Salem Marafi

Master's degree in Marketing, searching for a product management position. Four years experience in channel management. Ability to aggregate and analyze market information.Skilled in several programming languages including SQL. Proficient software skills including MS Office. Served as Channel Manager for the leading bank in the Middle East. Accustomed to work in a team. Proven leadership skills. Able to conduct business in English and Arabic.

Date of Birth 13/05/1985
Nationality Kuwaiti
Languages English, Arabic, Basic Japanese

Telephone +965-97271120

Primary research:
Individual dissertation completed entitled, “How Virtual Communities can be used for Career Development: A Study on Kuwaiti Banks”. A study of how organisations can leverage virtual communities for career development through internal marketing procedures.

Skills developed:
Marketing management, project management, leadership, and communication.

Majors:
Management & Management Information Systems

Minors:
Computer Science

Reponsibilities

• Channel performance analysis.
• Creating channel strategy.
• Improving channel performance, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Developing and implementing channel marketing plans.
• Merchant, vendor and client management.
• Channel product development.

Key Achievements

• Strategic marketing of drive through ATMs
• Designing and producing marketing materials for channels
• Customer education and staff coaching to implement a channel migration strategy
• Channel performance analysis and reporting including ATMs and intranet channels
• Assistance with intranet content and marketing management

Managerial	Creative	Technical
Leadership	Adobe Flash	PHP, MySQL
Negotiation	Adobe Illustrator	Microsoft Excel
Team Motivation	Adobe Photoshop	SPSS, NVivo Analysis
Project Management	Microsoft SharePoint	Windows, Apple, Google
Marketing Management	Microsoft Office Suite	JavaScript, XHTML, CSS

• Honour roll at Oregon State University: Summer 2005, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Winter 2003.
• Full academic scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education (September 2001 – August 2006

Managed logistics, visual merchandising, sales and marketing of the exhibition. Responsibilities involved managing the import of fashion goods, store and merchandise layout, and campaigning the exhibition online. Developed and marketed a website using social media including Facebook. The website is live at www.bloomingorchidboutique.com.

Organized fundraising activities to collect donations for Lebanese wartime victims and held community awareness sessions to inform and educate the public. Role involved coordinating with companies for sponsorship & permission to conduct activities within their premises.

Photography, graphic design, website development, cycling, and water sports.

References available upon request.