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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

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