Helm

Delivered a profitable paid acquisition strategy for the entire customer acquisition funnel (brand
awareness to sales), managing and directing all content creation, copywriting, content strategy and more.

Head of Paid Search, Display and Video Marketing

SPENN Technology

SPENN Technology is a NASDAQ listed fintech startup that provides innovative solutions for online payments and transfers. I was the first full-time digital marketer hired to complement existing offline strategies. The Fintech company went public on NASDAQ within a year.

Director, Digital Marketing

UCL Innovation & Enterprise

Startup Mentor

Rock Mission

Clients include HSBC, Perkbox, Bottomlessbrunch.com, Bibby Financial Services, Sparco, Rentuu (now Easyhire) amongst many others.

Growth Strategist & Partner

Flyht Studio

Designed and strategized their online visibility from scratch, from copywriting, website design, to PPC campaigns.

•Conducted in-depth keyword research and implemented SEO, content and social media strategies
•Managed and optimized Google Adwords campaigns, achieving a page 1 ranking with low budgets, with an average conversion rate of 12%
•Directed and implemented email sales pitch, attaining a conversion rate of 20% within the first 3 months

Digital Marketing Consultant

Receipt Bank

Setup, designed and launched landing pages and PPC campaigns (Adwords, Bing) driving 240% increase in conversions (app downloads) within 1 month, and 413% within 3 months. Reduced cost-per-acquisition by 64% within 3 months. Continuous A/B testing of various ad copies and landing pages led to an unprecedented increase in conversions.

PPC Consultant (Small Business)

•	Responsible for the strategy and execution of digital marketing efforts for a team of 5 to increase leads and build online visibility for the UK, US and AU markets
•	Implemented and managed a successful Content and Social Media strategy across multiple teams. The result is an increase in engagement; blog traffic doubling within its first month, increase in social media referrals by at least 30%, and a reduction in bounce rates by 20%
•	Developed an SEO strategy that cleared risks of Google penalties, and tripled the number of converting keywords on page 1 in Google, thereby increasing traffic by more than 30% to 50K monthly
•	Redesigned the user experience and conducted A/B testing on website and landing pages, improving conversions by 20%, reaching an average of 200 marketing qualified leads per month  
•	Led restructuring, messaging alignment and optimization of all online campaigns (website, blog, and landing pages, email) across lead generation and nurture teams
•	Supervised a team of developers, designers and writers to build new content while ensuring all future campaigns are optimised

Digital Marketing Executive (SEO & Website Specialist)

Adludio

•Creation of customer facing collateral such as client case studies and product presentations
•Publicity: Wrote and published Thought Leadership pieces and Press Releases for Unilever and Pizza Hut in major online publications such as The Drum and ExchangeWire
•Led messaging and design development for updates across all channels of communications, ensuring consistent and on-brand delivery
•Collaborated with product management and developers to improve marketing effectiveness including landing pages, forms, modals, and image improvements

Freelance Digital Marketing Consultant

None

I decided to seek out a new career. During this time I worked as an Account Manager at a branding agency, designed and manufactured cycling bags, picked up an interest in digital marketing, and volunteered at Fcancer (https://fcancer.org/) where I donated my time to running various Adwords campaigns for cancer charities.

Career Change

FJ Benjamin

F J Benjamin Holdings Ltd is an industry leader in brand building and management, and development of retail and distribution networks for international luxury and lifestyle brands across Asia. F J Benjamin exclusively retails and distributes brands such as Banana Republic, Céline, Gap, Givenchy, Goyard, Guess, La Senza, and Raoul across various territories. Its retail footprint includes Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Australia. It distributes in-house labels Raoul and Catherine Deane through points of-sale across Europe, the United States and the Middle East.

•	Managing Raoul’s international clients (wholesale and franchise) from Europe, Middle East, and Asia
•	Reporting to the Group CEO and Creative Director, providing accurate information, updates and ensuring all objectives are executed by agreed deadlines by the relevant teams 
•	Collaborating with the Production and Design team to integrate commercially popular items to boost sales
• Participating in Paris and Milan tradeshows, presenting the latest collections to international retailers and closing the sale
•	Complete supervision and monitoring of all wholesale and franchisee setups, orders, payments, deliveries, pricings, negotiating contracts and unique production orders 
•	Induct, support, train and evaluate Franchisees so they are best equipped to run a successful franchise according to our brand guidelines

