Professional experience
- Own and drive the collaboration between technical, business development, marketing and sales teams towards achieving the strategic goals of TBS;
- Provide leadership with actionable insights to drive the development of TBS’ products and services;
- Combine technical knowledge and understanding about market and client trends and needs to develop and drive the implementation of TBS’ go-to-market strategy.
- Defined AMATAS’ marketing strategy: from market segmentation, target and portfolio definition and brand positioning, to planning and budgeting, delivery and channel execution in accordance with business objectives
- Collaborated with business partners on product development and positioning in the region
- Introduced metrics for performance monitoring across Marketing, Sales and Service delivery teams
- Created content to support customer education and position AMATAS as a thought leader
- Conducted competitive benchmarking
- Defined the process of Marketing & Sales data integration through Salesforce
- Generated demand for AMATAS’ services in close collaboration with Sales team
- Helped optimise and improve internal processes, including client onboarding and service delivery, to improve customer satisfaction
- Developed and managed relationships with clients in the Automotive, Information Technology and Communications, FMCG industries
- Translated clients’ objectives and requirements into project scope, deliverables, milestones and metrics of success
- Managed a team of 4 software engineers, 3 account managers, 2 interactive designers
- Managed the delivery of digital projects — from concept through development and risk mitigation to evaluation of success:
- complex lead-generation platforms
- sophisticated installations relying on sensory data
- progressive web apps
- integration with third-party services and applications
- integrated digital campaigns across web and mobile
- Conducted research on new technologies and trained both internal team and clients on the implications of Progressive Web Apps, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Voice Recognition, Data analytics and visualisation
- Adopted and implemented Agile processes for service delivery
- Provided technical advisory to key clients (BMW, MINI, Brown-Forman) on digital strategy and digital implementations (CRM integrations, web and mobile development)
- Developed and managed relationship with clients
- Measured and tracked team performance and clients satisfaction
- Optimised processes, both client-facing and internal, across creative, software engineering and account management teams
- Moved work collaboration to cloud services (Google Apps, Asana)
- Introduced new practices to data analytics, reporting and visualisation
- Streamlined project estimation processes
- Analysed clients’ business objectives and defined projects’ business and technical requirements
- Facilitated the process of data acquisition (performance and marketing metrics) and analysis
- Assisted the creative teams in generation and validation of hypotheses and ideas
- Lead project planning, development, delivery and tracking
- Acted as the main link between client and agency on digital projects
- Developed and implemented Fibank’s current digital strategy: web and mobile channels
- Helped optimise online experiences (3D Card security integration with e-banking, online service request forms)
- Unified customer support channels (turned social media into customer support channels, integrated them with Fibank’s Call centre)
- Helped in the development of Fibank’s first generation banking app for iOS (wireframe, design, basic integration services)
- Developed and implemented the digital strategy for the launch of the first contactless payment cards in Bulgaria with MasterCard
Additional activities
I joined the then starting boutique bicycle shop 1bike in the desire to build a company of my own, producing something I love — bicycles. In one year we managed to open a work shop in Sofia, increase annual sales by 150% to 105 customised bikes in 2014, launch a new website with an e-shop. In 2015 we initiated the “Kolelo za smet, za dete velosiped” charity campaign that let us donate bicycles to children in need — 500 in total for three years.
As a part of a new Master programme (Public relations in social media and social networks) my responsibility it to teach the course in Return on investment in social media.
My course focuses on:
- Social media strategy and tactics
- Facebook, Twitter, Instagram — performance tracking and data analysis
- Google Analytics — terminology, data acquisition and analysis
- ROI models and Attribution models
- Data presentation
Education
Master thesis: Problematising consumer agency of brands: Brand meaning in commoditisation and decommoditisation of brands
Bachelor thesis: Social media as a marketing communications channel — trends and implications
Qualifications and skills
- Data analysis and management: Google Data Studio, matplotlib, pandas
- Project management: Agile methodologies; Jira, Confluence, Asana
- Operating systems: macOS, Linux, Windows
- Office suites: Office 365, iWork, Libre Office
- Programming: Python, HTML, CSS, JS
Interests and activities
- Management
- Programming
- Reading
- Photography
- Cycling
- Travelling