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Rana Akkurt

Digital Marketing Manager APAC & MEA
Ataşehir,İstanbul

Summary

A result driven Digital Marketing Strategist.Passionate about sustainability, B2B marketing, lead generation, revenue growth, technology and behavioral economics.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Digital Marketing Manager, APAC & MEA, Agriculture

Novozymes
Istanbul, Turkey
10.2021 - Current
  • Drive business growth through digital engagement in close collaboration with sales and technical experts
  • Refine and requalify MQLs and proactively nurture Sales follow-up
  • Develop and implement digital marketing strategy aligned to the overall global framework/ strategy in close collaboration with the Subregional teams
  • Lead content, design, video production
  • Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual budget across digital marketing channels
  • Measure, analyze, and report performance of all digital marketing campaigns and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs).
  • Plan and execute web, email, social media and promotional campaigns
  • Monitor roll-out of digital campaigns by setting up trackers with goals.
  • Work closely with Commercial teams to proactively anticipate customer needs and to ensure that the planned activities are implemented effectively.
  • Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touch points.

Business Development Specialist

Longevita London Limited
Istanbul, Turkey
01.2017 - 01.2022
  • Provide market analysis reports to company owner
  • Analyze sales and marketing reports
  • Attend consultation meetings in UK to understand customer expectations
  • Research and identify new business opportunities

Senior Customer Insight Specialist, Central & East

Medtronic
Istanbul, Turkey
06.2021 - 10.2021

Digital Project Management, Pan Medtronic:

  • Analyzing project requirements and preparing budgets and schedules.
  • Planning digital campaigns from the initial stages through to final delivery
  • Developing a detailed project plan and monitor progress
  • Identifying and implementing KPIs and project milestones
  • Using content management systems and project management software (AEM, Workfront)
  • Aligning digital marketing strategies with overall business goals.
  • Building strategic relationships and partnership with overseas agencies and vendors.
  • Customer Insight:
    Bringing the consumer perspective to marketing decision making by executing market analysis and research activities to provide insights and recommendations.
  • Managing and executing client-facing surveys, including client relationship survey and client engagement satisfaction survey and others. (NPX, Qualtrics XM)
  • Collaborating with channel-specific marketing teammates (email, social media, etc.) to identify areas for growth.
  • Analyzing, recommending and leading the implementation of improvement initiatives.
  • Keeping abreast with the latest trends and changes in UI/UX and digital marketing.
  • Reporting on program performance, CRM-specific promotions and marketing campaigns, and ideating new strategies at driving engagement and retention.
  • Analyzing past advertising, and marketing/PR campaigns to determine the effectiveness of strategies used and recommending future actions.

Campaign Execution Specialist, AMEA (Senior)

Mercer
Istanbul, Turkey
03.2021 - 06.2021
  • Responsible for managing the distribution list, creating, setting-up and executing all marketing campaigns using Marketo
  • Runs A/B tests for email campaigns and landing pages to optimize performance
  • Works with management to define KPIs, create reporting, analyze campaign performance.
  • Create recommendations to improve campaigns continuously.
  • Creates pages on company websites and posts on social media as instructed by country marketers and managers to expand the company's digital content offerings
  • Implements basic or routine design and content writing tasks assigned by colleagues to improve and expand the company's digital marketing efforts
  • Uses SEO tools (BrightEdge, SiteImprove, Google Search Console and Webmaster tool) to evaluate web pages, audit our site, and perform competitive analyses to uncover actionable insights for our channel
  • Ideates and brainstorms with various teams to help create the best possible experience for users
  • Contributes in digital performance discussions to provide ideas for improvement (ranking, bounce rate, time on site, etc.) for specific pages or sections of the site
  • Creates original art and iconography to illustrate content
  • Compiles and presents SEO performance reports from various reporting platforms such as: Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics

Campaign Execution Specialist, AMEA

Mercer
Istanbul, Turkey
04.2020 - 03.2021
  • Manage day-to-day demand generation activities on the website and digital campaign operations from development, implementation, tracking and optimization across email, SEO, and paid digital channels - including SEM, Social, and Display advertising campaigns.
  • Maintain and manage marketing calendar for all digital projects. - Monitor, analyze, and report on campaign performance across all channels.
  • Oversee website and landing page creation and optimizations with internal web developer or contractor to improve tracking and conversion.
  • E-mail, newsletter design, execution, reporting, A/B testing - Assist in development and implementation of all digital marketing campaigns.

Customer Experience Representative, IMETA

Mercer
Istanbul, Turkey
06.2018 - 04.2020
  • Salesforce UAT testing, end user training
  • Prepare regional marketing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing sales data - Lead/MQL Management for Africa and Turkey - Support outbound marketing & sales campaigns
  • Prepare client satisfaction surveys via Qualtrics and analyze
  • Maintain data hygiene, lead regional data cleaning projects
  • Track and report back on key site KPIs

Customer Experience / Nestle Nutrition

Eczacıbaşı Health Services
12.2015 - 08.2016
  • Prepare monthly CRM sales reports
  • Account management
  • Manage large amounts of incoming calls
  • Conduct customer satisfaction survey - Support sales team on their CRM related questions

Education

Master of Science - Marketing Communication Management

Galatasaray University
Turkey
01.2019 - 01.2020

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Bilgi University
Turkey
01.2016 - 01.2017

Certificate - Mini MBA

London School of Business And Finance LSBF
02.2018 - 06.2018

Bachelor of Science - Health

Maltepe University
Turkey
01.2009 - 01.2013

Skills

    AEM

Marketo

Salesforce

Pardot

Wrike

LinkedIn Ads

LinkedIn Sales Navigator

Google Ads

Google Analytics

Tableau

Qliksense

Digital Marketing Strategy

Marketing Analytics

B2B Marketing

SEO

Campaign Management

Agency Management

JIRA

HTML

CSS

Qualtrics

A/B Testing

NPS

Webinar Management

Timeline

Digital Marketing Manager, APAC & MEA, Agriculture

Novozymes
10.2021 - Current

Senior Customer Insight Specialist, Central & East

Medtronic
06.2021 - 10.2021

Campaign Execution Specialist, AMEA (Senior)

Mercer
03.2021 - 06.2021

Campaign Execution Specialist, AMEA

Mercer
04.2020 - 03.2021

Master of Science - Marketing Communication Management

Galatasaray University
01.2019 - 01.2020

Customer Experience Representative, IMETA

Mercer
06.2018 - 04.2020

Certificate - Mini MBA

London School of Business And Finance LSBF
02.2018 - 06.2018

Business Development Specialist

Longevita London Limited
01.2017 - 01.2022

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Bilgi University
01.2016 - 01.2017

Customer Experience / Nestle Nutrition

Eczacıbaşı Health Services
12.2015 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Science - Health

Maltepe University
01.2009 - 01.2013
Rana AkkurtDigital Marketing Manager APAC & MEA