Franchise Account Manager

Linda Farrow

•	Managed about 400 clients and generating more than £1.2 million within my first year
•	Successfully established all orders, contracts and terms with high-end departmental stores and boutiques such as Tsum (Russia), 10 Corso Como (Italy), Lane Crawford (Hong Kong), Pedder Group (Hong Kong/China), Boutique 1 (UAE) etc.
•	Driving revenue growth through brand positioning; researching and developing markets, strategic store distribution by brands/territory mapping
•	Successfully improved sales systems and procedures, reducing workload dramatically, even with more sales than before
•	Secured new accounts at quarterly Paris tradeshows
•	Developed and implemented a client grading system, which led to a reduction in untimely deliveries and a systemized way to deal with a surge in orders

Sales Executive (Wholesale)

- Senior marketing leader with 7 years’ proven track record in paid media and customer acquisition, driving growth through comprehensive multi-channel strategies
- Built and led high-performance marketing teams, fostering collaboration, creativity, and results-focused execution in fast-paced environments
- Developed and executed content strategies that elevated brand presence and aligned with product roadmaps, boosting engagement and conversion rates for email marketing, SEO, Paid Search, Paid Social channels

Rachel L.

Agthia Group PJSC

Digital & Technology Business Partner for all BU Presidents and Head of D&T Commercial for Agthia (ADQ).

In my first year, I have established a strong partnership with the Water, Snacks and Agri business units, enabling brands such as Al Ain Water and Zadina to set up and execute their digital transformation strategy.

Main achievements include:
- Recruitment of new teams, including 7+ new roles from scratch, to enable Digital Marketing and Ecommerce (Direct to Consumer (D2C/DTC), Bricks & Clicks, Quick-Commerce etc.) technical and business delivery to work cross business units
- Launch of a new operating model for the Al Ain Water delivery business in the UAE, positively impacting more than 80,000 users yearly, enabling new KPIs (e.g. via Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity) to measured and discussed, cross-functionally for the first time ever. As a result, we have enabled pre-emptive customer compensation policies across call center agents, better process for handling whatsapp messages reducing waiting time from average 45+ min to <10 min, tracking water delivery "on time" and action plans to improve these and other leading and lagging KPIs
- Improvements and launch of a new omni-channel app and website, with multiple enhancements including live wallet balance updates (vs. up to 3 days before), new live subscription confirmation (vs. up to 3 days before), product detail pages loading time reduced from 9 seconds to 1 second, launch of Apple Pay (now accounts for 60% of payments via apple devices), completely re-designed user interface focused on customer experience and conversion optimization (resulting in +4% checkout success rate, and more
- Launch of ecommerce operating model for Agrivita App, giving the BU the data needed to start optimizing the app, used by thousands of Emirati farmers
- Zadina.ae D2C ecommerce operating model, driving +32% organic traffic, +11% search ranking and +22% sales
- Launch of Zadina brand on Amazon, Instashop, Deliveroo and Careem

Sr. Director Digital & Technology - Commercial Head

Clube Bora Fazer

Embaixador do Clube Bora Fazer em Dubai. Uma plataforma dedicada ao compartilhamento de conhecimento, de brasileiros para brasileiros, sem fins lucrativos, encabeçada pelo fantástico Fernando Seabra. Saiba mais em www.clubeborafazer.com.br

Embaixador / Ambassador Clube Bora Fazer

AIR (Advanced Inhalation Rituals) / Al Fakher

• Created an ecommerce channel from zero, worth 2MM USD+ within 9 months
• Launched social media account for OOKA and acquired 35,000 followers in 6 weeks, 60,000 in 4 months organically on Instagram, making it the main source of traffic and conversion for OOKA.com
• Defined Digital Marketing and Ecommerce strategy including organic and paid Social Media, Influencer and Affiliate Marketing programs and CRM Email Marketing automated journeys for Al Fakher and other 2 brands to enable B2C and B2B businesses worth 150MMUSD+ / year
• Created team from scratch: Social Media, Ecommerce, Customer Service and more.
• Outlined SEO and Consumer Journey optimization strategy and operating model
to launch OOKA D2C website in Mar’23

Head of Digital Marketing & Ecommerce AMEA

Worked directly for the General Manager Ecommerce, on a 50MMUSD business.
• Established a new operating model across warehousing, picking and packing, customer service, sales, digital marketing and more areas.
• Implemented and operationalized a completely new technology stack (Magento, Plytix, Hubspot, Klaviyo, Yotpo and more).
• Delivered a smooth transition, with ZERO losses in sales due to the program, SEO rankings back to top 10 within 2 weeks and 40% of conversion going through automated CRM email program.

