Accomplished marketing professional with demonstrated success developing and implementing strategic approaches to drive market growth and bottom-line profitability. A high energy individual with success in building teams and motivating personnel to new levels of performance.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Brand Lead- KFC
Prestige Holdings Ltd
Port Of Spain
01.2023 - Current
Led a cross-functional team to develop and successfully implement marketing campaigns in 2023, resulting in an 8% planned sales growth over the 2023 sales target.
Led a cross-functional team in planning, organizing and successfully executing marketing strategies, tactics, initiatives and campaigns.
Brand Management: Experience in developing and maintaining brand identity across various platforms.
Managed the Brand's budget resulting in a 10% increase in brand awareness through BIT(Brand Image Tracker).
Innovation: Led a cross-functional team that launched 2 new product innovations, driving a 5% incremental transaction growth.
Developed and executed pricing strategies that maximized profits while maintaining customer loyalty.
Successfully led a team that re-launched the CSR platform through the Harvest programme, ESG initiatives and Educational platforms that increased brand affinity by 20%.
Guiding agencies and creative teams on fulfilling the needs of all public-facing communications.
KFC and Pizza Hut Brand Analyst
Prestige Holdings Limited
Port of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago
01.2016 - 12.2022
Analyze business operations to assess growth areas and potential new business opportunities: Improve, execute, and effectively communicate significant analyses that identify meaningful trends and opportunities across the business.
Provide strong and timely business analytic decision support to business partners and various organizational stakeholders.
Develop actionable roadmaps for improving processes, and establish and organize KPIs in line with brand and organization guidelines.
Drive integration of marketing and sales activities, enhancing coverage activities and producing qualified sales leads.
Assisted in planning, developing and executing the marketing calendar inclusive of campaigns for all target segments.
Build content strategy tailored to different social platforms and guide integration of social spaces based on brand goals
Develop and maintain success metrics to assess the effectiveness of marketing programs, including campaign and content ROI, and make strategic adjustments when needed
Identify key target market segments and stakeholders for marketing programs
Implementation of budgetary controls and management of KFC’s A&P budget
Implemented tools to track ROI on marketing spend.
Leveraged marketing data to forecast marketing campaign success and sales trends.
Assisted teams with aligning marketing strategies and objectives based on data-driven insights.
Identified potential markets and market segments with desired customers and gaps for optimum product demand.
Tracked communications strategies, advertising campaigns and marketing approaches to measure successes and failures.
Increased brand exposure by utilizing targeted marketing campaigns.
Analyzed marketing information and translated it into strategic plans for store operations.
Evaluated effectiveness of advertising campaigns by tracking results against established goals.
Management of Project Research and Product testing.
Manage relationships with vendors, suppliers, advertising and PR firms.
Event and product launches.
Accounting Assistant
Caribbean Chemicals Limited and subsidiaries
San Juan
01.2006 - 12.2015
Aiding in the preparation of management reports
Managing the Accounts Receivable Department
Managing the Inventory to reduce carrying costs
Statutory tax payments for all corporate holdings
Payroll (weekly, fortnightly and monthly).
Accounts Clerk
S.M. Jaleel
South Oropouche
01.2004 - 01.2006
Data entry
Reconciliation of AP and AR accounts, miscellaneous sales, bank reconciliations
Inventory analyses
Implementation of analysis systems for Tobago market.
Education
MBA - Marketing
CTS College of Business And Computer Science Ltd
11-2021
Diploma - Project Management
01.2009
BA - Business Management
SAM Caribbean Ltd
06-2008
Skills
Strategic Planning
Data and Marketing Analytics
Brand Development
Brand-building strategies
Budget Administration
Partnership Development
Marketing campaign management
Competitor Analysis
References
Mr. Kern Ramlochan, Director: 6M Digital Limited, 239-4833, 487-0474,
Mrs. Cassian Gyan, Head of Marketing for KFC & Pizza Hut, 384-8625
Mrs. Shaloma Johnson, Manager, UCMAS Central Limited, 294-0727
Mrs. Malissa Narine, Corporal in T&T K9 unit, 497-8906
Timeline
Brand Lead- KFC
Prestige Holdings Ltd
01.2023 - Current
KFC and Pizza Hut Brand Analyst
Prestige Holdings Limited
01.2016 - 12.2022
Accounting Assistant
Caribbean Chemicals Limited and subsidiaries
01.2006 - 12.2015
Accounts Clerk
S.M. Jaleel
01.2004 - 01.2006
MBA - Marketing
CTS College of Business And Computer Science Ltd
Diploma - Project Management
BA - Business Management
SAM Caribbean Ltd
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