Proposals for New BusinessClients;●Works with Operations Group in ensuring Proposals are relevant and competitive as validated during the ●Deliver presentations in line with the Proposal;●Negotiate terms of engagement;●Prepare well-thought-out, strategic, and profitable proposals and contracts, working with StraightArrow’s Operations Group, Finance Team, Legal Team, and others as needed;●Effectively negotiate MSA and SOW terms with prospective Clients to close profitable engagement contracts;●Completely populate CRM system with relevant information;Provide helpful insight to the Head of Operations and other Leaders with the goal of ensuring that the right team is assigned to support the Client;●Conduct effective new account briefings and ensure smooth introduction of clienst to Operations Teams ●Gathering helpful information throughout the performance of his/her function and feed the information back to Marketing, Operations and other members of StraightArrow with the end in view of continuing to improve our effectiveness in engaging with the right Clients.●Process Improvement

Creative Design Assistant Team Leader

• Feb 2021 - Sep 2022

As an Assistant team leader I manage the design team's day to day. I organize our workflow and do traffic management. I also gather the data, organize it and present the data to the clients.

Creative Design Specialist

• May 2016 - Feb 2021

Responsible for providing creative support for in-house clients, including a range of marketing materials, social media visuals, cloth and limp book covers, emails, banners, microsite updates, PowerPoint presentations, animated GIFs and videos. He or she will act as a senior member of the team, taking personal ownership and responsibility for the completion of design projects and deliverables on time and at par with agreed quality standards.Key Result Areas● Ensure high quality and accurate design output, and quality control for relevant team output.● Monitor and maintain design standards in terms of group branding.● Manage own allocated design projects to deadline: marketing materials, book covers, HTML emails.● Focus on communication with all stakeholders and effectively liaise with bothinternal and external clients building strong relationships.● Effectively liaise with both internal and external clients building strong relationships.● Support marketing activity needed for events and other collateral needed to support the go to market plans.● Manage any assigned Creative Design Associate.● Conceptualize for a campaign based on a given strap line or theme while strictlyfollowing the brand guidelines● Handle big projects such as campaigns, mini-mags, and catalogue updates● Update book covers and spine width● Any other duties as reasonably required.Key Skills & Experience● Creative thinker with the ability to construct and formulate ideas that fit the specific markets the material is intended for.● Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Microsoft Office essential● Knowledge of Adobe Animate and Dreamweaver is preferred.● Attention to detail and quality● Experience in improving processes and new ideas● Solid experience of the litho and digital printing process.● High level of customer focus with strong interpersonal skills● Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Part Time Instructor

• Jul 2017 - Present

Instructor for Smart Pricing for Freelancers, Conceptual Logo Designing, Adobe Photoshop, Dimension, Indesign & Adobe Illustrator Instructor for Smart Pricing for Freelancers, Conceptual Logo Designing, Adobe Photoshop, Dimension, Indesign & Adobe Illustrator

Moderator

• Jun 2019 - Present

Contributor

• Sep 2017 - Present

Buyer Persona InstructorSocial Media and Marketing InstructorGraphic Design Instructor Buyer Persona InstructorSocial Media and Marketing InstructorGraphic Design Instructor

Multimedia Virtual Assistant

• Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

Worked as a part-time all around virtual assistant. I assisted my client in her various needs from web design, development, social media, print, book and layout design.-Designed and Developed her websites and Landing Pages-Managed and grow her email list through campaigns-Managed her social media by strategizing campaigns, creating graphics, copywriting and engaging with people.-Helped in editing her book and slicing it per chapter to provide as a freebie for the email landing page.-Also assisted in encoding and research.-I helped her successfully launch the kindle version of her book in Amazon Kindle by converting her book from PDF to Amazon Kindle format.

Marketing Manager

• May 2015 - Dec 2015

LEAPGLASS CORPORATION COMFIT SHOES -Marketing Manager specializing in Digital Marketing -Graphic Artist, Photographer and Content Writer -Handled various company events such as meet and greets with product endorser. -Handled Public Relations such as artist sponsorship and company social media accounts. -Successfully grew the company twitter account from 2k followers to 13k followers in less than 6 months. LEAPGLASS CORPORATION COMFIT SHOES -Marketing Manager specializing in Digital Marketing -Graphic Artist, Photographer and Content Writer -Handled various company events such as meet and greets with product endorser. -Handled Public Relations such as artist sponsorship and company social media accounts. -Successfully grew the company twitter account from 2k followers to 13k followers in less than 6 months.

Web Developer

• Jan 2013 - May 2015

ROYALE BUSINESS CLUB INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION -Web Designer and Developer – Specialized in web developing -Created Motion Graphic Videos & Flash animations -Edited Posters and PowerPoint Presentations -Involved in Company events such as become an usherette, member of the technical team and assistant Videographer ROYALE BUSINESS CLUB INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION -Web Designer and Developer – Specialized in web developing -Created Motion Graphic Videos & Flash animations -Edited Posters and PowerPoint Presentations -Involved in Company events such as become an usherette, member of the technical team and assistant Videographer