Head of Ecommerce Digital Transformation USA

Reckitt

• Led Global Digital Transformation program for Media, Marketing and Ecommerce, controlling a budget of 7+ MMGBP / year
• Led the creation, operationalization and governance of the program’s 4 pillars: Category Levers, Hygiene Levers, Organization Enablers, Digital & Data Enablers with Global CMO Hygiene, Chief Digital Officer Hygiene and CIO Hygiene, as well as 24+ Country General Managers, Marketing and IT Directors
• Insourced / Created 56 FTE positions across 8 digital media hubs we created in USA, UK, Brazil, Mexico, India, Poland, Malaysia and UAE
• Partnered with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Google, Mighty Hive, Publicis, Omnicom and Artefact and other top firms to deliver the program
• Executed 100+ digital media tests, which positive results were scaled up geographically, driving media ROI up by 30%
• Leveraged machine learning to create scalable audience segmentation (Auto-ML such as H2O / DataRobot). Custom audiences are pushed to Facebook, DV360 and Amazon, delivering up to 200% incremental sales.
• Used machine learning to deliver a fit-for-purpose solution to measure media performance, with less dependancy on external measurement (e.g. Nielsen MMX / MMM, BCG Marketing Catalyst).

Global Head Digital Transformation

• Accountable for E2E IT services in the Hygiene business unit, including offices, plants and distribution center sites
• Started a partnership that launched a pioneer data & analytics program in the region, sponsored by myself, Marketing and Sales directors.
Achievements Summary:
- Positioned Mexico as a global innovator with data & analytics: Used Machine Learning to increase Vanish’s and Lysol’s gross margin by 2%+ and analyzed supply chain, trade spend and net sales data to propose an indirect channel transformation that reduced logistic costs by 5%+;
- Re-designed the IT and business organizations and strategy to stabilize operations with a newly implemented SAP ERP (ECC);
- Strengthened IT participation and equity across business areas (Business relevance of IT grew from 3.2 to 4.5, out of 5.0 as per other areas' directors);
- Created a talent pipeline and exported 2 key IT talents to Brazil – biggest LATAM market at Reckitt, and eventually Europe.

IT Head / CIO Mexico and Central America (CAMEX) - Hygiene and Home

Created Data & Analytics team’s capability and operating model from scratch, managing 5 people in the team
• Drove team’s priorities to be in line with Sales Directors and LATAM CEO
• Delivered 50MMGBP in actionable insights to Hygiene and Health business units using Knime, Power BI, POS data and down the trade sell-through data
• Received “Gamechangers” Award in the category “Partnership”

Head of Data & Analytics LATAM

Procter & Gamble

• Defined and executed service strategy with Data Availability of 99%+ and Data Quality of 98%+
• Strengthened sales reporting services by creating service automations on Knime and training different functions to do the same, saving 3+ FTE worth of time across IT, supply chain and sales

LATAM POS Data Service Delivery Manager

• Promoted from Intern to Coordinator and then manager within 2.5 years
• Chosen to lead a 1MMUSD outsourcing project in Cincinnati for 6 months at P&G Headquarters and then manage its service delivery delivering 450K+ USD savings.
• Awarded “Power of You” Gold Award for top performance 
• Acquired P&G certifications: Project Manager, Vendor Manager and others

North & Latin America EDI Service Delivery Manager

Windsor Idiomas

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English Teacher

Foursys

First experience working with IT, programming COBOL for bank institutions.

Programmer

WIZARD IDIOMAS

English teacher for students of all levels.

I enable CEOs and General Managers to deliver their objectives while modernizing their teams and operations via Digital Transformation, with a positive and relationship-oriented approach.

I am a Digital Transformation, Digital Marketing and Ecommerce professional with technology and engineering background, a born leader and communicator, lover of people development and enthusiast of customer-centered attitude.

I have worked as project, program and service manager for IT, digital media, supply, sales, marketing and other area-related deliverables. I loved my time working as a CIO and how we transformed the IT team's perception in Mexico and Central America with delightful service experience to employees leveraging basic IT services so we could drive an innovation agenda focused on data analytics and how insights can transform decision making.

I bring experience leading grand scale global digital transformation programs and I can make technology teams speak "business" for I have been in sales and digital marketing jobs myself.

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