
Diana Maher Ghali
Business Development Manager at ERA Real Estate Egypt
New Cairo, Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Business Development ManagerFull Time
ERA Real Estate Egypt
Nov 2017 - Present -7 yrs, 8 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:• Generate leads for the business (across project types) and support in conversion by making proposal and presentations. • Proactively follow up with Clients on proposals. • Coordinate with internal business lines to generate leads keeping in mind business strategy. • Analysis of key data, competition, market trends etc. with a view towards formulating creative ideas/ strategies/ initiatives for business growth. • Manage and approve proposals, reports and presentations for clients and partners. • Manage and monitor the proper flow of information to potential clients pertaining to services offered. • Manage and approve comparative market analysis reports, broker price opinion reports, and market studies. • Manage and approve market overviews, market reports, and other industry-related reports. • Manage and approve corporate related internal or external publications. • Monitor internal and external business correspondence with clients, partners, and employees. • Manage and monitor the execution of the approved marketing plan and strategies. • Responsible for organization’s corporate image and reputation. • Manage and monitor company’s website, and social-networking websites. • Assure consistency of written material to all Company’s interfaces. • Manage and approve all newsletters and press releases. • Approve designs of commercial materials online and offline and assure production quality.
Business Development SpecialistFull Time
ERA Real Estate Egypt
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017 -2 yrs, 5 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Provide high level support and leverage to ERA Real Estate Egypt, often handling a large amount of details relating to real estate transactions. Responsible for prioritizing projects to meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. Responsible mainly for maintaining the image of the organization in all aspects and creating effective business plans. Work closely with the Commercial Branch Manager and CEO to develop business strategies. Display a strong personal drive for success and possess interpersonal skills highlighting communications excellence. Duties and Responsibilities: Essential Functions • Directing initiatives in the areas of agent development/training, relocation services, and lead procurement and management. • Working with the Company’s sales, marketing, relocation, technology, and core services divisions. • Enhance agent support and business-generating capabilities. • Organize and participate in periodic client team meetings and/or calls. • Prepare documents including Request for Proposals, Letters of Intent, customer and prospect correspondence, reports, etc. with direction from brokers and/or knowledge of company policies, procedures and best practices. • Create and edit presentations and client deliverables for prospect/client meetings. • Assist with gathering research information and completing market surveys, including gathering building information, maps and pictures. • Update and maintain company Contact Relationship Management database to track prospects, clients and deal information. • Update and maintain broker professional profiles and other team marketing related material as needed. • Provide interface for brokers on IT issues, including computer needs, email, calendar maintenance, voicemail, phone, and other related technology and equipment. • Develop and review corporate related internal or external publications. • Manage internal and external business correspondence with clients, partners, and employees. • Assist in developing a marketing plan. • Review all outbound and inbound documents. • Help to maintain organization’s corporate image and reputation. • Develop, review and update company’s website, and social-networking websites. Responsible for editing written material to ensure consistency. • Design, develop and assist in the dissemination of newsletters and press releases. • Maintains an electronic library of media clippings. BROKERAGE 1/12/17 Page 2 / 6 • • • • Assist agents to do more business in less time. Initiate annual leasing assumptions and coordinate quarterly forecasts with property teams. Coordinate Status Reports and Minutes on assigned properties as required by clients. Manage transactions and sales through Company’s CRM. 1/12/17 Page 3 / 6 26 Dec 12–31 Jul 13 • Coordinate site selection detail and other marketing materials for clients. • Ensure proper flow of information to potential clients pertaining to services offered. • Assist in generating sales leads through social media. MARKETING AND RESEARCH • Assist in the preparation to produce large marketing presentations. • Support the market team in the preparation of flyers, email distributions, merchandising plans and due diligence proposals (which include documentation, market information, sales analysis, tenant matrices and other analytical information). • Assist in the preparation and maintenance of marketing materials and presentations. • Develop and conduct comparative market analysis reports, broker price opinion reports, and market studies. • Develop market overviews, market reports, and other industry-related reports. • Follow-up on industry related reports and new market trends. Business sector: multinational U.S. based real estate marketing company.
Freelance TranslatorFull Time
6Cairo Gallery
Dec 2012 - Feb 2013 -2 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:- Translate articles from Arabic to English and English to Arabic about art to be presented in leaflets for exhibitions.
Executive SecretaryFull Time
The Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation
Feb 2012 - Jul 2013 -1 yr, 5 months
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:Provide secretarial and administrative support to assure efficiency of the services of CIDT and AWR. Receive and screen incoming calls, e-mails and visitors, determines which are priority matters, and alerts the administrator or executive accordingly. Makes referrals to appropriate staff or provides requested information. Assist managerial level in directing tasks to the appropriate staff member and following up on the accomplishment of these tasks. Assist in the planning and preparation of meetings, conferences and telephone conference calls. Provide support and administrative services to the managerial level as requested. Contribute to preparing, implementing and developing the CIDT general plan in coordination with CIDT’s managerial level. Contribute to preparing CIDT quarterly, half-year and annual reports in coordination with the managerial level. Follow-up on AWR’s Twitter accounts. Receive and train translation interns and explain the AWR website content and the method of uploading articles. Assign tasks to translation interns and review their work. Organize translation interns’ work inside CIDT. Write evaluation and recommendation letters of translation interns’ and submit it to managerial letter for approval, signature and stamp. Conduct media critiques of misreporting articles in foreign or Egyptian press. Selection of daily articles from Egyptian newspapers to be translated according to a specific selection criteria. Translate and compose daily overviews from selected press articles.
Education
Mass Communication in journalism
Cairo University (CU)Jan 2006 - Jan 2010 - 4 yr
High School - American diploma
Modern School of Egypt 2000Jan 2006
Skills
- Microsof office
- computer
- Internet
- Internet Research
- Hard Skills
- Computer Skills
- Business Development
- Research
- Adobe Photoshop
- Communication
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Languages
English
FluentArabic
FluentFrench
Beginner
Training & Certifications
Reporting
The Daily News Egypt/International Herald Tribune (Global Edition of New York Times)·2010Reporting
Sawt al-Jam'ah Magazine (English), Cairo University·2009leadership
AUC·2009Media
AUC·2008Translation/Editing
Middle East News Agency·2008Intrapreneurship
AUC·2008Marketing and public relations
AUC·2007