Assistant Manager - Corporate Communications & Affairs at JS Group
Pakistan
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- Supervisory Group Member at AIESEC in Pakistan
- Assistant Manager - Corporate Communications & Affairs at JS Group
- Past
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- Vice President - External Relations at AIESEC in Pakistan
- Vice President - Incoming Exchange at AIESEC in Karachi
- Intern - Marketing at GlaxoSmithKline
- Intern - Client Services at Asiatic Public Relations
- Intern - Marketing & Institutional Sales at Berlitz
- Education
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- Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology
- Bahria College
- Bahria College
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Taha Durrani’s Summary
Taha Durrani’s Specialties:
- Excellent Communications and Presentation Skills
- Time Management and Multi-tasking
- Execution of Marketing campaigns and activities
- Developing of Communication plans, newsletters
- Strong Networking and Public Relations skills
- Negotiation skills
- Selling and persuading skills
- Like to meet/interact with new people
- Thorough Event Management experience
- Extrovert and Social
- Love to jump on to new ideas
- Useful knowledge and usage of Adobe Photoshop and Flash
Taha Durrani’s Experience
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Supervisory Group Member
AIESEC in Pakistan
(Non-Profit; Human Resources industry)
October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Tracking and accountability, as well as providing advice and support to the National team of AIESEC in Pakistan.
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Assistant Manager - Corporate Communications & Affairs
JS Group
(Privately Held; Investment Management industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
- Brand Management: Responsible for branding of the JS brand, coordination with all group companies with regards to their marketing activities, involved in developing a comprehensive Brand Manual for the JS Brand
- Communications: Formulation of newsletters; ‘JS Review’ and ‘JS Green Review’, management of press releases
- Developing media relations and media monitoring
- CSR: Developing a long-term CSR strategy for the JS Group, liaising with the JS Academy for the Deaf for donations and developing of their website, coordinating activities for the M&JS Foundation, introducing an Employee Engagement Program towards CSR
- Event Management: Managing various JS and Press events
- Marketing: Briefing and meeting with our agency, and liaising execution of all ads
- JS Global Online trading platform launch: Part of the team which is currently involved in preparing all marketing collaterals, as well as testing of soft-ware -
Vice President - External Relations
AIESEC in Pakistan
(Non-Profit; Human Resources industry)
July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )
- Overall Responsible for fund-raising and establishing National Partnerships with various corporations, planning quarterly and yearly targets, and selling AIESEC to various organizations through our products for sourcing talent
- Partners: JS, BMA, Trakker, Siemens, Navitus, NarejoHR and Inbox amongst others
- Delivered 70% growth through various partnerships and fund-raising activities
- Coached, trained, and tracked the performance of team-members; including 3 Conference Organizing teams, in all areas related to event management. This included marketing and overall execution, resulting in extremely profitable conferences
- Managing all communications related to developing and promoting one consistent AIESEC brand-image for all key stakeholders; including Corporate Partners and universities, through various marketing and communication collaterals -
Vice President - Incoming Exchange
AIESEC in Karachi
(Non-Profit; Human Resources industry)
May 2006 — March 2007 (11 months)
- Establishing partnerships with various corporations for placement of foreign interns in Pakistan. Partners: Reckitt Benckiser, EFU General, Berlitz and MTI Consulting
- Received the “Striving for Excellence” National Award for performance during 2006-07 -
Intern - Marketing
GlaxoSmithKline
(Public Company; GSK; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 2006 — July 2006 (2 months)
- Responsible for conducting a marketing research project with regards to Hepatitis B, its awareness, and future marketing strategies for Hep-B related products
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Intern - Client Services
Asiatic Public Relations
(Public Relations and Communications industry)
July 2005 — August 2005 (2 months)
Worked mainly on 2 different Public Relations campaigns for EBM
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Intern - Marketing & Institutional Sales
Berlitz
(Privately Held; Education Management industry)
May 2004 — June 2004 (2 months)
Responsible for the marketing and execution of their newly launched Summer Camp
Taha Durrani’s Education
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Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology
BBA , Marketing, Management , 2003 — 2007
- Activities and Societies:
- AIESEC, Rotaract Club, The Corporate Nautankeez
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Bahria College
HSC , Pre-Engineering: Math, Physics, Chemistry , 2001 — 2003
- Activities and Societies:
- House Captain 'Iqbal', House Volleyball Team, House Cricket Team, College Basketball Team
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Bahria College
SSC , Computers, Math, Physics, Chemistry , 1999 — 2001
Additional Information
Taha Durrani’s Websites:
Taha Durrani’s Interests:
Marketing, Advertising, Meeting new people, Photography, Playing the guitar, Networking, Movies, Music
Taha Durrani’s Groups:
AIESEC, Rotaract Club, The Corporate Nautankeez
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UAE Career Network
Taha Durrani’s Honors:
- "Special Recognition" Award given by AIESEC in Islamabad for supporting and coaching them, 2007-08
- “Striving for Excellence” National Award for performance during 2006-07, AIESEC
- "Best Member Award", 2006-07, AIESEC
- "Best Team Award", 2006-07, AIESEC
- House Captain ‘Iqbal’, Runners-up of the Inter-House Sports Trophy, Bahria College, 2002-03
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