• Job Title Marketing Specialist
  • Gender  Male
  • Core Competencies

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Education

  • British School of Commerce (University of Suffolk)

    MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINIST

  • JMC Colombo, Sri Lanka

    DIPLOMA IN CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION

  • JMC Colombo, Sri Lanka

    DIPLOMA IN MARKETING MANAGEMENT

  • CIM-UK

    FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE IN PROFESSIONAL MARKETING

Experience

  • 2018 - Present
    ayubo.life | Digital Healthcare Solutions (Pvt) Limited

    HEAD OF SALES, MARKETING & PARTNERSHIPS

    – Develop annual, quarterly marketing and sales plans to achieve business goals.
    – Prepare and manage monthly, quarterly and annual budgets for sales & marketing.
    – Craft strategies for sales & marketing teams, including corporate wellness, digital advertising,
    communications and creatives.
    – Identify opportunities and strategic business partnerships to reach new market segments, locally and
    internationally to expand market share.
    – B2B Partnerships to provide ayubo.life services and digital solutions to Hospitals, Laboratories, Insurance,
    Telecom companies and other Industries.
    – Drive corporate wellness initiates and B2B solutions for organisation employee wellbeing.
    – Work closely with the Advertising, Digital, PR agencies and Journalist.
    – Identify customer segments to generate information on services, packages, facilities and prices to
    customers and potential new customers.
    – Ensure new customers adopt the products through innovative marketing activities.
    – Improve revenue through marketing initiatives and regular market research on prices and services.
    – Understanding of the market competition with reference to acquisitions, pricing changes and new products

  • 2016 - 2018
    IFLIX Sri Lanka and Maldive

    SENIOR MARKETING MANAGER

    – Managed all marketing strategies for Sri Lanka and the Maldives from partnerships, business development,
    content management, content programming, content marketing (B2B & B2C) and branded content.
    – Drove the pace of expansion in onboarding original content locally.
    – Grew the iflix brand visibility amongst the local audiences and the market share of iflix within the local
    audience.
    – Proactively reviewed, interpret and provided insights to local business performance and shared business
    insights with stakeholders.
    – Drove new opportunities with local and regional functional teams.
    – Communicated strategic goals, applied global practice with an eye for local relevance and challenged local
    function team to excel, growing from strengths to strengths

  • 2015 - 2016
    Etisalat Lanka Private Limited

    TRADE MARKETING MANAGER

    – Set up trade marketing regional plans to reach sales goals and brand specific goals.
    – Liaised with sales support to ensure sales support activities were implemented on a timely manner and
    customer-oriented manner.
    – Formulated regional visibility plans which included retail, trade, flagship and modern trade visibility.
    – Continuous tracking of competitor activities regionally.
    – Supported sales activities regionally through effective, efficient & innovative ideas resulting in lead
    generation, customer engagement or sales generation.
    – Brand visibility enhancement through own retailer, regional public properties or any other relevant medium.

  • 2013 - 2015
    Dialog Axiata PLC

    ASSISTANT MANAGER – BRAND ACTIVATIONS, EVENTS & SPORTS

    Built the National and Sports Marketing image with brand management activities including strategic planning,
    sponsorship negotiations, brand activations, regional marketing, budgeting, media coordination and
    implementation.
    Handled Sports Sponsorship for Sri Lanka Cricket, Sri Lanka Rugby, A-Division Club Rugby 7’s/League/Knock-
    Out Tournament, Paralympics, Golf, Regatta, Schools Cricket Big Match Season, Dialog Champions League
    Football Tournament, Volleyball President Gold Cup, International Schools Sports Events and Sea Swim.
    Handled main events for Chogm 2013, International Youth Forum, Dialog Staff Awards, Dialog Staff
    Convention, Deyata Kirula, Sinhala Tamil Avurudu Festival, Vesak, Kandy Perahera, Nallur Festival, TNL on
    Stage, 10 Year Celebration in Jaffna and Arash Live in Concert

  • 2011 - 2013
    Dialog Axiata PLC

    SPECIALIST MARKETING COMMUNICATION & BRANDS

    Drove 360 based activity plans to be efficient and effective by working closely with product and regional
    teams to understand the brand and business case to deliver efficient and cutting edge marketing/
    communication strategy.
    Handled main campaigns for World Cup wishing campaign “Bring the Cup Back Home”, Dialog Sathkaraya
    Thematic Campaign, Mama Dialog Thematic Campaign, Ottudha Best Value Campaign, Postpaid and Prepaid
    Tariff Revised Launch (2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009), Blaster Postpaid Package, 3G/HSPA Launch, New Mobile
    Phone Launch, MY10, Kit Tamil, Star Call, Family/ Kids Package, Senior Citizen Package, Ethera Methera
    Package, Government Service Package, Corporate Wishing Ads, and The Launch of Dialog TV.

  • 2010 - 2011
    Dialog Axiata PLC

    SENIOR EXECUTIVE MARKETING COMMUNICATION & BRAND

    Developed a full fledged plan to groom the brand closely with product and regional teams to understand the
    brand and business case to deliver efficient and cutting edge marketing/communication strategy.

  • 2008 - 2010
    Dialog Axiata PLC

    COORDINATOR MARKETING COMMUNICATION & BRANDS

  • 2005 - 2008
    Dialog Axiata PLC

    BRAND EXECUTIVE MARKETING COMMUNICATION & BRANDS

  • 2003 - 2006
    Dialog Axiata PLC

    CALL CENTER – OFFICER, CONSULTANT AND ASST. TEAM LEADER

    Responsibilities comprised of call center functions, managing of teams, organizing team motivation
    activities, facilitation of training and evaluation programmers to enhance call centre officers to facilitate the
    customer services.

Languages

Tamil
Proficient
English
Proficient
Sinhala
Proficient

Skills